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Dear Angry White Male in the stupid red car on Franklin this morning, See, the reason the guy in front of you had stopped instead of turning right at the light was that three different women with strollers FILLED WITH BABIES were crossing. It is, as it turns out, illegal to mow down pedestrians inContinue reading

Hey everybody! Please read this wonderful back-and-forth interview with my darlings and writing group mates David J. Schwartz: short story writer and author of the serial Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic (available at only $2.00 for only a few more days before it goes up) and the Nebula-award nominated novel Superpowers; and Will Alexander:Continue reading “Goblins and Elephants and Not Talking Down to Your Audience”

Stephanie Burgis, YA author extraordinaire, writes about being a writer and a mom with ME/CFS: https://disabilityinkidlit.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/stephanie-burgis-living-with-and-talking-about-m-e-cfs/ I respect people who do not write about their health in public, but I am so glad when people DO.

You can see all of the Twin Cities essays, which were wonderful, here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5oPQWgVdsDkaevsjrlsSr4g07SJDyWL6

I try hard every year to make Father’s Day about the father of my children, not my own Dearly Departed. I have had middling success over the years, especially the years right after his death. My dad didn’t even like Father’s Day; he saw it as a Hallmark Holiday. I would call him and wishContinue reading “Dad”

I have had random strangers scream lots of things out of their car windows at me over the years: “Get a car!” “Suck my dick!” and the tried-and-true: “LESBIANS!” Today was a first: I was standing outside of the Episcopal Cathedral in Faribault, chatting with a coworker after our presentations, and a woman shrieked scornfullyContinue reading “Jesus Loves Me”

I Am A: Chaotic Good Human Rogue (6th Level) Ability Scores: Strength-14 Dexterity-12 Constitution-14 Intelligence-14 Wisdom-17 Charisma-15 Alignment: Chaotic Good A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he’s kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness and rightContinue reading “This was eerily similar to my Meyers-Briggs results”

Just auditioned for the Twin Cities version of Listen to Your Mother. The women holding the audition were lovely. Because my piece had to do with disability, they assigned me to specific place that was more accessible than the original audition space that was in a warehouse up two flights of stairs. I was soContinue reading “Audition”

I was at first overjoyed to finally be working on fiction again. But it has become clear that this story is so disgusting I cannot eat for hours after working on it. Ah, the glamour of the writing life.