Cheri Lucas Rowlands

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

Finding a Sense of Place in the Discomfort of Cedar Fever A rush of allergy-inducing nostalgia welcomes a writer back to Central Texas

"Some people measure home by a skyline or sound; I measure it by what gets into my sinuses."

@anamariecox.bsky.social for @texashighways.bsky.social:
texashighways.com/culture/find...

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit - Longreads The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.

What five items would you place in a time capsule?

Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened, carefully, with precautions, in the year 3026.

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit - Longreads The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.

"I’m against the 'one thing' framework. I’m a braid of a thousand threads of ideas and experiences and oppressions and opportunities and transformations."

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social answers the latest @longreads.com questionnaire: longreads.com/2026/03/04/q...

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Maria Popova - Longreads The creator of The Marginalian and author of the new book Traversal responds to 25 questions on writing, reading, and creativity.

For years I've been reading @mariapopova.bsky.social Back in the day she wrote as Brain Pickings. An extraordinary amount of work goes into her posts, which highlight culture and writers.
#ff

35 and 1 - Longreads A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love.

"Out of 365 days, why this one? I was afraid Tomm would’ve resented sharing the day with his nephew, or, worse, that I’d collapse their souls into one."

A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love. A new essay by Maria Zorn: longreads.com/2026/02/24/m...

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Maria Popova - Longreads The creator of The Marginalian and author of the new book Traversal responds to 25 questions on writing, reading, and creativity.

20 years ago, when I started thinking about *how* I wanted to create and write online, I looked to Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings (now The Marginalian) for inspiration.

Thrilled to have Maria kick off our new @longreads.com questionnaire series:

longreads.com/2026/02/17/q...

Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? — The Dial How American tourists took over everything.

"The American tourist is curious about your gelato and is disappointed you can’t give him cold brew."

Francesco Pacifico for @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

again, i loved this! was great to flip through the latest Orion issue and see it.

huge thanks to @cherilucasrowlands.com for citing my essay in this week's Longreads Top 5: "Like the fish, it seems to emerge from nothing."

omg that's my face 🫣 ⬇️

if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name

30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” - Longreads "Groove Theory" tries to make the work of staying in love feel as easy as possible, even when it isn’t.

"The remix doesn’t say I can do this better, at least not always. The remix says I want to spend more time with you, I want to see the light fall on you from every possible angle."

Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...

The internet is loud. In a world of endless feeds and content that fades, our stories matter more than ever. Help us publish writing that outlasts the noise—stories that linger and pair well with your morning cup of coffee.

More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...

Uncanny Testimony - Longreads As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.

For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss

longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

These words from @cherilucasrowlands.com made me happy:
"After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities"
longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

"The California I wanted doesn’t exist. It was never a place, with all of a place’s complex webs of land and culture."

Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.

Someone asked if I consider myself neurodivergent, and I think it's probably best to describe myself with some astrological-like phrasing: I'm Neurotypical with ADHD rising, if you get my drift, just like I'm an Introvert but my moon is in Social Butterfly.

So, so, so thrilled about this, Jordan. Proud to have worked on this piece with you!

Some exciting personal news:

Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3

Pondering life’s important questions in the latest @pioneerwork.bsky.social issue

#caturday

I recently introduced my 6 yr old to my favorite snack as a kid: a plate of wheat thins, with melted bits of string cheese on each

The Inked and Invisible Scars that History Leaves Behind In a world where memory is porous, how do we recognize the signs of history repeating?

"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain."

A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:

Your gummy thought of the evening: So much of life is just showing up, and the internet allows too many people to not show up anymore. The rest of the world is just some shit that’s happening on television

I don’t read things written on substack if I can at all help it, this is true of many folks who are too polite to say it for fear of putting off those who write there, but you should know if you’re still on that platform!

why is everyone mad at me

I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.

Screenshot of an Al Overview response that reads, “‘On the road’ consists of three words. On, the, and road.”

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

Solastalgia Southern author Tracy Thompson's "Solastalgia": environmental change, childhood memories, and the grief of losing a rural homeland.

All of us at @salvationsouth.com thank @cherilucasrowlands.com for seeing how Tracy Thompson’s “Solastalgia” “sinks into you.” It surely does. Thanks for including us is @longreads.com’s top stories.