Happy Birthday, Dad.I miss you. #WhatIsRememberedLives
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Adulting in a writerly way
Writing achievement unlocked: I completed the first draft of a new story today. 6.3K total – 3.5K written *today*. It might totally suck, but the feel of it is on the page. holy crap. I’m not usually able to push in a single day like this, but I have a looming deadline for a working…
Its beginning to look a lot like Halloween!
Skeleton John and the praying 80s Pop Star monk have taken their places in the front yard.
Light shadow dark shadow
I take pictures in our garden all the time. I did this even pre-COVID because I was in a personal lock down due to my health, which I now have new words for. Gee thanks Global Pandemic. Every year my camera roll reminds me of where I am in the cycle of the yard, in…
Its the Most wonderful time of the year!
Happy Month of Halloween! Things to remember thus month: – glitter is also a goth color – chocolate is your friend – white supremacy sucks – the earth is sacred – Black lives matter – hope is a practice #inanageofperformativecruelty #kindnessispunkasfuck
What are you reading? Non-fiction edition.
Currently open in my eReader: “The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander “The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a…
Black History Month – Marine Biology edition
While reading many great articles about #BlackExcellence this month I thought about how I might contribute to the conversation, if at all. I finally settled on doing some research on one of my favorite topics: Marine Biology. Specifically, I was looking to learn about Black Marine Biologists and what work they were doing. Given the…
Just write!
Really good piece in by by Marissa Lingen in Uncanny Magazine about who gets to write Hard Sci-Fi and really what does “hard sci-fi” mean anyway? “So how else do we do this? How do we do this better? How do I stop having conversations with smart, talented writers who tell me that they don’t…
Two days at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
For part two of our Monterey trip Scott and I got to take Cat to see the Monterey Bay Aquarium for the first time! I’m happy to report that she is hooked Since we had 2 day passes, we went back the next day as well! And even cooler, we got to do the most…
Whale Watching from Moss Landing
The hubby and I, along with our friend Cat, planned a long weekend in Monterey to go whale watching and take Cat to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for her very first visit! Sadly, Scott picked up the office cold, so the whale watching run was just Cat and me – it was, as expected, amazing….