An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Our traditional New Year’s Eve activity/dessert:
Destroy our gingerbread houses with dinosaurs and eat them.
Closing out the year by introducing the kids to Fantasia (original & 2000). It’s a soothing, low-key way to spend the evening. Continue reading “New Years Eve, Low-Key”
Here’s the thing about Jack O’Neill and Samantha Carter in Stargate SG-1: he loves her — she doesn’t have long hair or tight clothes; doesn’t babble, do emotional work, or soothe egos — he just loves her for the brilliant, awkward human she is. Continue reading “Jack O’Neill and Samantha Carter”
That feeling when you turn on an album you haven’t listened to in a while and realize you first got hooked on it when you were three years younger than your elder kid is now.
As it turns out, when I can’t remember anything useful, my brain is still storing a ton of lyrics to Frank Sinatra songs that I listened to repeatedly when I was ten but haven’t listened to for possibly a decade or two. Continue reading “Misspelling Cardboard and Remembering Frank Sinatra”
That feeling when your brain lapses and so you hush the TV and try to turn down the dogs with the remote.
It’s way past time for a massive toppling of current copyright law, huge resurgence of unions everywhere, universal health care, and universal basic income. Continue reading “Soul and Surviving”
Merry holiday season!
It’s been a long, hard year for a lot of us, so we’re sharing three stories today as a Christmas present for anyone who needs one. These three flash fiction stories fit together, following the voyages of a starship carrying scientists from world to world, making first contact with alien species, bringing small touches of hope and connection from the stars. Continue reading “A Small Present in Three Parts”
The thirteen-year-old has learned to make one of my favorite kinds of cookies.
Piper spent several days informing the other cats that she would murder them if they crossed her…
…now she doesn’t understand why they won’t play with her. Continue reading “Tidbits from the First Pandemic Christmas Eve”
That feeling when you realize the guy famous for raising the price of a lifesaving drug by 5000% reminds you of your dad…
Of course the other people who remind me of my dad are Bill Cosby (but less funny) & Dr. House (but less life-savey). There’s a reason we’re not in touch. Continue reading “Dark and Light”
Writers are taught not to write wish-fulfillment—it’s too easy, boring, or low stakes. But that reasoning is wrong. It only seems that way because we’ve all already read thousands of wish-fulfillment stories about cis het able-bodied white males, so they’re very… predictable.
For every other demographic? Continue reading “Wish-Fulfillment”
Staying up past 3am playing Diablo and listening to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is healthy…? Yes, yes, I’m sure it is.
The highest levels of coolness I’ve ever seen achieved:
— Jordan Peele in The Twilight Zone
— Rachel Bloom in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s “So Maternal” Continue reading “Late Night Thoughts on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
Topic of discussion on tonight’s zoom call: how my writing would be affected if I knew I’d have Keanu Reeves available as a performer.
Answer: I would bother adding a human man into the things I write. Continue reading “Thoughts on Keanu Reeves”