Archive - Velvet Bound Letters

Where are we all going?

Thankfully we have all grown up and we know the rules, but it wasn’t always this way.

Jun 27 •

I Suspect We Have a Light

People as bodies of light.

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Labels and curiosity.

May 23 •

Hoarding the Good

A light, frothy essay on having too many useless notes and photos stored on my phone & writing in diaries.

May 2 •

April 2025

Lessons You Learn at a Girls' School

Do we still need single-sex schools for educating our girls?

Apr 7 •

February 2025

Make Do and Mend: Patchwork Heart. Second-hand.

On the value of a heart.

Feb 22 •

January 2025

An Essay on Kindred Spirits

You either get it or you don't? A bad solipsistic essay.

Jan 14 •

Other People's Houses

The privilege, strangeness, and spectacle of visiting someone else's house to play as a child.

Jan 9 •

December 2024

Two lovers, Clapham Junction station, Christmastime.

Indulgent, directionless, lovey-dovey purple prose (with all the trimmings), since it IS Christmas.

Dec 21, 2024 •

Women Of a Certain Age.

Hot off the press: brief observations on the cool treatment of women as they age.

Dec 19, 2024 •

Comfort, Platitudes, and Love

I rather like being told nice things, don't you? Also this gets very medieval; I'm incredibly apologetic.

Dec 15, 2024 •

To have and to hold. To let go and to leave.

...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer... but nevermind, I think I can do all this from afar.

Dec 6, 2024 •

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