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2 women,
1 friendship,
2 letters per week


An exploration of writing, conversation, collaboration, and curation.

Rog & Shinch a creative space for two

Jul 10
Jul 10 Week 93: The Long View & The Now

Eva Rogers

On reasonable fears and confirmed suspicions, walking and writing, and nasal discomforts revisited

Jul 3
Jul 3 Week 92: Stillness & Irreverence

Sarah Pearson

ON BEING THE MORNING PEOPLE, GENERATING OUR OWN MOMENTUM, AND GRAPPLING WITH PATRIOTISM

Jun 26
Jun 26 Week 91: Love & Libraries

Eva Rogers

On why we keep what we keep, being generous or frugal with our “I love yous,” and heartbeats visible on our chests

Jun 19
Jun 19 Week 90: Self-Protection & Fire Escapes

Sarah Pearson

ON NEVER KNOWING WHERE WE WILL GO OR WHO WE WILL AFFECT, AND APPLYING OUR TURTLE-LIKE HERMIT SELVES TO THE RESISTANCE

Jun 12
Jun 12 Week 89: Contradiction & Reckoning

Eva Rogers

On events of the world and events in our worlds, making daily change, and losing the game of Sorry

Jun 5
Jun 5 Week 88: Activism & Interrogation

Sarah Pearson

ON OUR DISTANCED FRIENDSHIP, GOING IT ALONE, AND THE JOY OF RESISTANCE

May 29
May 29 Week 87: Translation & Malleability

Eva Rogers

On being slow like a snail, words like vitamins, and for whom we live and toil

May 22
May 22 Week 86: Dots & Doodles

Sarah Pearson

ON KNOWING WHY BUT NOT WHAT, PEELING APART, AND WRITING WITH A GLINT IN HER EYE

May 15
May 15 Week 85: Reeling & Greens

Eva Rogers

On snapshots of moving targets, puzzling over goals, and lessons in finishing

May 8
May 8 Week 84: Lazy Stories & Second Brains

Sarah Pearson

ON LOOKING INTO BEADY LITTLE IDEA-EYES, AND MAKING DIFFERENT CONTAINERS FOR THE SAME INGREDIENTS

May 1
May 1 Week 83: Arbitrary Goals & Glass Houses

Eva Rogers

On single stages and single pages, new-month milestones, and not-so-quiet time

Apr 24
Apr 24 Week 82: Waning Weeks & Growing Stacks

Sarah Pearson

ON DIAMONDS, IMPATIENCE FOR PUZZLES, BEING STINGY WITH TIME

Apr 17
Apr 17 Week 81: Groovy Palms & Dog Years

Eva Rogers

On secret birthday plans, what we’re steeping in these days, and unburying hidden bones to chew on

Apr 10
Apr 10 Week 80: World-Making & People-Watching

Sarah Pearson

MAKING SAMENESS LESS SAME, HONKING FOR BONNIE'S BIRTHDAY, AND BEING OBSTINATE

Apr 3
Apr 3 Week 79: Sub-Delicious & Differently-Felt

Sarah Pearson

ON THE ULTIMATE COMFORT FOODS, PANDEMIC TIME AND NOTHING TIME, AND A MAINTENANCE STATE OF BEING

Mar 27
Mar 27 Week 78: Morning Meetings & Comfort Eating

Eva Rogers

On all the places our hands go, spinning a cozy cocoon, and unscrambling that egg

Mar 20
Mar 20 Week 77: Homebound & Together-together

Sarah Pearson

ON THE TROUBLE WITH REALITY AND THE SIMPLE TRIUMPH OF MAKING IT TO THE END OF ANOTHER WEEK

Mar 13
Mar 13 Week 76: Normalcy & Surreality

Sarah Pearson

ON THE SLOW-MOTION 9/11 AND GENUINELY FEELING DIFFERENT ON DIFFERENT DAYS

Mar 6
Mar 6 Week 75: Intentionality & Exuberance

Eva Rogers

On making mind and editing mind, “are there only men left in the race?,” and gathering a few bits in our skirts as we rush along

Feb 28
Feb 28 Week 74: Comics & Poems

Sarah Pearson

ON CONCISE STORIES AND WINDING LETTERS, AND THINKING ABOUT HOW TO BE BEFORE DEATH COMES

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Rog & Shinch are a pair of ponderers testing a new way of communicating online. Rather than writing to everyone / no one, they are writing to each other — one letter each week— mass communication medium be damned. Feel free to peek in.

 

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