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Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Editor at Longreads. Automattician since 2012. Californian since 1979. Junglist for life.

Category Archives: the internet

iGoodbye

I keep thinking about a recent essay in Popula by Danuta Hinc, “Beneath the Black Rocks,” where she writes about her mother’s death — and how she just left.  I think of the underground mountain, how it expands towards the center of the earth, how it pushes deep into the waves towards the horizon, andContinue reading “iGoodbye”

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsJune 21, 2020Posted insocial media, the internet, writingTags:death, essay, pandemic, twitter6 Comments on iGoodbye

What You Don’t See

Musings on the performance of parenthood on Instagram.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsMay 28, 2020May 28, 2020Posted inadulthood, Life, motherhood, social media, the internet, writingTags:Instagram, parenting, social media8 Comments on What You Don’t See

The Cursor

Musings on the power of the cursor.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsJune 22, 2017Posted insocial media, the internet, writingTags:blogging, poem, poetry7 Comments on The Cursor

Finding Space

After reading “My Family’s Slave,” Alex Tizon’s story in the Atlantic, my mind has been a cauldron.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsMay 19, 2017May 19, 2017Posted inculture, musing, social media, space, the internet, writingTags:Alex Tizon, Filipino, Filipino American, poem, poetry21 Comments on Finding Space

Face

Entered that world once again,
and there he is, my dear friend gone.
I send a friend request, despite —
Just need a moment to pretend.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsJune 25, 2015January 7, 2017Posted insocial media, the internet, timeTags:death, facebook, friendship, memory, poetry29 Comments on Face

Fragmented Thoughts On Photography

The image is a byproduct, a shadow of a memory.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsDecember 2, 2014October 26, 2016Posted inphotography, the internetTags:photography, technology23 Comments on Fragmented Thoughts On Photography

The Machine is Your Friend

You think that the stream will satisfy you, that the browser will enlighten you, that this app will complete you, that those likes will fill you.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsSeptember 26, 2014April 29, 2017Posted inthe internetTags:consumption, social media19 Comments on The Machine is Your Friend

I Wanted to Share That I’m Not Sharing

I deactivated Facebook.

I haven’t posted a tweet in ten days.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsSeptember 13, 2014Posted insocial media, the internetTags:back to blogging48 Comments on I Wanted to Share That I’m Not Sharing

Exploring Versions of Home

You can create your own profile on Medium and Hi and Exposure. But there’s an element of renting out space on these platforms, and I’m reminded of the loft my husband and I just moved out of — one unit within a huge, impersonal condo complex — and our quest to create the exact home we want.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsMarch 1, 2014April 29, 2017Posted inspace, the internetTags:blogging, home, publishing, writing30 Comments on Exploring Versions of Home

Creating Our Own Narratives

What we post in these moments of proclamation on a site like Facebook is a byproduct, a projection. Instead, life happens between status updates.

Posted byCheri Lucas RowlandsApril 7, 2013October 26, 2016Posted insocial media, the internet, twitterTags:archive, facebook, narrative, social media, storytelling, twitter36 Comments on Creating Our Own Narratives

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