Deep Sky Anchor

I don’t play piano much, but I took lessons as a kid and have poked around some as an adult. And there’s a way your fingers feel when they’re hitting the right keys — an inevitability, like the steps of a dance. Continue reading “When Fingers Dance”

Parenting is HARD.‬

‪And know what makes it harder? Every time a parent complains, they’re met w/ judgy responses about how it was a choice they made or how teachers are underpreciated.‬ Continue reading “Callousness”

‪I miss having teachers assisting me in civilizing the seven-year-old.‬

‪And don’t ducking dare suggest I didn’t appreciate them when I had them. I did. And more than that, I argued that taxes should be higher so that they’d be paid more.‬ Continue reading “Pandemic Parenting”

I’ve now watched Rick & Morty twice through, and I find Beth’s arc deeply healing. I’ve been craving stories where women kill their terrible fathers, instead of forgiving and connecting with them…

And it didn’t do that, but it gave me something… better. Continue reading “Beth’s Arc”

For years, I’ve blamed myself for being too shy or cowardly, and not trying hard enough to network back when I went to sf/f cons… but DAMN, watching all the threads in sf/f twitter today, that was not my fault. It wasn’t that I was too shy…

I just had an obvious husband with me (who was supportive but not really into sf/f); so as a young woman I was basically invisible to a significant fraction of the men who were setting the tone at social events. Continue reading “Being Invisible”

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”

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”

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”

I’ve started rereading Jane Austen’s novels, and I just want to point out: she uses exclamation points & all caps ALL over the place!

Exclamation points & all caps may be horribly out of fashion in fiction these days, but Austen is a master. Editors can get over themselves. Continue reading “Italics and Exclamation Points”