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A Bitter Spring: Now an Audiobook!
Now there's more than one way to consume my prose!
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How Not to Be an Asshole
It's ok. We're all trying to be better.
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Rest in Peace, Roland
Saying goodbye to the world's nicest (and most expensive) cat.
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Oops! I Did it Again!
I should write a terrible Netflix Christmas movie called The Christmas Kitten.
I’m Too Relieved to Brag
Heard any news this week?
Other Lives
Kind of like Sliding Doors, but far less Gwyneth.
Home
Oh, home, let me come home Home is wherever I'm with you – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
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Movies I Watched (and Rewatched) This Year
Spoiler alert: I didn't like most of them.
Your House is Burning Down
You want a bucket of water? Sorry, none here.
Stop Trying to Make the Wife Guy Happen, Ok?
In honor of Mean Girls Day (October 3), I’m co-opting a quote to rant about this stupid thing. ...
A Modern Woman Watches Porn for the First Time
It goes about as well as you would expect. TW: discussion of sex, porn, feminism, and an anti-capitalist tirade....
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It Is Finished
I've been waiting almost ten years to make this post.
Bronner’s CHRISTMas Wonderland – Frankenmuth, MI
I haven't been that good this year.
Five Terrible (and 2 Good) Gifts to Give Your Writer Friend
Writers HATE these 5 gifts! (I should know! I've gotten them all!)
BestMaze
Have a corn-y good time.
All Stories
Seeds in the Garden
"Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow." Langston Hughes
Weeds in the Garden
It has to end somewhere, might as well be with me.
Dinosauria at the Detroit Zoo
Their sight is based on movement.
Road Trip: Minneapolis
Ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!
Stress
I’ve had an eye twitch for the last 4 days. It started in my left eye, and now my right eye...
Version 3.8
Am I wiser? Or just less likely to give a shit?
Things I Miss: Caffeine
I had to give up caffeine after my epilepsy diagnosis. A few months after that, my neurologist asked how much caffeine...
A Reminder or Two as Your Reproductive Rights are Stripped Away
This isn't about us. Or them.
Let The Next Phase Begin
I’m not ready to officially announce it, but today I began the process of moving. Over the next few weeks, I’ll...
More Advice To A Parent (from a Continued Non-Parent)
Another parent, another letter. This time, more panic.
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