“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum As an unaffiliated voter, I've often said you can know partisanship is inherently toxic, and still recognize when one party has reached peak toxicity. I was only wrong in underestimating how…
The book, that is. I'll still be the same annoying weirdo I've always been. Somehow March came and went without a post, not for lack of trying. Just increasingly dismayed by everything happening in the world. Plus I still had to work, parent, and care for other animals, and now…
Last month I was focused on A Better Me, my debut novel coming out late spring. The main character is a film student who works as a production assistant, an entry level position that demands the ability to perform any number of tasks under pressure. I have so much respect…
“Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading.” Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library There's still (always) a lot of crummy stuff going on in the world, but for now I…
"Male violence is not only tolerated, but celebrated; women’s violence is not only discouraged, but stigmatized.”Mary Anne Franks I can now announce my short story "The Patriarch" will come out in next spring's Family anthology from Writing Bloc. The anthology was originally planned for fall, and I had planned to…
I've mentioned my novel won't be out until next spring. I also have a new story set to appear in an anthology that has been pushed back to next year (a common occurance 2020/2021 for traditional and independent publishers alike) - which meant 2021 was destined to pass without a…
My first promotional post since the release of Silly Little Monsters last fall! Before the pandemic canceled our plans the spring prior, my husband and I were preparing for an author event with some of our friends from Writing Bloc at The Book Loft in Ohio. Silly Little Monsters wasn't…
Labor: to exert one's powers of body or mind especially with painful or strenuous effort : WORK 2: to move with great effort 3: to suffer from some disadvantage or distress labor 4: to be in the labor of giving birthMerriam-Webster Dictionary I hear there’s a bounty on my womb. A high price in the currency of…
"I was born with a brain that tells me to move. I'm hyperactive, and I'm bad at moving."Jessica McCabe, How to ADHD Lately some people pushed a bizarre rivalry in the neurodivergent community, perpetuating misinformation harmful to people with ADHD, autism, or both. Most recently I saw ADHD referred to…
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.Lyall Watson Memes. As I've said before, they're like the bumper stickers of the internet. Not a lot of room for context or nuance. There's a lot of ADHD memes, probably made by people…