Archive - Amy Kenyon

Fourth of July, 2025

I can't fathom the persistence of Trump.

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Songbook: For All We Know

For all we know, we may never meet again. So goes the 1934 song, a classic love song, at first glance.

Jun 27 •

one from the archives, for the season...

Jun 17 •

Romancing the Archive

The personal and the political

Jun 12 •

and a helpful message to all paid subscribers

Jun 5 •

One from the archives - for summer!

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Happy birthday, Bob Dylan

With forever thanks

May 24 •

Love and Estrangement

May 24 •

April 2025

Archive as Metaphor

No Child Is a Historian / Every Child Becomes One

Apr 29 •

Archive/Archives/Archiving

Keywords are formative.

Apr 27 •

The historian/memoirist is an uneasy dreamer

There is an old hymn and bluegrass song, Death is Only a Dream.

Apr 23 •

The Lifelong Game of Memory

It would be easy to repeat Joan Didion’s evocative and much-quoted statement, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”[1] And much as I too…

Apr 4 •

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