Thirty days. One woman. The Sea of Cortez. And a question that wouldn’t let go: what if being alone — truly, intentionally alone — is a human right?
This blog, 30 Days by the Sea, began as a creative research project and digital thesis. In January 2026, Amy Tucker spent thirty days in solitude in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico — writing, photographing, and developing a new concept: alonetude. The intentional transformation of imposed aloneness into chosen solitude. The right to be present with yourself, without apology.
That inquiry is now becoming a book.
About the Book
The book will weave together the poetry, personal narrative, bilingual writing, and scholarly reflection gathered across this blog — tracing the arc from the shore back into ordinary life, and making the argument that the capacity for alonetude is not a luxury but a right that precarious labour systematically strips away.
It will be a book for anyone who has ever felt guilty for wanting to be alone. For anyone whose stillness has been treated as a problem to be solved. For anyone who suspects that rest is not the absence of work, but a form of it.
Explore the Blog While You Wait
The full body of writing that will inform the book is here, organized by type and theme:
- Poetry — original poems written at the shore and after
- Reflections — essays on rest, precarity, and the right to be alone
- Memory & Vignette — lyric narratives and body-memory writing
- Scholarly Personal Narrative — the research methodology in action
- Start Here — the recommended reading guide for new visitors
Stay Connected
The book is in progress. If you’d like to follow its development, the best way is to read and bookmark this blog, and to return to this page as it grows.
The shore is where the inquiry began. It is not where it is meant to end.
