An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
The book I’m writing was not supposed to drip so heavily with symbolism!!!!
I planned this book last August, and the main characters were always intended to end up on a water-filled space station where they’d need breathing masks. Continue reading “Accidentally Predictive Fiction”
My Leos came! They’re named Sunny for “Ecto-Cafe” and Mazel for “Nexus Nine.”
The seven-year-old is explaining to me that they’re going to build a robot: “First, I’ll need to give it a name. Then I’ll get some tape and put its name on the tape, and put the tape on it. Then I’ll turn it on!” Continue reading “Plush Lions, Robot Friends, and Button Collections”
When I start ranting about how Speed is the same movie as Twelve Angry Men (they’re both a group of people stuck in a stressful situation together, revealing their personalities, while figuring out how to cooperate on getting out!), it’s probably time for bed.
Let’s talk about why Toy Story 4 is awesome!
The main points of this talk will be:
—Toy Story 3 had a terrible end Continue reading “Toy Story 4”
Twelve-year-old: *appears in my workspace at 10pm, instead of being in bed*
Me: “Hello. What are you doing here?”
Twelve, wielding pen and paper: “I’m here to draw you an otter.” Continue reading “Drawing an Otter”
My dad is an emotionally abusive jerk. My mom spent twenty years sublimating her own needs to protect me and my sister from him.
From this, my sister seems to have learned that mothers should be self-sacrificing saints with no needs or feelings of their own.
I have kids now… you do the math. Continue reading “Unfortunate Family Dynamics”
The twelve-year-old: “You know how there are those detergent packets you put in the dish washer? And then after the dishes are washed, it’s gone? The whole thing is gone? Where does it go???”
Existential crisis regarding the failure to understand soap ensues. Continue reading “Detergent Packets”
My sister and I haven’t really spoken in 2.5 years, but for the last three weeks we’ve been swapping video links every day or so — songs, movie clips, etc. It’s a sort of free association, representational conversation. Continue reading “Videos In Lieu of Words”
We’ve been re-watching Jeeves & Wooster, and Daniel started taking notes so he can use drily snarky Jeeves quotes on me when he thinks I’m being ridiculous. Things like, “I am sure you are correct, Sir,” and “Just as you say, Sir.”
The six-year-old, after playing with a shovel for ten minutes: “I know what it’s like to be a farmer now, always doing hard work!”