Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
Sometimes, when I’m feeling frustrated or in a funk, I remind myself that I’m living the life that eight-year-old me dreamed about.
Read More…so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver
Read More…how can i be expected to live, laugh, love in these conditions?
Work is getting busier again, as pandemic restrictions keep relaxing, giving those new variants a chance to really thrive.
Read More…If you’re ready for a story, take a seat! Clap your hands and stomp your feet! Make your hands all nice and neat!
By the time we shut down, I was happy to never do another storytime again. I was so burned out on storytime that I worried that I personally had manifested the pandemic simply so I could have a break from the grind.
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Honey in the Marrow comes out October 2022
Can I tell you a little about the book? Better yet, how do you feel about a cover reveal?
Read More…what is grief, if not love
Let me tell you, writing about grief as an intellectual experiment and writing about grief as someone firmly in its clutches are two very different experiences.
Read More…who can turn the world on with her smile?
“Mary: Why are you smiling at me? Lou: Because you just reaffirmed my faith in human nature. Mary: You mean what I did wasn’t rotten? Lou: Oh, no, that was rotten all right. It’s just nice to know that everyone’s rotten. Up to now, I thought you were one of the few holdouts.” The Mary […]
Read More…January, be kind to us.
“January? The month is dumb. It is fraudulent. It does not cleanse itself.” – Anne Sexton. There’s been this challenge going around of showing yourself in 2012 and showing yourself now. I have a lot of pictures from back then (see above) and far less now. But I’m up for a challenge. I’m not 26 […]
Read More…fanfic manifesto
I write, uhhh, a lot of fanfic. I am a fanfic old, if you will. An elder internet millennial. I’ve been here a long time and have had the same one hobby since I dialed up that modem and realized other people felt the same about Mulder and Scully as I did. I was already […]
Read More…To be fair, my top artist was always and will always be Taylor Swift.
I hope everyone is surviving the holidays so far. Here’s a glimpse of my last couple weeks: Okay, sure, one of these things is not like the other but I listen to a lot of Taylor Swift and it’s as much a part of me as my love for star trek, diet coke, and schnoodles. […]
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