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Mary Rickert’s THE MEMORY GARDEN

I got The Memory Garden delivered on my yoga night, and despite the fact that Mary and I first bonded over our mutual love of yoga I could not put down the book and go. It is an all-encompassing book. It enfolds you, like the garden (the garden is its own character in this novel:Continue reading “Mary Rickert’s THE MEMORY GARDEN”

Actual email received:

SUBJECT LINE: “No girls allowed. These special edition tees are for BOYS ONLY.” Oh, thank GOD, Threadless. FINALLY!!!!! It’s so hard for dudes to find T-shirts that actually FIT.

I played catch with my kid for hours

. . . yesterday and today. I think it’s very good for children to see their parents having fun being really, really bad at something: and for them to be really good at it. My hand is still stinging. I told him I was testing his fielding skills but he wasn’t buying it. (When IContinue reading “I played catch with my kid for hours”

“Stop chewing o…

“Stop chewing on the electronics.” — Things I didn’t think I’d still be saying with a nine-year-old, a continuing series

Granddad’s Easter

These last few Easters, I’ve missed my Granddad so much it’s hard to breathe for a minute. This Easter is especially hard because it’s also the anniversary of his death a year ago. Every Easter before dementia made it impossible, I would call him, and he would pick up. “CHRIST IS RISEN!” I would bellowContinue reading “Granddad’s Easter”

Oh, my fellow nerds and/or metalheads

You MUST see Knights of Badassadom. Oh, goodness gracious me. It’s horror. Please do not be surprised by the gore. It’s funny as hell. And oh oh oh no I won’t give anything away oh.

OMG OMG OMG KERMIT FLAIL

My first Science Fiction sale EVar, and my first fiction publication of any sort since 2008! http://www.apex-magazine.com/issue-59-april-2014/

Dear Arie,

A lot of people in this life figure out who they are without having kids. Most of them do, I’m guessing. I am not one of those people. 12 years ago today, I met you. And I met myself. Thank you for showing me the best person I could be. And the worst person, asContinue reading “Dear Arie,”

Me and Eddie Hamilton are going to be on TEE VEEEEE

GREAT profile of the lovely artist Eddie Hamilton as well as his project with disabled people called The Shadows Project. And I’m in it, too!

Femme Appreciation Day

So, a day or two ago I shared a Tracey Spicer TED talk in which she goes on an on about how much more productive women would be if we weren’t held to ridiculous beauty standards and didn’t spend so much time on them. I made some wry comment about how judging from myself IContinue reading “Femme Appreciation Day”