Category: Blog

Imagine if dogs and cats were real, and you could see videos of them, but only got to meet one in person for one hour, once during your life.

You hit it off immediately and have so much fun… but they’re not pets.

This is how I feel about meeting Tiberius the octopus yesterday.

You know how your brain can have sudden ridiculous thoughts that make no sense?

I’m heading to the coast for an octopus encounter at an aquarium, and my brain just thought: “Oh no, should I have brought a copy of my book with an octopus on the cover… for the octopus to autograph?” Continue reading “Meeting Tiberius”

One of the best parts of being a writer and having your stories published is when they get illustrated, and you get to actually, really see the characters you’ve been imagining.

Of course, not all stories get illustrations. However, now with DALL-E, I can fix that… Continue reading “Lee-a-lei’s Baby Picture”

I’d like to think that Eleanor & Emily from The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” and The Zombies’ “A Rose for Emily” were perfectly, happily in love with each other, and the boys singing the songs just didn’t notice.

A folding chair in a weirdly sunny-and-windy park wouldn’t normally be my first choice for where to write… but the local government has put together a program that pays teens to organize younger kids who drop by into fun activities… so, that shifts things. Continue reading “Writing in the Park”

Over the 15 years that my husband and I have been parents, there have been several points when he’s claimed he was doing a full half of the parenting. It has never once been true.

He used to argue my standards were unnecessarily high… Continue reading “The Myth of Unnecessarily High Standards”

Today I fed a giraffe, and I watched a tiger paint for me.

Then my mom bought me a sparkly gold giraffe plush as an early 40th birthday present. Continue reading “Giraffes and Tigers”

So, continuing on with [SPOILERS – Stranger Things S4E9]…

I am not really here for leaving the girl I find most relatable in a coma at the end of a season.

I still feel pain over VR5 leaving Sydney Bloom in a similar state FOREVER. Continue reading “Max’s Future”

I feel so disconnected from my writing lately… like I’ll come up with an idea, and it will be so long between that spark and when I have the real time to tackle it, that the fire burns out.

Enough sparks dying makes it feel like even trying to light a fire is pointless. Continue reading “Sparks Dying”

Well, I made it 6.5 episodes into Silicon Valley before breaking down and crying about how hostile and sexist that tech environment is, and how that’s pretty much why I ended up an isolated stay-at-home parent instead of able to have a paying job that would suit me.

I started writing a thread about my experience trying to break into the tech world as a ridiculously smart college student attending one of the top tech colleges in the country… Continue reading “Silicon Valley”