8/17/2020
This is something new – or, more accurately, something I haven’t done in a while. I’ve written poetry; I’ve even taken college classes on it, but it’s been years since I really enjoyed and embraced that kind of deliberate play with language.
So, after watching Zoraida C...
7/31/2020
Alternately: In Which I am in WAY Over My Head LOL
As some of you might know or remember from my post last year, #ARCAugust is a readathon challenge run by @ReadSleepRepeat that’s been going on several years now (You can get the details over at the announcement blog her...
7/20/2020
I guess it’s a good sign when just writing the title of a blog post gets my brain going enough that I have a song stuck in my head – or is that just me? Either way, “Listen to Your Heart” by D.H.T. is now my earworm for the next three hours or so, and hopefully you’ve...
5/26/2020
Or Infertility is Ongoing
(Trigger warnings for discussions about infertility, pregnancy, medical treatment, and depression/anxiety).
An hour ago, I was struggling trying to figure out what May’s blog was going to be about. Would it be about my continuing lack of writin...
4/9/2020
I know I’m not alone in saying my productivity has been… less than ideal as Covid-19 changes the face of the landscape of our lives all over the world. Hell, this blog was started with the intention of posting it in March as per my goal of one blog per month. Obviously...
2/28/2020
Never Enough Bookshelves: ROSE DAUGHTER or An Old Favorite in a New Format
It surprised me to realize that I haven't talked about Robin McKinley's ROSE DAUGHTER on my blog before, and somehow haven't reviewed it anywhere either (or hadn’t until earlier this week). It ma...
1/1/2020
I doubt I’m alone when I say that if 2018 was the year of a sullen “meh,” 2019 was a year of “Fuck my life.” There are very few folks I know that had a great or even a decent 2019, and I’m definitely not one of the exceptions. It’s been rough, y’all. And I can only hop...
12/23/2019
So this challenge last year was… well it was mostly a bust. Not because I didn’t read a ton of books – I more than met my goal of 52 – I just was absolutely TERRIBLE at tracking which of my “official” goal books I read, and completely forgot to track any of them over a...
12/9/2019
Keeping the Enthusiasm Going: Lessons from NaNoWriMo
So, many of us are crawling out of the void that was National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo. We did or did not manage the full 50k words but we wrote more than we might have without the challenge, and that absolut...
11/26/2019
December “Winter” Themed Self Readathon
Well my dears, we are nearing the end of the year! I’ve managed (or will by the end of December after scheduled posts go live) to meet my goal of 12 blog posts for the year. Granted they didn’t exactly hit the “1 blog a month” r...