I’ve been a bad blogger! I keep opening this post, adding to it, forgetting about it, coming back, looking at it, leaving again. So today, I’m gonna post it. You’ll see!

We nipped away to Disneyland at the beginning of this month. We bought magic key passes on a whim and it was a good thing, too, since Disney halted the sale of them with no warning the other day. We have the lowest level, the Enchant key, which means weekends and most of the summers are blocked out. We live six hours away, and Disney in the heart of summer is unendurable, so it made sense to go with those. But the first week of June was our last chance to go before summer, so we made it happen.

When you work in public service, you almost have to make fun little trips a priority. You give so much of your time, effort, and compassion to the community and it gets heavy, after a while. Last week, we had our big summer reading event that I mostly planned and it was great. We estimate around 1,500 people attended and it was a fabulous library day.

And then the following day, we had three incidents within twenty minutes that required either the paramedics, the cops, or a terse phone call to the city. The library giveth, the library taketh away, I always say.

I did the Sapphic World Book Club podcast and that was super fun, despite sudden technically difficulties on my end. We rallied though! I believe they’ll post all their cool June content soon, so I’ll share a link on socials when my episode is available. I’m also going to do another episode of the Geek Girls Story Salon, which is run by my publishing house sister Jennifer Giacalone. We rescheduled from June to July, which worked out well for both of us, because it was originally scheduled to record on the same day as Bridgerton part two came out and I would have been useless, to be honest. I was too busy thinking about Nicola Coughlan’s perfect breasts. On some level, I will always be thinking about them.

And on that note, I’ve been writing fanfiction again?? While I’ve never officially stopped, I certainly took a step back in order to focus on writing books, but I was starting to really miss it. It hits different, somehow. I often use it as stress release and I hadn’t realized how much I needed that outlet until I started doing it again. So that’s been fun. I can’t afford to spend TOO much time doing it, but I also know now that I can’t drop it completely because it adds something so valuable to my life.

I hope everyone is having a fabulous summer, or at least you have a place to keep cool.