https://www.rishece.net/ Essays, odds, and ends from an unsettled mind. en Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:29:05 GMT https://www.rishece.net/in-defense-of-the-novel-in-my-desk-drawer/ https://www.rishece.net/in-defense-of-the-novel-in-my-desk-drawer/ There's a half-finished manuscript in my desk drawer, a jar of dead sourdough starter in the fridge, and a guitar I haven't touched since 2021. I used to see a graveyard of failure. Now I think I was looking at a map of everything I'm still curious about. Rishece Essays Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:13:09 GMT https://www.rishece.net/logged-every-dollar-for-a-month/ https://www.rishece.net/logged-every-dollar-for-a-month/ Thirty days of tracking my spending taught me less about money and more about the strange theater of guilt, math, and self-negotiation we perform every time we open our wallets. The $4 latte was never the villain. Neither was the $400 chair. Rishece Essays Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:13:04 GMT https://www.rishece.net/my-favorite-diner-has-no-address/ https://www.rishece.net/my-favorite-diner-has-no-address/ There's a corner of the internet I visit every night where the same faces show up, the same jokes get told, and nobody knows my legal name. Sociologists used to call that a third place. Mine lives in a browser tab. Rishece Essays Fri, 06 Nov 2026 04:14:12 GMT https://www.rishece.net/websites-nobody-reads-private-garden/ https://www.rishece.net/websites-nobody-reads-private-garden/ Somewhere between the newsletter funnels and the SEO audits, the personal homepage quietly went extinct — and I think we lost something when it did. This is a defense of the website that answers to no one. Rishece Essays Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:19:52 GMT