Category: Blog

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”

I’m working on a horror novel with my 14-year-old, and it’s an upsetting patchwork when it comes to how many spaces go after the end of a sentence — I still use two; the kid uses one. And neither of us is showing any signs of folding.

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”

Me, yesterday: “I’m so excited by the progress I made on my robot story today! Stories like this are some of the best and most difficult things I write. I never know when I’ll be able to make progress on them!”

Me, today: “Ugh! Why can’t I make any progress on this robot story!” Continue reading “Robots, Obi Wan, and Trek vs. Wars”

I’m working on a story for my 9-year-old about a super-fast purple pangolin named Cosmic. It may have been inspired by a video game about a blue hedgehog.

Anyway, in my sleep last night, my sleeping brain became convinced I should also write a story about an orca named Ekko. Continue reading “Two Sagas”