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October 2025
: 🔖 Read Monster or victim?: The fascination of Hedda Gabler, the ‘female Hamlet’ who divides opinion …
: Finished reading: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 📚 Why is fungus so goth? I don’t know but it …
: Finished reading: Again The Magic by Lisa Kleypas 📚
: Finished reading: I Must Say by Martin Short 📚🎧 Martin Short is a delight and listening to him read …
: 🔖 Read What’s next after the historic No Kings protest? by Daniel Hunter (Waging Non-violence). …
: 🔖 Read No, you don’t need to optimize your morning routine. This post from Fenn Priest is a gift. …
: Finished reading: The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker 📚
: Finished reading: Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto 📚
: 🔖 Read The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story. This is a super interesting read about comparative …
: 🔖📚 Read The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist. Book heist! …
: Finished reading: The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel by Caitlin Starling 📚
: 🔖📚 Read A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries. In New Braunfels …
: It is once again that time of year when I ponder changing my notebook set up.
: Finished reading: A Court of Mist and Fury (a Court of Thorns and Roses, 2) by Sarah J. Maas 📚
: 🔖📚 Read To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe by Ed Simon (Literary Hub). I …
: Finished reading: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang 📚🎧 I love what I know of Esmé …
: 🔖📚 Read New NC law means teachers are providing fewer books for their students to read. This bill …
: Finished reading: The Cloisters by Katy Hays 📚 This is on the list of key titles for gothic fiction …
: Almost every gothic novel since Rebecca is Rebecca, and Rebecca is Jane Eyre. 📚
: Finished reading: All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles 📚 Listen, I already knew KJ Charles was great …
: 📚 This has been a good week in book news for me. Kresley Cole announced a new series spun off of …
: Finished reading: Worth Any Price by Lisa Kleypas 📚
: Hey @cleverdevil and @mtt, looks like the On This Day script isn’t working on my blog using the …
: Hello and welcome to the best month. 🎃👻⚰️🧛🏻♀️
September 2025
: Finished reading: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett 📚 There are some authors whose …
: 📚💬 “Oh, this clown will never run out of bits, because every gag is taken from the endless …
: 📚💬 “How can I turn this into a bit, I wonder. That’s how my brain always chooses to process trauma …
: Finished reading: With Teeth by Kristen Arnett 📚 Kristen Arnett’s books are sad, funny, and …
: Finished reading: Home for the Challah Days by Jennifer Wilck 📚 Sweet, like an apple dipped in …
: Finished reading: When Strangers Marry by Lisa Kleypas 📚
: Finished reading: The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang 📚🎧 Esmé Weijun Wang writes beautiful …
: Finished reading: Lady Sophia’s Lover by Lisa Kleypas 📚
: Finished reading: Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas 📚 Somehow both low-conflict and high-angst.
: Kelly J. Baker and Book Riot continue to do critical reporting on the current administration’s …
: 📚 I kind of want to have this quote from Anne Trubek as a poster, cross-stitch, or tattoo: conceive …
: Me, looking at book festival stuff: I gotta read more. There are so many good books! Ack! How can I …
: Finished reading: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 📚
: Finished reading: The Season by Sarah MacLean 📚 I just love Sarah MacLean so much.
: 🔖📚 Read Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with. This is one example of many …
: Finished reading: Waking Up With the Duke by Lorraine Heath 📚 So great.
August 2025
: Finished reading: Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman by Lorraine Heath 📚
: Today is a great day to tell your representative to support library funding in next year’s budget …
: 💬📚 “How many times could a mother’s heart break? An infinite number. Each time her children were …
: Finished reading: Passions of a Wicked Earl by Lorraine Heath 📚 Lorraine Heath is just so reliably …
: Finished reading: The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio 📚 I’m very obsessed with …
: Whoops I forgot what it means to be an educator in August. #Blaugust I had grand dreams for Blaugust. I was going to not only write blog posts, but also read blog posts. …
: I just renewed my family’s membership to the Friends of the Durham Library. Have you joined your …
: Finished reading: Vanish by Sophie Jordan 📚
: Finished reading: Storm Front by Jim Butcher 📚🎧 James Marsters reads the audiobook and he’s great.
: Finished reading: Protecting What’s His by Tessa Bailey 📚
: Finished reading: The Last Wicked Scoundrel by Lorraine Heath 📚
: Finished reading: Midnight Pleasures With a Scoundrel by Lorraine Heath 📚 This is an absolutely …
: This is a Blaugust intro post! Hello friends. I’ve signed up for Blaugust. As you might guess from the name, it’s a challenge that …
: 🔖 Read Why I’m One And Done (And Not Feeling Guilty About It) by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade). …
: Been watching the Disney original movies in the Zombies series and these are thinly veiled metaphors …
: Finished reading: Stranger in My Arms by Lisa Kleypas 📚
: Finished reading: Because You’re Mine by Lisa Kleypas 📚
: You should go vote for my colleague and friend Erin Dawson Linn & her spouse Alder Linn in the …
: 💬📚 “Each [major innovation in industrial farming] has benefited the biggest [farms] and penalized …
: 📚 Leigh Bardugo has a picture book about death and grief that she wrote with John Picacio available …
: Finished reading: Somewhere I’ll Find You by Lisa Kleypas 📚
July 2025
: They’ve scheduled a 90s Dance Party for our work retreat in a couple weeks. I am tempted to send …
: Finished reading: The Bladesmith Queen by Sarah MacLean 📚
: 📚 Hear me out: sun-soaked summer gothic literature. These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean. The Villa …
: Another day, another autoimmune flare, another medical specialist, another round of blaming myself …
: 🎮 Had a breakthrough in Blue Prince and I’m so excited about it it’s hard to sleep.
: 📚 Reading Zoraida Córdova’s Labyrinth Lost and realized I had the perfect bookmark for any book by …
: Finished reading: Surrender to the Devil by Lorraine Heath 📚 Lorraine Heath is so good at the job.
: Finished reading: A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen 📚 This companion-sequel to A Fate …
: Finished reading: These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean 📚 I will follow Sarah MacLean anywhere, from …
: Finished reading: Three Simple Rules by Nikki Sloane 📚🎧
: “There was something about trains.” 💬📚 Reading Sarah MacLean’s These Summer Storms while actually on …
: Finished reading: The Rose & the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh 📚 Another excellent book!
: My First Skirt Sketches 🧵 Here are my first sketches for my Skirt Skills class with Brooks Ann Camper. I did a yoke for each …
: I’ve been thinking about going back to a hand-coded website for a while now. I don’t want to lose …
: Finished reading: Managed by Kristen Callihan 📚🎧
: 📚 In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman writes 19th century farmers wouldn’t let land lie fallow …
: 🔖 Read We Cannot Give Up on Each Other by Kelly Jensen. I really needed this today. The page isn’t …
: Finished reading: The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh 📚 So great.
June 2025
: Swatching my little fabric stash In her Intro to Fabrics lesson, Brooks Ann links to an article she wrote for Threads Magazine called …
: I’m taking Brooks Ann Camper’s Skirt Skills Custom Sewing class. Yesterday I put together my …
: 📚 Book Review: Once Upon You & Me by Timothy Janovsky Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky is a contemporary romance. On the closed door/open door/in …
: 🔖🧵 Read Just Make it Already! How to Boost Your Sewing Confidence. Brooks Ann Camper includes this …
: It’s very Kimberly that I just had a nightmare in which the nightmarish occurrence was that the …
: Finished reading: To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai 📚 Super cute and fun!
: 🧵 I made a pillow! Well, I covered a pillow. I used instructions from the Sewing 10 class from Brit …
: 📚💬 “When no help comes from outside, a lost crop becomes a famine.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, …
: Finished reading: Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Another delight from Timothy Janovsky. …
: Finished reading: Idol by Kristen Callihan 📚🎧
: Finished reading: Tangled Up In You by Christina Lauren 📚 A super cute Tangled retelling!
: 📚 Book Review: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera is a historical romance set mostly in Paris during …
: Disabled writer heroes: Leigh Bardugo. Esmé Weijun Wang. Johanna Hedva. I have more but these are …
: Finished reading: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera 📚 I love this book. Full review …
: There is no room of one's own. So what do we do? Everybody writes about being the mother of a baby. But what about being the mother of a big kid? You …
: I’ve been conducting inventory on our 5000ish volume school library and it’s been going well. It’s …
: Crucial Track for June 3, 2025 "The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the …
: Crucial Track for June 4, 2025 "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support …
: 🔖 Read The real reason Musk retreated by Daniel Hunter (Waging Nonviolence). This article about the …
: Finished reading: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey 📚 A fascinating …
May 2025
: 📚💬📝 “Tending to your body and mind is a way to tend to your work.” Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve: …
: 📚💬📝 “A disabled life is a life interrupted.” Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve: Unlearning Workshop …
: Finished reading: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera 📚 Another re-read. I …
: 📚💬 “In that moment Manuela began counting her blessings to have found friends who not only came to …
: 📚💬 “Ghost stories, for good or ill, are how cities make sense of themselves: how they narrate the …
: Finished reading: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera 📚 This is a re-read. It’s a …
: Mijn Nederlansen vrienden, do people ever put hagelslag on stroopwafel?
: Finished reading: Firelight by Sophie Jordan 📚
: Fandom is something people do on the edges of their obligations, #FanLIS2025
: I’m just going to sit back and enjoy Julia Bullard’s keynote, I Am Giving This Talk Instead of …
: Now Billy Tringali, Maria Alberto and Jeremiah Martinez with Fun, Friends, and Fitness – Why Fans …
: “Students who research a topic related to a personal fandom feel more confident in the research …
: Next! Amber Sewell with Fandom does belong in the classroom: Designing a study of fandom, student …
: Chason-McCarthy discusses critically endangered crafts that fanbinding can revitalize, e.g. foreedge …
: Distracted by personal stuff from live-blogging #FanLIS2025, sorry!
: Chason-McCarthy conducted ethnography at Renegade Bindery Discord and TikTok fanbinding community. …
: Chason-McCarthy draws a connection between fanfiction purges from places like LiveJournal and Tumblr …
: Beck Chason-McCarthy with Multi-Sited Ethnography of Online Fan Binding communities: implications …
: Nelson is interested in how we can use parafandom to delineate the different intentions behind …
: Everything Nelson is sharing is fascinating but my brain just isn’t processing quickly enough to …
: Nelson is discussing the relationship between dis/misinformation and parafandom. #FanLIS2025
: Next up Melissa D. Nelson with Almost, beyond, or alongside fandom? An alternative frame for QAnon …
: There are increasing mentions and interest in pink kryptonite in both canon and fanfiction. The use …
: In some of these fanfic, other characters use pink kryptonite or their own abilities to impact …
: Fanfic featuring pink kryptonite tends to also incorporate other obscure elements from Superman/DC. …
: Ue and Starzomski-Wilson are discussing 3 fanfiction texts, undated but apparently from the 90s, and …
: In a couple of comics, pink kryptonite causes Superman to be attracted to Jimmy Olsen. In a short …
: So far Ue and Starzomski-Wilson have identified 4 canonical uses of pink kryptonite. #FanLIS2025
: In canon, pink kryptonite affects sex/gender. Fans writing stories featuring pink kryptonite tend to …
: Tom Ue and Kristofer Starzomski-Wilson up next with Make It Pink: Superman, Pink Kryptonite, and …
: Dreßler “Not everything is queer just because it appears to be.” #FanLIS2025
: German-speaking fans do identify gaps but tend to fill gaps with heteronormative content even in …
: Dreßler is sharing so much in the findings portion that I can’t keep up! #FanLIS2025
: Stories Dreßler analyzed tend to apply heteronormative tropes to queer relationships. #FanLIS2025
: Dreßler looked at fanfiction on fanfiction.de, analyzed 40 stories from the Sailor Moon and Naruto …
: Next! Saskia Dreßler with How subversive is shipping really? An analysis of heteronormative elements …
: What happens when these cafes shut down and their archival records disappear and functions cease? …
: These K cafe spaces tend to demonstrate uncompensated feminized fan labor while cafe proprietors …
: Cafes decorated with standees and posters provide a historical record of the life cycle of a media …
: Fans’ notes and art posted in cafes tend to be dated and signed, creating an informal archive, …
: Some cafes deliberately center the fan experiences as part of their marketing while others don’t.
: Das is comparing cafes in Delhi, Kolkata, and Siliguri. #FanLIS2025
: Das’s RQ: “Do fandom-centered cafe systems exhibit characteristics of alternate, informal memory …
: Das is investigating cafes as a method of cross-cultural fandom for Indian fans of Korean …
: First up, Susrita Das with Food, fan art, and preserving a moment in time: a case study of the …
: Ludi Price is introducing the fifth FanLIS Symposium. #FanLIS2025 doesn’t have a particular theme. …
: Super exciting opportunity shared at #FanLIS2025, the British Library and the University of Glasgow …
: I’m attending the #FanLIS2025 Symposium today and will be live-blogging!
: There’s so much info in this manga session that I can’t really keep up with live-blogging! #aisl25
: Next up at #aisl25, Building Manga Collections Students Will Love with Suzie Bergstrom.
: Deborah works as a trainer for Teaching Books, which includes a Book Resume for each title that …
: Deborah suggests pairing informational texts with graphic novels. For example, kids who love Ben …
: Prolific author Kate DiCamillo’s Orris and Timble series has a new book coming soon. #aisl25
: Deborah says there is a trend of middle grade books with parents/adults having mental illness and …
: Deborah shares 2 books about whale falls, providing an environment for an ecosystem after a whale …
: Looking at highly awarded, favorite authors and illustrators, variety of genres, cultural …
: Deborah introduced Kari Lavelle’s Butt Or Face? series.
: Starting off #aisl25 with Deborah Salyer talking about What’s New in Books for Children.
: 📚💬 “…surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An …
: Today I’m attending my first Association of Independent School Librarians institute, Booked for the …
: 📚💬 “Here, then, is a central paradox in the way that ghosts work: to turn the living into ghosts is …
: Finished reading: Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Córdova 📚 This is such a perfect move of Disney’s The …
: 📚💬 “Romantic heroes are the greatest cryptids of all.” Zoraida Córdova, Kiss the Girl 🧜♀️
: Finished reading: By the Book by Jasmine Guillory 📚 A sweet Beauty and the Beast retelling.
: North Carolinians, use this tool from EveryLibrary to contact your state senator about H636, a bill …
: 📚💬 “The contemporary attitude toward Spiritualism as a particularly ridiculous belief stems in no …
: “If Emerson could find God in a forest, why couldn’t a medium find departed loved ones in a darkened …
: 📚💬 “Ghosts, you could say, flock to women left alone.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History …
: 📚💬 “Even though the soles of her feet felt like she was walking on broken glass, she glided across …
: 📚💬 “Live in a house for any length of time, and you make it your own memory palace.” Colin Dickey, …
: 📚💬 “Uncomfortable truths, buried secrets, disputed accounts: ghost stories side out of the …
: 📚💬 “Those aspects of a life that are discontinuous, fragmented, or unexpected, are made whole …
: 📚💬 “A haunted house is a memory palace made real: a physical space that retains memories that might …
: 📚💬 “The past we’re most afraid to speak aloud of in the bright light of day is the same past that …
: Finished reading: If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy 📚 Super cute modern Cinderella retelling.
: Finished reading: Deep Blue (Survival Instincts, #0.5) by Adriana Anders 📚
: 💬 “I feel like I’m spending half my work time managing my mental and emotional ability to navigate a …
: 🔖 Read Should You Ditch Fixing Your Weaknesses And Lean Into Your Strengths? by Nicole Aherling (The …
: Thank you @cygnoir@social.lol for pointing the way to this beautiful thread about the power of …
: Finished reading: Between the Devil and Desire by Lorraine Heath 📚
: Much like I sometimes try to find Paramount+ on my phone by looking for the Star Trek app, just now …
: Please enjoy this extremely Kimberly blackout poem by Austin Kleon.
: Me: Masquerade NYC posted a time, an intersection, and a passcode! But we can’t participate because …
: Finished reading: In Bed With the Devil by Lorraine Heath 📚 Lorraine Heath is great at her job.
: Am I Nostalgic for the 90s Because They Were Legitimately Great or Only Because I’m Middle-Aged?: …
April 2025
: Finished reading: Born In Ice by Nora Roberts 📚 This one made me a little weepy.
: Ravynn K. Stringfield writes about the love evident in the rigor of Haniq Abdurraqib’s book, Go …
: On the value of the backlist and its relationship to "scenius" I had two newsletters in my inbox today that talked about the value of diving into an author’s …
: Finished reading: Oathbound by Tracy Deonn 📚 Ugh so good, Tracy Deonn is so wonderful and I hate …
: Finished reading: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe 📚 …
: I think one of the reasons I loved the early web is that you could exist on it purely as words. As a …
: 📚💬 " ChatGPT has access to every poem ever written, at least in theory, but it can’t feel anything …
: 🔖 Here’s a project IMLS supported that you won’t see in partisan social media posts about where that …
: 📚💬 “It’s a near certainty that generative AI can have some positive effects on human writing, but …
: 📚💬 “What do we make of a technology that is simultaneously undeniably powerful, has access to all …
: 📚💬 “The things ChatGPT is ‘smarter’ at… are relatively limited as compared to our human capacities …
: 📚💬 “It’s not that ChatGPT makes stuff up. It has no capacity for discerning something true from …
: 📚💬 “Large language models do not ‘write.’ They generate syntax.” John Warner, More Than Words: How …
: This is happening and I’m very excited. 📚
: 📚💬 “Removing thinking from writing renders an act not writing.” John Warner, More Than Words: How to …
: 📚💬 “…ChatGPT cannot write. Generating syntax is not the same thing as writing. Writing is an …
: 📚💬 “…segregating people by those who are allowed and empowered to engage with a genuine process of …
: Finished reading: Born in Fire by Nora Roberts 📚 Technically I read this in the binding of the Irish …
: 📚💬 “‘That was it,’ Maggie said with a laugh. ‘I was bright. Brie was sweet.’” Nora Roberts, Born in …
: 📚💬 “All you need for Paris, Maggie, is a romantic heart.” Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
: Finished reading: Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome 📚
: Finished reading: Thank You, Omu! (Caldecott Honor Book) by Oge Mora 📚 A lovely picture book about …
: Finished reading: Shadow’s Heart by Kresley Cole 📚
: In How to Tell When We Will Die, Johanna Hedva writes about how they are going to be in pain no …
: Finished reading: What I Did For a Duke by Julie Anne Long 📚 Oh wow. I love both main characters in …
: Finished reading: The Secret Garden by Mariah Marsden and Hanna Luechtefeld 📚 The Secret Garden is …
: 🔖🍿 Read Why Minecraft Movie Fans Are Getting Rowdy and Going Viral by Lynn Zubernis Ph.D. …
: 💬📚 “Rather than seeing ChatGPT as a threat that will destroy things of value, we should be viewing …
: 💬📺 “The thing, Hastings? Do you think Poirot concerns himself with mere thingness?” Season 1, …
: Finished reading: I Kissed an Earl by Julie Anne Long 📚 A headstrong lady! Shipboard romance! As …
: Fight for libraries and our right to read This week is National Library Week in the US and today is Right to Read Day. @cygnoir@social.lol …
: 💬📚 “Do you want to look back on a life of items crossed off lists drawn up in response to the …
: 📺 Watched The Residence. So great! A country house mystery where the country house is the White …
: 🍿Watched A Minecraft Movie. Super fun if you’re familiar with Minecraft. I loved seeing it in the …
: Finished reading: How to Tell When We Will Die by Johanna Hedva 📚 This book challenged me. I don’t …
: 📚💬 “I want a life capacious enough to contain what I choose to be true about myself and that which I …
: 📚💬 “…kindness is a form of magic we can choose to know how to do. What matters is attending to …
: Finished reading: Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson 📚 A great picture book about the …
: Oh no I’m attending a LEGO Education Info Session and it’s in Teams. I don’t care for Teams.
: Finished reading: The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander 📚 A gorgeous picture book poem.
March 2025
: Finished reading: Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long 📚 Julie Anne Long is really good at the …
: Thank you @cygnoir@social.lol for sharing this link of how you can be an ally on Transgender Day of …
: Looking at my online presence you might believe all I do is read books, but I also play Final …
: Bio update! My bio everywhere now reads: Three books in a trench coat. Escribitionist. Mom. School …
: 📚💬 “In illness, the now feels like punishment.” Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will Die: On …
: 📚💬 “Maybe the blast radius of disability destroys everything and also makes new worlds. Maybe these …
: 📚💬 “The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the …
: Finished reading: How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis 📚 Super fun but also upsetting because of the …
: 📚💬 “…this is the conundrum all sick and disabled people live with. To be pathologized is to be …
: 📚💬 “When you have chronic illness, life is reduced to a relentless rationing of energy.” Johanna …
: Finished reading: Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas 📚 A great graphic novel!
: 📚💬 “How can you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?” Johanna …
: 📚💬 “How many of us have already met our doom and then had to get out of bed and go on?” Johanna …
: 📚💬 “Disability describes a condition that is both more othered from and profoundly closer to one’s …
: 📚💬 " All the ways we cannot do something, all the ways we won’t be able to do something—what sort of …
: 📚💬 " What about stories that are enlivened, vivified, not despite illness and disability but because …
: Finished reading: Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long 📚 So great. Julie Anne Long is excellent …
: 🎭 I’m at Beetlejuice The Musical and it’s like the musical theater version of Bats Day at the Fun …
: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚 As great as everyone says. It’s striking …
: Please read today’s Book Riot Literary Activism Newsletter and EveryLibrary’s statement on the …
: 📚💬 “…having large amounts of time but no opportunity to use it collaboratively isn’t just useless …
: Oliver Burkeman writes about professor Robert Boice’s attempt to get PhD students to work a little …
: 📚💬 “…the presence of problems in your life… isn’t an impediment to a meaningful existence, but the …
: 📚💬 “…reading Is the sort of activity that largely operates according to its own schedule.” Oliver …
: Finished reading: The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long 📚 A book with an awesome heroine and a …
: 📚💬 “Results aren’t everything. Indeed, they better not be, because results always come later—and …
: 📚💬 " …a good hobby probably should feel a little embarrassing; that’s a sign you’re doing it for its …
: 📚💬 " In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every …
: Sometimes, I’ll think of someone I connected with online and wonder how they’re doing. I’ll miss …
: Greetings from our spring break staycation.
: From more to enough: My word(s) for 2025 In November or December, I choose a word for the next year. Then for the first quarter of the new …
: “…what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just …
: 📚💬 “…if you’re procrastinating on something because you’re worried you won’t do a good enough job, …
: EveryLibrary has created a tool you can use to send an email to your legislators and governors …
: 📚💬 " The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the …
: 🔖 Book Riot’s Literary Activism Newsletter explains: Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive …
: I was looking at my On This Day page, reading an old post I wrote that’s especially thoughtful and …
: 🔖 Read The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? by Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian). I’m …
: Finished reading: Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis 📚 The first novella in a series of …
: Finished reading: Dark Russian Angel by Odette Stone 📚
: 📚💬 “… there’s no reason to believe you’ll ever feel ‘on top of things,’ or make time for everything …
: 📚💬 “… once you become convinced that something you’ve been attempting is impossible, it’s a lot …
: Finished reading: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell 📚 I really enjoyed this! Sad boys falling in …
: 📺🍿 How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas wrote about the influence the movie A Christmas …
: 🔖 Read HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me by Tim Carmody (Wired) Carmody and I came …
: Finished reading: Whiteout by Adriana Anders 📚 Like if The Thing, that Antarctica episode of The …
: Finished reading: The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath 📚 A wild premise deftly handled.
: I’m very psyched that a local romance lover is launching a mobile romance-focused bookstore. She’s …
: 💬📚📝 “…a story’s as much house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and …
: Finished reading: Falling Into Bed with a Duke by Lorraine Heath 📚 Lorraine Heath knows the job. …
: Finished reading: Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes 📚 A very useful and straightforward book about …
: Finished reading: The Heroine’s Journey: For Readers, Writers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail …
: 📚💬📝 “…what are we writers but Machiavellian manipulators of a stranger’s emotions?” Gail Carriger, …
: Life is a lot right now. I give you permission to take a harm reduction approach to literally …
: Finished reading: A Duke Worth Falling For by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love Sarah MacLean so much.
February 2025
: Finished reading: The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa 📚 Cute rom-com with a heroine who has put walls …
: A big pile of meh I haven’t been writing much lately, something that has special irony since on Sunday I took Sarah …
: Finished reading: To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins 📚 Another awesome heroine.
: Finished reading: Anything You Want by Derek Sivers 📚
: Finished reading: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 📚 A classic for a reason.
: 💬📚 “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there …
: 💬📚 “Don’t be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing …
: 💬📚 “You wouldn’t be a writer if reading hadn’t enriched your soul more than other pursuits.” Anne …
: 💬📚 “… everything we need in order to tell our stories in a reasonable and exciting way already …
: 💬📚 “I don’t think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough …
: 💬📚 “Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then …
: 💬📚 “Take the attitude that what you are thinking and feeling is valuable stuff, and then be naive …
: 🔖 Read: Letters from an American: February 18, 2025 “So this is how liberty dies…” Making sense of …
: 🖖🏻 I’m watching the episode where Worf joins the crew of DS9. When the camera panned up from his …
: Finished reading: Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins 📚 I loved the heroine in this one. Spring is a tough …
: Finished reading: Rebel by Beverly Jenkins 📚 Ms. Bev knows her business and does it well.
: In Romancelandia, Valentine’s Day is, as the French say, un jour férié. In honor of the day, if you …
: 🔖 Read The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup. Courts are not known for their harm …
: 🎮 Playing the first Final Fantasy pixel remaster and it makes me so happy. The music especially. I …
: 📚💬 “We can’t hide in romance. We have to find strength in it.” Adriana Herrera in today’s episode of …
: 🎮 Downloading the Final Fantasy I - VI pixel remasters. Very excited!
: When to call me Dr. In her week notes, cygnoir links to my post, Political action guidance for the overwhelmed, and …
: Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn Typography by Building a …
: 🍿 Watched Saturday Night. A delight, specially crafted for sketch comedy nerds like myself.
: Finished reading: After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez 📚 So great. It made me cry. …
: Today’s Coding Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn CSS Flexbox by …
: Later-coding update from Monday: Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, …
: It’s just a terrible time for timelines. I’m mostly hanging out in my email inbox and Discord these …
: 🔖 Read The history of anti-authoritarian struggle is a history worth repeating by Sarah …
: 📚 Happy book birthday to Adriana Herrera and A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke!
: I played Spyro the Dragon (Reignited Trilogy version) and had fun but 3D games mostly give me motion …
: Political action guidance for the overwhelmed Information is my love language and how I like to learn about the world, but I also can start to …
: 🔖 Read The Logic of Destruction by Timothy Snyder. Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not …
: 🔖 Read How to organize under authoritarian creep in a closing civil society. This is my playbook …
: 🔖 Read Trump’s education department says book bans are a ‘hoax.’ Teachers disagree..
: Finished reading: Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J. Tuli 📚
: 🍿 Watched Dog Man. Exactly what it says on the tin. If you enjoy the Dog Man graphic novels, you’ll …
January 2025
: Coding Project: Mystery Shack Survey Form Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn CSS Colors by Building a …
: Today’s Coding Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp projects, “Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of …
: Little coding update! Completed the freeCodeCamp projects “Learn HTML by Building a Cat Photo App”, …
: 🔖 Read Primark launches clothing range designed for people with disabilities. I love this. I hope we …
: It’s hard to feel much like writing these days. I’m going to be building some hand-coded projects …
: Bless Miss O’Kistic for this timeless tweet.
: Finished reading: A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles 📚 A Tory pursuing seditionists for the Home …
: What does my body need *right now*? In Austin Kleon’s newsletter today, he writes about 7 questions he asks himself when he doesn’t know …
: Finished reading: A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles 📚 Just excellent.
: Help me out, Internet. I saw someone talking about a cross-posting service a while back, maybe …
: Me just now: I think my boots don’t look as cool with the laces looser on the foot and tighter on …
: Stepping away from timelines and replies for a little while, but still planning to share resources …
: Sharing more resources to help you defend libraries. Kelly Jensen works so hard on the Book Riot …
: Tell Congress to Show Up for Libraries In the coming days, I’ll be sharing resources for defending libraries in the United States. Today, I …
: 🔖 Read Please Don’t Use Generative AI To Mimic Historical Figures. This is all kinds of a bad idea. …
: 📚💬 “Kill the protestors, arrest the leaders, gaol the journalists. It’s what they do. It’s what …
: Information is my love language! GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. The …
: 📚 Reading notes on ON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Timothy Snyder Do not obey in advance. Defend institutions. choose an institution you care about and take its side. …
: Your mind is valuable. Your attention is an important part of your mind. Stop treating it like slop. …
: Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚 This was a good book to read today, full of helpful …
: Not everything I post on my personal site is getting pushed through to social media. If you want to …
: 🔖 Read Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. I first read this in high school and …
: Finished reading: The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh by KJ Charles 📚 A fun short story. A hot 🔥🔥🔥.
: Bit of venting (no advice needed): it’s frustrating to have multi chronic illnesses because a good …
: Finished reading: Priest by Sierra Simone 📚 Y’all, this is both explicit and taboo. Content warning …
: 💬📚📝 “For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are the ultimate solace, even more comforting …
: 💬📚📝 “…we no longer need Chicken Little to tell us the sky is falling, because it already has. The …
: 💬📚📝 “…a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.” Anne …
: 💬📚📝 “The core, ethical concepts in which you most passionately believe are the language in which you …
: I really needed my past self’s advice to stop trying to optimize myself. Thanks, me.
: Finished reading: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward 📚 Listened to the audiobook. This one is very much of its …
: Finished reading: How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days by Kerrelyn Sparks 📚 The pacing in this is wild, …
: 🍿 Watched This Is My Life. Nora Ephron’s film directorial debut. I love a story about a mother and …
: 🔖 Read 799 Books: The Story of The Stanford L. Warren Library.
: 🔖 Read For Durham Artist Gabriel Eng-Goetz, Community Is the Greatest Muse.
: 🔖 Read Wake County Employs SROs in 80 Schools; Some Parents and Civil Rights Advocates Say Their …
: My very kind and generous household family gave me time and space to rest during the pain phase of …
: The first week of the New Year left me exhausted from peopling. And I came into the second week …
: My aesthetic isn’t dark Twee, actually. It’s more goth bookstore girl. Like if Rory Gilmore were …
: Finished reading: Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat 📚 This book is well-written and compelling. It’s …
: People of Micro.blog please welcome my friends from all of us enjoying books and talking about it …
: 🍿 Watched Wicked Part I. I had a great time! I am a person who took a while to warm up to Wicked the …
: Finished reading: The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson 📚 I loved this! A woman who has to …
: Austin Kleon’s list of 100 things that made his year always delights me. I aspire to notice more …
: 💬📚 “A new notebook is not about starting over—it’s about leveling up.” - Ryder Carroll, The Bullet …
: 📚 2025 Book Releases I'm Excited About FEBRUARY 4 A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera MARCH 4 Shadow’s Heart by Kresley Cole, …
: My timeline is conspiring to get me planning, via @cygnoir@social.lol and …
: 📚 Anticipating My Reading Year 2025 In anticipation of my reading this year, I want to articulate one main goal and a few stretch goals. …
: What I want to try to do in 2025 I didn’t want to write this blog post in 2024. For reasons I cannot remotely explain, my …
December 2024
: 🔖 Read The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction by Elizabeth Minkel (Fansplaining). If you care about …
: Finished reading: Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli 📚
: 📚 My Reading Year, 2024 Like last year, I’m going to share some notes on my reading before popping the full list of all the …
: Hi Internet friends. I hope your December 25 goes swimmingly!
: 🎮 Finished The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom last night. Super fun! I love puzzles, I love …
: I’m coining a new aesthetic: Dark Twee. Think Jessica Day meets Lydia Deetz. A goth children’s …
: Finished reading: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen 📚 Viking fantasy romance/romantasy. …
: I am very resentful of my body’s need for sleep.
: 💬📚📝 “…in order to be a writer, you have to be reverent.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some …
: 💬📚📝 “Writing is about communicating what’s going on. Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that …
: I’m planning to make 2025 a Year of Making, for reasons. (The reasons are that making stuff is good …
: Finished reading: Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon 📚 I really enjoyed this, mostly for the fantasy and …
: 📚 2024 has been a good year for queer sommelier romances.
: 🔖 Read The open social web is the future of the internet. Here’s why I’m excited. by Ben Werdmuller. …
: I am very behind on Lower Decks and I kinda need to just hide from the Internet until I catch up.
: 💬📚📝 “All you can give us is what life is about from your point of view. You are not going to be able …
: 💬📚📝 “The development of relationship creates plot.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on …
: I’ve been writing in 750 Words for a few days. I’m feeling motivated to make notes on our travels …
: Finished reading: Swordcrossed by Freya Marske 📚 Lovely! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
: 📺📚📓 Read The Great Experiment: race and authorship in Shonda Rhimes’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton …
: Finished reading: A Touch of Stone and Snow by Milla Vane 📚 I might love this even more than A Heart …
: 💬📚 “When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. This …
: 💬📚 “I’m a student, not a guru.” Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of …
November 2024
: 🍿 I’ve watched still more made-for-TV holiday movies: Jingle Bell Run Meet Me Next Christmas Hot …
: Finished reading: A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane 📚 So, so good. I’m so happy to have found …
: 🍿 Watched Christmas on the Ranch. I like this but he asks her to give up her life in New York and …
: Is this still a migraine or am I in the postdrome phase? The Kimberly Hirsh story
: I love my job and my family, and yet I find myself resenting that I have to do anything today …
: Finished reading: The Beast of Blackmoor by Milla Vane 📚 Milla Vane asks, “What if grimdark, but …
: Finished reading: Killer Underwear Invasion! How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation, and Conspiracy …
: Chronically ill stationery nerd life: you can’t find the pill sorter you thought was on your …
: Finished reading: Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 📚 Most of this book is set in …
: It took over a week, but my little web lab(yrinth) is live. (Previously mentioned here.)
: My word for 2025 is MORE. I want to do more next year. Details forthcoming.
: After all that thinking about traveler’s journals and field journals, I think I’m going to end up …
: Finished reading: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera 📚 I love Adriana Herrera’s Las …
: Hello friends! If you’re seeing this on BlueSky, that’s because my website automatically syndicates …
: Finished reading: Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet 📚 White wrote the first …
: 💬📚 “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” E. …
: 💬📚 “Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. …
: Finding myself holding dear to my heart stories where people fight evil in community: Sailor Moon, …
: I have scheduled a sleep study. I think I’m done for the day. I have been productive, right? (I’m …
: Bought a new domain and hosting package to have a spot to put random web projects, as one does.
: Currently reading: Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna …
: 📚💬 “By learning to live with our fear of death, we also learn to live with our fear of that which we …
: 🔖 Read 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won. This is helpful.
: It is November 7. I am wearing sandals.
: 🔖 Read Please publish more (on your website) by Colin Devroe. Micro.blog is the best way I’ve found …
: ThredUp: It’s sweater weather. Weather forecast: It’s going to be 79° F. Me: So like… Short-sleeved …
: On November 9, 2016, I took my one month old baby to the New Parents Group at my doula’s office. …
: Finished reading: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 📚 🔥🔥🔥
: Finished reading: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase 📚 The. Best. 🔥🔥🔥
: The Cure might not be goth, but I am, and I’m excited about their new album.
October 2024
: Lukewarm take: Moominpappa is a terrible parent.
: 🍿 I have watched more Hallmark and Hallmark-style autumnal movies: October Kiss Haunted Wedding You …
: 💬📝 “The best writing is often done by persons who are snatching time from something else.” E. B. …
: Finished reading: Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase 📚 So good. Loretta Chase knows the job. 🔥🔥🔥
: I have voted. I have given to two giving circles aimed at moving state legislatures in the direction …
: That feeling when you’re cited in the book you’re reading to tell you how to do your job better.
: 🍿 Watched Autumn at Apple Hill. 🍿 Watched Autumn at Apple Hill. I wanted made-for-TV Christmas movie vibes without succumbing to the …
: Finished reading: The Truth About Him by M. O’Keefe 📚 🔥🔥🔥🔥
: Finished reading: Everything I Left Unsaid by M. O’Keefe 📚 🔥🔥🔥🔥
: Finished reading: You Had Me at Happy Hour by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Of course Timothy Janovsky can …
: 🔖 Read Spinning your wheels by Annie Mueller. This is a great read. Sometimes the only way out is …
: Fan Studies Network North America 2024 starts tomorrow. It’s one of my favorite conferences. Between …
: 💬📚 “His brain doesn’t work like everyone else’s, so he’s largely stopped expecting understanding …
: Fortnight notes, 9/30/24 - 10/13/24 Trying fortnight notes today. I finally got W’s fancy watch back to him, with a nice new battery and …
: I love the idea of week notes or month notes but honestly the rhythm of my life is such that neither …
: 🍿 Also watched They Live. A very different flavor of Carpenter. Two great tastes that taste great …
: 🍿 Watched John Carpenter’s The Thing. I love practical effects so much.
: Finished reading: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston 📚 I love it. I’m a sucker for a second-chance …
: My website should be automatically cross-posting to Threads now. Hi Threads friends! (Hi everyone …
: 📚 The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen looks like exactly the kind of thing …
: Finished reading: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins 📚 This is a modern gothic. I bounced off of it in …
: Epistolary RPGs have me writing fiction again. 📝 I mentioned in my month notes for September that I’ve been playing epistolary RPGs with my friend K. …
: Finished reading: The Lion’s Daughter by Loretta Chase 📚 An older book by a luminary of the genre. I …
: Notebook update: buying only elastic to use with the cover we have in the house is a no-go. The …
: 🔖 Read Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness lithub.com …
: 💬 “On your personal site, getting it wrong is not a bug, it’s a feature.” Matthias Ott, Own Your Web …
: 🔖 Read The IndieWeb is for developers. This is a great set of points.
: I love my child and it cracks me up that he has managed to come into my room and take up the whole …
: 📺 Watched the DS9 episode, “Destiny,” and I feel like the Bajorans could really benefit from reading …
: 🔖 Read Chaos Layouts and Other Tales from Electric Worlds by Melon. I love this so much. I want to …
: Monthnotes: September 2024 If you asked me what happened in September 2024 and I answered without looking at my calendar, I’d …
: Finished reading: If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens 📚
: For anyone following along, here’s the resolution of my notebook question. We have a gorgeous side …
September 2024
: 📚 Book Review: Hungry Bones by Louise Hung Hungry Bones by Louise Hung is a spooky middle grade novel about a 13 year old girl who learns …
: Analog people of Micro.blog (and Mastodon and Bluesky and the open web I guess?), talk to me about …
: I don’t use Fb a lot, but I do check out my On This Day, which today gave me this gem: “Emilie …
: Finished reading: Operation: Cover-Up by Tate Godwin 📚
: 📺 Just finished watching the latest season of Hilda. My heart is so full. 🥹
: Finished reading: Hungry Bones by Louise Hung 📚 Full review coming soon!
: This is Midnight and this copy of WTF Is Tarot? And How Do I Do It? by Bakara Wintner is his now.
: 📚 Read Even Books Have Ancestors or That Time I Was a Fourth Grade Publishing Mogul by Louise Hung …
: Finished reading: Knockout by Sarah MacLean 📚 Another extra hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Bless Sarah MacLean for giving …
: I spent almost 4 hours each weekend day sitting at the hospital with my mom, who has colitis of …
: 📚 The ebook of Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them by Jillian …
: Confession time: when I started the new job, I uninstalled Inoreader from my phone and I haven’t …
: Three years ago I named my aesthetic “witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia” which still holds …
: Finished reading: Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean 📚 Whoo. This is a hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥 on the romance.io scale. …
: 📚💬 “…the deeply rooted culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe was utterly destroyed between 1939 and …
: 📚 Book Review: When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman is a middle grade novel that imagines what Anne Frank’s life …
: 🎭 Just saw Clue and found it delightful. If it’s coming to where you are, definitely check it out.
: What I've learned after a month on the job as a part-time school librarian It’s been a full month since the official first day at my new job, and we’ve had the kids at school …
: Today: a cascade of tough stuff. My hypothyroid symptoms are still mysterious, I forgot my work key, …
: Changed my bio so it only reads “escribitionist.”
: Finished reading: Bombshell by Sarah MacLean 📚 Sarah MacLean is just so good. This is like… A 3.5 on …
: Listen I don’t repost a lot from or on social, but Muppet History is out here doing good work and …
August 2024
: Apparently my mid-life crisis is mostly watching Derry Girls and thinking, “Yes! That’s exactly what …
: TV : Jim Henson :: The Web : Me
: Finished reading: Love, Come to Me by Lisa Kleypas 📚 This has a steam rating of 🔥🔥🔥. A very early …
: Hi. I’m Kimberly and caring for my chronically ill body is a lot of work.
: Yay, my doctor ordered antibody tests and a thyroid ultrasound. It’s such a treasure to have a …
: You will not be surprised to discover I was a weird teen. I think I had a different high school experience than a lot of my peers. When the reunion committee …
: Finished reading: When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman 📚 Full …
: Got lab results today, my thyroid numbers look great but I feel very specifically like a Kimberly …
: 🔖 Read The Comfort of Drawing Batman by Austin Kleon. Austin Kleon’s newsletter is the one that I …
: Finished reading: When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein 📚 Super cute, very hot. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 on the …
: I just feel like we need to be more specific than saying things like “In the 1900s” or “In the …
: Photo dump of the school library ready for the first day of school.
: Finished reading: This Will Be Fun by E B Asher 📚 Full review forthcoming.
: 📚 Book Review: Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer This is a romance. I would say on the romance.io steam rating scale, this is 🔥🔥: behind closed …
: Finished reading: Indigo by Beverly Jenkins 📚 This is so good. I learned more about abolitionism …
: It has been an exhausting week, in a good way. I’m so thrilled to be working with excellent …
: Finished reading: Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer 📚 Loved it! This releases August 27. Expect a …
: Finished reading: Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey 📚
: 📚 Book Review: Love Requires Chocolate by Ravynn K. Stringfield If the Paris 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony has you dreaming of reads with Parisian vibes, I’ve got a …
: 7 Links People Shared with Me Sod shared 7 links people shared with him. I really liked the idea that we can learn something about …
: I don’t want my 7-year-old to really understand Interview with the Vampire, obviously, but I did …
: Finished reading: The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler 📚 Read this to prepare for collaborating with …
: 🔖🍔🥤 Read The Enduring Mystery of Cook Out. A Cook Out Junior Tray with a cheeseburger (mayo only), …
July 2024
: Finished reading: Tender Rebel by Johanna Lindsey 📚
: It’s me, hi, I’m the one watching the Olympic opening ceremonies 5 days late. It’s me.
: 💀🪦 I wish I could have gone to Funeral Services Education Camp.
: Finished reading: Love Only Once by Johanna Lindsey 📚
: Hey friends, I am starting a new half-time job as a school librarian in August, so I’ll be taking a …
: I’ve been reading the staff handbook for my new school library job and my dress is supposed to meet …
: San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow. Here are a couple resources that help me feel like I’m part of …
: Finished reading: Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean 📚 If you want to see Sarah MacLean do a magic …
: 🔖📚 Read Sherlock Holmes self-insert fanfic written by a 7th grader in 1903. I love this so much.
: Updated my bio: Middle-aged magical girl. Mom. Once and future school librarian. Contract curator …
: 🔖 Read Frida Kahlo’s life of chronic pain by Carol A. Courtney (OUPblog). Looking for examples of …
: I was reading Austin Kleon’s newsletter and feeling jealous of how he seems to do so much and see so …
: 🔖 Read Welcome to Your Cronehood by Catherine Newman (Cup of Jo). I am not psyched about menopause. …
: 🔖🗺️ Read How Paris Hopes the Summer Olympics Will Transform the City—for Good by Lindsey Tramuta …
: 🎮 I got Metroid: Samus Returns. I’m really enjoying it. I know there will be parts that are super …
: 🔖📚 100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read by James Folta (Lit Hub) This is …
: Hey y’all! The Connected Learning Lab published the work from my postdoc today! Two new reports for …
: Finished reading: Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean 📚 Sarah MacLean is just the best.
: Some years on my birthday, I share who I want to be in the following year. This year, in addition to …
: 🎮 Finished Metroid: Zero Mission. This is a remake of the original NES Metroid with a lengthy …
: 🎉🎂 Celebrate my birthday, Bastille Day, with me by engaging with French stuff! 🇫🇷🗼 It’s my birthday on Sunday! As my birthday is Bastille Day and this is the second birthday I’ve had …
: How do I decide what to feature in the Discover tab on Micro.blog? Disclaimer: This is not an official Micro.blog communication. Just me explaining my process. And …
: I’ve been doing French on Duolingo for a bit over a year (and Dutch before that) and this morning I …
: Hey friends of Micro.blog. I am a contractor working mostly on M.b curation for about 5 hours a …
: Finished reading: Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love this one. The hero is so …
: “I luxiriated in books.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
: 📚💬 “All I ever wanted was to belong, to wear that hat of belonging.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
: 📚💬 “Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without …
: 📚💬 “I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal …
: 📚💬 “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and …
: 🔖📚 Read Notes on Romance Novels as “Camp”. Andrea, author of the Shelf Love newsletter, does an …
: Finished reading: The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean 📚 This one made me cry. I just really love …
: Finished reading: A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean 📚
: Finished reading: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean 📚
: Me: What if I eat yogurt and granola for every meal today?
: That thing where you’ve just spent a couple days immersed in something over which you have no …
June 2024
: Want to read: The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth 📚
: 📚🔖 Read The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy by Verlyn Flieger …
: 🔖 Read Ten Years Out of Academia by Anne Helen Petersen. I’m 3 years out from my doctoral defense …
: Finished reading: The Price of Pleasure by Kresley Cole 📚 This one made me smile at the end.
: 🍿I'm so glad I watched Jim Henson: Idea Man. I watched the documentary, Jim Henson: Idea Man yesterday. I found it incredibly moving. I re-read …
: Personal Publishing and The Coney Island Problem Here are a pair of blog posts that ended up in conversation with each other in my brain because I …
: Solstice tarot/oracle reading and baby shower planning I’m typing this blog post in Google Docs, because of its autosave feature. There’s probably a better …
: Rambling thoughts shared on the day of the solstice It’s the summer solstice and tomorrow we’ll have a Strawberry Moon. Here are some rambling thoughts …
: 🎉 It’s Juneteenth! The National Museum of African-American History and Culture interviewed the …
: Finished reading: The Captain of All Pleasures by Kresley Cole 📚 I do love a sailor heroine.
: Hey Internet in general and Micro.blog specifically! I was on vacation and away from much of the …
: Finished reading: If You Desire by Kresley Cole 📚 Somehow forgot to post this when I finished it. It …
: Finished reading: If You Deceive by Kresley Cole 📚
: Finished reading: If You Dare by Kresley Cole 📚
: Want to read: Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing …
: Finished reading: The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe 📚 Another excellent Gilded Age historical …
: 🔖📺 Read The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice. For 20 years, I couldn’t say what I watched the …
May 2024
: Finished reading: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun 📚 This made me bawl. I love a childhood best …
: Oh the irony of being unable to go to the pharmacy to pick up your (my) migraine meds because you …
: Today: woke up way too early read about Romance Writers of America filing for bankruptcy and the …
: 🎮 Played Assemble with Care. I’m really feeling wholesome games lately, especially those with a warm …
: Finished reading: The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe 📚 I loved it. A delightful heroine, a …
: Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 3 by Chris Claremont 📚 Read as single issues and only …
: That feeling when you went to the pool with children and you only had snacks for lunch and your knee …
: Finished reading: The Rogue of Fifth Avenue by Joanna Shupe 📚 Gilded Age New York, a hotshot lawyer, …
: Whoops, I was too busy actually paying attention to FanLIS to take notes. Also, it turns out virtual …
: I’m attending FanLIS this morning. This is my favorite little academic space: the intersection of …
: Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 2 by Chris Claremont 📚 Again, read as single issues in …
: Finished reading: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean 📚 This has my favorite of Sarah …
: 📚 Reading The Dark Phoenix Saga (not for the first time) and I had forgotten how heavily this whole …
: 🔖📚 Read Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker Made an Irreverent, Charming Kids’ Book by Stephen Bell …
: 🍿 Watched UHF on the big screen today, when I’d only watched it at home before. Early on I seemed to …
: Finished reading: Essential X-Men - Volume 1 I read these as single issues in Marvel Unlimited, but …
: Currently reading: The Best There is at what He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men by Jason …
: Want to read: A Web of Our Own Making by Antón Barba-Kay 📚
: My kid told me, “A cross between a piglet and a pug is a puglet.” When I replied, “Good night,” …
: Finished reading: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love every Sarah MacLean …
: Finished reading: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean 📚 Lady Phillipa Marbury is a …
: Hello world, I am full of hormonally-induced ill feeling including headache, nausea, and cramps. …
: 📚🔖 Here is the actual study with the evidence of the correlation between fiction reading and …
: 🔖📚 Read If You Read a Lot of Fiction, Scientists Have Very Good News About Your Brain. It’s always …
: Just a little reproductive system education, because I’ve met many adults who have uteruses and …
: 📚 Book Review: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian Austin Kleon introduced me to a newsletter issue in which director and writer Mark Slutsky talks …
: 🔖 Read a pair of pieces about art and mothering: The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and …
: Finished reading: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean 📚 I do love a good 19th Century casino. …
: Thanks to everyone for your kind words over on Manton’s post about my joining the Micro.blog team! I …
: My Sister's Baby Is Not My Baby and My Sister Is Also Not My Baby My little sister M.E. is expecting a baby. Her due date is July 20. She’s 4 and a half years (and 4 …
: Finished reading: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean 📚 Yes, I finished …
: Between chronic illness and acute illness it feels like I have so little time when I can be doing …
: 🔖📚 Read How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind by Lucy Jones (Literary Hub).
: First pool visit of the season yesterday. If I could do everything in water, I would. 🧜🏻♀️
: Finished reading: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love the heroine in …
: 🔖📚 Read What Eve L. Ewing’s Career Trajectory Tells Us About Black Women’s Place in Mainstream …
: 🔖📚 Read A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life by Heidi Reimer …
: Finished reading: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean 📚 My first …
: Finished reading: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo 📚 So great. I loved it so much. More later.
: Me: goes to Target Ah, it’s so nice to be out in the world.
: 🔖 Read The films that gave us unrealistic expectations about what makes a ‘home’. …I too had one of …
April 2024
: Now that the offer letter is signed and everybody at the school has been notified, I’m happy to …
: 🔖📚 Read Tackling Ballet’s History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman. The infinitely kinder cousin …
: 🔖📚 Read My Son’s Love Life Is None of My Business, Except It Is by Yukiko Tominaga (Electric …
: Finished reading: The (Fake) Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Whew! Timothy Janovsky wasn’t kidding …
: Y’all got me ready for “I cry a lot but I’m so productive” but I was not prepared for the resonant …
: My friend Josh died last week. My friend Josh died last week. He was only 32 and had already given the world so much. I’m angry on …
: Finished reading: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian 📚 Full review coming soon but y’all, this …
: New bio! Mom. PhD. Once and future school librarian. Freelance academic. Citizen of Romancelandia. I …
: 🔖 Read The Messy Places Are Where the Learning Happens: On Being a Beginner by Michelle Boyd (Digits …
: Finished reading: The Witch Queen of Halloween by Kresley Cole 📚 This is a super fun romance …
: Finished reading: The Player by Kresley Cole 📚 A con artist falling in love with her tech …
: 🔖📚📝 Read Mothering and Writing Are Both Undervalued Labor, so How Do Women Do Both? . An excellent …
: 📚💬 “…publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: …
: 📚💬 “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and …
: 🔖📝 Read An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write. I love to write in a …
: Finished reading: The Master by Kresley Cole 📚
: Over here fantasizing about spending my own money on ModCloth and eShakti dresses, as well as having …
: Finished reading: The Professional by Kresley Cole 📚 I finished this in just a couple of days. …
: 🗒️ Month Notes: March 2024 March was a full month! Our local historic cinema shows retro films. W & I went to This Is Spinal …
: One of the cool things about kids is that some are obsessed with stuff like Pokémon and some are …
: Finished reading: Munro by Kresley Cole 📚 The heroine in this one is a time-traveling Transylvanian …
: 🔖🧶 Read This Is Your Brain on Fibre by Michelle Woodvine (Digits & Threads). A great article that …
: Finished reading: Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole 📚 This is a banger of a Beauty and the Beast …
: 🔖 Read You are having a midlife crisis. It’s fine. This is an interesting pairing with The Cut’s The …
: Finished reading: Shadow’s Seduction by Kresley Cole 📚 It took me a long time to get into this one …
: Finished reading: Shadow’s Claim by Kresley Cole 📚 I really liked this one, the way the main …
: Don’t buy any plants today, y’all.
: Finished reading: Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole 📚 “She’d thought there was no greater connection than …
: Happy First Contact Day, y’all! Only 39 years until warp flight & meeting Vulcans! 🖖🏻
: Nap first or eat first? The Kimberly Hirsh story
: Finished reading: Dark Skye by Kresley Cole 📚 Other people seem to hate this one but I like it …
: 📚 When I’m catching up on a long-running series, I sometimes forget that there are people who, for …
: Did you know that April is School Library Month? It’s true! Did you know that I’m trained as and …
March 2024
: Finished reading: Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas 📚 A lovely historical about an author and a publisher …
: Finished reading: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 📚 A lovely romance novel with an autistic …
: Finished reading: Matilda by Roald Dahl 📚 We went to see Matilda the Musical and I loved it. I’d …
: Finished reading: MacRieve by Kresley Cole 📚 This one is beautifully done as always. There’s a …
: 🔖 Read Why I Celebrate The Spring Equinox As The Real “New Year”. I really love this. I want to live …
: Finished reading: Lothaire by Kresley Cole 📚 Of course if you’re reading Immortals After Dark you …
: 🍿 Watched Yes Day. This is a super fun family movie! I love it in no small part because of Jennifer …
: I’m celebrating (?) the Ides of March a day late with an Italian Night Club sandwich from Jimmy …
: 📚 Baby’s First Author Event Let me be clear, when I say “baby,” I mean “big kid.” We took M to his first author event a couple …
: Finished reading: Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre 📚 Read this billionaire romance because …
: I know there are things to do in life besides play Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, but I don’t care to …
: Finished reading: Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole 📚 This one took me a little while to get …
: To quote @cheribaker@writing.exchange: Don’t wish us Happy International Women’s Day. Instead, help …
: Finished reading: Demon From the Dark by Kresley Cole 📚 I really enjoyed this one and tore through …
: New glasses, same as the old glasses except they actually fit.
: Finished reading: Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole 📚 I really liked, maybe even loved this …
: 🔖 Read The “Disney adult” industrial complex by Amelia Tait (The New Statesman via The Rec Center) …
: Finished reading: “Untouchable” in Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole 📚
: 📚 Why am I obsessed with romance fiction right now? Last May, I read Mr. and Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond, and it made me so happy that I decided to try …
: 🔖 Blogging is the medium of incomplete stories I love this. I often feel that blogging is the most …
: 🗒️ Month Notes, February 2024 Lars-Christian noted that month notes work better than week notes for him due to the cadence of his …
: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop by John …
: 🎮 Okay people of the Internet. I’m about to start Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. See you in a couple …
: 🔖 Read The Memex Method Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is [BS]… Cory …
February 2024
: 🎮 Finished Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3. Classics all, only …
: “Books always heal the hands they come through.” Leonie Dawson, 40 Days to a Finished Book (If you …
: 📝 I’m doing a writing project currently and I set a goal of 10000 words but ran out of planned stuff …
: 🔖 Read What Is Mental Load? (And Why Is It Important?) by Randi Donahue (The Good Trade). It feels a …
: 📝 I wanted to respond to Lars-Christian’s post asking what the point of daily writing is. Here’s …
: Finished reading: Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole 📚
: Finished reading: Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole 📚
: Finished reading: Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole 📚 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ I tore through this one so …
: Finished reading: Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole 📚 My favorite Immortals After Dark book …
: Finished reading: Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night by Kresley Cole 📚 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ as always. …
: Finished reading: No Rest For The Wicked by Kresley Cole 📚 Listen, all these Immortals After Dark …
: I added “Citizen of Romancelandia.” to my bio everywhere.
: 📚🗨️ “This union was supposed to be for eternity—it followed that their courtship would be extended.” …
: Hello, Internet! I hope you have a great day today.
: 📚 This is your reminder that The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond is out today!
: Taking a break from academia I’m taking a deliberate break from all things academia and academia-adjacent. I spent the past 2 …
: I’m currently doing Leonie Dawson’s 40 Days to a Finished Book ecourse and I love this that she …
: Finished reading: A Hunger Like No other by Kresley Cole 📚 Incredibly high spice level, all the …
: Finished reading: The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung 📚 A 2024 Caldecott Honor winner.
: Finished reading: Two New Years by Richard Ho 📚 Winner of the 2024 Sydney Taylor book award.
: Finished reading: Nacho y Lolita/Nacho and Lolita by Pam Muñoz Ryan 📚 Pam Muñoz Ryan won the …
: Finished reading: Fox Has a Problem by Corey R. Tabor 📚 Reading my way through this year’s American …
: Now I’m thinking about Odo’s maintenance of his humanoid form and how it can be read as an analog …
: 🖖🏻 Odo is DS9!Data. (And I know, Data is TNG!Spock.)
: Finished reading: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas 📚 A sizzling historical that has two refreshing …
: What are you obsessed with right now? For me it’s the podcast Fated Mates, all things romance …
: The personal brand paradox wepresent.wetransfer.com WePresent …
: 🗒️ Week Notes, 2024, Weeks 3 through 5: A Link to the Past and Link’s Awakening Are Super Fun It’s three weeks’ worth of week notes at once! My son M’s school has a “Day On” on Martin Luther …
: Parents who are freelancers/self-employed, what do you do when your kid is home sick? Do you just …
: 🎮 Finished Link’s Awakening. Super fun!
: 📺🎄 Watched Christmas Flow, mostly for the Parisian locations.
: 📺 Watched Emily in Paris. All of it, fairly quickly. Gorgeous views of Paris and fun to see how much …
: Finished reading: Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas 📚 Classic 90s pre-Victorian historical, medium spice …
: 📺 Watching Emily in Paris, mostly for the gorgeous locations and Sylvie’s fashion. Emily’s …
January 2024
: I just shared in a fibromyalgia Facebook group what it takes for me to get decent sleep. Thought I’d …
: Finished reading: The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun 📚 Lovely! What if the dude who was producing …
: 📚 Reading Notes: A Quaker Book of Wisdom by Robert Lawrence Smith, Chapter 9, “Education” …a good school is one that is constantly engaged in self-examination, in improving itself, in …
: My kid has started randomly singing “Bela Lugosi’s dead” (like, that one phrase) so I can retire …
: 🍿 Watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. Surprised to find …
: 🗨️📚 “Take the time to take time because nobody else will do it for you.” Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, …
: I went upstairs to get my glasses. I came downstairs with two books and no glasses. This is peak …
: Finished reading: New Adult by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Like if 13 Going on 30 was instead 23 Going on 30. …
: People of the Internet who wear scents from small businesses, what do you do when your signature …
: Finished reading: A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña 📚 A lovely, slightly spicy romance. This …
: Finished reading: A Proposal They Can’t Refuse by Natalie Caña 📚 Super sweet and a little steamy …
: I was in Baltimore for just over 24 hours for a conference but I did find time for just a bit of …
: Sorry to have missed the Micro.blog analog meetup! My sense of timing is a bit discombobulated due …
: Want to read: Grove Hollow Metamorphosis: A 1980s Gothic Paranormal Romance Novel by Shelby Nicole …
: Finished reading: In the Case of Heartbreak by Courtney Kae 📚 Highest of recommendations here. This …
: 📚🗨️ You are not a burden… You are a blessing. Just Courtney Kae still wrecking me with In the Case …
: 📚🗨️ Your feelings are valid and important no matter how they make me feel… you aren’t responsible …
: 🗨️ Get a group of people around you that you love, and that love you… Give them an idea that has …
: Ah hiding in the bathroom to get a little quiet, my old friend.
: 🗒️ Week Notes, 2024 Week 2: Zelda II is skippable It’s time for another round of Week Notes! Monday morning I had my usual coffee work date with my …
: Kinda sad today’s idea gardens post from Austin Kleon is one of the paid ones because I want …
: Finished reading: Love Requires Chocolate by Ravynn K. Stringfield 📚 Full review coming later, but I …
: Book Review: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond The thing about Gwenda Bond is that she’ll take your favorite microgenre or trope, mix some magic …
: Finished reading: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond 📚 I thought this was going to be a romance book with a …
: And, the answer is ... Following Alex’s lead, I’m answering some questions. Best sandwich? I don’t like having to choose …
: Friends of the Internet, timelines move too fast for where my head is at right now. I’m not …
: 🍿 Watched Heartburn. This one is written by Nora Ephron & directed by Mike Nichols, and it’s mostly …
: 🍿 Watched The Intern. Another Nancy Meyers film. I really liked this. It made me cry. I think it was …
: 🍿 Watched It’s Complicated. Happy to have watched. It seemed to me mostly to be about how a manbaby …
: 🗒️ Week Notes, 2024 Week 1: Beautiful dragons in crystal forests I do so like when other people, like @cygnoir, write week notes, so I thought I’d give it a try. On …
: If you like analog tools, you probably want to sign up for @cygnoir’s analog meetup.
: 🔖 I’m genuinely thrilled for the Gen Zers and others who have the energy for a weekly everything …
: 🎮 Finished The Legend of Zelda (NES). A classic, of course. I’ve never been able to get very far …
: Finished reading: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Another delightful romance given to us by …
: 🔖📺 Watched Pokemon Concierge and read Pokémon Concierge’s Psyduck Is for the Millennial Pokémon …
: I like @ayjay’s idea of reflecting on what you’ve read weekly or monthly.
: 🔖 Read The Web Renaissance Takes Off by Anil Dash. Sign me up. (I’m trying to make a web-related pun …
: Finished reading: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 📚 I’m late to this party but happy to …
: Gonna be updating my about page soon. If you were going to choose something to include on my about …
: 🔖 Read Ambient Co-Presence by Maggie Appleton. This sounds really nice. My favorite locale for …
: 🔖 Austin Kleon’s list of 100 things that made his year is excellent, as always.
: Leigh Bardugo encourages people on New Year’s Day to Begin As You Mean to Go On, meaning to spend 15 …
: 🔖 Read 2024: The Year of the Personal Website by Matthias Ott. How about, from now on, we make every …
: Responding to this post on gift-giving: For me, the sweet spot for a gift is when you can use it to …
December 2023
: 🍿 Watched Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story. A fascinating documentary about a fascinating person.
: My Reading Year 2023 Some notes on my reading year 2023. I read 47 books. I overwhelmingly read romance, much more than …
: Finished reading: For Never & Always by Helena Greer 📚 I love it so much. Finished it in under 48 …
: It is not humanly possible for Helena Greer to write fast enough to meet my desire for Carrigan’s …
: Me: I started this book last night and read only one chapter before bed. Now I’m on page 214. W: …
: Finished reading: How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow 📚 Lovely and sweet. Made me cry when …
: 📚🗨️ “I want to live my life being irrationally hopeful. Loving people and fish and cities with my …
: Yesterday my mom, who in April 2022 was told she would probably never walk again, walked (with a …
: 🍿 Watched Hats Off to Christmas. This is the most paradigmatic Hallmark Christmas movie. It has …
: Finished reading: Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun 📚 This one was so lovely it made me cry. I …
: 🗨️📚 “the emptiness was the absence of myself.” Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me
: I made this Funko Pop of myself using this Microsoft Designer prompt and I love her so much.
: My little family is in the production of A Christmas Carol honoring the retirement of the director …
: Bringing back The PhD Story’s predictive text New Year’s Resolution: My resolution for 2024 is to be …
: How I talk about books online 📚 In today’s issue of Happy Dancing, Charlie Jane Anders writes about how to fix GoodReads to avoid …
: Finished reading: You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Oh my goodness I love it. …
: 📚 Listening to Patrick Stewart read A Christmas Carol and it’s just feels like having Jean-Luc …
: Finished reading: In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae 📚 A lovely place-based friends-to-lovers …
: Finished reading: Eight Kisses by Mindy Klasky 📚 Eight Hanukkah romance stories. I read one each …
: 📚🗨️ When people who don’t have fibromyalgia ask me how it feels, I tell them to imagine the last …
: Me: My heel hurts. My doctor: Have you tried using that ointment I told to use for pain on it? Me: I …
: 🔖📚 Read How To Get Started Reading Romance Novels by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade). This is an …
: Me: I’m going to take a 20 minute nap (sets alarm) Narrator: She took a 90 minute nap. She did not …
: I have 3 one -month gift subscriptions to Jami Attenberg’s Craft Talk to give away. Let me know if …
: I just don’t feel like writing a year-in-review post, y’all. So I might not.
: 🍿 Watched Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. My kid’s first time seeing both. Home Alone …
: 🕎🖖🏻 I would like to thank s-h-a-s-e on Tumblr for this Hanukkah gift of Sarek, Amanda, and Spock …
: Book Character, Age 25: Seeing her has me feeling seventeen again. Me, Age 42: Please. You’re only …
: 🍿📺🎄 Watched The Christmas Train. Based on a David Baldacci novel & bringing a bit of star power with …
: Happy Hanukkah from this honorary M.O.T., whose 41% Jewishness is all on her dad’s side. 🕎
: Today’s stay poor slowly scheme: open a romance-only bookstore. 📚
: I was using Bing to play with ChatGPT-4 and I asked it who I am. It returned what is perhaps the …
: 📝 Planning Writing Goals with Kate McKean Kate McKean’s Agents and Books newsletter yesterday includes a flowchart to help you plan writing …
: 📚 Today’s library haul. Catching up on Holigays22 and some other holiday reads, plus a YA biography …
: Finished reading: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur 📚 The first holiday rom-com of a …
: It reveals something about my character that I’m really psyched about being on someone’s …
: 🔖 Read Bring back the blog by Alan Jacobs. Hear, hear.
: Fun with migraines: in the past year or so I’ve started having vertigo in the prodrome stage, …
: 🍿 Watched Airplane!. Super fun. I can’t begin to imagine how delightful it must have been for the …
: 🔖💻 Read The Indie Web Manifesto. Before the IndieWeb, there was the Indie Web. This was published in …
: 🔖💻 Read The Hacker Manifesto. the beauty of the baud I love this turn of phrase. We make use of a …
: 🔖 Read True/useful by Seth Godin. Seth shares a handy matrix for helping us stay resilient and …
: 📺🍿🎄 Watched The Naughty Nine. This is a heist movie about kids on the naughty list breaking into …
: A list of lists: in his book Keep Going, Austin Kleon writes about a variety of types of lists you …
: New bio on most of my profiles: Mom & PhD with a librarian’s heart and an academic’s mind. I manage …
: 📓 I know Twitter is all the things we all know it is now but I still love that some scholars wrote a …
November 2023
: 📺🍿🎄 Watched Reporting for Christmas. I really like this one. A hard-hitting Chicago reporter heads …
: Me: I’ll put this little tumbled sodalite crystal on my bedside table, it will make me happy. The …
: 💬 “Recover yourself. That’s where your creativity is.” Kate McKean in today’s Agents & Books Q&A …
: I was thinking about Austin Kleon’s urging to show your work and I thought, “But Austin, what do I …
: 🔖Read Twenty Rules for the New Escribitionist. 23 and a half-year-old blogging advice that is still …
: I’ve had kimberlyhirsh.com for fifteen years today. I had other domains before that. I’m really glad …
: 🔖 Read You Can’t Unsubscribe from Grief by Jenessa Abrams (Electric Literature). This is a gorgeous …
: 📺🍿🎄 Watched A Biltmore Christmas. Mostly for Jonathan Frakes & Robert Picardo 🖖🏻 but I ended up …
: Well, it’s taken more than 7 years, but it’s finally happened: my child’s taste has completely …
: 📺🍿🎄 In the movie A Timeless Christmas, I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept that a man …
: 🍿📺🎄 Watched A Christmas Frequency. A radio producer sets her show’s host up on on-air blind dates to …
: Darth Vader and I are finishing off the Thanksgiving babka with some cherry Coke.
: 💻 Recently my less-than-alma mater asked, “Remember the 90s at Carolina? I didn’t get there until …
: 📺🍿🎄 By the way, time travel is a whole subgenre of holiday made-for-TV movie. See: Eve’s Christmas …
: 📺🍿🎄 I was watching Hulu’s A Christmas Frequency and everything was going great but then it shattered …
: 🍿 Saw Wish. A story full of good ideas. Music nice but not as memorable as, say, Encanto. Chris Pine …
: 📝 Jami Attenberg in today’s Craft Talk newsletter: it’s important to write the things you can write.
: Today in Year of Making, LEGO set 40658, Millennium Falcon Holiday Diorama.
: Anybody know if there are vampire stories, in any medium, that address the question of …
: Finished reading: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 📚 A bunch of excellent and …
: I just want to be able to feel grief in my heart and also sleep. It doesn’t seem like a lot to ask …
: It’s never too late to start a year of making, so here I am starting my Year of Making 2023 on …
: ❤️ The loss of a loved one 🦋 CW: Parental Death My husband, W., has been blessed to have two mothers: the one who gave birth to …
: Want to read: Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 📚
: Want to read: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey 📚
: If you’re in North Carolina and interested in having natural organic reduction (aka human …
: Want to read: Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy …
: 🔖💬 “Your death matters. You can choose something that will reflect the values and beliefs that you …
: Want to read: Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads 📚
: Want to read: Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound …
: Want to read: The Victorian Book of the Dead by Chris Woodyard 📚
: Want to read: A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death by Chris Woodyard 📚
: Want to read: Good Grief: Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels 📚
: Want to read: The Anatomical Venus by Joanna Ebenstein 📚
: Want to read: The Morbid Anatomy Anthology by Joanna Ebenstein 📚
: Want to read: Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris by Mel …
: A timeline of my dissertation inspiration📓📝 For AcWriMoments Day 8, Margy Thomas and Helen Sword encouraged us to trace a lineage of the ideas …
: 🔖📚🎭 Read Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Literary Hub).
: Finished reading: Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) by Tracy …
: November is not my favorite month.
: 🔖 Read The enshittification of academic social media (The Thesis Whisperer).
: Set up the Vapor1994 theme with custom colors on my website until I create a custom theme. A few …
: 🔖 Read Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?. Fun to read about all the IndieWeb’s …
: Finished reading: The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish 📚 A 17th Century bit of philosophical …
: 📚💬 “I endeavour to be as singular as I can.” Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, …
: Hey Micro.bloggers and other interested parties, do you have favorite resources that helped you …
: 🔖 Read Two Wins for Public Libraries This Week at the Polls by Kelly Jensen (Literary Activism). …
: 🔖 Read: What happened to blogging for the hell of it? On mobile phones, the small web, and …
: 📝 Revising is hard work, and other thoughts on writing I’m participating this year in AcWriMo, which is a month of focused academic writing work inspired …
: 🔖💻 Read Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore by Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker).
: 🔖📚 Read A Pennsylvania Public Library Had Funding Cut Because of LGBTQ+ Books. Then, An Olympian …
: 🔖 Read The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts by Brewster …
: If, like me, you grieve Halloween’s passing, I’m delighted to inform you that I have officially …
October 2023
: Get ready for a jump scare next time you open this backpack.
: 📚 Reading Notes—Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning)—Chapter 1: Why a focus on equity? Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning Here’s the publisher’s summary of …
: Reading Notes—Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning—Introduction Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning by Sandra Hughes-Hassell Here’s the …
: I often find myself watching movies in 22-minute chunks, partly because of being a parent and partly …
: 📺👱♀️ Buffy’s experience in the episode “I, Robot… You, Jane” is super relatable. I had two friends …
: 📚 It's cozy fantasy season! I think between reading a few Gothics (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Turn of the Screw, The …
: LinkedIn: Recommended job for you! FBI Special Agent! Me: Ooh, I wonder if I can get assigned to The …
: Yesterday the House Committee on Education held a session called Protecting Kids: Combatting …
: Finished reading: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas 📚 Great all the way through but extra compelling for …
: 🔖📺 Read How The Haunting of Hill House conveys the horror of family. In the world of Hill House, …
: I’m having one of those days where you give yourself credit for every single thing you do. So here’s …
: On visiting Paris 🇫🇷 I’ve been obsessed with Paris as long as I can remember. Maybe it’s because I was born on Bastille …
: Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding 📚
: Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding 📚
: Feted my kid thoroughly and now I am so tired.
: Tonight I’m very obsessed with the idea of reading The Secret Garden as a child as a gateway to a …
: My kid is 7 today. I love him so much.
: Finished reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 📚 Keeping this Gothic train rolling. …
: 📚💬 “When I am afraid, I can see perfectly the sensible, beautiful not-afraid side of the world, I …
: Finished reading: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 📚 Another Gothic. Governesses, am I right?
: 💬📚 Dropping this quote here so that next time I try to hung it down I’ll find it on my own site and …
: Finished reading: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe 📚 Making my pivot to Gothic …
: 📚💬 Roderick Usher has sensory integration issues: “He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the …
September 2023
: I have only skimmed this EdWeek piece on the science of reading but the person saying reading …
: 🔖🖼️ Pokémon teams up with Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam My kid doesn’t like art museums and only …
: Sparking and Sustaining Connected Learning through Libraries: Insights and Questions at the Connected Learning Summit I’ll be leading and participating in a roundtable at the Connected Learning Summit at the end of …
: 📚 Books about Freelance Writing Originally posted on LinkedIn: One of the tools in my toolbox for carrying me through times between …
: LinkedIn introduction I’ve been experimenting with posting on LinkedIn more frequently and while some of my posts there …
: We’ve reached the moment when we learn if my claim that I wouldn’t go on the academic market because …
: I’ve been watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for the first time since I watched it as a kid when it …
: Finished reading: We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian 📚 I loved it so much, finished it in under 48 …
: Today’s Literary Activism newsletter from Book Riot shares information about several student groups …
: So, this week on Lower Decks, we learned that Vulcans have an understanding of the importance of …
: 📚 I’m reading Sandra Hughes-Hassell’s book, Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and …
: I’ve got big days the next couple of days so what am I doing? Reading past bedtime, of course. …
: 📚💬 “She didn’t know much about buildings, but it was clear that this one needed an unbelievable …
: Finished reading: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera 📚 So good! Manuela is going …
: I was planning on getting to work soon but my office mate had a different idea.
: I’m sleepy and in pain which is a rough combo because it’s hard to actually sleep while in pain.
: There are few feelings as good as canceling a bunch of library holds because your family already …
: 📚 There are still spots available for online attendance at Public Librarianship in Contentious …
: Pro tip: too tired/anxious to introduce yourself at a social event? Wear a bookish shirt and wait …
: I might not eat this whole baguette today. When we stayed in Le Vésinet, a suburb of Paris, there was a boulangerie on our walk home from the …
: 🔖🖖🏻 Happy Star Trek Day! I just read Teaching in Trek: A Look at the Education System of the Future …
: Finally watched the Amsterdam episode of Ted Lasso and just really missed Amsterdam the whole time. …
: Farewell, Wednesday. 🐈⬛💔 CW: Pet death When we brought our kitties home last week, Wednesday had a little nasal discharge. …
: About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my first writing craft book. In case you didn’t believe …
: 📺🖖🏻 Finished my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation today. It felt much less intense watching …
: 🔖 💻 Read Now is the time for grimoires: It isn’t data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise by …
: Fan Studies Network North America is October 11 -15 and open for registration! I’ll be facilitating …
: 📚🍳 Started reading the introduction to Jules Sherred’s Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes …
: 🔖📚 Read Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo: ‘People sneer at the things women and girls love’ by …
: 🔖📚 Read Falling in Love With the Avengers, America’s Most Toxic Work Force by Leigh Bardugo (New …
August 2023
: Meet Midnight and Wednesday.
: 💬📚 “I hunker down with books when I need time to process what’s happening in my own life. Books give …
: Currently reading: Final Girl: And Other Essays on Grief, Trauma, and Mental Illness by Kelly Baker …
: On twenty-five years of being together Twenty-five years ago tonight, W. and I went on our first date. (Yes, we were young.) We went to see …
: Finished reading: From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper 📚 Loved it even more than Payback’s A Witch. …
: 📚💬 “Disaster and hero, monster and martyr, beauty and beast . . . Choose your own dichotomy. Because …
: W: I just don’t have a framework for doing this kind of writing… Me: You need to read a lot of it …
: If generative AI traffic is declining, does that mean AI can just become another tool we use and we …
: Everybody else: You seen Barbieheimer yet? Me: Nah, I’m going to the theater to see Terminator & …
: The belief at the beginning of a writing project that we don’t know how to write it comes for all of …
: I just donated to and joined Students Protecting Education, a national organization that a group of …
: 🔖🖖🏻 Read ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Had to Update the Look of Beloved Characters — and Battle the Pitiless …
: Welcome to the analog part of qualitative data analysis. Whenever I get to the coding-the-codes …
: In the US? You might think the Kids Online Safety Act is good but before you decide, please read …
: My infant starts first grade tomorrow, nbd.
: My aspiration as a parent is to one day have a plan for the day and a half of free time my kid has …
: I find myself resentful of my body’s need for sleep.
: If you’re in New Zealand and you have improv experience, you should probably go do this workshop …
: 🔖 Read To Be a Consumer of Culture Means Living in a Hostage Situation by Aaron Bady (Slate) A great …
: Looking at my On This Day page, I found this blog post about letting go of self-punishing goals. I …
: 📚🔖 Read The Parentified Protagonist: From Shifting Roles to Shapeshifter, a guest post by Stephanie …
: 📚 Book Riot’s Literary Activism newsletter is always valuable. This week, Kelly Jensen takes a deep …
: Finished reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper 📚 It’s a witchy romance between two bi women and …
: 📚💬👱♀️ “When Pearl Dragon and cheap wine and even magic have all failed us… there will always be …
: There was a big storm in Durham a couple days ago. Much of the city was without power. As soon as …
: Bookstore Romance Day Recommendations 📚♥️ We’re just a few days out from Bookstore Romance Day! A couple things to know about romance novels: …
: Finished reading: Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander 📚 This book is super queer and super cute. Simone’s a …
: Want to read: Disabilities and the Library by Clayton A. Copeland 📚
: Want to read: Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age by Meryl Alper 📚
: Want to read: 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow …
: Want to read: Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men over Motherhood by Allison Yarrow 📚
: 🖖🏻 Did I just revise my LinkedIn bio so it starts with a Star Trek quote? Yes, yes I did, and the …
: 🔖 Read On looking down. A lovely meditation from @dwalbert on the things we notice when we walked. …
: 📚🔮 “…the Tarot constitutes first and foremost an apprenticeship in seeing.” Marianne Costa, The Way …
: Finished reading: Solomon’s Crown by Natasha Siegel 📚 Gorgeous prose in this book that’s like if The …
: I may be leaning into being a middle-aged librarian stereotype, but I’m leaning into being a goth …
: 🎮 Played the Pikmin 4 demo, ended up buying the Pikmin 1 + 2 bundle, and I feel so guilty every time …
: 📚💗 August 19 is Bookstore Romance Day! My fiction reading has been almost exclusively romance …
: Finished reading: The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes 📚 This one didn’t click with me right …
: 📚💬 “…my body is the keeper of secrets, and this pen is its liberator.” J. C. Cervantes, The …
: 📚📺 The trailer for The Power dropped. I loved this book so much. The show has an amazing cast. I’m …
: Finished reading: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 📚 Listened to the audiobook. I …
: 🔖 Read The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries. Karawynn Long compares the trajectory of …
: 📚💬 “We are who we are, not because of our birthright, but because of what we choose to do in this …
: 📚💬 “Why can’t life work whatever way we want it to? What’s the point of living if you only do it how …
: 📺👱♀️🖖 Glen Weldon’s rewrite of song titles from “Once More, with Feeling” to include Star Trek …
: Finished reading: The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest 📚 Adorable romance about a publishing …
July 2023
: 🍿 Watched Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie. A reimagining of the TV show. I loved how well it used the …
: Finished reading: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 📚 Lovely! A scholar of …
: 🔖 Skimmed Publicize Your Principles. This idea might be helpful for articulating Micro.blog’s …
: 📚💬 “I was supposed to remain comfortably outside the stories with my pen and my notebook.” Heather …
: 📚 Research methods in Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 📚 I am a very specific kind of nerd. In this book, set in 1909, a scholar studying faeries says …
: 📚💬 “He felt lighter somehow. Like he wasn’t paint blending into the wall. He felt real. He felt …
: 📚💬 “Home is where we get to be who we are.” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
: There’s a special irony in the fact that GalaxyCon Raleigh’s Cosplay, Cons, & Parenting panel takes …
: o no I am become the dad in the LEGO movie
: 📚 Finding my throughline: Library enthusiast 💻 I recently listened to Katie Rose Guest Pryal on Camille Pagán’s podcast, You Should Write a Book, …
: So I’m on Bluesky. (If you’re seeing this on Bluesky, it’s thanks to Micro.blog cross-posting!) If …
: 🔖📚 Read IN A WAVE OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY RETELLINGS, WHERE ARE THE GREEK WRITERS? by Lyndsie Manusos …
: 🔖🍿 Read Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is a Fascinating, Spectacular Philosophical Experiment by Olivia …
: I love how the Web works. I post that I want to read Jillian Hess’s book, How Romantics and …
: I should really stick with my watch-mostly-Star-Trek plan. 🖖🏻
: Was too busy actually celebrating my 14th wedding anniversary yesterday to blog about it. A …
: 💬📚 “Sometimes silence was the loudest thing of all.” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
: 💬📚 “Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
: Finished reading: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 📚 Listened to the audiobook. Super …
: Finished reading: Nimona by ND Stevenson 📚 Weird I waited so long to read it. A lot going on here …
: Finished reading: Ana María and The Fox by Liana De la Rosa 📚
: 🔖📚 Read Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books by Janet Manley (Literary …
: 🔖📓 Read Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels (Disability Studied Quarterly).
: Photo of my lovely husband W & myself in front of Ferris Bueller singing in the parade! Thanks to …
: C'est mon anniversaire! It’s my birthday! As I’m 42, I understand that according to Douglas Adams, I myself am the answer to …
: I have a (relatively subdued thanks to new meds) migraine (3 hormone shifts a month cause these for …
: Finished reading: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna 📚 What a sweet, …
: 💬📚 “It was always irksome when an idea went nowhere, but Mika knew by now that there would always be …
: Okay it’s not noon and my library’s collective daily borrow limit for Hoopla has been reached which… …
: It’s my birthday Friday! I’m keeping Kimbertide low key this year. If you want to play along, watch …
: Finished reading: Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚 Another sweet romance set in the Toronto …
: 🔖🎭📚 Read It’s Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama by Michael Paulson (NYT, …
: I’m signed up for Threads. I’ll actually use it when it implements ActivityPub and/or is available …
: Finished reading: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi 📚 I read this …
: My On This Day page surfaced this blog post today: Constructing websites as constructing ourselves: …
June 2023
: Apparently my idea for what counts as the prettiest hair is bound to the year 1993. This soft hair …
: I seem to have no attention span today. I’m going to blame the postdrome stage of migraine.
: Finished reading: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚 This is a beautiful homage to Pride & …
: 📝 Brilliant gem from Jaya Saxena in today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter: my writing got better the …
: 📚 Me, reading Ayesha At Last: This is a Pride & Prejudice retelling, I know this, so when is Khalid …
: I am on Day 4 of a migraine. I’m about to try a new medication for it. Here’s hoping it makes a …
: Picard: I feel as if I’m in the Scottish Highlands. Colonist: The cornerstone of every building was …
: Hey friends, what are some good values statements from organizations? (I’m deliberately not defining …
: 🔖 Read What Is A Third Place? (And Here’s Why You Should Have One) by Emily Torres (The Good Trade). …
: My desk chair broke a little bit and I’m having trouble determining whether I can fix it…
: 📚💬 “To me intellectual life is fundamentally different from academic careerism.” bell hooks, …
: 📚💬 It is precisely because common structures of evaluation and advancement in various academic jobs …
: Belated Travel Blog: Into Amsterdam for the First Time Our first foray into Amsterdam besides going to the airport was heading to the International …
: 🔖 Read Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself. Writing, as a career, is …
: 📚💬 “Science fiction is the literature of social and technological change.” Nalo Hopkinson, “What is …
: Belated Travel Blog: Aalsmeer I loved Amsterdam almost immediately, at first because of how the major roads are laid out. Buses …
: 🍞 This bread is from Simple Mills’s Artisan Bread mix. It has a beautiful crack, but vinegar as a …
: In response to @mbkriegh’s In Praise of the Choir: This post reminds me of Austin Kleon’s writing on …
: Finished reading: The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller 📚 This is a lovely romance set in Gilded …
: 💬📚 “Real life is people leaning on each other when things are hard. It’s loving each other so much …
: Halfway through the week of no school or camp and we’re not doing too badly, thanks to grandma time, …
: 📚💬 “Love isn’t naïve, Alva. It’s hope, and it’s faith, and it can outlast buildings and wars and …
: 🔖📚💖 A couple of links about pleasure reading for your reading pleasure: What Romance Novels Taught …
: There’s something really special about being a 90s comedy nerd married to another 90s comedy nerd.
: I like how when I text someone and am a lot, knowing they’re a lot too means I know we’ll both be …
: 🎙🖖Listened to Our Opinions Are Correct, Episode 131: The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan. …
: 🔖 Read A LETTER FROM THE NEW CORPORATE OWNERS OF HOOPER’S STORE (McSweeney’s). This is hilarious and …
: 📝📓 Fascinated by this ethnographic study on youth’s “pocket writing” practices. Most fiction I write …
: Installing Linux on my Windows machine…
: 🔖 Some interesting links around “wholesome” as a word for things that restore us, rather than a …
: 🔖📓 Read How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward. I love some of these …
: 📺 Watched The Baby-sitters Club S02E07, Claudia and the Sad Goodbye. 💔😭 If you know, you know.
: 🔖📓 Can ChatGPT Replace UX Researchers? An Empirical Analysis of Comment Classifications This is an …
: Finished reading: Wyngraf #1 The first issue of a cozy fantasy magazine. Full of lovely stories I …
: Does anybody else know why all I feel like doing is lying in bed and watching Netflix Originals? 📺
: 📺 The Babysitters Club S02E03, “Stacey’s Emergency,” brilliantly depicts what it’s like living with …
: I’m only now catching up on the second season of The Babysitters Club and having Mary Ann as a …
: 🎙️💬 “Sometimes it can be hard when we’re fucking exhausted to choose the thing that feels …
May 2023
: Finished reading: Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel by Leigh Bardugo 📚 Gorgeous graphic version of the …
: Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer starts June 17 and the Slack is hopping right now, in case you …
: 🌊 Today is the first day of the 10th Annual 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. As often as you can …
: It was hard finding time to write while traveling, so I didn’t do all the travel blogging I would …
: Where have I been? I like Manton’s Where have I been post and have had a pretty significant change in where I’ve …
: 🔖📚 Read This Is Dedicated To Anyone Who Ever Left - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Lyz Lenz.
: 🔖📚 Read “I think, like marriage, home is a fantasy” - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Amanda Montei …
: 📺 Me, watching Bridgerton: How can anyone tell these Bridgerton brothers apart? They all have the …
: 🔖 Read Monkey House: Strange Reflections at the Singerie by Kate Zambreno (VQR).
: 📺 Watched Velma. The two primary criticisms - that it relies too heavily on meta-humor and that the …
: 🔖 Read The Winter Zoo by Kate Zambreno (The Yale Review). For a few years when M. was a toddler, our …
: 🍿 Watched Howard. It’s always striking when you realize the outsize influence an artist has had on …
: 📚 Here comes the BBC with a list of the 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time. Maybe when I’m …
: Want to read: The Light Room by Kate Zambreno 📚
: Time for a needs assessment! Micro.blog community, what resources do you need in the Micro.blog …
: 📚 Purchased 2 different books from museums to be shipped directly to my house rather than carrying …
: Just learned that it would cost £22 to have 100g of Tchai-Ovna’s Faeries Blood Tea shipped to me …
: 🔖 Read How to Scale Back, Even When It Seems Impossible. Do you need to lose something else to find …
: 🔖📝 Reading Revision can be fun. No, really. by Charlie Jane Anders. …revision can actually be kind …
: Home again and happy to be here.
: 🔖 Read The Healing Power of JavaScript. ❤️
: Happy World Goth Day! Tomorrow I will go home, where I will have access to all my goth perfumes and …
: I’ve created playlists on YouTube for all 3 Micro Camps, in case you, like me, have a long flight …
: Last full day in Europe and I’m spending it alternating between packing and lying down. Don’t …
: “Y’all” is the best contraction. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
: 📚 Revisiting Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. N. K. Jemisin: Don’t think of fantasy as …
: 📺 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is exactly the Star Wars show I would have written as a kid: Kai …
: Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale 📚 A sweet historical romance involving a …
: Announcement time! Do you write a blog? Send it to me and I’ll read it!
: Quand même A while back I said I was going to get obsessed with Sarah Bernhardt (I seem to have said it …
: 🔖🌐 Read Webring History. animated email gifs, web counters, scrolling and/or blinking text, midi …
: I was feeling disconnected from the Micro.blog community, and I was pretty sure it wasn’t just …
: O no two meetings left, not done for 3+ hrs, and yet so sleepy. Might be an afternoon caffeine day. …
: 🔖 How Does Motherhood Impact Your Creativity? It’s Complicated vogue.com Read: www.vogue.com Vogue: …
: I’m in Paris this week so I don’t know how much of Micro Camp I’ll catch live, but the schedule …
: Missing Moulin Rouge playing in my hometown but it’s okay because I got to see the actual Moulin …
: 🔖🎵 Read Patiently Holding the Sound: Gretchen Parlato on motherhood as a musical inspiration. What a …
: 🔖🌐 Read Bring Back Personal Blogging by Monique Judge (The Verge).
: My blog host, Micro.blog, has declared it the Summer of Blogging and is offering 4 months of their …
: I’ve been obsessed with this chandelier for a long time and today I finally got to see it in person.
: Reading the souvenir book they sell at Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare and Company: A Brief …
: Je suis à Paris. J’adore Paris. Yesterday I sat in the reading room of Shakespeare and Company, …
: I’m grieving dooce by going through her archives and reading this post while I am in Paris is extra …
: Content Warning: Suicide There’s an AP news piece confirming what I suspected when I first saw Manton’s post about Heather …
: Starting Season 7 in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, finding myself very glad there’s …
: Want to read: The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder 📚
: 🔖📝 Read My Commitment to Wellness as a Lifelong Writer by Yolande House — Breathing Space Creative …
: Over the past week, I’ve worked through Esmé Weijun Wang’s workshop, Building a Writing Habit While …
: 🔖📚 Read BookTok encourages reading as an aesthetic and no one is safe from its gaze by Elena …
: Finished reading: Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond 📚 Loved it. Scorchingly hot, fun secret agent …
: I am reading Gwenda Bond’s Mr. & Mrs. Witch right now and one of the 🔥 scenes actually made me cry …
April 2023
: 🔖📓 Read Automated transcription and some risks of machine interpretation. Dr. Daniel Turner does a …
: Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess 📚
: Want to read: It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach 📚
: Want to read: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 📚
: Me: I put my hair up and brushed my teeth! I’m ready to face the day! flops onto bed
: I’m trying to see myself as others see me. Would you please tell me: When have you seen me happiest? …
: 🔖📚 Read Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men …
: Response to Charlie Jane Anders's "What the Universal Translator Tells Us About Exploring Other Cultures" 🔖📝📚📺🍿 Read What the Universal Translator Tells Us About Exploring Other Cultures by Charlie Jane …
: It's over now, the music of the night. I first encountered music from The Phantom of the Opera when I was 9 years old. I had taken a lip …
: Went by the Oscar Wilde house yesterday and the plaque saying he lived there said: OSCAR WILDE POET, …
: 🔖🎨 Read On growing alongside your artistic practice (The Creative Independent). Mother-artist Bailey …
: 🔖 Read Durham Officials Push for Affordable Housing in Southpoint Redevelopment. Pleased with my …
: 🔖📝 Read When You Aren’t Sure Whether Your Writing Is ‘Important’ by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). You …
: 🔖📝 Read Kids Will Still Read Banned Books by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). Chung doesn’t minimize the …
: 🔖📝 Read How Can You Write About Pain Without Retraumatizing Yourself? by Nicole Chung (The …
: 🔖📝 Read On Pitching and Rejection by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). pitching is not just about …
: It’s my defense-aversary! I’ve been a PhD for two years. For me, getting the PhD was much bigger …
: 💬📚📓📝 No dissertation is worth a lifetime of revision. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
: I haven’t been sharing a lot of travel adventures not because I haven’t been having them, but just …
: 🔖 Read Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend. Dreamed I decided to get obsessed …
: 🔖📝 Read “I Hate the Idea of Healing” A Conversation with Maggie Smith One thing that mothering has …
: Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 📚 My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers …
: 🖖🏻📺 Data: *has a personal problem* *does extensive research* Captain Picard, I have done all the …
: Full-on happy misty-eyed over this week’s Picard. 🖖🏻📺
: 💬📚📝📓 Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy …
: 💬📚📝📓 Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing …
: 📓 Read Subjectivity and Reflexivity: An Introduction by Franz Breuer, Katja Mruck & Wolff-Michael …
: 💬📚📝📓 Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking. William Germano, From …
: 💬📚📝📓 Revision is a job for optimists. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
: The Barbie Selfie Generator is pretty fun.
: Hey Internet! I’m interested in your perceptions. What are my superpowers? What are my areas of …
: 💬📚📝📓 …the operating instructions of scholarly publishing rarely form a part of graduate training… …
: 💬📚📝📓 Write everything you want published as if there are people who make decisions and work within …
: Turning My Dissertation into a Book in the Open It’s been almost two years since I defended my doctoral dissertation. Before it was written, an …
: Looking at my Scholarly Pipeline (Notion template I made, pay what you want) for the first time in a …
: Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd 📚
March 2023
: Teenagers at this park are listening to the Macarena. Do I feel old or 15?
: It took a couple years, but I finally created a page on my website curating all my writing about …
: Blogging as letters to our future selves I blog for a lot of reasons. One of them is because blogging is a little like writing letters to …
: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend 📚
: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley 📚
: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists ; Publ.on the Occasion of the Exhibition at Manchester …
: Want to read: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff 📚
: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites by Laurence Des Cars 📚
: Want to read: English Pre-Raphaelite Painters: Their Associates and Successors by Percy H. Bate 📚
: Want to read: Haunted Texts by William Evan Fredeman 📚
: Want to read: Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley 📚
: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt 📚
: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly 📚
: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer,T. J. Barringer 📚
: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art by Dennis Sydney Reginald Welland 📚
: Want to read: Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer 📚
: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel by Sophia Andres 📚
: I love the Gothic Charm School book very much and am happy to have bought it as an ebook so I can …
: Want to read: Haunted Greece by John L. Tomkinson 📚
: Want to read: Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss 📚
: Want to read: Fairy Tales, Now First Collected by Joseph Ritson 📚
: Want to read: Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-eastern and Central Europe by Eva Pocs 📚
: Want to read: The Banshee by Patricia Lysaght 📚
: Want to read: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green 📚
: Want to read: Handbook of Fairies by Ronan Coghlan 📚
: Want to read: The Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine Mary Briggs 📚
: Want to read: Dictionary of Fairies by Katherine Briggs 📚
: Want to read: Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Nicola Bown 📚
: Want to read: Fairy Lore by D. L. Ashliman 📚
: Want to read: Tolkien on Fairy-stories by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 📚
: Want to read: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies by Anna Franklin 📚
: Want to read: The Good People by Peter Narvez 📚
: Want to read: Northumberland Folk Tales by Rosalind Kerven 📚
: Want to read: Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols by Cassandra Eason 📚
: Want to read: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 📚
: Want to read: Strange and Secret Peoples by Carole G. Silver 📚
: Hello Internet! I’m having a vampire night due to migraine. I’m going to get up and take my morning …
: Want to read: The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions) by 📚
: Want to read: The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler 📚
: Finished reading: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow 📚 This one took me a little while to get …
: 🔖📚 Read Ladies of Leisure. This one bummed me out. I think it sells Dept. of Speculation short.
: 🔖📚📝Read Is Parenthood the Enemy of Creative Work? by Kim Brooks (The Cut) That’s one of the major …
: 🔖📚 Read The books that help define motherhood – for mums everywhere to read Is it ever possible to …
: 📺 Want to watch: SMILF Catastrophe Motherland The Letdown Workin’ Moms
: 🔖📚 Read Art or Babies. you can make your art without being an art monster: You can do it as… an art …
: 🔖📚 Read Why are we only talking about ‘mom books’ by white women? by Angela Garbes (The Cut). I love …
: 🔖📚 Read The Stranger Guest: The Literature of Pregnancy and New Motherhood by Lily Gurton-Wachter …
: 🔖📚 In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle by Parul Sehgal (The New York …
: 🔖📚 Read Maggie Nelson: Inflections Forever New by Ariel Lewiton (Guernica). We’re all human beings …
: 🔖📚 Read Why All the Books About Motherhood? by Laura Elkin (The Paris Review). Another bookmark I’ve …
: 🔖📚 Read We Need to Talk About Whiteness in Motherhood Memoirs by Nancy Reddy (Electric Literature). …
: 🔖📝📚 Read The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? by Lara Feigel (The Guardian) …
: 🔖 Read Writer Moms: Can We Do Deep Work While the Kids are Home? by Sara Bates. Before we do… the …
: Want to read: A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle 📚
: Want to read: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) by Hettie Judah 📚
: 🔖📝📚 Read I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their …
: Want to read: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris 📚
: 🔖 Read How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris by Ravynn K. Stringfield …
: 🔖 Read Rebecca Solnit on Women’s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster (Lithub). I want to be an art …
: Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood 📚
: 🔖📚📝 Read The Mother, the Artist, and Me by Caroline Hagood (Elle). This is a great essay about what …
: Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 📚 I want to write a long response to this one …
: Look, I’d love to play in an improv jam but I can no longer do things that START at 10 pm so I guess …
: I just want to fight censorship 📚 and make theatre 🎭.
: Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders 📚 I love this so much! Charlie …
: Finished reading: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn 📚 I might love this even more than Legendborn, which I …
: I cannot recommend Book Riot’s censorship coverage highly enough. They’re doing great work, with …
: Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I do weird things like buying a Krang cosplay t-shirt or …
: 📺💬🖖🏻 “I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn’t slightly familiar.” Picard 3x06, …
: Yo Internet, why does the Voyager theme tug at my heartstrings so? I barely remember the show but it …
: 🔖 Read Should I learn coding as a second language? by Meghan O’Gieblyn (Wired). the most celebrated …
: 🔖 Read Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story wired.com Read: www.wired.com Wired.com …
: 🔖📚📝 Read A Beginner’s Guide to Writing IP in Publishing — ERIC SMITH ericsmithrocks.com Read: …
: Want to read: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs 📚
: Want to read: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚
: Want to read: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry 📚
: Ah yes, that weird need-to-cry, don’t-know-why feeling… (I suspect this is about the fact that the …
: Scenes I want to explore more: TTRPGs, literary (incl but not limited to sff). What pubs, websites, …
: 🗨️ My response to Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It Happy …
: 📺 Shrinking is doing a great job dressing a teen in 90s throwback clothes and if y’all see me …
: hey hey you know how that moral philosopher profiled in the New Yorker would solve the trolley …
: Had abbrevia.me describe me based on my tweets. Alt text contains the text of the description, which …
: High Pain Day: Oh yeah, I'm disabled! I had forgotten. I had my first high-pain day since we came to Europe yesterday (or today, if you’re in the US when …
: Finished reading: Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto 📚 This has …
: 📚💬 “Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.” …
: Anne Frank kept a commonplace book.
: “She didn’t die. She was killed. Because she was a Jewish girl.” Hannah Pick-Goslar, a friend of …
: 🔖 Read Understanding Blogs by Tracy Durnell. An excellent exploration of what makes blogging its own …
: I guess I missed World Book Day & International Cat Rescue Day in Europe but it’s still March 2 back …
: Haven’t listened to Worlds Beyond Number yet but Erika Ishii in this TechCrunch interview is making …
: I’ve got a couple recent co-authored articles: Description framework of makerspaces: Examining the …
February 2023
: 🎮 Playing Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe with my kid. Super fun. Couch co-op Kirby seems to be …
: Hi friends! It’s time for an Amsterdam Photo Dump! There are 8 photos here so if you’re viewing this …
: 🔖 Read Sci-Fi Publishers Are Bracing for an AI Battle by Elizabeth Minkel (Wired). I’m interested to …
: Finished reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚 Happy to have read it. …
: I'm a piler-filer. Who are you? Austin Kleon blogs about pilers and filers, a dichotomy/spectrum he learned about reading Temple …
: 🔖 Read The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing by Vauhina Vara (Wired). This is an excellent long …
: Currently reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚 Now that I’m reading …
: My kid’s school is hiring a classroom teacher in his age range. So if you got the gig you might get …
: 🔖📝 Read IF YOU LOVE WRITING, YOU SHOULD RELISH REJECTION. This is a really helpful piece that …
: 🔖🎓 Read All my classes suddenly became AI classes. I love the assignment here that asks students to …
: How a post ends up on my blog Hi friends. I wanted to take a moment to share my blogging “process,” which I put in scare quotes …
: Yesterday I saw 3 people (I’d guess women) at Amsterdam Centraal 🚄 walking together wearing matching …
: Status: in a parasocial relationship with the crew of the Enterprise D.
: I’m not saying I’m just saying, the introduction to GENDER AT SEA talks a lot about Moana and what …
: Who goes to the Dutch National Maritime Museum and buys an edited collection titled Gender at Sea as …
: Hello, I require this shirt.
: 🔖📝 Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing by Anthony Ocampo, at the recommendation of Dr. …
: Today I’m grieving the closure of Catapult magazine and classes. 📝
: The latest Dutch food: nasi saté ajam. This is an Indonesian dish. Because Indonesia was once a …
: 🔖📚📝 Read Mess Up Your Good, Premium, Luxury Notebooks. Yes! Great advice from Anna Havron.
: 🔖 Read Antisemitic text was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. 💔
: Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚 This one took me a while to get into. Before giving …
: 🔖 📝 Joanna Penn discusses her use of AI to help her write a short story. This could be a valuable …
: 🔖 Read The Summer-Camp Feeding Frenzy Has Already Begun.
: 🔖 Read Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice. …the people who …
: Another Dutch meal. This is hutspot. It’s smoked sausage with gravy on a bed of potatoes, onions, …
: 🔖 Read THE JEDI ACADEMY WILL NO LONGER TEACH ANAKIN SKYWALKER’S MASSACRE OF THE YOUNGLINGS. A+ geek …
: 📺 Watched Key & Peele - I Said…. This is a beautiful sketch that heightens literally as high as you …
: 🍿 Watched Bert Williams - The Poker Game. Stunningly good object work.
: 🍿Watched Mantan Moreland & Ben Carter - Indefinite Talk. This bit is so fun. Ought to be mentioned …
: 🔖 Read The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme. My favorite take on Pagliacci is Rhett …
: 📚💬📓 “… being transparent about one’s positionality, and choosing a granularity of analysis …
: 🔖 A swirling soup of thoughts in my head about self-presentation after reading these posts: The …
: You know what’s really great for a migraine is the monthly test of public warning sirens in the …
: 🔖 Read Is My Child Eating Enough Pirate’s Booty? Parenting comedy is a microgenre that always lands …
: 🔖 Read “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather.” Took me a little while to get into the format of this short …
: Today’s adventure: NEMO Science Museum. Very cool, but I’m spoiled by having an awesome science …
: Finished reading: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 📚 I’m extremely late to this one. It’s excellent, …
: 🔖 Read Interview with Kelly J. Baker: “I can’t push through when I’m stuck.” “My writing routine …
: Another Dutch meal: stamppot boerenkool. This is smoked sausage with sauce on a bed of potatoes …
: I made a menu of Dutch foods for us to try. They’re sort of home food staples, not anything too …
: I’m so excited to hang out with my friends for new stories.
January 2023
: 🔖 Read WE’VE LOST THE PLOT by Megan Garber (The Atlantic). “Our constant need for entertainment has …
: Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I love it so much. I left the hardcover at home but …
: 🔖📺🎮 Read Television Is Better Without Video Games and Video Games Are Better Without Gameplay (Ian …
: My kid made a Kirby and the Forgotten Land fanzine, I am dead from cute.
: 📺🖖🏻 When I watch TNG or Picard, Data is Data, but anyone else Brent Spiner plays is Brent Spiner …
: 📺 Watched Ares. Brilliant dark academia horror with all the hallmarks: secret society, dangerously …
: Quiet Time in Aalsmeer Our second week in the Netherlands has been quiet so far. Exactly a week after we got here, I came …
: Duolingo really emphasizes the importance of learning the Dutch word “krant,” which means newspaper. …
: The video of the Pop Culture Dialogue I was part of on inherited fandoms is now on YouTube.
: In just a bit I’ll be contributing to the live-streamed Pop Culture Dialogue on Inherited Fandoms, …
: I love your newsletter, whoever you are, but I’ve put it on web-only. Trying to get quiet in here 🧠. …
: Well I guess the jet lag is over because instead of getting a brilliant solid stretch of sleep that …
: We took a walk through the village down to the Westeindeplassen (a lake) today. Here are some photos …
: The other day W pointed out that the way we communicate in memes is basically the same as Tamarians …
: Our first 60 hours in Europe In case you missed it: my husband, W, received a Fulbright award to study European & transatlantic …
: 🔖 Read The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too by Elizabeth Minkel.
: 🔖 Read The Fannish Potlatch: Creation of Status Within the Fan Community by Rachael Sabotini (Fanfic …
: Me in the Netherlands on Day 3: UGH I can’t believe I haven’t been to ALL THE MUSEUMS, what am I …
: 🎮 Played the Dragon Quest Treasures demo. Cute with some fun mechanics and a cool world but not so …
: 🔖📺👱♀️ Read Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form: “I’ve Earned the Right to Stand Where I …
: Woont u in Nederland? Ik ben in Aalsmeer. Wil u afspreken? Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands, maar ik …
: Me: wants to message all my friends and family My friends and family: are sleeping, I hope, as it’s …
: Well, a cat walked us home from the bus stop so I guess we and everyone we know are moving to …
: 📺 Finished watching Wednesday. Glad I stuck with it. I appreciate Wednesday refusing to be in the …
: 📺💬 Tyler: Come on, don’t you like a day that’s all about you? Wednesday: Every day is all about me. …
: 📺💬 “It’s not my fault I can’t interpret your emotional morse code.” 🖤 Wednesday 🖤
: 🔖 Back on my dark academia bullshit thanks to WEDNESDAY (the show is DA, the character is goth) and …
: Real struggle to focus today which is probably a combo of getting to bed late because I wanted to …
: Pro-tip: asking questions about why you’re doing the research in the way you’re doing it and what …
: 📺 Watching WEDNESDAY and every time Christina Ricci says, “Wednesday,” I’m all, “Are you talking to …
: How I Begin In Austin Kleon’s paid newsletter post today, he asked his readers, to share how we begin. I opened …
: Tarot: My Year Ahead I’m taking Lindsay Mack’s tarot class called The Threshold. Here’s my reading for the year ahead. …
: Make a note: 2023 is the year of unsubscribing.
: Hey librarians! Where do you get information to help you do your job?
: 📚💬 “Be open to the possibility that you are bigger, more magical, more powerful than you dare …
: 🔖 Read How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics by Emily Alford (Longreads). This is my …
: It seems extra cruel that while my mom can’t actually carry herself around on her legs, she can feel …
: 🔖 Read All in Good Fun: How Fanfiction Reignited My Passion for Writing by Briana Lawrence, linked …
: Hello. LIS scholars, scholars of #LIS for those of you on hashtaggy places: are you familiar with …
: Hey Internet. What’s fun with a kid in Amsterdam? Besides De Poezenboot, obviously. 🐈⬛
: Me: gets Steam Deck for Christmas Me: proceeds to add tons of 90s PC adventure games to my Steam …
: 🎮 Started playing The Secret of Monkey Island on the Steam Deck. Correcting a gap in my point & …
: Loved my first day hike, hiked in spite of the sense of impending bursitis. Two days later, bursitis …
: Q: Was there ever a series of books you were skeptical about, but ended up liking very much? A: I …
: Q: who was your crush in middle school lmao A: Had a different one each year. Not naming names but …
: Q: the longest time you’ve ever gone without showering? A: Don’t know but far too long, more than a …
: Dense fog advisory today until 10 AM. Big woodland goth vibes.
: Finished reading: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 📚 Poirot’s first case. A bit of …
: Begin As You Mean to Go On, courtesy of Leigh Bardugo: Read for pleasure: Read The Mysterious Affair …
: Q: What’s one thing that typical town libraries should change to increase community participation? …
: Q: What are your plans this weekend? A: Nothing big - maybe going to the Farmer’s Market & then …
: Anon message: You’re still one of the first people I think of fondly when I’m reminiscing. 🪵🫀 Reply: …
: Next anon q: Do you remember your Bronzer days with joy? Or with time (and events) does it feel like …
: Next anonymous question: Favourite fandom/ship for fanfic? My answer: Oh my goodness this is way …
: Next anonymous message: You are the best! My reply: Thanks! Backatcha!
: Fourth anonymous question: Favorite place you’ve ever visited? My answer: The Library of Congress
: Third anonymous question: If you could choose any career would it be what you’re doing right now or …
: Second anonymous question: Who’s the last person you texted? My answer: My sister
: First anonymous question: Hottest sport? My answer: I don’t really sport and I’m super heat …
: Saw @heroicendeavour@glammr.us answering anonymous questions and thought it might be fun to do this …
December 2022
: Did the PBS Kids NYE countdown so… Here’s to some good stuff happening in 2023.
: A Dispatch from the Threshold of 2023 🚪🎇 I don’t know if I’ll get to do all the year-end/new year transition things I’d hoped to do today: …
: On this day last year, I wrote: “…my word of the year for 2022 is MEND. My goal is to keep going.” …
: PS If you’re wondering why I’m still awake at 4 it’s because my mom keeps having miserable side …
: My Child Woke Me Up at 1:30 and I’m Still Awake at 4: The Kimberly Hirsh Story
: My Reading Year 2022, Part Deux I’m calling it for the year. I’m not going to try to squeeze one more in before the end of the day …
: Finished reading: Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my …
: Finished reading: Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your …
: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career by Katie Rose …
: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath by Kirsten Beyer 📚 Posting this so it …
: Finished reading: Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson 📚 Posting this so it automatically …
: Finished reading: Rose (New Poets of America) by Li-Young Lee 📚 Posting this so it automatically …
: Finished reading: Hilda and the Troll: Hilda Book 1 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this so it …
: Finished reading: Hilda and the Midnight Giant: Hilda Book 2 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting …
: Finished reading: Hilda and the Black Hound: Hilda Book 4 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this …
: Finished reading: Hilda and the Stone Forest: Hilda Book 5 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting …
: Finished reading: Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this so it automatically …
: Finished reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie 📚 Another fun one. Poirot …
: Currently reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie 📚 Another pre-movie …
: Cat help me, I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole that is Benoit Blanc/Phillip fluff and I’m very happy …
: Part of me wants to take all my favorite character tropes and rewrite them as mom. Mom detective. …
: Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚 Wow, that went fast. Super fun.
: Currently reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚 Reading in advance of watching …
: Finished reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer 📚 I love it so much. Sweet, hot but closed doors, I …
: 🔖📚 Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger. This is a beautiful and …
: Currently reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer 📚 I’ve read 141 pages in this book since I picked …
: 🍿 Watched Glass Onion. Had fun. Still adore Benoit Blanc.
: 📚 I’m sure there are a lot of things I’ll want to tell you about Season of Love but the first is …
: I feel like my new glasses give me a nebbishy vibe and I kind of love it. Who’s ready to cast me as …
: Finally picked this beauty up from the library. I had it from NetGalley but didn’t get it read …
: I drew the Ace of Swords as my anchor card for winter. I made it my phone background to help me …
: 🔖📝 Read Finding the Secret Door Into Your Novel. When a novel is wick, it has a life about it. (Have …
: Said I was gonna disconnect cross-posting from Twitter, forgot to actually do it, gonna leave it on …
: Finished reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 📚 Finished this in 2 or 3 days. I was drawn to it …
: Kelly J. Baker’s latest newsletter is about a year of not writing & what that means when being a …
: New glasses! Who knew I had a face under those cateyes?
: Currently reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 📚
: Disconnecting cross-posting to Twitter after this post. Find my follow page at kimberlyhirsh.com if …
: Finished reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I loved it so much. I know Leigh Bardugo is done …
: 💬📚 “None of this had been fated; none of it foretold… They were just the people who had shown up and …
: Woodland Goth: The Goblins of Labyrinth by Brian Froud 📚 Yep, I created a whole Woodland Goth …
: Moderating my own smartphone use (but still not belonging in the Luddite club) I thought, given my heavy criticism of the potential perspective that we should all join the Luddite …
: Maybe we don't all need to join the Luddite club. I have some thoughts about the Luddite club. First, I don’t have a problem with people switching to …
: Me, misquoting Lord of the Rings: “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to …
: I use a smartphone AND I read novels.
: Revised 5 TV shows to introduce me, now in chronological order of release! 📺 Star Trek: The Next …
: Replacing Firefly in my 5 shows to introduce me and subbing in CXG.
: 'Wednesday' is full of "Whoa." 📺 I just finished the first episode of Wednesday. I have so many thoughts and feelings. First, I’ve …
: Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows 📺: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 👱♀️ Firefly 🌌 Star Trek: The Next …
: 🔖📺 Read Wednesday Forgets Why We Fell in Love With the Addams Family. “The Addams Family films were …
: Apparently tonight is a waking-after-every-sleep-cycle night. Not my favorite.
: I want my hair to look like Emily Axford’s hair.
: 🍿 Watched Santa Games (Hulu). Super cute. A sweet story about family & the power of second chances …
: 🔖 Read A year of new avenues robinsloan.com Robin Sloan https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/ …
: On being an escribitionist In November, when I realized there was no way I was going to be able to get 50,000 words of writing …
: 🔖 Read What Is a Strike? Reflections from the Virtual Front Lines of the UC Academic Worker Strike …
: Currently reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 📚 Kind of resent that I have to do anything …
: 🔖 Read Attention, trust and GPT3 “If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT …
: 📚💬 “I am most interested in confessional writing when it allows us to move into the personal as a …
: 📚💬 “I had been so well socialized by graduate school that I was torn between which writing path to …
: 🔖💀 Read If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body by Caitlin Doughty (New York …
: Lately I often find myself feeling alert but unable to focus. This is a new vibe for me. If you’re a …
: Finished reading: 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl 📚 Read this because it’s on …
: “Perhaps having children makes one increasingly distrust the symbolic world. Because suddenly …
: This week’s Craft Talk from Jami Attenberg is another great one: “Don’t ever talk yourself out of …
: Y’all ever think about how the worst moments in your life personally align with some of the most …
: 🔖 Read Creativity as Spiritual Practice by Rabbi Adina Allen (My Jewish Learning). “Each of us is …
: 📝🎭🎨🧶🧵🎵💃🏿 This is a reminder that I write Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of …
: 🔖📺📝 Read TV Recaps Taught Me How to Write Criticism by Joelle Kidd. I love Kidd’s discussion of the …
: 🔖📺 Read Wednesday Addams Is the Ultimate Outcast by Miyako Pleines (Catapult). 🖤
: 🔖 Read Haunted by the Ghost of 2019, Helena Fitzgerald “A return to 2019 is an attempt to erase all …
: Want to read: Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose 📚
: My personal Pokémon avatar was behind today’s advent calendar door.
: 🔖 Read How’d That Thing Go? by Kate McKean. “I don’t want a schedule, I want a sandbox. I want a …
: How to feel like myself My kid’s best friend’s mom got a new job and isn’t starting it until January, but has already left …
: Just listened to a super stressful strike townhall and I’m tempted to watch tonight’s Neverafter but …
: 🍿 Watched Falling for Christmas. I’ve been an unironic Lindsay Lohan fan since I saw Confessions of …
: Q asks Baby Q Amanda Rogers if she’s ever caused the spontaneous combustion of someone she doesn’t …
: Trying to figure out if I can make a crow cane head work on my adjustable cane so I can walk the …
: 🎮 Apparently my Dragon Age: Origins character isn’t in leather armor that looks like underwear. …
: 🎮 I’m more than 10 yrs behind & have already played Inquisition but some quick thoughts after 1 hr …
: Getting blood work done, it’s been 20 minutes since my appointment time and I still haven’t been …
: My whole family and I are moving to Tom Bombadil’s house. He and Goldberry are such gracious hosts …
: Y’all don’t even know how transformed this fireplace is from just a couple months ago. W painted it …
: The head teacher at my kid’s school for next year sent an email saying that the only school supplies …
: 🔖🎮 Read Playing ‘Tunic’ Reminds Me How to Approach Sickness and Recovery by Martin Cahill …
: I have done all the things in Stardew Valley 1.4 and it took me ~245 hrs. That’s ~245 hrs when I was …
: My Reading Year, 2022 📚 Everybody is doing their year-end stuff, so I thought I’d do mine. I read 46 books this year …
: True facts about my time on the early web: In many chats (like, html + server side scripting with …
November 2022
: Wonderful things 🥳: My kid fell asleep before 9:30 for the first time this week. 😴 I ❤️ Tom …
: Some notes on my Spotify Wrapped: Joe Hisaishi is the composer for My Neighbor Totoro, which is what …
: Friends! Are you on Mastodon? Are you seeing this on Mastodon? I’m about to stop using …
: My son sings “Step by Step” at school sometimes. I always thought it sounded like a union song and, …
: Hey Micro.blog friendos, I activated ActivityPub & can follow Mastodon peeps via M.b but how do I …
: I’m like a toddler over here with big feelings, might cry from relief because my parents got my …
: 🔖 Read ‘Y’all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time by …
: Today has not been my favorite day, for reasons I may choose to detail more extensively in the …
: 🎮 If you told me in 2015 that I would be really psyched about getting farming sims by 2022, I would …
: 🔖 Read 1 in 4 hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants …
: 🖖🏻 I’ve been falling asleep to the TNG episode “Relics,” and every time Captain Picard says “Ensign …
: 🔖 Read Taking on the Feminine Labor of Creating Holiday Magic by Sarah Hunter Simanson (Catapult). …
: 🔖 Read PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet by Jamie Zawinski. (h/t @manton) At the …
: Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and …
: 💬📚 “I don’t remember my own story… I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their …
: Thanksgiving 1: Plain black leggings, gray sweater. Thanksgiving 2: Floral dress. Thanksgiving 3: …
: Today: Thanksgiving #3, Booster #2. Tomorrow: Rest, D&D.
: Locking myself in the bathroom at my parents’ house to get a break from overstimulation, happy …
: 🔖🌲 Read On Mother Trees: What Old-Growth Trees Taught Me About Parenting by Kaitlyn Teer (Catapult). …
: 🔖🍿 Read The Mom in ‘Home Alone’ Is a Messy and Magnificent Model of Motherhood. It’s easy to forget …
: 🔖📝♿ Read As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator by [Sarah Fawn …
: Currently attending Dr. Anuja Cabraal’s session on emoji coding. The analysis process and how we …
: The lyrics from Disney's Disenchanted that make me sob. 🎵 Spoilers for lyrics from Disenchanted follow. Without context they only mean a little but if you’re …
: Today is a day of widespread pain and miserable stomach cramps. Thanks a lot, chronic illness …
: 🔖 Read What is Jewish Spirituality? Mystics have their experiences, but what matters is what they …
: 🔖 Read The Eight Genders in the Talmud. Super interesting discussion of how halakhah handles things …
: 🍿 I’m about 30 minutes into Disney’s Disenchanted and while it definitely doesn’t have the magic of …
: 🍿 Watched Eve’s Christmas. This & Back to Christmas have similar premises. If I woke up to discover …
: Me: Ugh. Why am I so irritable? looks at Euki app calendar Me: Oh.
: Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m an IndieWeb …
: Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚 I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty confused …
: Okay, I have enough people still hanging out on Twitter to stick around, reactivated syndication. …
: Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & …
: I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But …
: It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major arcana …
: You are a creature of flesh. You have all the same bodily needs any wild mammal does.
: My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do academia …
: Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. 🎵
: The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I always …
: I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!
: Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.
: Guess I better start cross-posting to Instagram more!
: A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to be …
: I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.
: 💬📚 “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and heat, our …
: 💬📚 “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and …
: 💬📚 “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodies— handling the refuse, the filth and …
: Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚 Thanks for the rec, …
: So worn out and it’s almost time to start the second shift of my day job (parenting).
: Decided to do morning pages over at 750words. It’s not longhand, but it also doesn’t give me hand …
: A letter to my past self circa 1997 Dear Kimberly, I’m just going to jump right in. Remember E’s cute boyfriend and how you noticed she …
: 🔖📚 Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did. Excellent piece about …
: What feels like your people? I have a lot of friends, but the circle of friends I think of as my people is much smaller. If I …
: 🔖 How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like …
: 🔖 Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman …
: Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. …
: 📺💬 On MythicQuest… Ian: Poppy, lines are so Web1. You don’t wanna be in Web1, do you? Me: I do! I …
: It’s Sunday morning and I am back to being overwhelmed by meal planning, how’s your day? I should …
: Maybe not 50K words of literally anything... It turns out giving yourself credit for everything you write is actually really challenging because …
: 📚💬 “Proximity to power, however real that feels, is a simpler choice than solidarity. True allyship …
: 💬📚 “The perspective mothers bring to their jobs—whether it’s law making, coalition building, project …
: 💬📚 “We are entrusting that which we say is most precious—our children, our future— to other people, …
: 💬📚 “Childcare professionals, many of them mothers, are three times as likely to live in poverty as …
: The number of people grieving the loss of Kevin Conroy in my various timelines has confirmed that …
: Hello I require a meme where Lore is impersonating Data on Twitter, they’re both verified, will pay …
: Over at Mastodon, I have a lot of new infosec/cybersecurity followers. I assume y’all followed me …
: Moved Mastodon instances from mastodon.social to indieweb.social because the prior kept timing out. …
: 💬📚 “Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.” Angela Garbes, …
: 💬📚 “Early on in quarantine, I found myself thinking, ‘What is the most valuable thing I could be …
: Just moved a publication on my CV from “In Progress” to “In Press.” An RA gathered data in 2018-19. …
: 🔖📝 Read How to Finish. Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay …
: 🔖📝 Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist. I covet the …
: 🔖📝 Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space” “…every draft after the first draft for me is …
: NaNoWriMo pivot: Back to 50,000 words of literally anything at all Hello friends! It’s been slow-going working on my TNG fanfic. Early in October, I toyed with the …
: Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in …
: 🔖📚 Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn). I love articles about how other people …
: 📚🍳Marinated Beans with Crunchy Veggies from I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To) Cooking is really hard with chronic illness, because both pain and fatigue reduce your options for …
: 🔖📝 Read Writing Advice Isn’t Made for Bodies In Pain. Too many things I want to quote here, so if …
: “if you’re looking for a sign from the universe that it’s okay to stop trying to force your work, …
: Over and over again I search for this comic by Sylvie Reuter that is the best depiction I’ve ever …
: 🔖📺 Read ‘Bad Sisters’ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister Ooh. When I’m ready for …
: 🔖 Read Emma Thompson’s Third Act. I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred …
: 🍿 Watched Back to Christmas. Jennifer Elise Cox steals the show. I was hoping Michael Muhney …
: 🍿 Watched Snowbound for Christmas (on Amazon Prime). Based on the book Snowbound with the CEO. A lot …
: Seeing Scott Thompson as the French (Canadian?) hotel front of house manager in Snowbound for …
: Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey 📚 Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in …
: 📚 Went to the library to pick up my hold on I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To): Low-Effort, …
: 🔖 Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now. If you’re at an institution that provides hosted …
: As I eagerly await Linda Holmes’s inevitable holiday TV movie round up, I have used her previous …
: Big Luisa Energy today and I don’t like it. Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt, and See if she …
: I will remember 2022 as the year I wanted to do everything, actually did some things, and felt like …
: Now that I’m trained in human subjects research I find myself siding with the Board of Governors in …
: Still in the prep stages for this month’s writing projects. I created a reversible notebook to hold …
: The world is full of writing challenges in November, and it’s rough because I want to do them all. …
October 2022
: Happy Halloween from Hilda and Twig!
: The Gothic novel to Broadway musical pipeline 🖤
: Want to get your own website going but need some info on how? Check out getblogging.org.
: One last fic prompt from when M was 3: Spider-Man and Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.
: Another fic prompt from when M was 3: In “The Green Ribbon,” Jenny tells Alfred that she just likes …
: Fic prompt from when M was 3: in The Velveteen Rabbit but at the end, not only does the Velveteen …
: I’m not going to spend a lot of time scrolling Mastodon, but I’m set up to cross-post from my blog …
: If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out the New …
: 🔖 Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.
: Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump …
: 🔖 Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom. the importance of fans as both human …
: 🔖Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South …
: 🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies – transform We need to ask …
: 🔖 Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan – transform I would argue that aca/fan is …
: 🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost. Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions …
: 🔖 Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV. The thing that “counts” as a line on a CV …
: 🔖 Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV. It’s worth considering the role of fandom within media …
: Me, watching the Lower Decks finale after finally finishing watching “Time’s Arrow, Part 2”: Is …
: 📚 Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto. A super accessible …
: 💬📚 “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what …
: What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies …
: Hey, Internet. I want to get Table of Contents alerts for the Journal of Fandom Studies. My …
: 💬📚 “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak …
: I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star Trek: The …
: Hello world. I’m weary. For reasons. Sometimes life is a lot. I’m really glad there are great bits …
: I love Baby Galadriel so much.
: Having a nightmare where your relative who’s dealing with infection-induced delirium in the waking …
: Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 Reading my way …
: Taking another run at limiting screen time, because I’m wondering if the increase in migraines for …
: My superpower is taking any Star Trek: The Next Generation B-story focused on Data and forgetting …
: My kid goes to a Reggio Emilia school; his kindergarten class is a community of researchers. Today …
: 🔖 Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter I am both fascinated and terrified by the …
: 🔖 NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow …
: I get excited and ambitious and then I have a flare and then I forget all my passions and ambitions. …
: This is an example of process art.
: I want to food, to cook fresh ingredients into beautiful and tasty things. But I like to experience …
: How to Scholar(?) In my doctoral program, there was a class that we colloquially referred to as “babydocs.” As it was …
: Finished up my time at #FSNNA22 with a dance by the pastries.
: Okay, getting dressed and then heading to the #FSNNA22 Gather lobby to try dancing and throwing …
: Skipping the first sessions of #FSNNA22 today to have breakfast with my family. Back for the 11 am, …
: Today, in Kimberly remembers that scholarly publishing is broken: lots of journals demand either …
: #FSNNA 22 Roundtable: Materiality & Liveness Paul_Lucas: Welcoming everyone to the session "Materiality & Liveness" Talking about WWE and the …
: I’m attending “Transcultural Fandom Experiences” at #FSNNA22 but not live-tweeting because I’m …
: #FSNNA22 Keynote: Turn On, Tune In, Get Out: Rethinking Escapism and Domestic Spectatorship Caetlin Benson-Allott: Beginning Turn On, Tune In, Get Out: Rethinking Escapism and Domestic …
: Super headachey, so probably gonna lie down, may or may not do more #FSNNA22 today.
: Me to friend who is also a mom: Want me to drop the water bottle you left at M’s birthday party off …
: W just reminded me we have a Parent-Teacher conference this morning so I actually will miss the …
: Up too early and going to sleep a little more. I’m going to miss the first #FSNNA22 session of the …
: 📚 Tom Bombadil (😍) sings SO. MUCH.
: 💬📚 “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. …
: Now is the part of #FSNNA22 where I retreat to my hotel room, order room service, and watch TV …
: The Daily Mail: Don’t use these emojis! They make Gen Z people perceive you as old! Me: I mean …
: Time for a liedown, hope to be back up in time for the #FSNNA22 publishing session.
: It’s super energizing to go to conferences like #FSNNA22, #CLS2022, and #FanLIS2022. I’m reminded …
: #FSNNA22 Live Blog: Fandom During/After Covid Olivia Johnston-Riley: Next session: Fandom During/After COVID Norbert Nyari: “Reaching Fans Through …
: Even in Gather, I’m that nerd sitting in the front row. #FSNNA22
: Taking kid to the dentist during the next #FSNNA22 session so I won’t be live-tweeting but hope to …
: M after watching me confer in Gather: “Can we play a little Stardew Valley?”
: #FSNNA2022 Live Blog: The New Bedroom Cultures Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke: introducing the panel "The New Bedroom Cultures" Elise Sandbach: “The Growth …
: Kid woke up, so break from live-posting but I’m introducing him to Gather. “What game is that?”
: Side question for anyone at #FSNNA22 or anyone aware of fan studies at all - have folks looked at …
: Good morning! It’s the first day of #FSNNA22, the Fan Studies Network North America conference, and …
: Experimenting with limiting leisure screen time for a little bit. You’ll be able to tell how it goes …
: I am asking for COPING advice, not TREATMENT advice: I feel crappy always, with stress and/or …
: Me, a postdoc and research lead at an R1 institution with a PhD from another institution: I’m not …
: Tape worked great on the part of the giant cat rip that wasn’t a seam, but not the part that was, so …
: 🎙️It’s taken me more than 2.5 yrs, but I have finished listening to Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key’s …
: Yesterday: Noodling on work stuff while swapping out winter clothes and putting away laundry. Today: …
: 📚💬📝 “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that …
: 📚💬📝 “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending domination… in our work …
: 📚💬📝 “The point is not to render ideas less complex—the point is to make the complex clear.” bell …
: 📚💬📝 “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the widest …
: 📚💬📝 “All academics write but not all see themselves as writers.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the …
: The giant cat popped less than 24 hours after going up with probably less than 10 hours up time. …
: 📚💬📝 “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to …
: 📚💬📝 “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe that the …
: 📚💬📝 “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than work …
: It’s spooky season, so I’m living my best life with a skeleton glow necklace.
: 📚💬📝 “…we all should feel utterly free to write as much as time, grace, and the imagination allow.” …
: 📚💬📝 “Since I have never tried to make a living as a writer, I have had the extreme good fortune to …
: 📚💬📝 “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their work.” bell …
: 📚💬📝 “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an endless flow …
: 📚💬📝 “There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them close.” bell …
: 📚💬📝 “Writing that keeps us away from death, from despair, does not necessarily help us to be well.” …
: 📚💬📝 “… the being we become in the very act of writing is only ever intimately present to the one who …
September 2022
: There have been 22 weekdays this September. My kid has been in school for only 14 of them. The 8 …
: Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr 📚 An …
: 🔖 Read Howl’s Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by …
: Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 📚 Super fun! Highly recommend.
: I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the movie (rightly, I …
: I’m exhausted. My mom has gone to the ER once a week for the past 5 weeks. My kid has not been in …
: A hike at Eno River State Park Yesterday, W, M, my sister ME, and I went for a little hike at the Eno River State Park. I’d planned …
: Want to read: Ghosts of the Forbidden (Glazier’s Gap Book 1) by Leanna Renee Hieber 📚
: I just ordered a 20 ft inflatable black cat. It will dominate the culdesac. I’m kind of hoping it …
: My currently-planned NaNoWriMo novel is a YA supernatural rom-com set at musical theatre camp in the …
: You can have all of the research that funding agencies can possibly provide us but if we can’t talk …
: I love today’s issue of Publish Not Perish in which Jenn McClearen draws a connection between Joli …
: I just played D&D for the first time in 3+ years and it was so great I almost cried.
: 🎮 Things from today’s Nintendo Direct that feel like gifts they’re making for me, specifically: …
: I rarely watch actual play TTRPG shows because Life Circumstances have made a 3-hr viewing a real …
: Day 3 of a garbage migraine. Hate it. Rarely get them this bad anymore.
: 📺 Will I need to watch The Book of Boba Fett to follow what’s happening in the next season of The …
: 📺 Excuse me, I am watching The Rings of Power and Disa is my new fave, thought you should know. (And …
: 📺 Watched The Sandman. It’s so great. I don’t think a better adaptation would be possible. I missed …
: Dark academia is too emotionally bleak an aesthetic for me right now, but I enjoy the ability to …
: We took a little walk on the trail behind our house this morning. Here are some pictures of what we …
: When my brain won't read 📚 I hate when my brain won’t read, which it won’t today. Reading is my core way of interfacing with …
: Currently reading: Fabric by Victoria Finlay 📚
: Peace and long life, y’all. Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖🏻
: I don’t write a lot of lengthy blog posts lately, partly because there’s a lot going on with my …
: I can suspend my disbelief enough to believe that entities like Dream, Death, Desire, & Despair …
: John Cameron Mitchell doing Ethel Merman singing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is all I have ever …
: I’m very sorry for the colleague of my interviewee who was sick today and thus meant interviewee …
: Just spent a minute staring at all the app icons on my phone trying to figure out why the Star Trek …
: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is brilliant in The Sandman. I need all the Death spin-offs: High Cost of …
: Every time I call myself “Miss Kimberly” in my head, I immediately correct myself with “Doctor …
: Finished reading: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚 Listened to the …
: Me, listening to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with my eyes closed: “Is that Harry …
: There’s been some hard stuff this week, but I also went to the pool and had dinner outside on my …
: 🍿 Watched The Company of Wolves. Peak 80s gothic fantasy with a gorgeous score and the grossest …
: What’s the most fun thing you’ve done in the past 2 years?
: 💬📚 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - …
August 2022
: Okay, Internet. What’s the best way to D&D remotely?
: I slept for 9 hours instead of 10 last night (what a luxury, I know, believe me that I give up a lot …
: The Jiminy Cricket or Frog (of Frog and Toadl in my head: “If you do X, the whole week will go more …
: Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara 📚 Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of …
: Picture of the view from my deck didn’t seem to actually end up attached to the post about working …
: Working on the deck in summer always feels like working in a treehouse.
: Went to apply for passports for myself & M today and the passport person just wasn’t there, didn’t …
: My legs started getting medically-restless by 4 pm today. I didn’t have caffeine after 2 or so, took …
: Is there space for robust research-practice partnerships in the time of COVID, or are people too …
: 💬📚 “It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy …
: 💬📚 “This was not what he thought acting would be, but what had he known about what acting would be?” …
: 💬📚 “…he was an optimist. Every month, every week, he chose to open his eyes, to live another day in …
: 💬📚 “He felt in those minutes his body’s treason… that he would be betrayed by it again and again, …
: 💬📚 “He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people …
: M. styled my jewelry for our morning playdate. The earrings are stylized bats. He was going for …
: I ventured into the world of Duolingo fanfiction looking for Odile/Melissa stories because they’re a …
: I cannot adequately convey how much I appreciate that Duolingo accepts “y’all” as the correct …
: 🔖 Read The Big Bang Didn’t Happen. I know very little about cosmology, but this makes some good …
: Coburn, C. E., & Penuel, W. R. (2016). Research-practice partnerships in education: Outcomes, …
: It was so overcast yesterday that the moonflowers stayed open all day.
: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Blippi asks. “A law doctor & a father,” M says. “Why do …
: Postdocs are contingent/precarious, yeah?
: Finished reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King 📚 This dude is so prolific and so …
: 🔖 Read A CRITIQUE OF DARK ACADEMIA: THE ROMANTICIZATION OF OVERWORK. Wearing tweed and wandering old …
: 🔖 Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes. I would …
: 🔖 Read THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SEXY PRIVILEGE: WHY DO I LOVE DARK ACADEMIA BOOKS? This ownership over …
: 🔖 Read What’s Dark about Dark Academia I think the real power of dark academia is the way it …
: Today in Pokemon Research Reflects Real Research: an early career researcher didn’t have access to a …
: Took the Buzzfeed Inner Aesthetic Stranger Things Character quiz & got Will Byers and Cottagecore: …
: Currently reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King 📚
: 💬📚 “…a story’s as much a house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, _Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design …
: 💬📚 “The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.” Julia Cameron, …
: 💬📚 “As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our …
: 💬📚 “Do not let your self-doubt turn into self-sabotage.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
: I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black bike shorts with lace trim, so hello from 1995, I …
: Day 3, #TheSealeyChallenge, Rose, Li-Young Lee 📚 This is a gorgeous book, full of grief and beauty. Selected quotes: Water In water my sister is no …
: I’ve got an ARC of The Nap Ministry’s book REST IS RESISTANCE ready for me to download from …
: 💬📚 “Perhaps people who experience the world in ways that are considered atypical have an intuitive …
: 💬📚 “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are …
: 💬📚 “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed Yong, An …
: Day 2 #TheSealeyChallenge, Leaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions, Walt Whitman 📚 Selected quotes: Eidolons We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build, But really build …
: 🔖 📺 Celia Rose Gooding, who does an amazing job playing Cadet Nyota Uhura on Strange New Worlds, …
: Day 1 #TheSealeyChallenge, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, Keith S. Wilson 📚 Selected quotes: 6:45 pm …God, it’s pretty. But what does any of it mean? A Unified Theory You …
: 🍿 Watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was super refreshing to watch a movie that was …
: 📚💬 “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have worth …
: I’m devoting the next few weeks to healing and rest, aside from my existing obligations. I release …
: 📚💬 “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed Yong, An …
: It’s August, so I’m going to do The Sealey Challenge and plan to read a book of poetry every day …
July 2022
: Finished reading: The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the …
: Real talk, I skipped the end of #CLS2022 to hang out with my kid and nap and I have no regrets.
: 🔖 Read Rapport or Respect? (Helen Kara). Dr. Kara makes excellent points about how research can seem …
: I have a lot of hairs that are white at the bottom, black or brown in the middle, and white at the …
: #CLS2022: Creating Equitable and Inclusive Library Spaces in the Face of Obstacles I didn’t get to liveblog/tweet this session because I was co-facilitating it, but I’m jotting down a …
: I’m taking the 10:30 - 11:30 PST hour off from #CLS2022 so that I can get some quiet time in before …
: My Notes from #CLS2022: OPENING PLENARY - Staying Connected, Fueling Innovation, Affirming Core Values: Three Learning Organizations Carrying Lessons Forward from the Twin Pandemics Scot Osterweil: Getting today's plenary started - Staying Connected, Fueling Innovation, Affirming …
: I can’t liveblog/tweet any of the 12p Pacific sessions at #CLS2022 today because I’m co-facilitating …
: Deciding when to drop a paper: Rethinking my lit review about tabletop RPGs and identity development I’ve been sitting on a paper that was “accepted with revisions” for more than 3 years. I have poked …
: Over the course of #CLS2022, I’ll be adding my liveblogtweets/notes to the Connected Learning page …
: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Post-Pandemic Life: Recovering From Burnout and Finding Motivation Khalia Braswell: Introducing the next Rising Scholars session: Post-Pandemic Life: Recovering From …
: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Exploring Pathways: Finding Your Place of Impact Wendy Roldan: introducing the panel Exploring Pathways: Finding Your Place of Impact is a UX …
: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing Alexis Hope: Alexis worked on hackathons including the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon (love …
: The next panel at #CLS2022 for Rising Scholars is Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing.
: For the next few days, I’ll be liveblogging/tweeting the Connected Learning Summit (#CLS2022) on …
: 🎵🎭 I’m listening to the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge and I’m really impressed with how well it uses …
: Want to read: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul …
: 📚 In 2008, 8 years before my kid was born, I replied to a Slate article that asked, “do you really …
: I was distracted around Summerween so I’m declaring July 31 Second Summerween.
: “When we are making our art we must bend all of the resources and possibilities to work for us, not …
: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery: Succession by Kirsten Beyer 📚 I honestly don’t know how …
: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless by Mike Johnson 📚
: I speak Dutch with a Yiddish accent, I can’t help it, it’s in my blooooood. 🇳🇱
: It’s my and Will’s 13th wedding anniversary today. The traditional gift for this anniversary is …
: Dealing with SDCC envy About 7 years ago, Geek and Sundry (RIP) published a post titled HOW TO HAVE A GREAT, GEEKY WEEKEND …
: Finished reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King 📚 I love the way King has characters reference his …
: True facts about my dreams: when I was reading CARRIE and started having dreams related to it, it …
: Pro-tip: Stuck in or overwhelmed by your research? Write a memo.
: Thinking about writing a blog post about the alignment of research, especially qualitative research, …
: I was all, “My blog isn’t cross-posting to Twitter! Whyyyy?” but then I saw that I had disabled it …
: The Internet is all “Check out the Whimsigoth aesthetic!” and y’all, a better name for it would be …
: Currently reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King 📚
: 🔖 Read ‘Lost’ Fans Gave Me a Safe Place on the Internet. Is Such Fandom Possible Now? (Catapult) by …
: 🔖 Read Violence Made Me Feel Like I’d Left My Body. Physical Theater Helped Me Return by Lindsey …
: Birthday selfie from yesterday in my South Square Mall - oops I meant Starcourt Mall - hat.
: Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King 📚 I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside of 24 …
: Me: I don’t know what to do! Should I spend the next 45 minutes reading CARRIE or playing METROID? …
: Posted on my birthday in 2018: Yesterday I found out that my thyroid is out of whack again. I’m …
: It's my birthday! Here's who I want to be and how we should celebrate. I’m 41 today and it’s a big deal because every day that I live is a day I chose to be in the world …
: 🔖📝 Read On Writing with Chronic Migraines (Catapult) by Yuvi Zalkow. I really appreciate Zalkow’s …
: 🔖 Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield. I …
: 🔖 Read Video Games Are for Everyone—And That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa …
: I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid hormone …
: The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. My …
: Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I …
: Y’all, check out this picture of Gene Roddenberry cosplaying as a Romulan commander from Balance of …
: Me, pitching future research clients: So in this scenario, see, you’re Buffy, and you know there’s …
: I found a picture of myself on Tumblr. Dropping all other descriptors of myself in favor of “Data in …
: I’m workshopping a new professional tagline because I want to emphasize that I’m a qualitative …
: Finished Strange New Worlds Season 1. A+. Somebody give Ethan Peck’s eyebrow an Emmy. 🖖🏻📺
: “There’s surviving, and then there’s living.” - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 🖖🏻📺💬
: Sometimes I’ll have a run of bad dreams such that I then fear sleep for a bit.
: On Kimbertide Day 4, I enjoyed an ice cream sandwich. For day 5, I’m playing Metroid: Zero Mission. …
: 👱♀️I had a dream last night that Giles a) was real b) was still in his 40s and most importantly, c) …
: Finished Stranger Things 4 and I love it so much and also will somebody just play D&D with Will …
: Editor Jordan Pavlin says historical fiction “has a unique ability to elicit deep compassion and …
: 🔖 Ben Werdmüller has a different but related, equally valuable, set of insights on what we should be …
: It’s a rough time for our democratic republic. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us what it’s supposed …
: Kimbertide Day 3: Played a little of the new Capcom Fighting Collection 🎮
: Today for Kimbertide, I made banana bread from a Simple Mills mix.
: Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold 📚 The beginnings of …
: For Day 1 of Kimbertide, I celebrated with a special lunch: hardboiled eggs & sweet baby gherkin …
: It’s the first day of my birthday month! I often extend the celebration beyond the day itself (July …
June 2022
: Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from …
: “…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in …
: Santigold’s Can’t Get Enough of Myself is mental health goals. 🎵
: 🔖 A solution to writer’s block: Transcribe yourself (Austin Kleon) This is a brilliant piece of …
: Today I swam one pool-length, then water-walked for about 30 minutes. I also packed up 3 boxes of …
: I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The Brilliant Abyss by …
: Anti-Racism Daily offers actions to take in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
: W is reading M a Pokemon manga where a professor invited Ash & Goh to be her research fellows, which …
: Currently reading: Borderland 1 by Terri Windling 📚 Continuing my deep dive into woodland goth.
: Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from …
: Thinking through disability on Star Trek 🖖🏻📺 I wrote this a week ago to sort through my thoughts on disability on Star Trek. It is essentially a …
: I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification …
: No YOU’RE looking up contact juggling tutorials on YouTube to send to your spouse.
: In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star …
: A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. …
: Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas …
: Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange 📚
: 🔖 Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I …
: This Is How I Do It (TL;DR: Piecemeal and Flexibly) Katy Peplin has a great Twitter thread on the difference between sharing your process with “This is …
: 🔖 The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, …
: 🔖 Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to read …
: Hello, Internet. Please recommend to me your favorite essay collections that combine TV or other pop …
: What’s that thing where your brain is like “Even leisure is too much right now”? Whatever it is, …
: The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. 🖖🏻📺💬 “It was the wish of our founders that no …
: Hi! Do you struggle with activities of daily living due to executive dysfunction, cognitive …
: Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan 📚
: Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by …
: 🔖 Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for anyone …
: Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics …
: Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment.. He quotes Rumi: “Sell your cleverness and buy …
: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too. “I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my …
: Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub 📚
: Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time …
: I am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.
: I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know that. It’s not …
: Currently reading: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter 📚
: Time for a Gothic Charm School re-read. 📚
: On sweetweird and hopepunk 🎙️ 📚📺🍿 Transcript: Hello friends. I wanted to write a blog post about sweetweird and its relationship to …
: How to Make a Star Wars Reference Hello, friends. I want to talk about something from Stranger Things 4 that is brilliantly done. And …
: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer reading: many stories in Angela Carter’s THE BLOODY CHAMBER. So good. …
: Google Keep is my notetaking app of choice, which makes me a bit of a rarity, but if you use it and …
: If you’re looking for a writing community, check out Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer. I’m …
: Finished reading: War for the Oaks: A Novel by Emma Bull 📚 Rock music + fey = delightful.
: Today’s outfit: LGBTQ Center of Durham Rainbow Bull Shirt, popsicle shorts from Torrid.
: If you enjoyed the Chapel/Ortegas dynamic in this week’s SNW, there are [21 works tagged with their …
: “It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, …
: It’s hot out. I’m tired. I had a call with my doctor this morning. She’s giving me gabapentin for …
: Current phone screen. (Yesterday, W to me: “Look at all these old pictures of Jennifer Connelly.” …
: Gonna start doing outfit of the day posts as often as I feel like it. The shirt says “What’s more …
: I am all in on Woodland Goth, y’all.
: I feel like the captioners for Stranger Things (who are doing an awesome job describing the music) …
May 2022
: “You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that …
: I made a book! The fic is Mischief Managed by touchedglitter (who is me). This is pamphlet bound. …
: Just followed some Trek fan Micro.bloggers from yesterday’s roll call. I’m current on new shows & …
: In Star Trek: TNG, S5E11, “Hero Worship,” a kid asks Data what he thinks of a model the kid built. …
: Your girl’s over here finding old Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction listed on Fanlore but …
: “…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind of political …
: Reply to Meg Pillow's This Is Not the Essay I Meant to Write I have a craft essay about writing into uncertainty, contradiction, and grief in the new issue of …
: How do none of the early results in a Google Images search for Star Trek Bingo have something like …
: Mood update: the leaden feeling in my heart has been joined by a similar feeling in my stomach.
: “As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” …
: The Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a really useful letter template for writing to …
: I don’t have the oomph to discuss this at length but my dad wrote a good journal entry for …
: I can’t neglect the world & focus on my child, because my child is in & of the world. I’m …
: Self-soothing by typesetting my 9 year old New Girl fanfic and it actually looks like a book.
: The world is very dismal and I am heartbroken, but my husband is on a meeting talking to people …
: Me “well actually"ing last week’s Fansplaining in the car on the way to pick my kid up: “But …
: I have extreme MCU fatigue so I’m only going to watch the stuff clearly and closely inspired by …
: Not me putting a Lizzie Bennet Diaries gif in a work presentation. Nope.
: I love a good slice-of-life story but the constant interruptions to Worf’s work once his son …
: Apparently crows can do metacognition.
: Symposium’s over, it’s 90F outside. Time for a wardrobe change! [Image description: A white woman …
: Want to read: The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom by Jessa Lingel …
: Responses to the chat during my #FanLIS2022 presentation The chat runs by much too quickly to scroll with it while presenting but I love the vibrance of …
: So far my favorite outcome of #FanLIS2022 is another attendee asking me if I’m sure I’m not Caitlin …
: Some of my tweets from #FanLIS2022 Day 1 I was able to recover my Noter Live log, yay! I’ll go back and collect the tweets from after my …
: 🔖 Read Durham GOP’s “Better Board, Better Schools” candidate slate is soundly defeated. What a …
: Week 3 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds and there are already 189 works on AO3. Looking forward to …
: There are a lot of great things about attending a conference from home. Still, it’s a bit sad not to …
: Definitely just brainstormed the paper title “Screw General Order One: Representing Positionality as …
: Missed a huge chunk of the current #FanLIS2022 paper due to Zoom crash & also lost my NoterLive log …
: A squirrel is trying to break into my house.
: Gonna be live-posting #FanLIS2022 today & tomorrow. Will transition to LiveNoter in an hour and a …
: 🔖🖖📺 In reply to Star Trek: Discovery Has Problems (& How They Can Be Fixed)(Trek News) by Bill Smith In reply to Star Trek: Discovery Has Problems (& How They Can Be Fixed) (Trek News) by Bill Smith: I …
: I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, …
: 🔖 Read How I Build My Common Place Book 🔖 Read How I Build My Common Place Book (Greg McVerry) McVerry generously summarizes his workflow: …
: 🔖 Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe …
: Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to …
: Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a hybrid of fey …
: 🔖 Read Why I Blog Part 1 and Part 2 (Kyle Mathews).
: 🔖💻 Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).
: 🔖💻 Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).
: 🔖💻 Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).
: 🔖💻 Read revisiting architectural blogging (Alan Jacobs).
: 🔖💻 Read Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick (Tom Critchlow). I like this homesteading …
: 🔖💻 Read Why blog? (Chuck Grimmett). Well said. These are my reasons, too.
: I love Discovery and I’ve enjoyed Picard and Prodigy, but Strange New Worlds feels like nostalgic …
: As always, The Trans Advice column is helpful. The latest: Should cis folks use gender neutral …
: 🔖Raising Us Wrecked Her Career But My Mom’s Thriving In Her Second Act romper.com Read: …
: 🔖📚 Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? | The New Yorker newyorker.com Read: www.newyorker.com …
: 🔖📚 “This is the Book I’m Meant to Write Right Now” sarafredman.substack.com Read: …
: 🔖📚 Angela Garbes Is Reclaiming Realistic Motherhood thecut.com Read: www.thecut.com thecut.com …
: How to remove timestamps and extra lines from a Zoom transcript using Notepad++ or BBEdit In case it would help other people, here’s how I did it. I would have something that looked like …
: It’s a rough time right now so I’m trying to notice small joys and one of today’s is that I learned …
: I just wrote the beginning of a fiction story after being inspired by Amanda Cook’s “Weaving …
: 📚 I joined Austin Kleon’s Read Like an Artist book club today and am also going to read his past …
: 🎙️ I listened to the first episode of A Beautiful Anarchy on my way to pick up the kid. It was about …
: 🔖 You should read Josh Radnor's Museletter. Josh Radnor writes a beautiful newsletter. It always feels like a gift. Here are some gems from the …
: 🔖📚 Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice applies to …
: “…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and marvel at …
: If I took a day off every day that I felt sick I would almost never work. Chronic illness is not my …
: It’s a work in progress, but I’m curating a woodland goth playlist. I recommend playing on shuffle. …
: Oh hey, I should probably share that my husband Will is a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar. Very proud of …
: “Other people are… challenging for me.” La’an is the new Data, pass it on. #StarTrek …
: Screw General Order 1? SCREW GENERAL ORDER 1?! 😍 #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW …
: I hope everyone who had to mother their own mother is doing something fun today. 9-year-old Kimberly …
: Today I wish you nurturing love and bodily self-determination, extra if you have a uterus.
: Finished reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques 📚 Cozy fantasy, just what I need …
: Now I’m only halfway through the Strange New Worlds pilot but the Kilean makeup looks to me nearly …
: I just took the IPIP Big Five Factor Marker test. According to the results, I’m …
: Anybody else assume based on TNG that Picard & Guinan had a friends with benefits situation? 🖖🏻
: I have a vague sense that I am Not Okay. I don’t know if it’s a medical thing, stress from my mom’s …
: Who has two thumbs and is doing Reader’s Advisory for fun? 👍🏻👍🏻 This Kimberly.
: Usually Spotify Autoplay makes me grouchy but it turns out when I listen to goth music it suggests …
: 🔖📚 Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian. Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.
: Traumatic previously aside, the Picard finale made me very happy. 🖖🏻📺
: Here is a Google Document with links to abortion funds. It was created by @helmsinki on Twitter. I …
: “Although I did extremely well scholastically, my lack of human understanding often created social …
: The theatre-major-to-youth-services-librarian pipeline.
: I’m supposed to be sleeping but I just learned about the Woodland goth aesthetic. Dark mori style + …
: Currently reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques 📚
: Currently reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper 📚
: Currently reading: How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural …
: Breaking out Crystal Bar Soap’s Moonlit Harbor to support this Cancer Sun woman through some intense …
: Dr. Crusher’s plans for a community theater production of Pirates of Penzance in TNG episode 5x05 …
April 2022
: I’m going full 90s with my personal style and nothing can stop me. And I mean what I, now …
: My spring/summer silhouette: oversized t-shirt + biker shorts. It gets hot in NC, y’all.
: I’m having the kind of day where you wish you could take your heart out of your chest and just set …
: I have no chance at Heardle but if someone made Broadweardle I might do well.
: Finished reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚 Recommended. Full review coming in June.
: I’m having a really hard time processing this week’s episode of Picard, for personal reasons. One …
: I’m correcting a Zoom Live Transcription transcript and while it’s a lot faster than transcribing it …
: Today I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black leggings with a run in the left knee. I …
: In case anyone was curious as to whether my personal style has changed in the last 25 years, I was …
: Now is as good a time as any to revisit Vicki Boykis’s essay, Fix the internet by writing good stuff …
: Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚
: Micro.blog is a free social network if you blog elsewhere and plug in a feed. It can also host your …
: 🔖 Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide to …
: Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out …
: Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare 📚 Review soon. On the All About Romance …
: Baby’s first fanfic. Image description: On the title page of a homemade book, “HAO TO TRAIN YOUR …
: W reading a scene to M about a girl doing the school play & it’s The Wizard of Oz: The teacher held …
: You can take the librarian out of the library, but I’m wearing a cardigan over another cardigan.
: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno 📚
: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno 📚
: 🔖 Read Review: A riveting biographer — and mother — works to solve ‘the mind-baby problem’.
: It’s out! The latest issue of Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative …
: 🔖 Read The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal …
: 🔖 Read Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the “Braided Essay” |. What’s Steven Hotdog to me, or I …
: Me, to myself: I can’t be everyone at once. Me: OR CAN I?
: On my first year as a doctor (of philosophy) As I mentioned earlier, I defended my dissertation a year and a week ago. It was a joyous defense, …
: Today I’m reviving my newsletter Genetrix, curating stories of creative mothers. The upcoming issue …
: I didn’t even notice the one year anniversary of my dissertation defense (4/14) but I realized today …
: Okay whose idea was it to only have turbolifts on starships because people would be less likely to …
: Why Is My Child Still Awake? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
: 🔖 Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible. I love pieces like this. Getting a …
: So I’m delighted by the premise of Is It Cake? but it really feels like a parody reality show from …
: 🔖 Read Should you ever NOT listen to user feedback?. I’m exploring the possibility of a career in UX …
: I know you’re not supposed to share your morning pages but in mine today I wrote “It’s time to …
: Want to read: Overdue by Amanda Oliver 📚
: 🔖Read Being a Public Librarian Can Be Dangerous Work, Why Don’t We Acknowledge That? - Electric …
: It’s really weird to have been the precocious teen on the Internet 25 years ago and be the old …
: In other news, Season 5 of TNG is stacked with memorable episodes. Darmok. Silicon Avatar. The Game. …
: Yesterday I helped my parents sort out the logistics of making the house more accessible for my mom …
: Anybody interested in becoming a Sesame Street librarian?
: Me, thinking about the logistics of attending my sister’s Master’s hooding: I mean, how many times …
: I would like to thank the fine people at Nintendo of America for making the Easter Bunny’s job much …
: My kid, raised in a mostly secular witchy agnostic home but with a vague understanding of holiday …
: My closest friends are now the crow who hangs out in my yard and the moon. Also, I received a …
: 🔖🎵🎭🍿 Read Judas Christ Superstar: Easter thoughts on being just (Reader) by Katie Prout. This piece …
: Spouse: So, how do I write up a plan for this research project? Me: Step 1. Get a PhD. Just kidding! …
: 🖖🏻📺 This /Film review of #StarTrekPicard 2x07 verbalizes something that’s bothered me all season: …
: 📺 Blippi is like if someone fed Mr. Rogers several thousand Pixy Stix.
: 🖖🏻📺 I’m not trying to spoil anybody for #StarTrekPicard but I would squee if we saw Mulder & Scully …
: Me: I don’t remember how to do a remote research interview! It’s been almost two years! Also me: I …
: 📚 Book Review: NOT YOUR AVERAGE HOT GUY and THE DATE FROM HELL by Gwenda Bond If you make a purchase through a link in this post, I may earn a commission. Do you wish Dan Brown …
: Finished reading: The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond 📚 Review coming soon!
: 🔖 Read Projects: The Alastair Method. Alastair Johnston has created a Kanban-like tracking system …
: Ethnographers, what are some of your favorite ways to ease a participant into an interview?
: First iced chai of the season.
: Brent Spiner is killing it on Picard. 🖖🏻📺
: My mom went to the hospital Saturday due to muscle weakness. (Previous surprise visits involved …
: 🔖 Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) by Katy …
: 🍿 Watched Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis. 🌊 This shows some awesome innovations …
: Want to read: The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time by Mark Nelson PhD …
: Want to read: Water 4.0 by David Sedlak 📚
: Another super informal poll! If you are a scholar, regardless of your relationship ship to academia …
: Hi there! This morning the outdoor temperature is 44F. When I pick my kid up at 3 pm it will be 80F. …
: I’m curious: if you are currently or have ever been in a graduate program, are you familiar with the …
: 🔖 Read Plan to rewrite NC teacher licensing could also raise pay, but it’s too early to say …
: According to this blog post, some of the core concepts of Learning Experience Design include: …
: Notes from the LX2017 magazine As you may have noticed, I’m reading up on Learning Experience Design. LXCON 2017 resulted in a …
: 🔖 Read Dirty hands do all the thinking in LXD (LXD.org) by Patrick van der Bogt.
: 🔖 Read The incredible power of paper prototyping (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
: 🔖 Read Learning Experience Design vs Instructional Design (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
: 🔖 Read Four Ingredients for a Memorable Learning Experience (LXD.org) by Rodrigo J. Gallego Studying …
: Eventually I will get so annoyed with websites that are not responsive that I’ll start cold-quoting …
: Took the Be Bright Studios Brand Quiz & it says mine is a “Generous Knowledge” brand which, yes.
: Super informal survey but hey library workers, what would a professional organization that worked …
: Chatting with Casey about D&D this morning and I’m thinking about constructivist pedagogy and how …
: I’ve been feeling a need for increased witch vibes, so I slipped this pink agate in my pocket and …
: Having big feelings because my favorite witch store’s owner moved away, even though the store has …
: Sat on my foot and now it’s numb, really missing AIMs circa 2002 from Kelly O’Shea reminding me not …
: Bless the people who create prefilled Easter baskets because this mom who usually loves filling her …
: Gonna write a romance where one love interest has Hashimoto’s and has to bail on a date due to low …
: If high-risk people have to be individually responsible for mitigating their risk, employers should …
: I really am amazed that as an autoimmune Kimberly I used to just let people breathe all over me.
: My Current Productivity Stack (including scholarly tools) I am a productivity hobbyist and have a bad habit of chucking my whole system every once in a while …
: I’m Kimberly and today I just don’t feel like doing it, where it = anything.
: One last merch design for today: I PhDID IT!
: I made a new t-shirt/merch design: Stick a Fork in Me - I’m PhDone.
: 7 Things to Do Before You Start Your PhD It’s the time of year when people are announcing their PhD acceptances. If you are psyched to be …
: Me, watching #StarTrek: Picard 🖖🏻: Whoa, do they think 3D printers will be that fast in 2024?
: Two true things about my brother @MicahHirsh: he’s an animator and he’s autistic. For Autism …
: Yesterday, I told Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal that she should take the good idea she couldn’t do now …
: Registration for #FanLIS2022 is open! If you’re interested in fan studies in library and information …
: Hello world. Please mark the wonderfulness of my spouse who, when my kid wanted to go find the …
: Today’s the day it’s best to ignore the internet, so byeeee.
March 2022
: I have brain fog today. I do not know why I have brain fog today. I’m going to blame hormones. 🧠🌫
: 🎭🎵 Spending my Tues night building an audition repertoire, as one does. The Party’s Over A Trip to …
: 🔖 Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow. A couple key quotes: Start acting like every …
: 🔖 Read The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps.
: 🔖 Read One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email.
: 🍿🎭🎵 Watched Anything Goes. Sutton Foster is my hero. Wish I could get to NYC to see her in The Music …
: I appreciate the implication from Star Trek: Picard that our timeline is the horrible timeline Q …
: Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?” by Susan Basalla 📚
: This pandemy has not lessened my misanthropy. Today I got very annoyed that another family was in …
: 🔖🎭 Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes. …
: 🔖🎵 Read “The Queerest of the Queer”: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko …
: 🔖 Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. …
: 🔖♿ Read Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith. Excellent column …
: 📝 The programme for #FanLIS 2022 is live! I’ll be sharing my dissertation research on Friday, May …
: 🔖📚 Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I …
: 🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel …
: 🔖 Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen CW: Racism, rape A …
: I have renewed and revitalized respect for sociologists after trying to quickly understand the …
: 🔖 Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) …
: 🔖 Read The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal …
: 🔖 Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman. A beautiful, heartbreaking short story …
: 🔖 Read The Coronavirus’s Next Move (The Atlantic) by Katherine J. Wu.
: 🔖 Read The Girlboss Has Left the Building.
: 🔖📺 Read The Comedies That Understand What Peak Scammer TV Does Not.
: Hi scholars. Can you point me to a scholarly definition of “space” that would encompass space …
: 🔖Read The Ukraine Crisis Briefly Put America’s Culture War in Perspective.
: Fostering Information Literacy Through Autonomy and Guidance in the Inquiry and Maker Learning Environments - Koh et al, 2020 Koh, K., Ge, X., Lee, L., Lewis, K. R., Simmons, S., & Nelson, L. (2020). Fostering Information …
: 🔖🎮 Read Inside the fight to save video game history. Great intro to the copyright issues at play in …
: Finished reading: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore 📚 Cashore’s GRACELING was the book that fixed me …
: 🔖 Read COVID Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.
: 🔖📚 Read “The Invisible Kingdom” Shines a Light on Women’s Chronic Pain. Another great interview with …
: 🔖 Read Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?. Another great piece with an argument centered on …
: 🔖 Read How Gullibility Became Our New Normal. I love when information literacy pops up in popular …
: 🔖📚 Read Back Draft: Meghan O’Rourke. O’Rourke’s making the rounds to promote her new book, The …
: It’s good to have a statement that sums up what you do, writ large, that isn’t just a job title. And …
: 🔖 Read How to Be A Successful Multipassionate Entrepreneur.
: 🔖 Read 5 Ways to Thrive as a Multipassionate Entrepreneur “Clarity comes from engagement, not …
: 🔖 I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and struggling to track …
: Reading the schedule for GIFCon and my breath caught and I teared up a little at Kat Humphries’s …
: Why I like St. Patrick's Day ☘️ I originally posted this on Facebook on March 17, 2016. I’m only 9% Irish, but I sure love Saint …
: I added a Shop page to my website! Right now all that’s there are my Notion templates (all pay what …
: I’m thinking about adding an Ask Me Anything’s page to my blog. But I also might just sometimes make …
: Colored a page from Dover Coloring Book Fairy Fashion by Scott Altmann. I’m using jumbo crayons so I …
: Shang-Chi is all “1996” and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing how those aren’t synonyms.
: Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang 📚
: I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 and nothing …
: 🍿 Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and …
: Added “A very enterprising, mildly annoying young lady” to my bio. Thanks, #TurningRed!
: Wordle Walkthrough - 03/14/2022 As promised, here’s a walkthrough of my thought process for playing Wordle. This is the game for …
: 🔖 Read Storytelling and the Craft of Quiltmaking. 🧵
: I like to ask from time to time and I haven’t in a while: what’s my brand?
: Whoever wrote that thing about how 13 yos don’t write fanfic has everybody on Twitter talking about …
: Want to read: Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss 📚
: The Klein Librarian for Science Fiction at UC Riverside sounds like a pretty cool job.
: 🍿 Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga because it was nominated for a Hugo. I had …
: Finished reading: How to Make a Living with Your Writing Third Edition by Joanna Penn 📚 Great advice …
: How I win at Wordle (when I win at Wordle) I don’t share my daily Wordle result, but I do play it most days. I get it in 5 or fewer tries 94% …
: We are at DEFCON Falling Asleep to Mr. Rogers.
: Will the giant invasive ballooning spiders eat the mosquitos in my yard? If so, I don’t welcome like …
: In case you’re wondering where my head is at, I spilled the PCR testing solution while trying to …
: I changed my goal for April’s Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal now is to publish 22,500 words on my blog over …
: Finished reading: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore 📚 So great. Cashore gets five genres in this …
: Pro-tip: brains work better when you feed them.
: Finished reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum 📚
: My kid’s school is going mask-optional indoors in April and now I don’t know if I’m going to sleep …
: Hello, world. Got any cool qualitative UX researcher friends you can connect me with? I’d love to …
: Me: Let’s see who among my LinkedIn connections has qualitative research in their profile. Maybe I …
: I ran the introductory adventure for Hero Kids for M & W. It was a lot of fun and now I’m very …
: I’m at that point in a documentation/literature review where you have to just let stuff roll around …
: I can’t tell if the locus of origin of my current inability to focus is in my body, in The World, or …
: What?! Kristin Cashore just had a character in Jane, Unlimited share my one strong Doctor Who …
: 💬📚 “A storm can be a cozy thing when one isn’t in it.” - Kristin Cashore in Jane, Unlimited
: 💬📺🖖🏻 “Exhilaration enhances the absorption of knowledge.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer” [Cool how …
: 💬📺🖖🏻 “The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.” Picard, 2x01, “The …
: I played a LOT of the Pokemon TCG in my freshman year of college, burned a lot of scholarship money …
: If you must get a flat tire, I recommend doing it on a beautiful day when you have snacks packed in …
: Me, reading Jane, Unlimited: Wait, wait, wait. Her aunt/guardian was an adjunct at this fancy …
: I let a tiny bit of crying come out at 3 am Monday morning and now all the crying I haven’t done in …
: Oof. Doing a second round of coding and I am R-U-S-T-Y rusty.
February 2022
: How do you handle a day when your brain isn’t doing a great job but you also don’t really want to …
: Hey, Kimberly. You actually are not in a good position right now to do an in-depth analysis of every …
: 🔖 Read It’s Called Acting: Learning to Fight for the Stage. 🎭
: 🔖 Read Network sitcoms are actually good again. 📺
: 🍿 Watched Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe and I definitely cried twice …
: 🔖 Read Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of ‘endemic delusion’ “I don’t …
: It can feel like Social Science Communication isn’t a thing, but here are some people doing it: Dr. …
: 🔖 Loved reading what Kathy Tabbutt had to say about Social Science Communication in the January 23 …
: 🔖 Read Curing Coronavirus Isn’t a Job for Social Scientists. (This article is from May 2020, which …
: 🔖 Read Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?.
: It IS great news that’s my mom’s leukemia is in remission. It’s important to me to remember that …
: My mom’s leukemia is in remission.
: Please listen to Gaslit Nation, where Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa “take a deep dive on the news, …
: I am scared and overwhelmed. Here’s what I’m doing about it: Making sure I take my meds and …
: Working through Project READY and I wrote an “I am” poem [PDF]. I don’t want to share the whole …
: That feeling when your new job pays you to work through the professional development curriculum you …
: Life stuff, health stuff, and the Wheel of Fortune (tarot card, not game show) My sense of routine and timing and goal-setting has been completely exploded over the past month or …
: Not sure what my dream casting for most of the roles in Ninth House would be, but @may_wise Mary …
: I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words & …
: 🔖 Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries. This. The lifting of …
: Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚 So good. It puts the academia …
: No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.
: I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I …
: Scene: Today’s Micro.blog Meetup Them: I have writer’s block and was hoping to get ideas for how to …
: 🔖 Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture This is so …
: Me: I was so psyched about the topic and methods of my dissertation when I defended my proposal in …
: I’m RSVPing to IndieWeb Create Day on March 5, 2022. This might show up as a yes but it’s actually a …
: Me to W: I need to go be in the dark and quiet for a little while now because I’m overstimulated. …
: I am thisclose to posting a vibe shift reading list.
: I have too many chronic conditions and I don’t like it.
: 🔖 Read The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo …people are still dying, and immunocompromised …
: The middle-school-Kimberly-to-grown-up-Kimberly pipeline I’ve been reading the Future Ready with the Library posts at the YALSA blog and it’s got me thinking …
: I just heard my neck crack. I am really over everything. Everything except crafting and my job. And …
: Today’s vibe: driving home from my fasting bloodwork appointment listening to “Surface Pressure” on …
: I get annoyed at the voice in my head that, when I’m stressed, offers an oh-so-helpful list of all …
: I will never not be a caregiver. I realized as I was helping my family in the face of my mom’s return to the hospital that there will …
: 💻 Watching We Are NOT Okay: Library Worker Trauma Before and During COVID-19 and What Happens After …
: I’m intrigued by the pedagogy of uncertainty concept that Ronnie Videla-Reyes and Claudio Aguayo …
: As we approach the spring of deception, it feels rude to me that the earth is moving forward with …
: Changing my profile pic to Luisa Madrigal for a while.
: I was feeling sad about my mom being readmitted to the hospital so I took a break from work and made …
: I’m a great lover of Valentine’s Day as a time to express special affection for friends & family as …
: My mom was discharged from the hospital tonight and will be doing the rest of her induction therapy …
: Started Octopath Traveler again tonight and it made me very happy. Last time I played was almost 2 …
: I think the union rep at this postdoc orientation is doing this presentation outside during the …
: I am having a grumping it out day.
: #StarTrek:The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 20 “Qpid” aired 04/22/91. 🖖🏻 Q: You would have me …
: 🔖 Read How to Reclaim Normal Life Without Being ‘Done’. I appreciate the acknowledgement here that …
: Got an email about my kid’s school moving to endemic risk management instead of pandemic and I get …
: Write Source 2000: The book that started my obsession with writing craft books 📚📝 I own a lot of writing craft books. There’s the obvious, like Stephen King’s On Writing and Anne …
: The Teens Leading Change initiative at the LA Public Library is awesome. A great reminder that there …
: Theory to practice: Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good As we work on the Transforming Teen Services for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion project, one thing …
: Words cannot convey how psyched I am for Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers Edition. I’ve wanted a Chrono …
: Realized today as I was listening to the John de Lancie episode of Gates McFadden Investigates that …
: Today’s 28 Days of Black History post about Jerry Lawson, who led the division that made the first …
: I just did a search on Google Scholar for the exact phrases “serious leisure” and “pedagogy of play” …
: Finished reading: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin …
: Essays on essays on essays I’m still thinking about essays after reading Jackson Arn’s “Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot | Against the …
: 🔖 Read My Platonic Life Partnership Went Viral On TikTok, & People Have A Lot Of Questions I’m a …
: Peak on-brand middle aged Kimberly: Cutting out doll clothes sewing patterns while watching the Ask …
: That feeling when you step away from your desk and the good ideas rush in.
: What even is my writing voice, anyway? That critique of the essay piece I read and linked yesterday has sent me down a rabbit hole of other …
: 🔖 Read Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot | Against the Contemporary American Essay by Jackson Arn. Timely, …
: How to write an essay (buyer beware, I don’t have the answer) How does a person write an essay? I’ve been trying to figure out. The thing is, it’s a versatile …
: I haven’t felt like writing a long blog post for the post couple of weeks. Maybe tomorrow. I’m …
: Currently reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚
: Currently reading: Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 …
: Finished reading: King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I love it so much. Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina have …
: Finished reading: Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia by Kelly J. Baker 📚 Highly …
: 🔖 Read The Holes We Live With by Katie Rose Guest Pryal. I think my hole is named in the Encanto …
: Dana has a lightsaber now. [Image description: An 18 inch doll holds an appropriately scaled …
: Want to read: The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University (Reforming Higher …
: 💬📚 The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - Kelly …
: 💬📚 Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of …
: I thought the Internet should know: Nikolai Lantsov is now my book boyfriend. Sorry, Kvothe. (Links …
: 💬📚 One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to …
: Finished reading: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 📚
: Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you …
: The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin …
: The doll is named Dana. She is here now and I think she’s actually 200% haunted. The mid-life crisis …
: I’m psyched to present my dissertation research at FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures Beyond the Archive. I’ll …
: I Kimberly Hirsh am RSVPing yes to Micro Camp 2022 .
: 🔖 Read Women of a Certain Age. Great piece about how the Golden Age of TV creates space for roles …
: The Kimberly urge to write Picard/Gomez fic. 🖖🏻
: My kid definitely just said “Thwip” in his sleep. 🕸️
: “People as everyday theorists of their experiences” - great insight from Bill Penuel at the Crown …
: Welcome to my mid-life crisis. [Image description: An eBay item page for an 18 inch fashion doll. …
: It’s February. Black history is important all year long but February is extra awesome because Black …
: Me, thinking about my mom’s experience with leukemia: The medicine will be what it will be, but what …
January 2022
: Me, gathering up all my old dolls that I gave my kid so I can brush their hair: “I know - dolls.” …
: Hello, I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just bought and set up creativityforscholars.com. If the domain name …
: We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and …
: Feeling cute today. [A pale white woman with dark hair & blue eyes wears black cat eye glasses, a …
: 🔖 Read A Counterintuitive Nighttime Routine For The Type A Insomniac. I love this. I’m constantly …
: The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, …
: We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from …
: Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable …
: I just bought the Kindle edition of both volumes of Briana Lawrence’s mixed media magical girl …
: Burnham’s “Let’s fly” is probably the best captain catchphrase but Dal’s “Go fast” might be a close …
: I have a vague feeling I’m at risk of becoming the first victim in the X-Files episode “Clyde …
: Reading misuthewitch’s thesis for my Artist Date today. [Image Description: A tablet in a purple …
: I’m RSVPing yes to IndieWebCamp Personal Libraries Pop Up Session. Excited to chat about how we …
: Six month check-in: Who am I at 40? It was my half birthday almost 2 weeks ago, so it seems like a good time to check in on whether I’m …
: When is a gap not a gap? Doing research that hasn't already been done An undergrad sent me a message thanking me for my post A Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow …
: 🔖 Read The Only Work Ethic I Care About is the One on Star Trek Yes! When a 20th c guy ends up on …
: More than a little psyched about Emily Vardell & Sarah Beth Nelson’s paper Teaching Reference …
: Okay, world. I’m going to try turning it off and then turning it on again, “it” being this day.
: In the spirit of cosmic effery that embracing radical uncertainty requires, I turned my ankle this …
: Sent my mom the Six of Crows duology for her Kindle. Pretty pleased with myself. 📚
: Tag yourself. I’m Arcade Fire Dad (sub in improv troupe for band). …
: I love my job and some yammering about writing How are you doing, Internet? I’m obviously Not Okay, with my mom having leukemia and all, but I’m …
: I’m back to cross-posting from my site automatically to Twitter. Everywhere else I’m going to stick …
: The Empath’s Dilemma: You won’t cry for yourself, but you cry really hard when you start to think …
: 🔖Read What is “Dark Academia,” and why is it trending on social media in 2022?
: My bedhead is feeling extra goth and channeling Tim Burton a little bit this morning.
: 🔖 Read Julia Cameron Says You Can Get Creative Indoors.
: My mom was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia this week and started chemo yesterday. If you …
: 🔖 Read The Homebound Symphony by @ayjay I’m trying to be the Homebound Symphony. Just one person …
: Key lines from “Surface Pressure”: Give it to your sister, your sister’s older Give her all the …
: I haven’t seen ENCANTO but I gather Luisa is the middle sister and yet her song is the anthem of …
: Peak IndieWeb Eldest Daughter Kimberly: considering for a few minutes trying to do a self-hosted …
: W’s aunt gave M an amaryllis and it’s blooming. Big Alice in Wonderland vibes. [Image description: a …
: 🔖 I highly recommend Everything Is Awful and I’m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up as a …
: I am immensely pleased to be getting so much new Star Trek in the next few months. 🖖🏻
: 🔖 Read Tamsyn Muir Understood the Assignment: The Locked Tomb Series’ Expansive Exploration of Death …
: 🔖 Read As We May Think by Vannevar Bush This 1945 essay by Vannebar Bush is one of the first texts …
: 🔖 Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing. Awesome piece with an excellent argument. I’ve been …
: 🔖 Read We Are All Hostages to Anti-Semitism by Yair Rosenberg Excellent piece about how …
: 🔖 Read Hypertext Gardens. Efficient traversal provides the information readers think they want, but …
: I’m experimenting with building a digital garden via a personal wiki so of course my first page is …
: Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way. Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS 💬📚
: On indefinite hiatus from most social media I’m taking an indefinite hiatus from checking or cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and …
: Just a little pro tip, muting words on Twitter will not prevent them from appearing in the “What’s …
: New bio/tagline: “mothering, researching, reading, writing, playing, making, always learning”
: Testing my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty This week is really asking me to live my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty. I’ve had a …
: Finished reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I …
: What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone …
: Okay, I’ll do the 10 year challenge.
: Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, …
: Yesterday I interrupted my kid’s marathon viewing of BLIPPI and transformed it into a marathon …
: My reading life 📚 Since the Micro.blog community is starting a reading group in the near future, I thought it would be …
: Currently reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I …
: My workplace harassment training is promoting person-first language, but ends with “Ultimately, it …
: Wisdom from my blog archives: What if everything I am - everything I’ve tried to improve in this …
: No YOU’RE thinking about writing a fanfic that’s just an IRB application for a xenoanthropology …
: Now that I’m gainfully employed, mosts of my discretionary spending is going to creators in little …
: How I’m Getting Through a Brain Fog Day In October, I learned that for the first time since my diagnosis in 2011, I had actually gotten my …
: Future Directions for Connected Learning in Libraries This is the fourth post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected …
: Me: If I were going to write fiction, what genre should I write? Brain: YA high fantasy. Me: does …
: W: Do you know the first documented time “Google” was used as a verb? Me: Yes, it was on Buffy the …
: I started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses because it’s, um, overdue & 9 people have it on hold …
: 🔖Read What happens when we die. Beautiful notes from Maria Popova on the novel Mr g.
: Putting together references and resources for making myself a Tidemaker kefta, no big deal.
: Connected Learning in Libraries: Changes and Challenges This is the third post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected …
: Want to read: The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic by Joseph W. Meeker 📚
: 🔖 Read The comedy of survival.
: 🔖 Read “I Feel Very Uncomfortable When People Call Me A Writer”. Great conversation between Sara …
: This is a note to myself to write about how connected learning has existential value, not just …
: Want to read: Dead Collections: A Novel by Isaac Fellman 📚
: 🎵 Had to skip “Moonlight Sonata” on the Spotify Dark Academia Classical playlist because belting …
: 🔖 Read Lost Time in COVID. Overall, we have, of necessity, learned to value the quality of our time …
: I just got finished with my onboarding meeting for the Connected Learning Lab and I can’t adequately …
: Google Scholar: Hi Dr. Kimberly, would you like some journal articles about families playing Pokemon …
: How Connected Learning Happens in Libraries This is the second post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected …
: Pretty psyched that this is my new institution.
: My time is vampire time: The critical disability studies concept of "crip time" 📚♿ I’ve seen and heard a lot of people in the Micro.blog community discuss the book Four Thousand …
: 🔖 Read Everyone should blog.
: 🔖 Read Celebrate by Writing.
: Somebody wrote a post on Micro.blog with the title “Everybody should blog” in the past couple days …
: What is Connected Learning? I start working remotely for the Connected Learning Lab tomorrow and while a lot of people are …
: Fighting with the VPN so I can have off-campus library access. Academia, how I’ve missed you. :) …
: 🎵 I’m listening to the full album of Lady Gaga’s BORN THIS WAY for the first time, and I’m a little …
: 1/3/22 plan: Wake up at normal time, hang out with kid, eat wholesome food, clean bedroom, prep for …
: New bio! “Big sister, little mother, perpetual learner. I love books AND computers.”
: New rule: Especially on days when my kid is home from school, it’s okay if my routines don’t go as …
: 10 Video Games to Know Me 🎮 Final Fantasy Final Fantasy VII Street Fighter Alpha 3 Rhapsody: A …
: 10 TV Shows to Know Me 📺 The Muppet Show Punky Brewster Star Trek: The Next Generation The Kids In …
: 🔖 Read True gender-neutral clothing must go beyond fancy sweatpants. I love the idea of a shop where …
: Welp, my corkboard is now mostly a collage of tarot and oracle cards. The mermaids are very …
: Quick Thoughts on TRULY DEVIOUS 📚 I don’t want to write a full review of Truly Devious but I want to share a couple things. First: it …
: Finished reading: Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson 📚
: New (Year) hair before and after brushing. (Better-lit photos coming soon.)
: 💬 “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts of …
: Happy New Year from the hair I just cut off in a literal and symbolic act of lightening my load. …
: 🔖 Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter. One way to embrace radical …
: Closing out the year with a couple of runs in Hades 🎮 followed by some Star Trek: The Next …
December 2021
: 🔖 Read What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life. This is an excellent way to …
: My only resolution for 2022: Embrace [radical uncertainty] …
: The Extreme Unknown: 2021 Year-in-Review & Thoughts for 2022 Here are a couple of earlier year-in-review posts: 2020 2019 2018 This one’s going to be a little …
: 🔖 Read There Is No “Best of” List From Me This Year. 📚 Beautiful writing from Kelly Jensen: how …
: I just finished the midseason finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and I thought it was beautifully done. …
: Me, watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and seeing a newborn in a glass bassinet in sickbay with …
: I just watched the SHORT TREKS episode “Q & A” and it has me really excited for STRANGE NEW WORLDS. …
: 🔖📚 Read All Your Followers Will Not Buy Your Book - by Kate McKean …
: 🔖📚 Read Yes, Social Media Can Sell Books. But Not If Publishers Sit on Their Hands | Jane Friedman …
: 🔖📚 Read Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’ - The New York Times …
: 🔖 Read How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal. This time last year, my …
: 🔖 Read if we’re all about to get Omicron, here are 5 tips from a long-hauler (via @agilelisa on …
: I don’t know how your December 25 is going, but my spouse gave me a Roy Kent Christmas card so mine …
: I’m that annoying friend who loves Christmas way too much but, like, the exhausted goth version of …
: It’s unseasonably warm here in central NC and will be even warmer tomorrow. Many people have …
: 💬 “North Americans practice embalming, but we do not believe in embalming.” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: …
: Bodies donated to Western Carolina University’s forensic anthropology program end up in the John A. …
: Until now, you’ve had to have a Micro.blog account to reply to my blog posts or sometimes, when I’ve …
: My Reading Year 2021 📚 I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. This was a slow reading …
: I had assumed that since I, a 40-year-old mother of a young child, have been very into Dark Academia …
: 🔖 Read The Scholarship of Sexy Privilege: Why Do I Love Dark Academia Books? …there will always be …
: Listen Vanessa Hudgens is winning regardless of the quality of the script or her accent.
: Watched A California Christmas & A California Christmas: City Lights. They’re… Fine. There’s the use …
: I had a dream where there was a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer motion comic where the writers had made …
: A core question that must eventually be answered about every space, physical or digital, is “Who is …
: Excuse me, there is a Netflix Rom-Com starring Damon Wayans Jr and Rachel Leigh Cook? Be still my …
: I have something else to say about Single All the Way. Not only is it lovely to see Michael Urie be …
: As a person who made some of my dearest friends online before video chat was a thing, I’m strugglign …
: It dinnae matter to this wee American lassie that Cary Elwes has a naff Scottish accent.
: Some how I did not realize Cary Elwes would have a Scottish accent in A Castle for Christmas and I. …
: I just watched Single All the Way while making part of W’s Christmas present. It is the …
: Today, I completed my hiring paperwork for UC Irvine & tried to figure out public service loan …
: Book Riot published a reading pathway for the work of bell hooks a while back, if you are …
: Upon the death of bell hooks 🎙️ Transcript: Hello internet friends. I’m experimenting today with doing a micro cast. I have this …
: “I am Google make testing Lens g fusing to blog post. a” That’s regular print. It looks like for …
: Cursive paper blog post Google Lens attempt: “I am using. a blog mas Leng post.” Less successful, …
: I AM TESTING USING GOOGLE LENS TO MAKE A BLOG POST. It works with my block print. I’m going to try …
: O no I am up too late pondering cool possibilities for the web.
: Peak Kimberly struggle: There’s 54 minutes of childcare left. Do I spend it tweaking my website or …
: In case you’re on micro.blog and missed it, @JohnPhilpin is asking people interested in joining a …
: Target app: Okay so listen we know you’ve bought your kid like 5 sets of pajamas this quarter but …
: Want to read: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky 📚
: 🎨 M & I are doing Craftsy’s Jump Into Drawing class together. The first activity was shading a …
: 🔖 Read and highly recommend Neurodiversity in Academia: The Autistic advantage in qualitative …
: Hoping to make it to this week’s Homebrew Website Club if I can do it without waking my kid.
: 🔖 Read The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre.
: 🔖 Read Queer and Jewish Identity Are the Heart of “Where the Wild Things Are”. 📚 I love this. I want …
: 🔖 Read On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood .
: 🔖 Read Will Self: How Should We Read? In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age.
: 🔖 Read Two Musicals on the Perils of Aging. 🎵🎭
: The one finished task to two new tasks pipeline.
: I’m taking a break from most feeds and timelines, disconnecting auto-posting from my blog to curb …
: I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today. …
: I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for …
: What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?
: How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? 🖖🏻📺
: I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) Postdoctoral …
: I spent about an hour tonight playing the 1980 Commodore 64 port of Super Star Trek and I have no …
: Want to read: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling 📚
: Me: *finds one footnote in article I’m revising, figures out what needs to change about the part …
: Want to read: The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Miller 📚
: All. In. On. Trek. [Image Description: A white woman with dark hair and blue eyes wears a black …
: 🔖 Read So You’ve Just Found Out You’re Jewish. What’s Next? By DNA, I’m almost half Jewish. I’ve …
: These are the sufganiyot I didn’t char. (The ones I did char are still pretty delicious.) …
: 🔖 Read The 100 Most Jewish Foods.
: Made latkes from a mix this year.
: My first Artist Date! I don’t think I’m going to write up my annotations for the first chapter/week of The Artist’s Way, …
: 🔖 Read A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Really Ugly.
: The luxury of time and space to grieve (CW: Suicide) CW: Suicide Sherrie was my friend. Sherrie and I never met in person. We talked on the phone once …
: About to metaphorically bleed my heart onto my keyboard, nbd, I’ll see you soon.
: I keep messing around on my phone instead of actually doing anything bc on top of the world being …
: 🔖🎮 Read How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures | Ars …
: This week’s issue of 50 Years of Text Games is about the game The Freshman and its parent app, …
: Grieving something weird and frivolous today. Last night UNC deactivated my user id, because it’s …
: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Safety 📚
: Moleskine’s green velvet notebook makes my little 90s heart sing. $70 is way too much since I go …
: As has happened for the past 5 years, my kid’s taste and needs have heavily influenced my Spotify …
: Starting December right with eggnog flavored coffee in a seasonal mug and yogurt seasoned with …
: Today I send solidarity and support to my colleagues in the UK participating in the UCU strike.
November 2021
: I’m back on Pokemon Go and looking for friends, so here’s my friend code: 7480 5774 3887
: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron. 📚 In this chapter, Cameron …
: Want to read: The Tarot of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 📚
: Also in his first appearance, Tommy the Green Ranger wears this amazing green & white plaid with …
: Every time we’re watching Power Rangers and Kimberly says “I’m Kimberly” I say “I’M Kimberly!” and I …
: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron 📚
: 🔖 Read Marked In Remembrance: How Tattoos Help Us Grieve.
: 🔖 Read The Death Positive Movement.
: ▶️💻 Watched What is the Death Positive movement?
: 🔖Read Death Is Having a Moment.
: 🔖 Read The Death Positive Movement Encourages Us to Face Death Directly.
: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - Spirtual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron. 📚 …
: ▶️💻 Watched A burial practice that nourishes the planet.
: 🔖 Read Feminist Death Work: A History.
: 🔖 Read Funerals are expensive, broken and exploitative. They have to change I love what Sarah Chavez …
: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron 📚
: Big Kimberly Energy, according to W., is writing a full parody libretto for a musical.
: Anybody else get a little Billy-Crystal-as-Miracle-Max vibe from Brent Spiner’s performance as …
: 🖖🏻📺 Depression doesn't need a reason. (Star Trek Discovery 4x02 spoilers) This post contains minor spoilers for Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Episode 2, “Anomaly.” Near the …
: Information is my love language.
: I want to mark Stephen Sondheim’s passing with a story about his influence in my life but there are …
: Bless Linda Holmes and her holiday movie guides.
: Some international fans will be getting new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery starting Friday, Yay!
: Hello world. Imagine I’m interested in fountain pens but am a complete beginner. Where would you …
: Reading STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST again and when Austin Kleon described Patti Smith pretending to be an …
: Finished: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron. 📚 Cameron’s introduction is very …
: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron 📚
: 🔖 Read Catapult | Minor Arcana | Marissa Levien catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co …
: 🔖Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com …
: 🔖Every King Arthur Retelling Is Fanfic About Who Gets to Be Legendary tor.comRead: www.tor.com …
: 📚💬 “Never send a scholar who studies dystopias to a conference with futuristic themes.” Kelly J. …
: Join me for a super low-key Artist’s Way Creative Cluster. I mentioned in September that I was going through the Artist’s Way. I got about three weeks in when …
: 🔖Read “How the Real Estate Boom Left Black Neighborhoods Behind”. This is a long & valuable read. …
: 📚 Started reading OUTLANDER and if my spouse finds my interest in my scholarship as tiresome as …
: Beautiful Eclipse medicine spread from Lindsay Mack with The Moonchild Tarot. Time to trust my mind, …
: I watched Star Trek Discovery 4x01 “Kobayashi Maru” last night and I have a lot of feelings. I’m …
: Okay I watched the Season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Discovery and now I need ALL the Detmer & Owo …
: How to Transform from Mom Kimberly to Professional Kimberly: Replace t-shirt with dress. Add …
: From now on whenever you meet a couple, you are required to ask: Which of you is the Stamets & which …
: 🔖 Read Who Writes the Books in Video Games? . This is relevant to my interests. 📚🎮
: I just finished the Season 3 finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and wow. What a beautiful close to a …
: “Peak Performance,” Impostor Syndrome, and PhD Life, brought to you by Star Trek: The Next Generation 📺🖖🏻 I’ve been in the middle of a Star Trek: The Next Generation rewatch for months, maybe even more than …
: I just learned about this Disney-approved line of romance novel reimaginings of the princess stories …
: Welcome to my workspace! These are pictures of my desk, corkboard, and shelves. Mermaid painting by …
: Hi there. I’m drafting a Star Trek/Ted Lasso crossover in my head. It’s called “Starfleet Til We …
: Y’all, I love my kid and helping him manage his emotions is hard work.
: Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that make me cry: “Some Things Are Meant to Be,” Little …
: I Don’t Have Time to Watch the Next Whole Episode of Star Trek Before Resuming My Caregiving Duties: …
: It took ibuprofen, me singing a lot of songs, and Rock-A-Bye Baby’s Lullaby Renditions of Queen, but …
: The song “Forever and Ever” from POOH’S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN has been …
: My kid is getting his first COVID shot tomorrow and I definitely used that as an excuse to buy him a …
: I have been boosted and will now avoid productivity until Monday. Byeeee.
: Finished reading: Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond 📚
: Darren Rowse in his Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog Course: Are you a high energy person or a low …
: Great news, bad attitude Hi web friends. I’m having a weird day, with some great news but also me not feeling like doing …
: It feels really good to talk about my work and be able to remind myself that I’ve done a lot of …
: I’m more than 16 minutes into S3E1 of Star Trek Discovery and I haven’t seen Saru, Tilly, Stamets, …
: My kid has discovered Power Rangers and I have a feeling there’s a lot of deja vu in my future …
: Good morning. I had fasting bloodwork at 9:30am today, so I’m just eating for the first time today …
: 🔖Quotes from Lorraine Boissoneault's "Drafting a Personal Essay Is Like Stumbling Through a Dance" I really needed to read “Drafting a Personal Essay Is Like Stumbling Through a Dance” today. Here …
: 🔖"Nobody cares if you're a writer except you." Kate Baer on being a writer who mothers. 📝 I highly recommend Sara Fredman’s Write Like A Mother newsletter, in which Sara interviews writers …
: Want to read: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder 📚
: Like the Bloggess, I too look like I have it together when I’m depressed but really think I’m …
: 📚 I’m on page 78 of Gwenda Bond’s NOT YOUR AVERAGE HOT GUY and y’all, I’m so glad she’s expanded her …
: M, as we sort Magnatiles: Wow, you’re really good at sorting! Me: Yeah, thanks, I have two graduate …
: I can’t move to California but being a science fiction librarian sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
: It’s the month with all the writing events! Hi! I’ll probably be focused on #AcWriMo - I’ve got a …
October 2021
: Finished reading: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston 📚
: 🎯: Hey don’t you want to buy your kid some cute PJs? They’re on saaaaale… Me: Bro I just bought him …
: 🔖 Read ‘They start calling you Hitler’: Why Disneyland has some of the most toxic fans on the …
: 🔖 Read From Princes to Pigeons: A Beginner’s Guide to Otome Games 🎮
: I’m starting to actually enjoy revising my own writing. This is a huge development and it’s going to …
: 🔖 Read “The Girl With The Green Ribbon”: A Tale of Many Lives. 📚
: 🔖 Read Dear Congress: Paid leave is not a perk. It’s a requirement..
: It seems to me that institutions don’t/can’t care. People do & can. Am I missing out on knowing …
: Current priorities: Take care of my health. Take care of my kid. Take care of my home. Figure out …
: In past crises, our leaders have been quick to bail out the banks. They made sure the airlines got …
: I’m about to log off for the night but I want to talk about #StarTrekProdigy so tell me about your …
: Want to read: They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe 📚
: I have a cool idea. What if, in addition to having a mental health summit, the university committed …
: M and I decorated some sugar cookies this evening.
: If you’re a person who would be interested in a virtual co-working space for parents, could you …
: Thanks to Jennifer Polk’s co-working session, I made big progress on a paper revision today. 📝
: 🔖 Lee Skallerup Bessette’s You Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any? is crucial …
: M: Can we keep playing Breath of the Wild [pretend, not the video game]? Me: Wait, we’re playing …
: Hello I am 40 will a local community theater please cast me as Mama Rose now kthx
: This is a reminder that Brent Spiner’s book Fan Fiction, which I reviewed back in September, came …
: I’ve got to remember to search parenting groups, not scroll. I just about had an anxiety attack …
: Also making a note to myself to write a full blog post about going to see my first community theater …
: Making a note to myself here to write a full blog post about Star Trek: The Next Generation 3x21, …
: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Dr. Lesley Willard: Introducing topic. How do scholars in fan & media studies articulate their …
: Next #FSNNA21 live-tweet: “Fans, Players and/or Users? Bridging Fan and Media Studies” Will post log …
: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Adriana Amaral: First, the state of fan studies in Brazil: research focused on digital settings but …
: I’ll be live-tweeting the #FSNNA21 panel “Digital Methods and Digital Fan Practices” in a few …
: I set foot in a bookstore for the first time since the start of the pandemic today. I stood there, …
: Introducing my five-year-old to Sweeney Todd (original cast), as you do. 🎭🎵
: I’m watching the season 1 finale of Star Trek Discovery and having L’Rell do the previously in …
: Extemely chuffed to announce that my first blog post written for @QuirkosSoftware, “A priori coding …
: I don’t like how clear it is that we are living in the mirror universe and the primary Star Trek …
: I may have been excessively affectively engaged in the conversation about Buffy fic writers’ …
: Help I Read a Lower Decks Fanfic and Now I Resent All Other Activities: The Kimberly Hirsh Story 🖖🏻
: Taking a break from livetweeting to just listen to the Participatory Culture Wars session at …
: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: This doesn’t include the discussion/Q&A because things started to go so fast I couldn’t keep up. …
: Planning to use Noter Live to livetweet “The Money Question” at #FSNNA21. Will post all tweets to …
: Well mirror universe stuff is very upsetting. 🖖🏻
: I myself am strange and unusual. (Earrings by Witching Hour Baby.)
: I built a Book Event Calendar! It’s only got one event in it right now, as proof of concept, but I …
: Today I: found contact info for new handyman filled meds cases made cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds put …
: Hey book friends. Is there any sort of centralized calendar for virtual author events? My searches …
: Part of me wants to swim in a vault filled with books like some sort of literary Scrooge McDuck, but …
: This thing where I need to sleep instead of staying up all night watching Star Trek: Discovery is …
: On my Starfleet ship, we would have Sirenian ops.
: 💻▶️ Watched The Doctor, The Mortician, and the Murder.
: Don’t want to spoil the Lower Decks finale much but I was so distracted by my delight at …
: The other day while doing some Artist’s Way exercises my subconscious bubbled up and told me I …
: 🔖📚📝 Read Catapult | I Found My Literary Community by Writing Book Reviews | catapult.coRead: …
: 💬 “… fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.” Maria Bamford, THE …
: Finished reading: Writing the New Ethnography by H. L. Goodall, Jr. 📚
: Academia sure loves bricolage.
: 🔖 Read Catapult | Why Full-Time Freelancing Isn’t For Me | Gabrielle Drolet catapult.coRead: …
: 🔖 Read The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track.
: 💬📚 “Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
: 💬📚🎭 “Ideas don’t get opening nights. Finished plays do.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
: 💬📚 “…anger is a map… Anger points the way, not just the finger.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
: 🔖 Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes – The …
: Want to read: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling 📚
: The #FanLIS panel I’m co-moderating with Ludi Price is the first session of Fan Studies Network …
: Want to read: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster 📚
: As in the actual Haunted Mansion ride, the best part of Muppets Haunted Mansion is the …
: M (who turned 5 yesterday!) & I are watching Muppets Haunted Mansion and I’m very happy.
: Hey LIS scholars. What is the most elegant, arresting, or fascinating writing you’ve seen in our …
: Did I just send an email to all the parents at my kid’s school in which I used the phrase “totally …
: 💬 “we are conditioned as academics (and also just people in 2021!) to sacrifice long term stability …
: I’ve been without wifi for over 18 hours & while I’m old enough to remember a time before home …
: My brand is: person who spends far too much time thinking about the absence of social science …
: 💻📺🖖 Watched Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Episode 1 & oh my goodness how fun is this show? So fun! …
: 📚 Me continuing to read Black Sun: Uhhuh uhhuh Sun Priestess is cool, nice chill use of non-binary …
: 📚 Me, reading Black Sun: Ch. 1 - This parent-child dynamic is upsetting, i don’t know if I can keep …
: 🔖 Read The Invisible Burden That Leaves Moms Drained. Especially timely since I just hosted my kid’s …
: 🔖 Read On Pandering. This piece made me think about how lucky I’ve been to always be writing for my …
: The extent to which my handwriting is a perfect mix of my parents’ handwriting is remarkable.
: 📚 This week’s takeaway from The Artist’s Way is that I’m already really good at making time for the …
: 💬📚 “If I’m expected to be a kin keeper, no one can judge my coffee consumption.” Kelly J. Baker, …
: Added “Memento mori girl” to my bio and I am far too pleased with myself. 💀
: I have one weird set of emotions when I begin writing in a new notebook and another when I get close …
: 🎮 Played Dragon Quest III. Each game in the series gets more expansive. I love that.
: 💻📺 Watched Salt Fat Acid Heat episode 1, “Fat.”
: I had a dream that Gates McFadden became a real doctor. My kid was having breathing trouble & she …
: 🔖 Read Why Everyone Is Always Giving Unsolicited Advice (Tressie McMillan Cottom for the New York …
: Excuse me I will be over here flailing because I just learned there is a licensed Star Trek …
: Finished reading: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinka 📚
: Why are my neighbors so loud don’t they know it’s after 10 pm and their neighbors have children: the …
: My son found this toad at school a week ago. He said his friend touched it and it jumped.
: Now that I have Paramount+, my current viewing strategy is: Want something familiar? TNG/DS9/VOY …
: It’s been a busy day of prepping for my kid’s birthday party (outdoor masked at a park we’re …
: My kid’s school is having fall break today so um we have Paramount Plus now. Because it has All the …
: 🔖Read “So Coke-y…So Entitled!”: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret …
September 2021
: Response to "Where’s the ‘Video Off’ Button in Face-to-Face Instruction?" Dr. Maggie Melo writes for Inside Higher Ed today about the value of video-off time in a virtual …
: I did a thing! I wrote a blog post for a client! Yay me! Time for a dance party! via GIPHY
: Here’s the deal with being employed by someone besides myself right now: they have to pay me enough …
: One of the frustrating things about chronic illness is that sometimes you have a good brain day but …
: Weather report from my kid: the air temperature is warm Luke.
: 🔖📺 Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Building’s Big Twist.
: 🔖📺 Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.
: I’m planning a historical witchy YA fantasy, it’s historical because it’s set in the 90s, the …
: 🔖 Read Star Trek’s food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. 🖖
: Want to read: Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg 📚
: Want to read: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan 📚
: 🔖 Read Amia Srinivasan: “Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas”.
: Witch influencer or Indiana Jones villain? You decide. (Image: A white woman with dark hair wears a …
: Attempted a Hashimoto’s/PCOS friendly version of my great-grandmother’s goldenrod eggs: gluten-free …
: Replaced “Extremely online since 1995” in my bio with “Human cabinet of curiosities,” perhaps the …
: Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey …
: 🔖🎭 Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre. In addition to …
: Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book …
: 🔖 Read What Reading Looks Like When You’re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).
: Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel like rogue. …
: I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t modeled on …
: 💬📚 “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we …
: 🔖 Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic. Jessica Pryde makes a great argument …
: 💬📚 “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
: 💬📚 “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
: 💬📚 “Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.” …
: 🔖Read The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.comRead: www.theatlantic.com theatlantic.com …
: A lot is bad but my kid is dancing to Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and that’s pretty great.
: Me today: Ooh what an interesting journal article! I wonder if I could pitch a research brief on it …
: Want to read: Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies by …
: 🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today: Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of …
: Kid reading your book on a bench at the playground while your sibling plays: I see you. You are not …
: That feeling when your own article is at the top of the “Recommended article” list on your Google …
: What was going on in my life when I got sick It’s hard to figure out exactly which of the many symptoms I have should determine when I got sick …
: “The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” C. G. Jung, quoted by Julia Cameron in the …
: How Hashimoto's makes me feel Hashimoto’s makes me feel like the opposite of myself. At various points in my life, if you asked …
: My health goals I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. One of the things I’m …
: My aesthetic is Mermaid Academia.
: In case you wonder what kind of parent I am: yesterday, my kid was recounting a Halloween episode of …
: I have input days and output days. Today is an input day: learning about UX and user research.
: I just moved my next follow up doctor’s appointment up two months to the week after next because I’m …
: On preferring learning to doing I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I love to read about …
: Amy Gentry’s second guest post for The Professor Is In, about transitioning from academic to …
: 🔖 Portrait of the Mother as an Artist – Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com Diane …
: Watching the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Offspring” as a parent adds a whole new …
: Have y’all read THE DARK TIDE by Alicia Jasinka? because I started it tonight and it is gorgeous. …
: Whoopi Goldberg has done a lot of great work in her career, but I think I’ll always feel that Guinan …
: Finished reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 📚
: So far in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 3x13, “Deja Q,” is my favorite. …
: Me, watching Super Monsters with my kid: I can suspend my disbelief to allow that Universal monsters …
: 👩🏻💻 That feeling when it takes all day to maintain your (6-year-old budget) laptop…
: There is a medium-small spider hanging out on my corkboard and I’ve decided to adopt it as a pet. I …
: 📚💬 “If this is your first draft, stop worrying.” - Leigh Bardugo in her latest newsletter
: What I mean when I say I have variable disabilities: today, I am using a cane because I have mild …
: Book Review: FAN FICTION by Brent Spiner 📚📺🖖 If you make a purchase through a link in this post, I may earn a commission. Quick head’s up: In …
: 📚💬 “When academic women, experts in their fields, are seen as not credible, then can women ever be?” …
: Want to read: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit 📚
: 📚💬 “My Ph.D. cannot trump my gender.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men Explain Things to …
: 🎙️ Listened to Gates McFadden Investigates 101: Jonathan Frakes. Love it. McFadden is a great host & …
: “Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way.” Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS. Oh, Zoya, I love …
: I finished reading SIX OF CROWS almost 4 months ago. It’s time for me to get back to the Grishaverse …
: Finished reading: Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner 📚
: Went to Internet Archive to find my blog post from 20 years ago. More interesting than anything I …
: Wearing my 90s pop culture goth uniform today: Buffy the Vampire Slayer tee, Nightmare Before …
: I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to spend my time and one of the things I want to do is …
: New bio: Extremely online since 1995. Mom. Household COO. Consulting scholar-librarian. Book person. …
: 🔖💻 Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already …
: 📽️ Watched In a Lonely Place. I watched this because it’s on the movie list on the aesthetics wiki …
: My 20th Domainiversary Today is the 20th anniversary of the first time the Internet Archive captured my first personal …
: Me: yesterday for #StarTrekDay: AHHHH Star Trek, everything Star Trek! this morning when it was all …
: This Picard/Riker 2024 merch is all well and good but what I want is reprints of the Picard/Riker …
: The Voyager theme is over here tugging at my heart strings. This is unexpected. #StarTrekDay
: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I will never not have a crush on Wil Wheaton. …
: It’s taken me a while but I think I have a stable connection for watching #StarTrekDay and I’m so …
: If you read through today’s Done List, you’ll notice I put basic self-care tasks like showering and …
: I know enough about Brent Spiner and his history with fans to know that this does not make us BFFs …
: Loading my advanced readers’s copy of Brent Spiner’s mem-noir Fan Fiction to my ereader in honor of …
: Repping TNG Operations in my Lauren Christians Handmade dress for Star Trek Day. My kid told his …
: My Done List for 9/7/21: It’s easy for me to feel like a day went by where I didn’t do anything, so …
: 📺🖖 In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 11, “The Hunted,” there is a whole society of …
: In defense of not living up to your potential I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Betsy Greer shared some …
: Putting Gardens and Streams II on my calendar. I’m only a maybe because, as always, parenting.
: 🔖📝 The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer ‹ Literary Hub if you’ve read a book penned by a …
: 🔖Read The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days …
: 🔖Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.
: “She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of …
: I had a client meeting this morning where we made plans for me to do some blogging and podcasting …
: “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬
: Beginning my third read of Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC. 📚
: Sleep Deprivation, Sugar Crash, or Both? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
: Gonna create a literary subgenre/internet aesthetic and call it “snark academia.”
: I just published another free/pay-what-you-can Notion template. This time it’s a permissions tracker …
: Welcome to September, or as I like to call it, October Part 1. The world is full of terrors. Today …
August 2021
: My post-PhD identity crisis, #motherscholar edition I am making a few notes here now that I hope to turn into a longer post later. As I scrolled Twitter …
: Did not realize I was on the Motherscholar Project website so that’s cool!
: Dr. Kimberly's Comedy School: Pairing the absurd with the mundane If you have access to it, watch The Simpsons, Season 1, episode 3, “Homer’s Odyssey.” This bit …
: Just recorded a conference session. I’m really happy about the accessibility remote conferences …
: Watched @patrickrhone’s Micro Camp talk Want to write a book? You probably already have this am & it …
: 🔖💬 Parents Are Not Okay: Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we …
: Shout-out to Kelly J. Baker for naming archivists and librarians first in the acknowledgements of …
: there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to …
: 🔖📚 Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the ‘Father Tongue’ of Academia is both about …
: Want to read: How to Write Qualitative Research by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower 📚
: Want to read: Thinking Inside the Box Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t …
: Finished reading: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 📚
: My taste in fantasy art is less Lisa Frank and more Frank Frazetta.
: Whoops, I didn’t mean unicorn and waterfall, I meant swan and rainbow. We also had the tiger one.
: Trapper Keeper is back but I’m holding out for the re-release of the unicorn in front of a …
: How come every time Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaborate the result is adorable? What’s up with …
: Casey Fiesler asked for tips for creating equal participation in breakout rooms. One strategy to try …
: Younger S7E5 is delighting me with Janeane Garofalo as an art college dean and Sutton Foster as Liza …
: 🎙️ Listening to Keegan-Michael Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy on Audible & in ep 5 he mentions …
: One of the many straws on the proverbial camel’s back that led me to stop watching THE CHAIR after …
: About to go pick kid up from first day of preschool. (1/2 day today, full day Thurs). Achieved: made …
: 📚 Just finished the introduction of Data Feminism & am jotting down some thoughts. I hope to expand …
: 📚 Data Feminism has the best (and perhaps only) definition of positionality I’ve ever seen: …
: Colleagues are all “I forgot how exhausting teaching in person is!” & I’m all “I forgot how …
: Want to read: Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White 📚
: Me, prepping for my kid’s very masked return to preschool: IMAGE: Liz Lemon (from the TV show 30 …
: Want to read: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped …
: Advice for new parents and parents-to-be I have a friend who is due to have a baby in January. I offered to write up a bunch of notes for her …
: 📺 It’s been interesting seeing other (current or former) academians’ responses to THE CHAIR. I made …
: Setting aside my TIME 100 list plan to play in the land of YA rom-coms. Just started NICK AND …
: Read Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling â Scalawag …
: I clocked a solid chunk of time on my current consulting contract today and I really enjoyed the …
: “Being a mom is my calling, and being a writer is also my calling, so they have to both exist …
: The questions driving me right now I read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy and felt energized. I …
: Today, in Sesame Street Is the Best Comedy School, Grover and Campers Learn About Trees. Excellent …
: Who’s your favorite fictional character with an extreme love of school supplies? Mine is Amy …
: We might need to have a talk about how I don’t want to eat any actual meals, just leftovers of the …
: I just processed all the action items from the beginning of the year email the head teacher at my …
: Read Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: …
: I use Old Spice Krakengard mostly because the name and graphic amuse me. I always thought it was …
: I can’t get a good picture of it but right now there is a lone piece of green glitter sitting on top …
: I hardly ever cried about my dissertation and I’m really proud of that.
: 🔖📝 Read The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com …
: Woke up to a house with no light at all and my first thought was not “The power must be out” but …
: What I Learned from Recording My Micro Camp Talk I learned a lot from recording my Micro Camp 2021 talk. If you watch it, you’ll notice a pretty big …
: My talk from Micro Camp, “Learning in Public on Your Blog,” is now available on my website!
: What are your top 3 movies you turn to when you are sick and/or anxious? Mine are Ferris Bueller’s …
: 🔖 Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy is an energizing read. …
: Some notes on my Time's 100 Best 📚 Plan Because fantasy is the genre I read the most and YA is the market segment I read the most, I’ve …
: So far today I have taken my kid to the pool for swim lessons & stayed for an extra 3 hrs, scheduled …
: Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always …
: Until I get tired of doing it, I’m going to read my way through Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of …
: New bio: “A good little mommy and always very curious.”
: Solidarity to everyone who was awake earlier than they needed to be this morning.
: In case you were wondering which website has the best favicon, it’s Jennifer Laughran’s.
: My kid is asleep well before 9 pm, what do I do with all this freeeeeedom? (The smart thing would be …
: I cannot convey the extent to which the statement “be part of one of the largest events on campus” …
: That feeling when someone you only kind of knew from church as a kid over 20 years ago invites you …
: Hey hey! I’ll be giving a talk at Micro Camp Friday @ 3:30 pm EST about Learning in Public on Your …
: 🎬 watched Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy is brilliant here. I can’t believe he was only 22 or 23 …
: My brain, on August 8, 2021: LetterMo is just around the corner! It’s January now, so February will …
: It’s fine if you’ve been sleeping on SCHMIGADOON so far but this week they gave both Kristin …
: What I Learned from Sewing Napkins And some stuff I already knew but needed the reminder sewing napkins gave me. 1. If you want things …
: I can’t recall if I’d ever seen Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First” before tonight but I just …
: Hello and welcome to my current existential crisis.
: The CHIP ‘N’ DALE: RESCUE RANGERS theme is a masterpiece of musical maximalism. 🎵
: I love physicist Carlo Rovelli’s phrase, “radical lack of certainty,” quoted in Austin Kleon’s blog …
: 📺 I’m not remotely close to caught up on The Owl House but I just want to say that Luz’s tailcoat …
: Want to read: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee 📚
: Finished reading: The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss 📚
July 2021
: 🎮 Played Dragon Quest on Android. Gorgeous pixel remake of the foundational JRPG. Super fun! 🐲
: 📚🗯️ Read Once & Future Vol. 1: The King Is Undead by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora. Arthuriana and a …
: 💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than …
: 📚 A surprise The Locked Tomb book! Yay! 💀
: 📚📺 At Electric Literature, Meera Vijayan writes about the value of seeing Alina Starkov build her …
: I feel both seen and attacked by this Lit Hub piece that says the literary character who shares my …
: I’m available for work starting September 7. Ideal employed situation is part-time, remote, at least …
: Putting yourself back together I’ve written before about how matrescence is like kintsugi: having a baby shatters you and the …
: Today my (medical) doctor called me and when I answered, she said, “Hello, Dr. Hirsh?”
: 📚 This interview with Tamsyn Muir is great.
: Finished reading: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚
: 📚 In HARROW THE NINTH Harrowhark uses the phrase “A fatal longing for the picturesque” and I’m all …
: What a beautiful day! We're not scared. 🐻 Are you familiar with the poem/book/animated short film WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT? I highly …
: 🔖📺🍿This piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as …
: 🔖🍿📚 It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read: Manic Pixie Dream …
: The article Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as …
: Me, after two nights of terrible sleep: Welp, I worked for 48 billable minutes. Time to pack it in …
: My personal history with sewing 🧵 I promise I’m going to write about what I learned from sewing napkins soon. But first: my personal …
: Other people’s midi dress is my maxi dress.
: You know what would be an interesting pair of books to read together? The 4-Hour Work Week and How …
: Random stream-of-consciousness life updates I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. Hello, everyone! How are …
: Austin Kleon's pirate-gardener Austin Kleon writes about his desire to be a pirate-gardener, I’d like to stay happily at home, in …
: 💬📚 “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally …
: 📚 O no I have HARROW THE NINTH on my eReader and want to hermit up and just read it until I’m …
: 📚 I’m re-reading THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and I want to write down all of Lord Henry Wotton’s bon …
: Just watched the first episode of Schmigadoon and Aaron Tveit channeling John Raitt/Gordon …
: I’m working on developing a new academia aesthetic, it’s kind of a sff academia. Inspired by the …
: I love when I have a call with my doctor and I say “I think I should do this” and she says “I …
: 🧵 I made napkins today and I learned a lot! I’ll write about it soon.
: I’m about to start using Noter Live to live-tweet #MIRAULV2021. Conferring on the couch next to my …
: Wait wait wait bootcut jeans are on-trend again? Gen Z, you’re turning exhausted parents into …
: My kid is watching Doc McStuffins and I’m over here swooning over the knight toy Sir Kirby because …
: I tried Voila AI artist & this is what it says I’d look like as a 3D cartoon princess.
: Happy birthday to me! W & M got me a sewing machine that has a manual! I asked for one I knew was …
: Who will I be at 40? Three makes a pattern, so this is the year that blogging about who I want to be in this year of my …
: Want to read: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun 📚
: Finished reading: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett 📚
: Stream-of-Consciousness Quick Review: Kristen Arnett's MOSTLY DEAD THINGS 📚🦩 (or, Kristen Arnett Please Be My New Best Friend) I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this post. Kristen Arnett is Florida’s …
: Tomorrow is my birthday (40th). If you want to celebrate, here are some options: have donuts read a …
: I just signed up for 1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: The Scholar’s Guide to Writing & Publishing …
: I didn’t see Katy Peplin’s blog post about grumping it out until just now but now is when I needed …
: The thing about being a bard is that performance is more than just singing.
: I need everyone to understand that in Marvel comics, there is the version of Thor that is a frog, …
: The Quiet Space has a website. This evolving project offers tools to help scholars & other knowledge …
: The water and the moon are my teachers. 🌊🌕 Tonight is the New Moon in Cancer. Next Wednesday is my birthday. My Sun, Ascendant, and Mercury are …
: W: Would you say the town of Brigadoon is changed by the events of the musical? Me: What? No! …
: Introducing The Quiet Space: A set of offerings for scholars and knowledge creators Good morning, friends. I have a new-ish morning ritual. I creep downstairs so as not to wake my kid. …
: Hulu has both Beetlejuice and Season 7 of Younger, see y’all next week. 📺🍿
: I'm having a tantrum about how hard it is to live with chronic illness. Back in May, I had some bloodwork done. I discovered that my thyroid hormone levels were in the …
: Habits from UNF*CK YOUR HABITAT I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I’m re-reading Unf*ck Your …
: Nightstand before & after courtesy the first couple of mini-challenges in the original UfYH book. …
: I take 20 medications/supplements, some of them more than once a day.
: I’m brewing 2 essays about Star Trek: The Next Generation: about Data, perfectionism, & imposter …
: My kid asked me if he was a camper & I told him we could call our home a camp if he wanted and he …
: Years ago now, my sister gave M. a 3D printed Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Today I painted it …
: I don’t believe being a librarian is A Calling but I do believe it is a disposition; it is one of my …
: Welcome to Camp NaNoWriMo with me! I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. It’s July 1 which means …
June 2021
: Response to "Knitting’s resurgence reflects women’s desire to confront inequality": things that have been things for a while, affinity space research, and punk rock new domesticity I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I’m writing up a response …
: 🔖 Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders …
: Returning to Dissertating in the Open Back when I started the dissertation process, I had this whole plan to dissertate in the open. I did …
: Want to read: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher 📚
: 🔖▶️ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they mention …
: 🔖📺 Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. 🦇
: I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. I’ve never …
: Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann …
: 📚 I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething with rage.
: I don’t like to drink rosé but I love the roséwave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what faux-luxe …
: Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy 📚
: 💬📚 “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never …
: Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly …
: My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game. Me: Fun! What’s it called? Kid: “Science Nerd.” …
: 🔖▶️ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science …
: Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied …
: JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering my kid …
: Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep …
: As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning …
: 🔖📝 I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the …
: Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia 📚
: Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The …
: Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie 📚
: 📚 I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.
: What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a …
: 9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon! 1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally going to read …
: In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty mess who …
: 📚 (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!
: Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of …
: The layers of references in this poster are delightful: cats as Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson …
: Finished reading: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo 📚
: 💬📚 “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER, …
: 📚 I’m reading Leigh Bardugo’s WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER & while it took a little while to grab me, …
: I’m announcing it to make it real: I’m going to write a sweet romance novella for Camp NaNoWriMo in …
: 🔖📚 Read What We Can—and Can’t—Learn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction - Electric …
: 💬📺 “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s manageable.” - Eda the Owl …
: Anybody else feel like a lot of qualitative methodology writeups in studies are basically “I did a …
: 🔖 Read Toll from political push at UNC continues to mount | NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.com Read: …
: Me: What am I going to do with my kid all summer? The pool: Hi. Me: 😍🧜🏻♀️
: Someone in my neighborhood is doing yardwork at 9 pm and I’m not okay with it.
: Do I pretend I’m Kaz Brekker when I use my new cane? Only with every step I take.
: Part of me is always working on a taxonomy and ontology of #StarTrekTNG episodes. (Currently: only …
: I have no special insight into the MCU but this song might be a bit instructive (and if you’re …
: 🔖🎮 Read Loki episode 1 finds a startling way to rest the antihero for Marvel TV - Polygon …
: 🔖🎮 Read Loki episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Thor’s naughty brother gets busted for time crimes - …
: 📺 watched Loki Season 1, Episode 1, “Glorious Purpose.” Took me a little while to get into but I’m …
: 🔖🎮 Read Star Trek | Games of Fame gamesoffame.wordpress.comRead: gamesoffame.wordpress.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read 1974: Super Star Trek - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Addendums | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …
: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 5: Wumpus 2 and 3 | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog …
: 🔖🎮 Read » Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net …
: Watching “new” She-Ra with my kid & forgot who my She-Ra avatar was but then we got to episode 5…
: 🔖🎮 Read » Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net …
: What does after even mean? Lately some of the things that have been lifelines for me during the pandemic have started to feel …
: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 4: Hunt the Wumpus (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 2: Mugwump, Hurkle, Snark (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 1: Hide and Seek (1972) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: …
: 🍿📺🗯️ I just watched the two pre-Loki episodes of Marvel Studios LEGENDS and y’all the MCU gets more …
: 🔖🎮 ReadBefore Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog …
: 🔖🎮 Read 1973: Hunt the Wumpus - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com …
: Text adventure nostalgia I hope your Wednesday’s going well! (Or Thursday if you’re farther east enough than me that that’s …
: Today, in letting go of my internalized ableism: using a cane during a hip pain flare.
: 🔖🎮 Read Forty Years of Lunar Lander technologizer.com Read: www.technologizer.com technologizer.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read Lunar Lander: The Full Story of the Legendary Game and Genre fictionphile.com Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read 1972: ROCKET - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read Something Found In The Oregon Trail - Code Dive codedive.substack.com Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read Oregon Trail Ver. 3 (BASIC 3.1, 1978) | Desert Hat deserthat.wordpress.com Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read Rafting Down the Columbia River died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read Matt’s Store & Starting the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read Crossing Rivers died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read The Earliest Versions of the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read A Brief History of the Oregon Trail Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: …
: 🔖🎮 Read The Oregon Trail Memes died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com …
: 🔖🎮 Read Designing the Travel Screen for “The Oregon Trail” | by R. Philip Bouchard | The …
: 🔖🎮 The FEMICOM museum is my new favorite thing.
: Things that can bring on trochanteric (hip) bursitis: sitting, lying down, physical activity. 😬
: On pain Hello again! My right hip has been hurting the past couple of days. Or almost a week, I guess - it …
: 🔖🏳️🌈 Read The Power of Pride - Arc Digital arcdigital.mediaRead: www.arcdigital.media …
: 🔖🎮 Read Designing the Hunting Game for “The Oregon Trail” | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium …
: 🔖🎮 Read How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time | by R. …
: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: …
: 🔖🎮 Read The Forgotten History of ‘The Oregon Trail,’ As Told By Its Creators vice.comRead: …
: 🔖🎮 Read 1971: The Oregon Trail - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com …
: Welcome to a week of daily blogging: stream-of-consciousness flavor! I’m working to get into the flow of daily blogging, so this post will be rather stream of …
: 🔖 Martha Bautells’s On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?) resonates with me, …
: ↪️ in reply to Bridgy stats update I wonder if the drop-off in publishing after August 2020 might be …
: 💬📚 “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and …
: 🔖🧵🧶 Read What We Learned From a Year of Crafting - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: …
: There are worse things than sitting outside at a children’s museum on a beautiful day with little …
: 🔖📚 Read Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine …
: 💬🔖📚 Kate Zambreno on her new book "To Write as if Already Dead" - Los Angeles Times The postpartum experience isn’t just expensive; it can also be one of psychic trauma and creative …
: 🔖🖥️ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be the most …
: Career Advice for PhDs Websites and Professionals: You should use ImaginePhD! It will help you …
: 🔖📚 Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A …
: 🔖📚 Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together …
: 🔖📝 Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhood… While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual …
: Quick Review: The City We Became 📚 I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I love the way N. K. …
: Finished reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin 📚
: I’ve also made my Scholarly Writing Project Audit and Pipeline Notion template available via …
: For #TrekTuesday, I’ll share that I spend a LOT of time wondering why we don’t see social scientists …
May 2021
: I’ve made my Conceptual Synthesis Spreadsheet Notion template available via Gumroad. It’s …
: Thanks to a generous person I met in the Mermaids of NC group on Facebook, I am now Dr. Mer-Mom. …
: Build networks & ask for what you need & give what you can. Swimming in a mermaid tail is a hobby …
: I got a Rakuten Libra H2O and I am so excited about its OverDrive integration. So many public …
: Finished reading: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 📚
: 📚💬 “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you demanded …
: Want to read: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy by Karen …
: 📚 Kaz Brekker is the best. Why do we have obligations besides reading books?
: 📚💬 I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. …
: 📚 In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary …
: Hey guess what? You can download the Creative Commons-licensed version of my dissertation on my …
: Added “consulting scholar-librarian 🔍” to my bio.
: Getting a lot of targeted ads for EdDs like “Heeeey noticed you just finished a doctorate, want …
: Personal reflections after (but not really on) #FanLIS My head is swimming after attending the #FanLIS symposium today. At this moment when I’m taking a …
: Most of my tweets from #FanLIS I’m planning to return and clean up formatting and add links to videos once they’re online, but for …
: 📚 Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's ACE OF SPADES: Gossip Girl meets Get Out in a gripping debut thriller ACE OF SPADES by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Chiamaka and Devon are both students at the prestigious …
: Just deleted “expected” before “May 2021” in my CV.
: 📚 How do you keep track of quotes that resonate with you? I usually write them in my Bullet Journal …
: Finished reading: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 📚
: 📺 I’ve got 2 episodes left of SHRILL. It’s so weird being right in the middle of Annie and Gabe’s …
: Want to read: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by …
: 📺 Fran is always my favorite on SHRILL. Today it’s because she says, “I just don’t think I can work …
: Today in “But they’re worth it”: my kid showed me a tiny grape as though he had found an amazing …
: Yesterday I did 3 things so today my body wants me to do no things. I hope the plan I made with my …
: 📚 Sometimes I have to start a book several times before it holds my interest. A GAME OF THRONES was …
: I carry a tote bag around my house as I move through my day. I never know what I’ll be in the mood …
: Want to read: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams 📚
: 📚 Right before I started my Grishaverse catch up, I went on a dark academia spree. These were three …
: 📚 Remember how I said my hammock was my favorite reading spot? Here’s a flashback to me reading SIX …
: Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope 📚
: Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph 📚
: Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)
: Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing doctoral …
: Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller 📚
: My kid and I are building NYC for the Ninja Turtles & Marvel Superheroes to adventure in, so of …
: 📚 I first read SHADOW AND BONE 5 years ago, on a hammock at the beach, when I was 7 months pregnant. …
: I had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been …
: I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at kimberlyhirsh.reads if you want to follow along. …
: I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.
: Me, watching STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS: Battle, battle, battle. When are we going to get another …
: I fixed the formatting problem which was in fact my fault. When I tried to fix one thing it did …
: I’ve been attending to my mind almost exclusively for 6 years (and arguably for almost 40). Time to …
: Was playing Ninja Turtles with my kid & his action figures & kid made Leo tell Donnie he’s just a …
: I am filled with rage over the number of formatting revisions I am having to make to my …
: Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 📚
: 🔖 I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana Troi Became Our …
: I was thinking last night about why characters who look a mess but are competent when it counts are …
: Prepping to launch my consulting career 👩💼 Hello again, internet. I just finished writing the last thing I had to write for my assistantship. …
: Want to read: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of …
: Added “serious Belle vibes 📚” to my bio.
: You should probably look at Laz Marquez’s #StarTrekGala art project because it’s AWESOME. 🖖🏻🎨📺
: 🔖📚 Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] …
: 🔖📺🖖 Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant
: 🔖📺🖖 Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details what …
: I think at some point in the past 6 years I became an information scientist. Yay?
: I’m thinking about metaphors for how people consume information. Infodemic. Infobesity. I think …
: Went really minimal with my latest bio: motherscholar 👩💻 she/her ♿ ❤️💜💙 Durham, NC, USA 🌎
: I want to share that if you have panic attacks fueled by imposter syndrome more than 2 weeks after …
: Want to read: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins 📚
: 🔖ReadPost-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: …
: 🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com bogost.com …
: 🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: …
: 🔖📺 Read On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com adornofangirl …
April 2021
: Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy: She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need …
: Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a …
: Want to read: Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele 📚
: Played Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? via the Internet Archive with M. this morning & …
: What we do is character comedy. Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets and …
: CS101: Week One I’m auditing Stanford’s CS101 on EdX because while I love Harvard’s CS50x I think I need some back …
: Woohoo, I think I wrote the introduction of this article, yay me. Back to chipping away at the lit …
: Here’s me in 2018 unknowingly arguing the key finding of my dissertation: information literacy …
: 🔖 Read No One Makes a Living on Patreon.
: Oh hey I got so excited about becoming Dr. Hirsh that I forgot to share photos of my Data make-up …
: Y’all is Kevin Feige okay? Has he ever, you know, been outside? Somebody should probably take him to …
: Spoiler font on my website I’m playing with CSS to get spoiler-text hidden unless selected on my website. Let’s see if it …
: On languishing, being dormant, and lying in wait. Adam Grant’s article There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing has been …
: Notes and highlights from Katie Rose Guest Pryal's THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC 📚 I’ve read Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s The Freelance Academic twice now. It’s a great book. I’ve taken …
: Am I always tired because I’m: A) a newly minted PhD recovering from dissertating B) the parent of a …
: My Dissertation Acknowledgments It’s probably going to be a little while before I get my full dissertation up online, so I thought …
: 🔖 Read ‘Buy Nothing’ groups: A place to share goods, services — and gratitude.
: Biggest takeaway from the first 5 episodes of SHADOW & BONE is that I want to get really good at …
: 🔖 Read Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com …
: 🔖 Read The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com …
: O hai. the early blogosphere was full of people who obsessed over “correctly” labeling and …
: Finished reading: Come Back, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Wallace Tripp 📚
: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower by Peggy Parish and Barbara Siegel Thomas 📚
: I have been so focused on writing my dissertation for so long that it’s a challenge to write a lit …
: Finished reading: Thank You, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, Barbara Siebel Thomas 📚
: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Fitz Siebel 📚
: Stocking the flow of my garden in the stream 💻 I’ve been wanting to clean up my blog at least since I migrated from WordPress to Micro.blog, maybe …
: Hello I have watched the first episode of SHADOW & BONE and Jesper has now replaced Kaz as my …
: You can now watch my dissertation defense presentation! I’ve stopped the video before the Q&A to …
: Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚
: 🔖🍿📺 Read Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.comRead: …
: Today’s weather is the best kind of NC spring weather. It’s 57F and there are fluffy clouds. The …
: Want to read: Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts 📚
: Want to read: The Brilliant Abyss, Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the …
: I’m so happy that I’m now qualified to wear this Delicious PhD Darling “regalia.” 🤣 (If you’ve never …
: 🔖 Read How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com …
: 🔖 Read How to Read When You Have a Baby | Book Riot bookriot.combookriot.com …
: I resent the fact that Book Riot’s Find Out Your SHADOW AND BONE Character quiz made me choose …
: 🔖 Read On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature ‹ Literary Hub …
: I know somebody on micro.blog has put together an On This Day type page that shows you posts on …
: My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining …
: Told y’all I was going all-in on Trek. 🖖🏻📚
: Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic …
: 🔖 Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite …
: Exhausted from defense & migrainey because PCOS, so it’s time to settle in with some #StarTrekTNG. …
: Advisor: So make these revisions because those were good questions and you had answers to them. Me: …
: Katherine Taylor’s essay, I Am Not a Robot, explores Data’s value as a stand-in for autistic people. …
: I have a lot of thank yous to catch up on, and I will. But in the meantime, I highly recommend …
: Lt. Cmdr. DOCTOR Kimberly Hirsh here… I mean Data, whoops… I passed my dissertation defense! Yay me! …
: This really does feel like waiting to go to the hospital to be induced. I hope the dissertation …
: Really wish I felt like I could sweeten my defense with a laugh track.
: Me, when Wesley Crusher tells Guinan he always gets As: Really? We’re still grading things in the …
: Last call for anyone who wants to attend my dissertation defense on Zoom, 4/14/21 1pm Eastern! The …
: O no my defense adrenaline has arrived 18 hours early
: THE NEVERS as Disability Metaphor ♿ 📺 This post contains slight spoilers for The Nevers. I just watched the first episode of The Nevers. …
: Weeks ago now my kid told me, “You don’t need to be a doctor. You’re already somebody special.” …
: 🔖Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. 📺🎵
: 🔖 I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of …
: Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?
: Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo 📚
: Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup …
: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on …
: Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. 📝
: Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction? The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your …
: Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was …
: I have decided to go all-in on Star Trek. Especially TNG of course, but for the time being, I’m …
: I’m not saying I’m just saying I kind of wish the Season 2 finale of Picard would be Picard and Q’s …
: Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… 📺🍿
: Don’t mind me, I’m just over here flailing in response to the Picard Season 2 Teaser Trailer. 🖖🏻📺🔖
: Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a …
: I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff done, …
: Improv as community/business/cult has a lot of problems that would require a radical new model to …
: I’m in a hammock and I don’t want to get up.
: I just finished Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm and I’m so glad I’ve got the next one ready to go …
: Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo 📚
: Teared up watching @levarburton’s cameos for other people. “It’s over. It’s done. You defended the …
: So I’m reading my dissertation and I think it’s… Good? Like it was written by somebody who knows …
: About to start reading and marking up this thing in preparation for next week’s defense, at which I …
: Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan Threats’s …
: I really miss the internet of 2004 - 2007, specifically the DIY/New Domesticity craft punk blog & …
: I have now met all my pre-defense scholarly obligations (paper draft & guest lecture) so I guess …
: 🔖 I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls out …
: True story, my dissertation includes the statement, “I was wrong.” 📝
: 18 hrs post-vaccine woke up a little achey, a little lymph node-y. Not too bad but still planning to …
: 5 hrs post-vaccine, feeling fuzzy-headed and mildly achey, chills receded but I bet they’ll be back.
: J&J vaccine, side effects (or psychosomatic effects?) settling in after 3 hours: vague malaise, mild …
: This windblown lady is vaccinated and waiting outside the Cookout Walk Up Window for a celebratory …
March 2021
: Thinking of launching an academic editing service explicitly targeted to scholars who are also …
: I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. …
: Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed Tantek …
: Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both have dark …
: My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. 💗💓📚📺
: Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner 📚
: I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would welcome …
: It's spring and my dissertation is submitted! Let's do all the things! It feels like submitting my dissertation has freed up an immense amount of space in my head and …
: Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong 📚
: 4yo: What are you defending? Me: My dissertation. 4yo: Why do you have to defend it? Me:
: Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert. Me: The 10,000 …
: Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend via …
: You know that thing where you’ve pursued something long enough that now you’ve pretty much been …
: Debating with myself about regalia since I’m not going to an in-person ceremony. Definitely not …
: “The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern life… Settling …
: “[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and …
: “Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the career …
: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚
: 🔖 What are we folding when we are folding laundry in quarantine is a beautiful poem by Sarah Ruhl. …
: 🔖 I love this take. I’d love to see it even more fleshed out: WandaVision Is Basically a Retelling …
: Apparently it’s going to be an up-every-two-hours kind of night.
: SAVE THE DATE! My dissertation defense is set for April 14th from 1 - 3 pm. It will be held via …
: Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual …
: I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! 🧵
: Taking a mini-spring break over UNC’s Wellness Days & the weekend, including bailing on Social …
: No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing …
: I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent my finished, formatted dissertation to my advisor, who will send …
: We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. 🍿
: In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. 😢
: Catching up on MCU. My favorite parts of Daredevil S2 are when Matt Murdock & Frank Castle have …
: Me, justifying my discussion chapter to the committee in my head: It’s only 1/3 of a dissertation so …
: I may have finished my discussion chapter. I definitely sent it off to my advisor.
: Discussion section: behind the scenes [Alt text: A piece of paper showing a black and white diagram …
: Wrote ~1200 words. Time for a cake break! 🍰 Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! 🍩
: Today’s writing music: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Original Soundtrack SQUARE ENIX MUSIC
: Me, this morning: Sure buddy, I’ll find those missing toys for you! Me, after taking everything out …
: I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I finish …
: As long as I defend before the semester is over I’m good. On the off chance my post-defense …
: Today: Day 3 of garbage sleep. Empathetically worried about funding for the PhD cohorts coming up …
: 🔖 This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to …
: 🔖 This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it …
: Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. Liara T’soni …
: You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to tie …
: My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled …
: Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler 📚
: Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey 📚
: Today in the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet might have the coronavirus but he’s asymptomatic; Pooh, …
: I’ll say this (among other things) for being a part-time stay-at-home mom/part-time scholar: the mom …
: I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley …
: Is there anything more attractive than an attractive person writing a grant application & looking in …
: 🔖 These images of comic book heroes redrawn to have average body types are fascinating from a …
: 🔖 Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It will …
: I just reviewed my advisor’s notes on the first 6 chapters of my dissertation (Intro, 2 Lit Review, …
: What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of SHIELD 3x15) …
: There are a lot of hard moments as a parent. I tend to share moments like this: M. quietly building …
: Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill 📚
: Trusting my (book blogging) intuition Fourteen years ago, I started a book blog - or, as I called it at the time, a reading journal. I …
February 2021
: Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems …
: I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly receded but now …
: Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will …
: I may have added, um, 40 pages (mostly quotes and tables) to my findings chapter in revision…
: Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to the …
: Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the …
: Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!
: OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to …
: It’s a good day for lying on a hammock and listening to an audiobook. 📷
: Hello today I think my ideal job would be to read books and then write essays (not straight up …
: I’m writing through a migraine right now. I have this one participant interview that’s really …
: I finished reading Mona Awad’s BUNNY last night. I can’t even write a review of it because I don’t …
: Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad 📚
: My current writing process: mine one interview for quotes. Read a chapter of BUNNY by Mona Awad. …
: Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon 📚
: I should hang this Austin Kleon drawing from p. 165 of KEEP GOING up in my home office. …
: “Art Monsters are not necessary or glamorous and they are not to be condoned, pardoned, or …
: Just gonna give up all other pursuits and devote my life to writing Muppet Show friendfic from now …
: I have so many happy Muppet Show feelings. Every time Fozzie is on screen my brain almost literally …
: The latest episode of WandaVision has given me a new cosplay goal… 📺
: Give Kathryn Hahn an Emmy. 📺
: 🔖 This is a library that is also a theater. I want to go to there.
: Want to read: Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley 📚
: Sent off my methodology chapter today. It only needed a little revision, mostly moving stuff from it …
: Renee Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) sings the theme song for the new Muppet Babies. This …
: I’m actually enjoying messing around on the Internet for a while and some water started leaking out …
: Hello! I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent a theory chapter off to my advisor. You should be proud of …
: 🔖 If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s Dead …
: 🔖 Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on “X-Men” in …
: 🔖 Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m hoping to be able …
: “Wellness” day #1: Wrote ~1700 words for my dissertation, outlined the methods section for an …
: Here are some things I’m not interested in: content marketing lead magnets analytics clickthrough …
: 🔖 The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I needed. …
: I’m so psyched to read all the articles fan studies scholars are going to write about …
: Doing more lurking/replying than posting rn. I’ve blocked Twitter on my phone. It redirects me to …
: Want to read: Bookish Broads by Lauren Marino 📚
: Want to read: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman 📚
: I added >1000 words to the theory chapter of my dissertation today. I’ve still a ways to go, but …
: 🔖 One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital commonplace …
: It was kind of fun to see one of my drama professors from undergrad in M. L. Rio’s acknowledgements …
: Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 📚
: 🔖 This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth Doctor’s …
: 🔖 Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what it means …
: Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and …
: I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release order. …
: Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee 📚
: Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get this …
: 🔖 My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF …
: Writing that theory chapter…
: We went to the NC Museum of Art Park as a family Saturday. It was a really nice change of pace from …
: In case you’re following along, this morning the impostor syndrome was so bad I could feel it in my …
: 🔖 Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.
: Okay. Reorganized my work and my thinking and feeling better about my ability to be the kind of …
: New plans for this afternoon: Eat. Cry. Get back to work.
: I feel like Charlie in Flowers for Algernon, knowing he used to be smart. I think, “Remember when I …
: Every once in a while early Sesame Street drops in a random Carol Burnett segment and it brings me …
: 🔖 In Back-Talking The Tone Police: Book People Are Not Your Enemy, Tika Vateri says all the things I …
: Y’all RiffTrax is doing a Star Trek: Generations watch along tonight and if my kid is asleep in …
: The pandemic is making my brain not. Dissertating during a pandemic is not easy. Maintaining concentration is a real challenge. Before …
: Hello! Today I’m (not) enjoying some musculoskeletal pain. How are things with you?
: Me: reviews dissertation feedback and writes down 5 questions for meeting tomorrow w/advisor & …
: Great question from Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) that it’d help me if you answer: What do I do that …
: I have so many thoughts about information literacy and they’re so timely. It would be brilliant to …
: I’m reading IF WE WERE VILLAINS by M. L. Rio & it does this interesting thing where you know it’s …
: I’m doing a daily tarot pull starting today. Four cards popped out of the deck at me today. The …
: Me: Why is my neck hurting? Child: climbs on my neck Me: Oh.
: Every night I lie in my kid’s bed until he falls asleep and every night I wish someone would pick me …
January 2021
: I’ve got that sweet, sweet book hangover where you finish reading and then look around and think, …
: Finished reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 📚
: I’m having to remind myself that the reason a 2 yr ethnographic dissertation I’m reading is more …
: GENTLE WRITING ADVICE: You could write some words sometime if you feel like it, but if you’re in …
: The model for a dissertation defense in my head is still f2f. When I try to envision my inevitable …
: 🔖 I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate its …
: Just got “Wait, you’re KIBA?” for the first time in several years and it still feels kinda good… I’m …
: Anything that restores you isn’t a waste of time.
: If I have any friends/followers diagnosed with hEDS or HSD who would be willing to talk with me …
: How are you holding up? Here's what's up with me. How are you holding up? Are you holding up? I have a headache today. I really want to write about …
: Hi. I’m Kimberly, and everything you need to know about me can be summed up by the fact that I’m …
: Just over here having an anxiety attack about taking my car to the mechanic for some routine work …
: If somebody could get on replacing Larry in “Pinky & the Brain & Larry” with Bernie, that’d be …
: It’s here! Yay! #AcademicTarot @CoyoteAndBones
: 🔖 The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brecht’s V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection …
: 🔖 What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction‘?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to …
: 🔖 An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To …
: Finished reading: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan 📚
: 📺 Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. 🖖
: 🔖 I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair …
: Want to read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 📚
: Finished reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 📚
: Putting the person back in my personal website I kind of want to put the person back in my personal website. Not that it isn’t personal - …
: 🔖I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual …
: 🔖This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise …
: Who has two thumbs and just applied to be a Star Wars librarian for the summer? This Kimberly!
: 🔖 Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my …
: Last “What’s next?” question! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “The world would …
: I’ve just finished creating my dissertation revisions matrix. Only 41 comments! Granted, one of …
: What’s next? Part 2! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “I could see Kimberly…”
: 🔖Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into …
: 🔖 The Deep Sadness of Marvel’s WandaVision: This is the kind of WandaVision thinkpiece I want. 📺
: We are now at the stage of the pandemic/coup/grief process where I decide that I attended a single …
: I only just realized that to understand how information literacy has been conceptualized over time, …
: Getting real vulnerable! Want to help me plan for what’s next? Complete this statement: “Kimberly’s …
: Why yes, I am prioritizing #MuppetTwitter today.
: If Buffy Summers were real she’d be 40 years old today.
: Here’s my personal affirmation for the foreseeable future: DO WHAT I CAN, WHEN I CAN.
: Okay TNG friends. I made it through “Skin of Evil.” It’s all uphill from here (except that I really …
: HEY I DID A THING! It was for my assistantship and not my dissertation but still. YAY ME!
: I put in a grocery order so now it’s time to crochet and watch TNG, yeah? I woke up this morning …
: Novel I’m reading: includes chapter that is just the text of an imaginary academic journal article …
: Well my grandmother must have really crossed over, in my own estimation anyway, because I just woke …
: I'm still grieving my grandmother and I don't feel like doing anything. It’s been two weeks and a day since my grandmother died, and I don’t feel like doing anything. When …
: 🔖 In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Were…A Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this …
: 🔖 This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to …
: I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not …
: 📺 I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a …
: I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid says, …
: I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.
: This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an architologyist does, …
: 📺 Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like …
: 📺 I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & Eloise are the …
: My kid is pulling toys out of bins and saying what they are… “Spider-Man’s car, a truck, a balloon” …
: I look like I’m dicking around on my phone but really I’m despairing about the future.
: 🔖🍿 The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman …
: I’m officially Not Okay: I just created a new WordPress install for a new website I’ve been planning …
: How am I only just now realizing that the Holodeck is a very high tech LARP environment?
: Apparently this week I’m going to be awake at night and sleep in the afternoon. Cool cool cool.
: I might also read more Dawn of X and play Two Dots.
: Hello. I want to want to do things but I do not want to do things, so I will be alternating between …
: I really did not spend this holiday “break” how I expected to, and now all I can do is scroll …
: Which stage of grief is the not-sleeping-because-you-are-contemplating-your-own-denial one? My …
: Probably gonna cry thanks to the crushing weight of (gesturing at the world) all this, and I’m …
: 🍿 Watched Wonder Woman 1984. Was it flawless? No. Did the fact that it was a Wonder Woman movie and …
: My grandmother Nita died this morning. She loved us all so much and always welcomed us to her home, …
: 🔖 Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be …
: Currently reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 📚
: Want to read: The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century …
: Want to read: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman 📚
December 2020
: Me at 5 am: It’s fine, I’ll take a nap this afternoon. Me at 5 pm: Why would I nap when there’s …
: 2020 Year-in-Review & 2021 Word of the First Quarter I just re-read my 2019 Year-in-Review & 2020 Word of the Year blog post, published a little over a …
: 🔖 Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.
: 🔖 Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the …
: Here are my goals for 2021: Learn about pain management & find pain management that works for me. …
: Want to read: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt 📚
: 📚 Friends, there are at least two modern retellings of Jane Eyre coming out this year: The Wife …
: 🔖 Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.
: 🔖 The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, Whitney R. …
: 🔖 The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article hit me, …
: Time to crowdsource a tagline! I’m going to start calling myself a Consulting Scholar-Librarian, …
: More dark academia books! The Lessons, Naomi Alderman The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis Possession, A. …
: Me to W: You know how you sometimes for fun you give people advice on research design in a Fan …
: Want to read: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas 📚
: Want to read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth 📚
: I bought myself a Theracane and it’s not arriving until Thursday. I’m really looking forward to …
: Currently reading: The Iliad by Homer; Caroline Alexander (translator) 📚
: 🗯️ Read Lore Olympus episodes 1 - 10. Gorgeous art, fun characterization, planning to keep going.
: 🎮 Currently playing Hades on Nintendo Switch. Been coveting this for a while, so when W. suggested …
: I’m still obsessed with Dark Academia. Here are some books I’ve read or will read that have dark …
: Currently reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 📚
: Living with chronic illness is really hard and I don’t like it.
: 🔖Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again via @Miraz Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again …
: 🔖 How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market This piece by Sarah Lonsdale describes the kind of literary friendship I fantasize about having. Who …
: Also, I don’t know who in the SNL writers’ room is a mom, but solidarity, friend.
: To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids’ joy offsets your …
: I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic …
: Netflix: 22 minutes left in Jingle Jangle! Me: 😭🥺💗💞💗🥺😭
: Jingle Jangle: has huge climactic sequence with positive resolution Netflix time bar: shows 36 …
: Today has been the kind of day where you lie down on the floor after wrapping the Christmas presents …
: One song into Jingle Jangle and I’m aching for more R&B musicals - originals, not juke box shows. 🍿
: The results of this Spotify-evaluating AI are hilarious. Enya + The Lonely Island are peak Kimberly …
: My child: “I learned a valuable lesson today.” W: “What’s that, buddy?” M: “I learned that the guy I …
: Rachel Reichenbach’s Why your Instagram Engagement Kinda Sucks Right Now explains so much. I mostly …
: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 2 📚
: My Reading Year 2020 It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which has nothing to do with any gift-giving related …
: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 1 📚
: Finished reading: Powers of X # 1 - 6 📚
: Finished reading: House of X # 1 - 6 📚
: Current status: https://partlynn.tumblr.com/post/186963632813/artpigeons-tragicallybeautifultiger
: Elizabeth Minkel’s The Year of Loving Things Again, published in December 2017, resonates still. I …
: I don’t want to spoil The Mandalorian finale much, so I’ll just say that technology used in its …
: My Most Memorable Christmas Presents from Childhood I’m really on a break now - had my last business-ish meeting yesterday, no Zoom calls scheduled …
: Sufganiyot! Easy jelly donut recipe from The Nosher.
: I have been having this problem all week where I sit down and then I need to eat but eating would …
: At Literary Mama, Victoria Livingstone writes about how the tasks of motherhood that “cannot be …
: Crocheting while watching Clone Wars is very pleasant.
: I’m experimenting with using Notion for weekly and daily planning. I put my most important tasks for …
: Got myself a Hanukkah present from Everyday Magic & it arrived today. Rededication body butter & …
: Okay but what if a manatee had a narwhal tusk.
: 🔖 Laurie Penny’s WIRED piece about falling in love over Zoom is one of the most hopeful things I’ve …
: 🔖 This NPR piece about keeping warm and embracing wintry outdoor adventures is exactly the kind of …
: Just a little light reading from sister.is on the first day of my break from my dissertation.
: Baby’s first latkes. (I am the baby in question, and it’s my first time making them, not eating …
: The dissertation revision nightmares have started, so, that’s cool.
: So what I learned from Disney Investors Day is that Muppets Now is probably the last Muppets content …
: Dissertation Draft Finished + Pandemic Parenting and My Body I sent off the introduction chapter for my dissertation to my advisor a few minutes ago. I also …
: That feeling when you decide to cut a big chunk of your outline out of your dissertation intro …
: Want to read: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel 📚
: I really enjoyed reading this piece about Star Wars stormtrooper strategy & tactics, which is super …
: This is just to say I have eaten the kisses that looked like Santa hats and which I said I was …
: Instead of the usual fullscreen symbol, the PBS Kids website video player has a circle with the word …
: Household division of labor: W - cooks, cleans, does yardwork, generates 80% of household income, …
: I’m really hung up on how nothing is neutral and every decision, intentionally or not, is …
: If you’re into it, Star Wars is pretty much the ultimate in comfort media, so I’m going to overlook …
: The Imagined Academia and How I Still Love It I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I’ve spent my whole life on …
: You know when you are writing and then ideas start flowing and words come out of you expressing …
: I am so close to done with my discussion chapter with almost 3 hours of childcare left to go! Time …
: Finished reading: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚
: When you’re pretty much secular, but descended from 2 faith traditions and mostly just really like …
: I'm Jew-ish, but not Jewish. I know Hanukkah is not a major religious holiday. But my connection with Jewish heritage and culture …
: Making stuff is a vulnerable act. The end of a PhD is a weird time, especially if you don’t have your eyes set on the tenure-track. (I …
: I’m just gonna buy 8 matching purple sweatsuits and say I’m cosplaying as Kate Bishop every day.
: Pretending that signing up for texts from Zooey Deschanel’s community.com number is the same as …
: I am not a piece of 💩 and neither are you. Austin Kleon says to write the book you want to read. If I were to write a book in this moment - …
: Check me out with my #wipwednesday. This is the beginning of the Habitat Cardigan. Lion Brand …
: This is how my year sounded on @Spotify. Get your 2020 Wrapped now #2020Wrapped …
: I'm pressing publish every day with Leonie. I woke up this morning to an email in my inbox from Leonie Dawson’s newsletter, sharing that Leonie …
November 2020
: Reading Chani Nicholas’s *You Were Born for This" and only tearing up a little at the intense …
: You, a reasonable person: Don’t you have a dissertation to finish? Me, a Kimberly: Okay but I’m SO …
: Okay okay but hear me out: what if you ALSO watched the OLD Animaniacs on Hulu?
: What’s a weird skill you have that you will possibly never use again? I’m REALLY good at knowing …
: I wrote a page in my Discussion/Conclusions chapter! YAY ME! (Turns out trying to move discussions …
: Present Kimberly is over here agonizing about the discussion piece of her dissertation. Meanwhile, …
: Holidays are lovely but I have to give myself time to recover after them. (The thing about having …
: My kid just explained to me an imaginary informational text he has that explains why Grinches don’t …
: I’m 20 minutes into Happiest Season and it is every bit as cute as I thought it would be, though I’m …
: Oh right. Knitting stresses me out. Better for re-learning when I have the bandwidth for something …
: I think it’s time for me to re-learn to knit. I find myself craving the kinds of textures that are …
: I have only dabbled in Horse Girlery, but I’m delighted by Polygon’s Horse Girl Canon. It’s missing …
: I’m super thankful for my fellow doc students, who today have dropped off a laser printer and Candy …
: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs of my …
: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs of my …
: My advisor just said “Let’s enjoy our time off!” which is code for “Stop working and go eat pie,” …
: Worn down to a nub from moming. Retreating to bed. Definitely going to sleep, NOT to watch The …
: My kid just told me I’m “very proper” because I want him to “put on all the clothes.”
: Me: Okay, I’m going to finish reading Frankenstein. W: Didn’t you finish reading that last night? …
: I'm having trouble with my dissertation discussion. My goal for November’s #AcWriMo was to write the discussion chapter for my dissertation. After …
: Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 📚
: My household will be celebrating the Yule Book Flood this year. I can’t afford to buy everyone in …
: Bare tree branches against a clear blue sky remind me of lace.
: On some level, THE MANDALORIAN really is just about parenting a young child. “Don’t eat that.” “I …
: Want to read: Ruinsong by Julia Ember 📚
: Just got an email inviting me to join a network of patient influencers because I’m active in the …
: I’m happy to have new Animaniacs and I’m also happy to have old Animaniacs.
: My kid woke me up at the wrong moment in my sleep cycle and I’m pretty sure I’m going to be groggy …
: When writing is both scholarly and beautiful, that’s a sweet spot.
: Just cleaned the 15+ yrs of storage gunk (not too bad really) off my sewing machine. EXCITEMENT!
: Say what you will about screen time, when my kid and I binge-watch remote library storytimes he gets …
: No YOU’RE spending too much time looking at vintage tartan and/or velvet blazers on Etsy.
: But before I go I’m just going to say that listening to my genius husband present about pedagogy is… …
: Today, because we’re on migraine day 3, I’m looking for scientific evidence that when I have a …
: Welcome to Kimberly’s Migraine Day 3, brought to you by Lowered Estrogen and Serotonin!
: You ever watch a rom-com & forget the characters don’t know they’re in a rom-com? Things are looking …
: Y’all I am so scared about this current COVID surge. I haven’t had a real strong COVID anxiety …
: Tonight my kid requested a bedtime story about @emilyvgordon & @kumailn’s cat, Bagel, and asked me …
: Y’all, the Rockapella Holiday album is… different than I expected.
: I coded an interview with a migraine. Aren’t you impressed?
: This thread terrifies me. It's looking like we've turned the corner at my house, so I'm going to …
: Okay spoiler for Dash & Lily I guess but I have so much empathy for all the worried adults in her …
: I just finished episode 2 of Dash & Lily (which, just like the book, I love) and spent WAY too much …
: Our family has been exploring our playgroundless city parks. Today we went to Sandy Creek Park, …
: Want to read: a tumblr book by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill …
: Put Bert & Ernie Sing-Along on while my kid was in the bath this morning and we’re listening again …
: Added details to my discussion chapter outline, input new code system into data analysis software, …
: It’s possible I am putting way too much thought into this discussion chapter.
: I did what I wanted during my PhD and I regret nothing. Six months ago today, Inger Mewburn published the post, Where I call bullshit on the way we do the …
: Listen. If you want to get a jump on the winter holidays now with decorations and baking, I say go …
: Brain fog has returned but I got the kid to sit next to me instead of on me and squeezed in 5+ pages …
: Kimberly problems: when your brain fog lifts enough for you to read scholarship but you can’t go get …
: What do you think are my areas of expertise?
: The burnout is real. From September 8 to October 2, I attended a virtual dissertation writing boot camp. I have childcare …
: The more I go nowhere and do nothing, the more money I spend on books… Which is why I’ll probably be …
: All 3 Roger Rabbit shorts are on Disney+, this is not a drill.
: Everything hurts but it’s too hot to wear my “everything hurts” sweatshirt: the Kimberly Hirsh story
: Current status: counting “figuring out which book will tell me how to write my discussion chapter” …
: Bunnies and fishes at For Garden’s Sake.
: Put on my podcast for M, who likes to listen to “the Mommy Podcast” and he said, “We should do a …
: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze Episode 3 - Teacher's Pet It’s here! The long-awaited all-librarian episode of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast! Transcript …
: I’m reasonably well-rested today and yet my brain still just… won’t.
: W & M were drawing boats so I drew mine but 1. I had to make it a shape I could sit in and 2. I’m so …
: I just took a minute to call my dad to see how he’s doing in the wake of Alex Trebek’s death. He’s …
: Let’s keep working to make the unpocalypse happen.
: W. is reading The Magic Treehouse to M. Morgan le Fay: Most people call me an enchantress, but I’m …
: I’ve updated my bullet journal & I think that’s my work for today. I’m giving myself the weekend to …
: What if moving forward we took the energy people say we should spend on courting voters in whatever …
: Y’all getting any work done today, or no? I did one thing for my assistantship and made the barest …
: The comedic possibilities are inherent.
: I feel great affinity for the Mandalorian, because, like him, I am usually accompanied on my …
: My plan for coping for… oh, the rest of my life… is to read books and make stuff. Want to join me? …
: Finished reading: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon 📚
: Finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by …
: You know what isn’t great for my mental well-being as a student? Taking a required 45 minute online …
: Logging off Twitter tonight and don’t expect to be back for a while… Will still autopost from my …
October 2020
: Blown away by Flow’s ability to get a piece on Cottagecore out while it’s still a thing. Looking …
: Hey guess what, just submitted a THIRD chapter to my advisor! Worth noting that all of these have …
: Do you feel like you need a nap even after the most energizing of video calls? How do y’all who have …
: Hello I am Kimberly and I have now sent 2 completed chapter drafts to my advisor and expect to send …
: I joined some Discord servers related to my research interests and now my phone feels like the …
: 📚💬 “I’m a 21st-century American woman; I don’t have enough faith to covet anything but freedom… My …
: Feeling cute on a high-pain day. Not going to take it for granted.
: I just uploaded my #FSNNA20 poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information …
: One challenge with my research interests related to academic publishing is that a lot of them are …
: Co-star gets me. [Image reads “Your heart is a book.”]
: I’m very cranky today. I don’t like it. I don’t like who I feel like I am when I feel this way. So I …
: Been trying to figure out who to cosplay for my dissertation defense. Needs to be professional, …
: I finished drafting a dissertation chapter (I’ve had 4 almost finished chapters for a couple weeks) …
: See this is why we read in the original language if we can: Caesar says the Rhine bends toward Ursa …
: If you’ve been away from Latin for 10+ years but want to return to reading it as a hobby, Caesar’s …
: Things my kid said tonight: “Mommy, you’ll never be a doctor.” 💔 “I’m going to imagine having a moth …
: Finished reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 📚
: I think… I think I just don’t enjoy consuming Actual Play content and maybe that’s okay?
: Okay seriously is anyone keeping any of their shit together right now?
: 📽️ I just finished watching REBECCA on Netflix and it’s… fine. But it’s not gothic. Glen Weldon’s …
: Heeeey, just over here psyching myself up to revisit Chapter 11 - Trustworthiness - in Lincoln & …
: Conversation with friends: Tweens - Who’s cute Teen - Who’s dating 20s - Good food 30s - Home …
: I read this piece & I need a cold shower. Gonna be intense when I finally read CARMILLA. Carmilla Is …
: Over at University of Venus, Mary Churchill asks about The Day After: What will you do on November …
: I went to #FSNNA20 and it was awesome. I “went” to the Fan Studies Network North America conference last week. It was awesome. It was …
: Want to read: Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research by Jane Tinkler and Patrick Dunleavy 📚
: Want to read: Raising the Resistance A Mother’s Guide to Practical Activism by Farrah Alexander 📚
: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Witch I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. Here’s episode 2 of my Buffy podcast, …
: M & I have been watching Netflix’s Bookmarks today. Grace Byers’s I AM ENOUGH is so beautiful and …
: If #FSNNA20 were a meatspace conference and I was there, I would not be berating myself for not …
: Just added a note to include as a limitation in my dissertation that my methods don’t capture things …
: Dreamed this morning I was at my co-working space w/Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) & he would not stop …
: Portrait of an awesome life partnership: you get the kid down to sleep and then chat in the #FSNNA20 …
: Pleased as can be to be hanging out @ #FSNNA20 this week. You can find me in Discord primarily …
: Is anybody out there managing to be even mediocre at both parenting & working right now? Because I …
: Current dissertation status: 4 chapters begun but with holes to fill, 116 pages. 1 chapter …
: 📚 Reading Sarah Kendzior’s (@sarahkendzior) book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT & had to take a crying break …
: I definitely just handed The Teacher from the Black Lagoon to my kid thinking it was Miss Nelson Is …
: My kid is 4 and I might almost be ready to share my birthing story but not yet. It’s my kid’s birthday today, and thus my birthing day. It’s interesting that the author of the …
: I did a dissertation bootcamp last week and honestly I feel like I need a break. We spent some time …
: Today I learned that my kid’s teacher plays tabletop RPGs. ♥️ (I did not ask her if I could get in …
: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. I’ve got 3 finished episodes of a planned …
: My not-quite-4yo just told me that the famous quote from The New Colossus begins “Give me all your …
: Listening to M. & W. play that they are the kids from The Magic Treehouse and have wished their way …
September 2020
: In recent weeks I have watched all of Sherlock, finished tonight. It was fun, then it wasn’t fun, …
: I’m presenting my virtual poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information …
: Hello. I am tired and sweaty. Dissertation boot camp is pretty serious. ♥️
: Today is a screaming 3yo day. I love my child and I find his screaming stressful.
: Hello, it’s coffee and chocolate o’clock.
: Dissertation boot camp week: conserving spoons in the morning so I can write hard in the afternoon. …
: Finished reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker 📚
: Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is …
: Fascinating: Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait via Dan Cohen I’ve been …
: I’m kind of loving my messy, curly, 38% Ashkenazi hair today. (Image heavily filtered, of course.)
: I’m worried about Kimberly. Kimberly is tired & overwhelmed. Kimberly has lots of tools to help her …
: Me: Meh, I guess I should dress professionally for this remote group career coaching session. throws …
: My kid is watching @JimTheLibrarian’s Dinosaur Storytime. Kid said, “Maybe I’ll meet him sometime!” …
: HELLO I DON’T WANT TO STAY MOTIVATED AND ON TRACK. I WANT TO WALLOW AND READ GOTHIC NOVELS.
: Want to read: Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen 📚
: I ordered a used copy of a paperback that was published in 1969. It was listed as being in good …
: 📚 A morbid longing for the picturesque: Donna Tartt's THE SECRET HISTORY Has a book ever broken you? By that I mean, all books after it suffered in comparison for some …
: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested. -Austin Kleon, SHOW YOUR WORK, p. 131
: Finished reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 📚
: I saw the news about Justice Ginsburg while my husband was reading bedtime stories to my son. I felt …
: Want to read: She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh …
: Want to read: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom 📚
: I don’t feel like writing an informative blog post today. It feels like a day for writing something …
: W: I would encourage you to have lunch. Me: I will, but right now I’m writing. (Y’ALL. I wrote NEW …
: Please do not ask me how many times my son and I have watched the Courtney 1986 music video from …
: Me to M & W: These days, besides you guys, books are my best friends. W: These days?
: Visualization to help us choose our next steps I was reading some of Jen Polk’s blog archives a while back and came across a post about a career …
: I have named my aesthetic and it is witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia.
: Three flavors of learning I’ve flirted on and off with #100DaysOfCode over the past few years, and always quit when I get to …
: Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) has created an amazing reading list for grad students and PhDs exploring …
: 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) writes about why he …
: New profile pic. I think we all knew that a headshot where I look like I dgaf would give way to one …
: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚
: 🔖Lee Skallerup Bessette sums up so much: Just because its hard, doesn’t mean it’s good and when …
: A quick note on MEXICAN GOTHIC 📚 This book is SO GOOD, but I don’t feel I can write a review that does it justice. It is a …
: My first PSL of the season. I waited until Bean Traders had them.
: I was already clued in to post-ac/alt-ac possibilities before beginning my PhD. For some reason, …
: I need to re-write my dissertation proposal, for myself. I’ve been a bit stuck with my dissertation, and only partly due to parenting and chronic illness. I …
: Me, browsing Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) website after reading about her in Katie Rose Guest …
: I’m out on timelines and feeds for a while, folks. Taking some time to be really intentional about …
: In which I have a mid-life crisis and freak out about schooling as a societal... thing. Woo Dead Poets Society! 📽️ I’ve been pulled deep into Dark Academia’s orbit, because it is the aesthetic I’ve been unknowingly …
: Finished reading: MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚
: 📽️ Just finished watching DEAD POETS SOCIETY for the first time in years and now I’m having an …
: My three-almost-four-year-old just said, “When I’m lonesome, my fear grows.”
: World, we had a Pandemic Parenting morning and even though the sources of stress were resolved by …
: Got a ring light, tripod, and bluetooth shutter so of course I had to have a little photo booth fun.
: 📓 Redefining my professional identity: From research assistant to doctoral researcher For the first few years of my doctoral program, I defined myself as a “doctoral student” and …
: Sometimes you and a friend come up with a hilarious idea and then a year later your friend executes …
: Had to use the Wayhome Tarot for Lindsay Mack’s Coming Home to Ourselves spread, if course. I, um, …
: I’m still/again grieving the dissertation I planned and will not get to carry out. Maybe I will do …
August 2020
: Becky Albertalli wrote this moving essay about her shifting understanding of her sexuality. The …
: 🔖📚 From Petra Mayer at NPR: Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers Well, that’s …
: 🔖📚 From Megan Mabee at Book Riot: How The Hunger Games Prequel Helped Me Realize I’ve Changed I can …
: 📚 I’m reading MEXICAN GOTHIC and it’s wonderful but every description of the house gets me …
: 📽️ I am watching BLACK PANTHER for the first time. The fact that every single Wakandan is awesome is …
: I could use less productivity advice or inspiration and more permission to just be.
: I fell on the basement stairs yesterday and mildly sprained my right ankle. I sprained the left one …
: Pocketed to read later: People of color who craft are done being overlooked as customers and …
: 🎵 Do you think if I listen to Bauhaus for the rest of the day, that will magically make it be …
: My new glasses are the glasses of a woman who has no patience with BS.
: Welp. My whole household hates my new glasses.
: 💻 If you’re wondering what the heck this IndieWeb thing is that I’ve been going on about for 3+ …
: My new glasses are a little over-the-top, but then, so am I.
: Was just reading the Carolina Friends School Lower School page and saw they use “Ago!” “Ame!” as …
: 📓 Semi-structured interviews: Stick to only a few big questions, but leave room for follow-ups One of my responsibilities in the Equity in the Making lab is to create an interview guide that will …
: 📺 M. and I are watching MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC and I am reminded of the extent to which …
: I just read “sheltering in place” as “shattering in peace” so now you know how I’m doing today.
: Still planning to post at kimberlyhirsh.com and auto-crosspost to Twitter and Tumblr, but not …
: Tracy Deonn's LEGENDBORN: Black Girl Magic, Dark Academia, and Arthuriana ON MY CAMPUS! 📚 Publisher’s Summary: After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants …
: 📚 I’ve got about 100 pages left in #LEGENDBORN & won’t write a full review til I’ve finished but I …
: Reply to Another day in Hellsville: It is a lot. Having caregiving responsibilities adds another …
: Current professional goals: 1. Be a qualitative researcher. (I am now, but I think I would like to …
: How did it take me until just now to consciously verbalize the fact that THE SECRET GARDEN is a …
: The internet has been full of productivity-in-a-pandemic advice for months and I’m over it. I tell …
: I have become super enamored of the #darkacademia aesthetic, but being in actual academia, this is …
: Teen, new adult, and undergrad librarians, let me introduce you to your new best friend: the …
: 📚 17/31 THE ONE WHERE I RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD by Daniel Crocker. Excerpt from “C is for Cookie”: “You …
: Hi. I don’t feel like it today, and it’s okay if you don’t feel like it either. Whatever it is.
: I'm done with exfoliants and goals. #TeamLowBar Recently, I squeezed some of my Shea Moisture African Black Soap Soothing Body Wash on a washcloth …
: We share our hot takes in order that we may refine them: Makerspaces should consider sewing …
: I did more #motherscholar-ing this morning, saying things like “I would do a visual analysis of …
: A refinement of my earlier hot take: a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch should be considered …
: Hot take: A serger should be assumed basic equipment in every makerspace. 🧵
: Switching all my wallpapers to this “Keep going. You’re doing great.” wallpaper by Esmé Weijun Wang. …
: In case you need some very trivial but good news today: After a LOT of work, it seems like maybe …
: Anybody know of somebody doing research on makerspaces specifically located in schools of education? …
: Hear me out: A first-year experience librarian [PDF], but for grad students.
: Help me #TeamLowBar, I set my low bar too high!
: Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin 📚🧵🧶
: 📚 16/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS by Blake Hackler. Excerpt from “On The Other Side”: …
: I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing classes …
: I think my aesthetic is that I’m the librarian at the boarding school all the dark academia kids …
: 📚 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from “Alma”: “Gorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, …
: Here’s the truth about life, kids: not one of us has it figured out. Every person who looks like …
: 📚 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new rubies/of wild cinnamon …
: 📚 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: “I never …
: My glasses broke. No advice needed: there’s no easy fix. I ordered 2 pair so that when this happens …
: Did some very strong #motherscholar-ing this morning, simultaneously joining a meeting on branding …
: I used to keep this circlet in my office for days when I needed a boost. It might become my …
: I have all my best ideas around 3 AM.
: 📚 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: “the boy will be stiff if & only …
: Because I am both a qualitative researcher and a web developer, when I see people talk about …
: Time to take Count Rugen’s advice. via GIPHY
: How Daddy types vs how Mommy types, according to my very observant child.
: 🔖 Here’s a study that combines my loves for qualitative coding, comedy, and tween media: More than …
: 📚 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: “The hearse. …
: Help I took a Zoom meeting in bed and now I don’t want to get up.
: What I'm excited about today: public scholarship and #SocSciComm 📓 Today, I’m excited about: The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship the first meeting of …
: My kid is really getting into hygge.
: 📚 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge
: 🔖2015 Kimberly would be SO EXCITED about this article: ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ Using …
: 📓 It’s the first day of class! I’ve been done with coursework since the end of 2017, but I still …
: 🔖From Pat Thomson, the ’later on’ PhD …what the professional usually wants from their PhD are …
: 📚 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge
: Me: So I was watching “Big Business.” W: What’s “Big Business”? Me: 😲
: My favorite thing about live-tweeting The Emperor’s New Groove today was researching Peruvian …
: Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry 📚
: 📽️ Late to the party but here I go. #20YearsOfGroove …
: 📚 8/31 CHICKENHAWKS & GOLDILOCKS by Grey Vild. Excerpt from “A prayer no one wants to”: “But you …
: 🔖 Katie Yee’s Very Good Writing Advice from New Girl’s Nick Miller is the most delightful thing I’ve …
: 📚 7/31 SPACE BABY: EPISODES I - III by Nicole Oquendo. Excerpt from “I.vi.”: “You have read about …
: Here’s how I cope with dissertation-related anxiety: make a plan. Send advisor doomy email about …
: A bookcase that converts to a coffin feels very on-brand for me.
: 📚 6/31 WOLF DAUGHTER by Amy Watkins. Excerpt from “sixteen”: “It was my voice she wanted,/as I …
: Feeling bad, feeling better, and making it work with illness “Have you ever felt pain in literally all of your joints at once?” I asked W. last night. “No,” he …
: 📚 5/31 [RE]CONSTRUCTION OF THE NECROMANCER by Hannah V. Warren. Excerpt from “Forgetting More Than I …
: Just over here with my kid binge-watching Mr. Jim’s Story Time (@JimTheLibrarian on Twitter). How’s …
: Got it down to 15 categories! #SocSciComm #InfoLit #FanLIS
: Me, today: Drinking coffee and getting work done. LIKE A BADASS.
: Got it down to 17 categories. I don’t think I can do much better than that. When you’re stuck, go …
: I interviewed 10 cosplayers; together they used over 60 different terms to describe the resources …
: 📚 4/31 TO THE BONE by Angela Narciso Torres. Excerpt from “Self-portrait as Water”: “most forgiving …
: No YOU’RE considering pivoting after graduation to a career that focuses on supporting mothers in …
: From Parul Sehgal: In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle In this piece that is mostly a review of Jacqueline Rose’s book Mothers: An Essay on Love and …
: Currently reading: ‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher: A Pragmatic Look at Precarious Work by …
: Finished reading: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing 📚
: 📚 3/31 ELECTRIC ARCHES by Eve L. Ewing. Excerpt from “to the notebook kid”: “it’s that flows and …
: Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. …
: Pocketing this Book Riot post on rad poetry from the Women’s Suffrage Movement for later in …
: Are you in academia or alt-ac? Talk to me about your current productivity or lack thereof, the grace …
: From Lauren Elkin: "Why All the Books About Motherhood?" I’ve been sitting on Lauren Elkin’s article asking “Why all the books about motherhood? for a year …
: Feeling bummed because I know the savviest angle on my research is misinformation and disinformation …
: Finished reading: Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen 📚
: 📚 2/31 NOT HERE by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Excerpt from “Heavy”: “There are days when I give up on my …
: From Hillary Frank: The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers Despite receiving multiple rejections from radio station editors, journalist and author Hillary …
: Me: Napster is clearly the best P2P file sharing app. W: Mmmm… Me: What? What’s better than Napster? …
: Finished reading: Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora 📚
: From Austin Kleon: Books on art and motherhood During my son’s first few weeks, I spent most of his naps reading about matrescence (the process of …
: 📚 1/31 UNACCOMPANIED by Javier Zamora. Excerpt from “Then, It Was So”: “…Cariño,/it was so quiet …
: 🔖 From The Oatmeal: Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned about Creativity This is so good. If …
July 2020
: #TheSealeyChallenge Link Roundup 📚 I’ve been looking for ways to read more books and talk to more people about them, so when the Book …
: Welcome to Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers Yesterday, I talked about my project, Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers and how I would …
: Me: Whoa, Muppets Now crashed Disney+! Internet: No, Kimberly. Beyoncé did it. Me: squinting Or was …
: Curating stories of motherhood and creativity, esp. writing Exactly a year and a half ago, I started a newsletter called Genetrix after reading Grace Elliott’s …
: Given that my estrogen & progesterone are at their lowest & that today is today, this was an extra …
: Want to read: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚
: Want to read: The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich 📚
: Just added new content to my reading page 📚: updated 2020 reading goals, a …
: 📺 I recently binged Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, about an ambitious Latina middle schooler …
: Made myself a half-caf with Fast Forward and Slow Motion from Counter Culture and oh my goodness it …
: Finished reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by …
: TFW you’re coding an interview transcript & say to your past self, “PLEASE have asked this follow up …
: First Med Deli gluten free chocolate cake in about 4 years. NOM NOM NOM.
: How do people do things? Do I seem to do things? I feel like I do no things. I feel like my life is …
: 🔖 5 Productivity Practices That Helped Me Finish My Dissertation Thought I would feel attacked by …
: W. and I have now been married longer than we were together before we were married. He continues to …
: 🔖 The Allure of the Nap Dress, the Look of Gussied-Up Oblivion I don’t have a clothing budget these …
: A post-ac/alt-ac reading list Posting this list of books here in case others might find it useful. It will probably grow with …
: Advanced Literature Review Tips By far, my most visited blog post ever is my Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow and …
: Creative Time as Meditation Time What if we considered our creative time to be meditation time? Repetitive crafts like knitting, …
: 🔖 Kelly J. Baker’s essay, “You Were Ambitious,” struck me to the core. Cross-posted to: Twitter
: Lithub takes a fun dive into all the books people read or reference in Clueless. 📚
: Sometimes, one little thing can take a lot out of me. Today, the plumber came to my house around …
: If you ever wonder how my brain works, simply recall that I’ve been writing with hypertext since …
: My new dream: To write and share helpful things I think a lot about dreams. Following them. Achieving them. Making new ones. The first dream I …
: 💬📚 “The Spy Girls are what happens when you record an episode of Charlie’s Angels over a VHS copy of …
: 📺 Netflix's Babysitters Club: Response and Link Roundup 📚 I binged the Netflix Babysitters Club series last weekend. Growing up, I was not a Babysitters Club …
: 🔖📺 Alex Brannan’s article, “It Could Be About Anything”: Middleditch & Schwartz and the Viability of …
: So happy to have this Silvia Moreno-Garcia reading pathway from Book Riot, because I’ve been …
: I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be working as a research assistant with Dr. Maggie Melo on her NSF …
: Who will I be? 2020-2021 edition On my last birthday, I set out a list of things that described who I wanted to be in the coming …
: Want to read: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry 📚
: RSVP yes to A Domain of One’s Own Meetup | July 23, 2020
: How to Celebrate Kimbertide (AKA my birthday, AKA Bastille Day) About 10 years ago, when I shared that I usually take at least a week to celebrate my birthday and …
: Want to read: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans 📚
: Pretty proud of my first Scratch project. It looks like a little thing, but if you click “See …
: 📺 “Parents are just older weirdos, doing the best they can. Just like the rest of us.” Netflix’s …
: 🔖 Adrienne So’s Wired piece, ”‘Crisis Schooling’ and the New Rhythms of Pandemic Parenting," makes …
: Just received the Call for Proposals for the Fan Studies Network North America virtual conference & …
: Page of Cups and Knight of Cups: the two sides of my soul. (Cards are from the Moonchild Tarot by …
: Want to read: BIG FRIENDSHIP How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman 📚
: Want to read: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green 📚
: TFW you have to go back to the literature and carefully review it to figure out the next step for …
: My Favorite People with Weird Internet Careers I started reading Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, this morning. I first became familiar …
: I just added a Reading page to my site. It lists every book I’ve read since March 2007. Over time, …
: Want to read: Want by Lynn Steger Strong 📚
: 🔖 📚 I found myself wanting to read so many of the books on Book Riot’s Best Books of 2020 So Far …
: 📝 📚 “…we have little hope of producing excellent writing unless we write a great deal… If we want …
: 📝📚 I’ve started doing The Artist’s Way. Yesterday I read the chapter for Week 1 (which, now that I’m …
: 📚 Reflecting on Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" Please note: Robin DiAngelo says she’s writing for a white audience, and I’m white, so my …
: I’ll be 39 in a little over a week, so I decided it was time to just lean into becoming my mother. 📚
: Finished reading: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 📚
: From NPR: A Competition To Finish Louisa May Alcott’s Story - I mean why have a competition when you …
: What to an American Is the Fourth of July? Power comes before freedom, not the other way around. - …
: Oh yeah THAT’S why I always stop listening after “Cabinet Battle #2.” 😭
: I’m watching Hamilton & of course it’s amazing but I’m especially blown away by how much more …
: Started CS50x and programming with Scratch last night and definitely decided to build a robot to be …
: Want to read: The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuil 📚
: I just realized that part of watching Hamilton will involve watching “It’s Quiet Uptown” and now I’m …
: School and Life goals for 2020 Q3 Here are my goals for 2020 Q3: School goals Complete my dissertation data collection. Write two …
: I drew The Tower for my daily tarot pull. There’s a person on the left falling off the tower. …
: Getting back into 100 Days of #bluemind with a Blue Mind Company sticker on my second notebook for …
June 2020
: Want to read: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚
: 📚 Dr. Kelly J. Baker's "Grace Period" resonated strongly with me. A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading Dr. Kelly J. Baker’s book, Grace Period: A Memoir in …
: Want to read: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow 📚
: Want to read: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall 📚
: 📚 Naomi Alderman's "The Power" and the end of the #girlboss era I read Naomi Alderman’s The Power very quickly (well, what passes for quickly now that I’m a mom) …
: 📚 Finished reading The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) Another …
: 📚 Just finished reading The Power by Naomi Alderman. It’s so good and I want to write about it in …
: 📚 Want to read: Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Data Science in …
: Looking back at the first half of 2020 We’re coming up on Q3 of 2020 and I don’t know how the year is going for you (except to the extent …
: Hi friend. I’m taking a break from most social media right now. It can be valuable for a lot of …
: Oh oh oh, so THIS is what it feels like to care about something besides keeping your child and …
: I’m excited to read this IFLA special issue on information literacy, and also keenly aware that I …
: Move Slowly and Mend Things 📚 I’m re-reading Jeff Goins’s book, You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) and I came upon a bit …
: When I express frustration about squeezing work in around childcare, I am NOT complaining about …
: Why won’t my brain? It just won’t.
: Hands can blog today, but brain won't, so have some stuff from other people that's great. 📚 🖖 Kelly J. Baker’s book Grace Period, which I devoured over the course of 2 days. I want to say so …
: Which characters feel like friends to you? A little over a year ago, M. and I were in Atlanta to accompany W., who was attending an …
: High pain day. Hard to do any of my favorite things - just trying to get groceries ordered and then …
: I'm done being hard on myself (for today). I saw this tweet today: Want to succeed #withaphd? Don't disappear into an academic bubble while you …
: My (Remote) Interview Workflow, from Recruitment to Member Checking (Dissertating in the Open) Last Friday, I finished correcting the AI-provided transcripts for my dissertation interviews. This …
: Sharp & sparkly. I’m very happy to channel Mother of Swords @ this stage in the dissertation …
: Just finished correcting my interview transcripts and loading them into my data analysis software. …
: Me, in an interview w/ a cosplayer who, like myself, is a cosplayer d’un certain âge: I never …
: Third time The Chariot has come up in the past two weeks. From the Wayhome Tarot by Bakara Wintner …
: 📚 I just finished reading Alexandra Rowland’s (@_alexrowland on Twitter) A Choir of Lies and I’m not …
: More AI transcription fun: Ways my software transcribes Nightcrawler. nightbot. Nicole. Nikon. …
: Since last Monday, I’ve been beginning my work day with a Tarot pull. Today brought me the Daughter …
: Taking some time to share stories of and resources about Black joy. This CNN story about Black …
: Every day is a good day to listen to a bunch of songs focused on Black joy, curated by Sidney Madden …
: 🔖 Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest? And other commonly asked …
: Project READY is a series of free, online professional development modules for youth-serving library …
: Another valuable resource: Anti-Racism Resources: Books, Conversations and People Leading The Charge
: Bit of levity to break up the awfulness: the way my transcription software tries to transcribe …
May 2020
: Been quiet for the past couple of days because anything I have to say feels inane right now. This …
: 🔖 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice is immensely valuable, because it gives you …
: 🔖 Read recently: The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic Cosplay Is a Business …
: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 4: Aquarium Playlist In November 2018, I had respiratory inflammation that was on its way to becoming pneumonia when I …
: Pretty proud of my new About page. You should probably go read it.
: New bio: “space mermaid sparkle goth” and new profile photo: (If you, too, are obsessed with …
: 100 Days of #bluemind Day 3: Sat on the front porch and watched and listened to the rain. Tried to …
: This is not a polished blog. I’m still in a mostly flow, very little stock place. I’m coming up with ideas for blog posts all the …
: 👦 My child has decreed that henceforth this character shall be known as R2 Bleep Bloop. You’re …
: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 2: Took a drive along the North Durham Country Byway, crossing over Lake …
: 🧶Got bored making a sweater that just uses the same stitches over and over, so added Sophie’s …
: Had a great call with my school’s career services coordinator where she urged me not to let worrying …
: Today is the first day of the 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. I got my #bluemind on today by gazing …
: Deep cleaning 3 essential oil diffusers at once, as you do.
: I just realized that to figure out what professional options I want to consider in the future, I …
: I don’t think of librarianship as a CALLING, but I do consider it a disposition. For example, I just …
: Finished reading: The Addams Family: An Evilution by Charles Addams and Kevin Miserocchi 📚
: Happy World Goth Day! I’m GothEnough and if you want to be, so are you! If you are Not-a-Goth or not …
: 🔖 Read ‘A joyful thing’: the man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years. I have a bad …
: North Carolina is moving from Stay-at-Home to Safer-at-Home & I’m anxious about it. My swim club is …
: I just can’t brain this week, so I’m going to liveblog some career assessment results! First up, the …
: 🔖 Stuff I read yesterday: One of Oscar Wilde’s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore. …
: Want to read: Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright 📚
: 🔖 Read today: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Reading Time During the Pandemic - I can’t tell whether some …
: 🎮 I finished playing Final Fantasy VII Remake yesterday. I had fun with the game and I adore Tifa, …
: Lest I think I’m doing nothing during this social isolation time, in addition to raising my kid & …
: I’m struggling to dissertate today. My main task for the next little bit is just to correct AI …
: Thinking of changing my website’s title (but not my domain) from “Kimberly Hirsh” to “Kimberly Hirsh …
: 🔖🎵🎭📚 Read 8 Musicals that You Might Not Know Were Based on Books by Emily Neuberger. I’ve been …
: 🔖📝 Read How to Write 1000 Poems in a 1000 Days by Nick Asbury. More why to than how to, this is a …
: 👦 My kid just told me that Iron Lychee is a whole bunch of Iron Mans [sic] inside one giant Iron …
: The best part of conducting my dissertation interviews via Zoom is I get to see my participants’ …
: 📚 Reading Notes, Having Trouble Reading, and a Read What You Own Challenge I added a page to the index section of my Bullet Journal that tracks Reading Notes. I don’t like to …
: 👦 Me: One of the things a librarian can do is suggest a book you might like to read next. M: But we …
: The neighbors closest to the back of my property seem to be partying late into the night every …
: Feels like I’m really closing in on an accurate self-representation with my latest bio addition: …
: Bonus bio addition: “Let’s talk about Buffy. 👱♀️🧛♂️”
: Low energy + high pain = reading about ghosts while lying on a hammock. 👻📚
: Today’s bio addition: Gothic mermaid scholar-librarian net girl 💀
: I just don’t feel like blogging today. I’m not miserable or anything, just every time I start to …
: 📚 finished reading The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White This is a re-read; I …
: I spent the me-time my family generously gave me today mostly on brushing up my web development …
: We got a new hammock with stand for our deck, big enough for our whole household to fit in at once …
: Settling In My son is registered to start at a Quaker school in August. I don’t know what that will end up …
: 📚 Just found my copies of Making Sense of Qualitative Data (Coffey & Atkinson) and Writing the New …
: If I get one more listserv email advising me to use this time productively, I will be even more …
: 🔖 From Austin Kleon: Not Everything Will Be Okay But Some Things Will I share Kleon’s frustration …
: Life update: How things are going for me How’s your day going? Aside from the continuing world situation + its impact on higher ed (and thus …
: Taking a break from scrolling micro.blog and Twitter for a while. Still checking mentions …
: I know how to do stuff. Impostor syndrome is nonsense. Are you at loose ends? I’m at loose ends. I have a number of projects on the go but I am not doing a …
: 🎵🎭📚 You know that feeling when you’re irritated that you have to feed your family instead of just …
: Lately, my blogging has been all flow, no stock. That’s certainly not what I hoped for when I set …
: Oh hey, just over here pondering what LIS even means and whether information practice should be …
April 2020
: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: completed CSS Flexbox at freeCodeCamp. Previously on …
: I have bangs for the first time in 30 years and it’s Tifa’s fault. 🎮
: Dusk is bunny time in my yard and it is THE BEST.
: I have this problem where I want to buy all the Hot Topic shortalls because I’m pretty sure it’s …
: My AI transcription software knows the names of Pokemon and it’s going to make my research so much …
: I was a good mom this morning, so I’m going to be an okay academic this afternoon.
: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: continued the Applied Accessibility challenges at freeCodeCamp.
: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: finished freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design, started Applied …
: Just spent almost 2 hours correcting an AI transcript of a 47 minute interview. This is about 1/3 of …
: Today’s bio update: replaced “Mom & Scholar-Librarian” with “Mom. Learner. Infomancer. Editrix. …
: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: started freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design challenges. Too …
: Today’s #100DaysOfCode Progress: I completed all of the Basic CSS challenges at freeCodeCamp. I’ve …
: A (self)diagnosis For the past couple of years, I’ve felt like I was having a Hashimoto’s thyroiditis flare. But aside …
: #100DaysOfCode Round 1, 1/100 Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: I completed all of the “Basic HTML and HTML5” challenges at …
: Having another go at #100DaysofCode, because nobody ever said, “I sure wish my employee didn’t know …
: Took my kid for a drive this morning, just to do something different and because we were cleaning …
: “We want the human relationship with nature to be based on abundance, a relationship that encourages …
: My kid insists that Darkwing Duck’s sidekick is named Lunchpack, and it’s adorable.
: Today we went for a family walk and from a distance we saw a neighbor family walking their pig, and …
: Me: Hm, this is a lot of pain from this flare, whatever its origin. I think I’ll just watch Star …
: It’s a high pain day but my brain is less foggy than it has been in a while. Mens sana in corpore …
: Thank you, Reviewer 2! (No sarcasm!) As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been sitting on an accepted-with-revisions paper for well over a year. …
: This is an… interesting… time to be researching cosplay.
: Kim Werker, one of my favorite people I’ve never met, is offering her course Crochet for Challenging …
: Going to re-learn knitting so that I can make all the things from Doomsday Knits, including the …
: Information and Learning Sciences: Situating my work at the intersection Since the beginning of my doctoral program, I’ve struggled to situate my work and research …
: 📚 Finished reading: Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter You …
: 📚 Abandoning Blue Mind for now, but I definitely want to come back to it.
: I’m struggling to write a blog post today or even a short note. My mood is low due to extreme …
: Today in My Son, the 3 Year Old Fic Author: a crossover in which Spider-Man and the Ninja Turtle …
: Doing a 15 minute #AcWri challenge I’m reading Dr. Katie Linder’s blog archive. One of her earliest posts is titled 51 Tips to Help …
: Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. I’m a learner who writes.
: 📺 So is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a jukebox-musical version of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?
: I’m sure there are grad students for whom a list of ways to stay productive right now might be …
: I just DMed 6 cosplayers on Instagram to invite them to participate in my study. 5 were in person …
: Sometimes, as an exercise to give me insight into what I should be focusing on, where I should put …
: 🎮 I think Tifa is my fave now? I always liked her, but now I like her best?
: Weekly Update: 04/11/20 We just finished up week 4 of staying at home. In one sense, I didn’t have much going on before …
: Sesame Street is a great comedy school. My preferred comedy format, though I’ve not really performed it, is sketch. Yes, I did improv for …
: Facebook Live museum tours on my calendar today, The Dark Crystal exhibit at the Center for Puppetry …
: Because it’s seasonally appropriate, today we’re listening to Christo Graham’s Muppet Christ …
: Guess I have to not Internet until after our copy of FF7R gets here… See y’all later, probably with …
: 📺 My wishlist for Picard Season 2: Geordi More Spot II
: Feeling like hiding today, but I worked on recruiting for my dissertation and put my CV on …
: I definitely have some sensory processing problems & they’ve gotten worse since isolating. I have to …
: Changing my research design I submitted proposed changes to my research design to my committee today. I had to make these …
: I’m reading Lori Morimoto’s (@acafanmom on Twitter) book, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies and …
: Something about watching Picard gives me the same feeling as reading a novel and I love it. 📺🖖
: Want to read: Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil 📚
: Weekly Update: 04/03/20 First, some cute things my kid said. He was talking about flushing the toilet and said that the …
: Wisdom from the Co-Star app All you have to do this month is allow for things to feel uncertain. Now is a good time to …
: Everybody get the Marco Polo app and let’s have asynchronous video chats.
: My three-year-old is over here writing fix-it fic for The Velveteen Rabbit. 📚
: I know this isn’t what actually happened, but I like to imagine that I summoned into being the …
: I fell into a new COVID-19 spiral today. This went beyond anxiety and felt closer to depression. The …
: 📚 The library is closed, limiting my book borrowing options, but the gym is also closed, freeing up …
: It’s nice to see that Alexandra Rowland has written a book for/about me. 📚
: I’m having a down day. Not helping is this (extremely informative but also depressing) piece from …
: More gold from McSweeney’s: Self-Isolation or Graduate School?
: McSweeney’s Frog and Toad are self-quarantined friends by Jennie Egerdie is my favorite art to come …
March 2020
: The Punky Brewster episode “The Perils of Punky” aired in 1985. In it, Punky’s dog is turned into a …
: Don't wait until you know who you are to get started, scholars. This is part two of a series in which I’m writing up how Austin Kleon’s work particularly relevant …
: Steal Like an Artist for Scholars Austin Kleon is one of the creative people who have had the greatest influence on my thinking about …
: I feel like when you’re young & you realize you’re weird you can choose one of two protective …
: You can comment on kimberlyhirsh.com now! I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about what I consider the golden age of blogging - probably …
: I’m obsessed with the 1997.chat app and sad about my empty buddy list. You can find me at Kiba Rika.
: Weekly Update: 03/27/20 I’m trying a new thing with a weekly round-up on Friday. This has been the second week of social …
: My son and I have been listening to the Frog and Toad audiobook collection, read by the author, …
: I put on the Labyrinth soundtrack & said to W, “This music is so good.” He said, “I’m not sure if …
: Long before the coronavirus moved from animals to humans, I had set myself a goal of recognizing the …
: I ordered my sister from a catalog. The other day I mentioned how I named my sister after a preschool friend. When I was 3, I was …
: My city’s mayor issued a Stay-at-Home order today. I’m grateful that the two people I’m staying at …
: Do stuff your three-year-old self liked. After realizing that 1. The Muppets (specifically those of The Muppet Show) is pretty much my first …
: Spread the word: my blog host, micro.blog, is offering teachers free hosting for the next six …
: 🎵 Introducing: #showtunesisters (i.e., me challenging my sister to sing showtune duets with me) View this post on Instagram Challenging @ailuruscosmos to join me for a #showtunesisters duet. An …
: Baby Piggy is me: “Everyone knows the most important thing about being a rock star is LOOKING like a …
: My sister’s friend Connor shared this hilarious Les Mis parody dedicated to teachers with us.
: I like The Muppets (2015) TV show more than I thought I would. 📺 _My brother gave me [this Muppet version of The Phantom of the Opera …
: Our family's social distancing schedule I wanted to share our family’s current weekday schedule, mostly to help other people feel okay about …
: From my last note, which said only “It me,” you may be wondering “What she?” I was trying to include …
: Life has been extra intense from March 6 until now. I missed a dissertation fellowship application …
: What I'm doing about my pandemic anxiety Something in me has broken, and now I am cracked, open and vulnerable. For the first time yesterday, …
: When my kid’s preschool announced that they would be closing, I had plans to blog daily about my …
: M. asked “How old is Darth Vader?” I calculated using this timeline & told M., “41, the same age as …
: Social distancing day 4, no preschool day 2: M is enjoying these miniature water beads from …
: My kid just showed me his Winnie the Pooh in a Santa outfit stuffy and said, “So this is Santa… OR …
: Whitney (@whitneyellenb) & I are going to post about the video games we play while stuck at home …
: Let’s all give ourselves permission to be thoroughly mediocre parents for the next few weeks.
: I’m totally accepting keypals/epals to help stave off social isolation during social distancing. …
: 🔖 Keeping kids busy at home Storing links here so they’re easy for me to find when I need them during the next two weeks. Maybe …
: Local schools are closing, including my Montessori/co-working space, so I’m now a stay-at-home mom …
: No YOU want to buy every Leia item in the new Jen Bartels collection, twice, so you can keep one of …
: Also, I love being on podcasts, so if you need a guest for yours, hit me up.
: I guested on a podcast for the first time in almost 5 years! And I only talked about BtVS a little! …
: Current wishlist: Everything BtVS on Hot Topic
: Changing my research plans in light of COVID-19 All friends & students who are in the midst of dissertation data collection - I know recent events …
: Hi, I’m Kimberly, and today I’m wearing yoga pants with combat boots.
: Rather than an elbow bump, I’m planning to replace handshakes and high fives with a forearm bash. …
: Reintroducing Genetrix, curating stories about creative mothers Last January, I launched Genetrix, a newsletter to curate stories of creative mothers. After sending …
: 🎙️ Listened to Mighty Creative, episodes: Prologue: The Podcast Is Back 101 - Prerequisite …
: 📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 23, “Skin of Evil.”
: 🧶 Finally finished crocheting these dragon scale fingerless gloves. They’re a birthday gift for my …
: 📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 episodes 1 & 2, “Encounter at Farpoint.” As a kid, …
: Y’all, my brother’s latest cartoon is hilarious. Lots of fun visual gags. Watch at least twice. …
: 🎵 Another Dragonforce recommendation: “Symphony of the Night”. (If you think you know what it is, …
: 🎵 Decided to listen to Power Metal while working today. There’s a lot wrong with the world, but …
: Want to read: Fibershed : growing a movement of farmers, fashion activists, and makers for a new …
: Here’s your (somewhat) regularly scheduled voting selfie!
: 03/02/20 Process Memo I spent some time this morning installing encryption software so that I can encrypt the data files I …
: Having a low spoons day today, so I’m working through a bunch of fiddly, errand-type to-do list …
: 🔖 Read: Fake News and Instagram 7 Ways to Survive a Flare When You’re Chronically Ill 16 Simple Ways …
: 🎮 Played Monument Valley 2. I loved it but it went so fast!
: 📚 Want to Read: How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard
: 02/28/2020 Process Memo: Beginning sustained, systematic observation I began my sustained, systematic observation today by gathering my initial resources for this phase. …
: Just skimmed Parenting Doesn’t Matter, the main premise of which is that according to science, your …
February 2020
: What am I opening? (Dissertating in the Open) I’ve been doing some reading this week on what it means to dissertate in the open, and as there are …
: Dissertating in the Open: Beginning to Set Up a Data Collection Structure I’ve been trying to establish my data collection/analysis workflow and I’m running into the age-old …
: Dissertating in the Open: Writing and Defending the Dissertation Proposal I successfully defended my dissertation proposal on February 3, 2020. I have one huge piece of …
: Just lost a really long post about my dissertation proposal and proposal defense because, like a …
: So my dissertation study was determined exempt from further review so I guess I have to actually, …
: Starting to create a data collection/analysis workflow... Not there yet. Most of my blogging has been micro this month, which is appropriate since I’m hosting my blog on …
: 📚 Want to read: Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD
: 📚 Want to read: Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World by Roman Krznaric Found this on …
: 📚 Set aside for now with plans to pick back up later: Total Immersion Swim Ultra-efficient Freestyle …
: 📚 Currently reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum, M.D., M.P.H.
: 📺 Watched Brooklyn 99: Season 6 - episode 18, “Suicide Squad” Season 7 episodes - 1, “Manhunter” 2, …
: 📽️ Watched Notting Hill. As cute as it was when it was released. We were all so much younger in …
: 📚 Currently reading: Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier by …
: 📚 Currently reading: Swim Ultra-efficient Freestyle by Terry Laughlin 🏊🐬
: Help me identify my strengths & make plans for what’s next! This is a 4-question sentence-completion …
: Want to read: Going Alt-Ac by Kathryn E. Linder, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas J. Tobin 📚
: This is pretty much two weeks’ worth of online reading. 🔖 Read: The Plan of Attack Burned Out …
: 📽️ Watched Spider-Man: Homecoming. Oh my goodness did I enjoy this one. Spidey has been my second …
: I have, um, really different feelings about Jean-Luc Picard on ST:TNG rewatch than I did from 1987 - …
: 📚 So, The Starless Sea. This is going to be fairly stream-of-consciousness and more about my …
: This is what going Full Kimberly looks like.
: Currently reading His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. 📚
: Finished reading The Starless Sea (affiliate link). So much to say about this book but too tired to …
: 📽️ Watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I remember when this came out hearing friends debate …
: 📚 Read House of X #1. I’m excited about this book and the Dawn of X relaunch event. It’s nice to …
: Currently reading: eBay for Dummies by Marsha Collier 📚
: I just audibly gasped because Splash is on Disney+.
: Had a dream that my committee required a year to read my dissertation between submission and defense …
: Every time I go to Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston, SC, USA I’m delighted by this sign they place …
: Raging because I don’t understand how OneDrive is supposed to work and thus lost more than half of …
: Mom dreams: this morning, I dreamed I had to save Michelangelo, who was trapped in a collapsed Roman …
: My kid paints these giant abstract paintings; I call him my little Rothko. I cut hearts out from 2 …
: I stepped outside for an unexpected emergency medical shopping expedition this morning and the moon …
: Took my favorite person to my favorite spot in Charleston yesterday, but forgot to post the picture …
: 🎮 Played Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores (again not for the first time).
: Little and big reading together.
: 🔖 Read: What We Link to When We Link to Books The art of rejection The art of mending The Origins Of …
: 🎮 Played Monument Valley (not for the first time). As beautiful and satisfying as ever.
: 🔖 Read: 3 Supplements I Give My Kids to Boost Their Immune Systems at Preschool and Daycare by …
: Metadata mermaid doodle. It me!
: I’m vaguely appalled at the mobile-unfriendliness of the official websites of a couple of knowledge …
: 🔖 Read Ask an Astrologer: How can I create more success and flow for in my career according to the …
: Made some Paleo-ish Chocolate frosted chocolate donuts.
: 🔖 Read How to build wealth slowly Paul Jarvis
: 📽️ Watched Doctor Strange. I don’t have strong feelings about this one. The visuals were super cool …
: Pieces for my first ever Kitty Pryde cosplay started arriving today!
: 🎧 Listened to Beetlejuice (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Best part - Delia: Crystals speak to …
: Me: These hanging jewelry organizer pockets are so big. I should put multiple pairs of earrings in …
: “Practice loving yourself with the same exhilaration of a new crush.” Co-star has given me this …
: 🔖 Read: “Welcome back blogging?” by CJ Chilvers ”The life model of blogging" by Colin Walker
: Spotted this little mushroom nestled in the grass outside the co-working space/Montessori School.
: Currently reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by …
: 📺 Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episode 7, “Duel of the Droids.”
: This is what one doctoral candidate looks like.
: It’s Proposal Defense Eve, when Impostor Syndrome comes out to frolic!
: 📺 Watched Ranma 1/2, season 1, episode 1.
: 📺 Watched Sailor Moon, Season 1, episodes 1 & 2.
: 📺 Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episodes: 1 “Ambush” 2 “Rising Malevolence” 3 “Shadow …
: Imbolc Tarot Spread by Lindsay Mack Cards are The Moonchild Tarot. What seeds did I plant at the …
: Want to read: Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson 📚
January 2020
: Switching my kid’s carseat from rear-facing to front-facing is a much bigger milestone than I …
: 🔖 Read: Are Docs Comfortable? 10 Reasons to Wear Dr. Martens Boots by RosaMorelli How to Break in a …
: 🔖 Read: How I Tricked Myself Into Reading More Books by Patrick Allan 14 Ways to Cultivate a …
: I was trying to figure out how to scrape data from YouTube for my dissertation & then I remembered I …
: Want to read: The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin 📚
: 🔖 Read: Motherhood and Spirituality: A New Kind of Enlightenment by Astra Niedrea What Is Hygge? …
: Want to read: The Once and Future Geek by Mari Mancusi 📚
: Want to read: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia 📚
: Look, I’m never not going to have a crush on Wil Wheaton, okay? (This message brought to you by his …
: Want to read: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi 📚
: Want to read: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty 📚
: 🎵 Listened to The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists. I “picked this up,” to the extent that one …
: Want to read: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel 📚
: 🎲 Played Illimat yesterday. Gorgeous and fun. I want to play it all the time now. Also, it’s got me …
: Okay but WHY a PhD? And what next? Sometimes I ask myself why I’m doing a PhD and what I’m getting out of it. This is actually a long …
: Revelation that should have been obvious to me before now: all of life is laundry & dishes & …
: 🔖 Read: A Checklist for Your Very First Altar by Amy Wall How to Soften Acrylic Yarn & Save Your …
: 🔖 Read: When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide by Asher Elbein Hopepunk, the latest …
: M just now: Here you go, Daddy, I have some secret battle plans for you from Princess Leia. Me: ⚰️💀🥀
: The scene of tonight’s New Moon tarot reading, my first with the Wayhome Tarot. I love all of my …
: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is (90s gothic) noblebright while Angel is (pretty widely accepted as) …
: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The criticisms of this are really interesting. I definitely …
: W: Do you dare to eat a peach? Me: I would sit on its throne.
: One of my plans for 2020 is that if something is easy & helpful (as opposed to harmful), I do it. To …
: I’ve re-started The Starless Sea once, decided to re-start again but didn’t, once, and am now in the …
: 🔖 Read If Your Wellness Isn’t Intersectional Then You’re Not “Well.” You’re Racist. by Michelle …
: 💻 Completed MDN’s What’s in the head? Metadata in HTML, HTML text fundamentals, and Test your …
: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Getting started with HTML
: 🔖 Read: How the Web works by Mozilla Developer Network HTML by Mozilla Developer Network …
: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Publishing your website.
: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Javascript basics.
: Doing a big Tumblr unfollow, too. Messages and asks are open, though.
: Doing a big Twitter unfollow over the next few days (probably of literally everyone), then will add …
: Reclaiming my Spotify recommendations My kid has taken over my Spotify recommendations. My Discover Weekly this week includes: Rainbow …
: Currently reading: Reinventing You by Dorie Clark 📚
: 🔖 Read: Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic? by Sarah Jeong Hide and …
: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Unlike everyone else, this is my least …
: Want to read: How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs 📚
: Want to read: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs 📚
: 🔖 Read What’s wrong with sitting down in the shower? by Tom Meltzer Since I sprained my ankle but …
: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s: What will your website look like? Dealing with files HTML …
: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. This one is about exactly like I remember …
: 🍿 This is the best thread I’ve read in forever, and it’s so heartening to see somebody come fresh to …
: 💻 Watched: Getting started with Visual Studio Code How the Internet works in 5 minutes
: 🔖 Read: The old internet by Rebecca Toh How and why to keep a commonplace book by Ryan Holiday What …
: Finished reading: How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick 📚
: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. This isn’t as bad as I remembered. It’s still …
: If I could give you a piece of advice today, it would be not to try carrying four ninja turtle …
: 💻 Completed the remaining 8 challenges in the Basic CSS portion of freecodecamp’s Responsive Web …
: 📚 Read X-Men: First Class Vol. 1, #s 1 - 3.
: 🔖 Read: 3 ways to make Spotify’s killer feature even smarter by Xiomara Blanco These five tricks …
: 💻 Completed the first 36 (of 44) challenges in Basic CSS for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web Design …
: Finished reading: X-Men: Season One by Dennis Hopeless and Jamie McKelvie 📚
: Me, after finding out Chris Claremont will be at Oak City Comicon:
: A (somewhat dry) musical autobiography: Addendum 🎵📽 I realized as I was describing yesterday’s musical autobiography (which is different than an …
: Just found out Chris Claremont is coming to Oak City Comicon & I’m over here having a tiny silent …
: 🔖 Read: Blogging the PhD journey by Kay Oddone Join the #100DaysOfCode by Alexander Kallaway The …
: 💻 Completed Basic HTML and HTML5 for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web Design certification. (Again. …
: Want to read: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 📚
: I only have to get through the next 40 minutes, then I can hand M. off to my m-i-l and lie down. …
: A (somewhat dry) musical autobiography 🎵📽📚 I don’t know if it’s a problem or a good thing that when my mind can’t come up with a topic to …
: 📚 Read Ultimate Spider-Man #4.
: 📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episode 8, “A Jewish Girl Walks into the Apollo…”
: 🔖 Read: Content, bloat, privacy, archives by @petermolnar Owning my reading log by Tom MacWright A …
: Why do I blog what I blog? I’ll have a post later today with some links to things I’m reading, but for now, I’ll chat about the …
: 📚 Read Ultimate Spider-Man #2, #3.
: 🔖 Read Bloggers are not reporters and Journalists: We are not you by Dave Winter via Frank …
: 💻 Watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | ‘Turtles Take Time (and Space 🌎)’ by Brandon Auman
: 📚 Read: We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses by …
: 🔖 Read The Bassist in Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is Inspired By the Revolutionary Real-Life Musician …
: 📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episodes: 4 “Hands!” 5 “It’s Comedy or Cabbage” 6 …
: 🔖 Read Thoughts on linkblogs, bookmarks, reads, likes, favorites, follows, and related links by …
: Here’s what I look for in my Star Wars content: Fun Optimism about what a few dedicated people can …
: 🔖 Read An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet by Aaron Parecki
: 🔖 Read Titling it “The Problem That Has No Name” seemed a bit heavy handed by Drew Zandonella In the …
: 🔖 Read Carbon monoxide emergency is Durham’s Katrina, McDougald Terrace residents tell city. CW: …
: 📚 Want to read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield 📚
: 📽️ Watched The Empire Strikes Back
: Updated my Now page! Just updated my Now page with the following information: I’m living happily in Durham, North …
: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 8: Redemption”
: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 7: The Reckoning”
: Made a less-paleo, less-vegan version of beaming baker’s 2 ingredient 5 minute homemade fudge, …
: M (3 yo): grabs toy phone, gets in toy car, waits for me to answer phone Me: Hello? M: Hi, it’s me. …
: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 6: The Prisoner”
: 📚 Want to read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
: I just realized that the frequency with which I suggest purchases for my local library makes me …
: Quick reading response - Why Johnny Doesn't Flap: NT is OK! 📚 Some quick notes on Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK!: This is a kid’s picture book all about how …
: 📚 Finished reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 📚
: 📚 Read Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK! by Clay Morton & Gail Morton
: 📚 Want to read One Person/Multiple Careers by Marci Alboher 📚
: 📚 Want to read Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher
: 📷 Leaning into the middle-aged librarian stereotype with a glasses chain, though apparently they …
: Migrating my site from WordPress to micro.blog I spent my winter vacation migrating my website from WordPress to micro.blog. I thought I’d write a …
: Watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time in years & I’d forgotten what a delight Yoda is. …
: Between supplements & prescriptions, I swallow 24 pills every day, take 2 tinctures, 1 …
: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger”
: Escaped “The Green Room” at Tic Toc Escapes. 🔒
: 🔖 Read 100 things that made my year (2019) Austin Kleon captures so many beautiful small moments …
: 📖 Currently reading How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick 📚
: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 4: Sanctuary”
: 📷 Soul Expansion Spread by Lindsay Mack of Wild Soul Healing. 2020 is an Emperor year: structure and …
: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Wasn’t sure how I would like it, given the responses I’d …
December 2019
: 📖 Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚
: 💬 Replied to None of the kids wanted toys for Christmas this year, they just wanted cash. …
: 📔 Hi there! I’m considering migrating my WordPress site to micro.blog, and am playing with the post …
: 📔 I know I just took a hiatus because of comps, but now I’m taking another one for the holidays. See …
: 📖 Read Frozen II (Midwest Film Journal) by Aly Caviness I was going to write a whole blog post about …
: 2019 Year-in-Review & 2020 Word of the Year 📄 I didn’t feel ready to write a year-in-review post before now, but here we are! So what did I get …
: Dissertating in the Open: Comprehensive Qualifying Exams I passed my comps last Tuesday, and I thought I’d take some time to write about it today. …
: Hey guess what I passed my comps. Taking a post-comps hiatus. See y’all Monday.
: It’s remarkable how chill I am about my comps oral exam tomorrow. I guess I’m just… ready.
: This little comb-bound packet represents a year’s worth of work.
: Today I finished my dissertation proposal and sent it to my committee. I sent them the literature …
: NOW I’ve finished my dissertation proposal, and even sent it to my committee ahead of my comps. …
: What It's Like to Live with Chronic Illness I’m writing this in an attempt to help people without chronic illness understand the constant …
: How did I not know that it’s not just me, but rather the entire Internet, that refers to Carrie …
: NPR’s Book Concierge is live and Tumblr’s Fandom Year-in-Review is out. It is truly the most …
: Connecting doesn't have to be hard. Grad school and parenthood are both immensely isolating experiences. So when you combine them, you …
November 2019
: This morning, when W. and M. were sleeping in, I could have chosen to do one of many different …
: I… think I’m almost done with my dissertation proposal?
: I went thrifting yesterday by myself for the first time since having M. Thrifting used to be a …
: This weekend was a good weekend. On Saturday, we had a harvest meal at the Montessori/co-working …
: You don't have to love yourself to be worthy of love. I’ve been thinking today about something Maria Bamford said - I think it was in her episode of The …
: I wish I could tell little 13/14 year old me, back in 1995, that she actually DOES like a genre of …
: Anybody got tips on automating Instagram data collection (specifically images, post text, comments) …
: My kid’s preferred type of narrative conflict is Bear vs. Self.
: #goals: Welcome to #AcWriMo/#DissProWriMo! This blog post contains affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase, I may receive a …
October 2019
: I hereby declare November to be #DissProWriMo. Writing your dissertation proposal? Me too! Let’s …
: Current hobby: lying in bed and re-watching Downton Abbey.
: Remember conversation? I was out at dinner with my family a couple days ago and four adults were sitting at the next table …
: Just sent my completed comps package off to my advisor with plans to send it to my committee next …
: Just finished writing the first draft of my last chapter of my comps package!
: The world is like “Why are comedians depressed and anxious?” and “Why are academics depressed and …
: TFW your birthing day float therapy self-care appointment gets cancelled & you spend your …
: Today my doctor pointed out that after gestating a child for 9 months and nursing him for 33 months, …
: Threw off my anxiety just long enough to ask my doctor for anxiety meds. (Reader, she prescribed …
: On my commute this morning I was pondering further whether I’m a Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Since we …
: Wizarding World app just sorted me into Slytherin, just as Pottermore did many years ago, so I guess …
: Freewrite! Writing is a messy process. When we see a finished piece of writing, we rarely see all the mess that went into creating it. As …
September 2019
: Current life goals: 1. Finish this gd comps chapter 2. Catch up on @_alexrowland’s & …
: I love this. My friend Alana & I used to hear some Eisley lyrics as “rose-and-mermaid-entwined …
: Coping when I'm not okay I’ve been feeling moderately not okay lately. Nothing truly devastating, but a sense of doom. A …
: On theoretical and methodological literature reviews My blog post, A Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow, is probably the most viewed thing on my …
: I haven’t listened, only skimmed the transcript, but @flourish & @elizabethminkel point out that …
: Two dissertation-related things I’ve been working on simultaneously: my final chapter of comps, …
: At last, my leaning into the librarian stereotype is paying off!
: Whoever is going around SILS convincing people who’ve never met me that I’m awesome, thanks.
: The scholarly endeavor is an inherently creative endeavor. And I’m going to explore the relationship …
: The kid just told me he wants his third birthday party to have a Buffy theme, so I guess I’ve …
August 2019
: A Brief Manifesto for My Research Months ago now, Margy Thomas of ScholarShape released a 7-day email course called Deep Why. I tucked …
: A conversation with @marijel_melo confirmed a suspicion I had that to a non-cosplayer, saying you …
: So, um, I have a not-remotely-secret cosplay alias now… Luna Wednesday ? Cosplayer …
: A chronic illness comedy! Where do I send my spec script? ❤️️ @emilyvgordon & @Sarah_Hyland
: Fell down a @tiktok_us cosplay hole thanks to @BrichibiTweets sharing this Ursula video from …
: On digital hiatus through August 26th. See y’all later!
: Is metascholarship a thing? Like, a field of study? Sometimes (often) I find myself more interested …
: I can cook all manner of foods, fashion clothing from yarn or fabric and thread, build furniture, …
: I need a t-shirt that says 50% Jo/50% Meg.
: I ran across Dr. Naomi Civins’s dissertation while citation chaining works about connective …
: Jargon in Academia I’m having a little brainstorm over here about my frustration with jargon in academia and the way …
: Hormones have got my brain going “Understanding cyberethnographic redefinitions of traditional …
: My kid loves to know who’s singing the music we’re listening to so this morning when he asked who …
: Kid at library (playing at train table): It’s Utopia! It’s disaster! Librarian: But utopia is a good …
: Memo: Affinity Spaces Gee introduced the concept of affinity spaces in his book Situated Language and Learning: A Critique …
: The longer I live, the more I begin to believe that My Actual People are only a very small subset of …
: Why I Have Trouble Fanning These Days I’ve been listening to the latest episode of Fansplaining, with guest Emily Nussbaum, and it’s led …
: Skimming the headlines for The Ringer’s ‘99 Music Week really brings home for me the fact that I …
: I just sent off the comps chapter that refused to be finished to my committee. It’s been 9 weeks …
: It’s that thing where you’re almost done with a chapter of your comps lit review and you realize …
July 2019
: I’m crowdsourcing a superhero-themed playlist for my son, heavily Marvel/Avengers-slanted (esp. Age …
: I’ve been using “fanfiction” instead of “fan fiction” when writing my comps and sincerely hope …
: GIFs do not display in webmention backfed from Twitter via Brid.gy. See comment at kimberlyhirsh.com/2019/07/2… backfed from twitter.com/thoughtso…
: The Space Between: Reading, Writing, and a Third Thing (Thinking?) I’m not a very efficient writer. I have 20 hours of childcare a week, and usually lose two or three …
: No YOU’RE developing a Super Why TRPG ruleset in your head because your almost-3-year-old is getting …
: Life online and losing and finding my faith in it Get ready for some rambling, stream-of-consciousness, blogging-as-thinking. As a member of the …
: I want the cut where @julieklausner plays Pumbaa.
: I always miss theater. Let’s put on a show.
: Podcasts that are making my afternoons M. and I have an agreement, proposed and enforced by me, after we spent months with him as a tiny …
: A little light summer weekend reading.
: TFW when you’re reading Gee’s list of teaching features of video games and you just want to go home …
: M’s teacher: I was talking to [other teacher] about crystals and M. said, “My mama has crystals!” …
: 🔖 Gee, J. (2005). Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: From the age of mythology to today’s …
: Who will I be this year? My friend Little Willow doesn’t make New Year’s Resolutions in January. She makes them on her …
: What would you like me to write more about? I love that Ton Zijlstra asked his readers a few years ago What would you like me to write more …
: Chicken Tikka Masala Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala with Cauliflower and Peas - Skinnytaste I've …
: Hi! I’m an IndieWeb mother. My son will be 3 in October. Nice to meet you!
: The Kimberly Hirsh Eating Plan Hello, friends! Today I’m going to write up an idealistic eating plan for myself based on what I’ve …
: ✔️ Jellies ✔️ Lace-trim leggings ✔️ Hawkins AV Club shirt ✔️ One dangly earring, one stud ✔️ High …
: It seems like the authors of Affinity Online (https://nyupress.org/9781479852758/) deliberately …
: “It will surprise you not one bit,” I said to my friends some months ago after an escape room and …
: Key summer goth accessories: parasol handfan cooling scarf sunglasses sunscreen scent of cloves & …
: The end of this keynote gets at exactly what I was talking about in my last post. When we own our …
: Constructing websites as constructing ourselves: Thinking out loud This is just me, thinking out loud, so expect it to be rough, incomplete, unpolished. But I thought …
June 2019
: True fact: 100% of my group cosplay ideas are aimed at getting @tceles_b_hsup in a long wig + bish …
: To distract me from my current “The world is a garbage fire” emotional spiral, here’s a bunch of …
: 📚 Gee, J. P. (2004). Situated Language and Learning : A Critique of Traditional Schooling. London, …
: Me, to my colleagues: I could really use a tote bag for the flight home. Y’all think I’ll be able to …
: Project READY is live! Still blogging infrequently and mostly absent from social media, but this is a huge piece of work. I …
May 2019
: My work is to take care of myself. I’m still on hiatus from social media activity and comments on my blog posts are still closing after …
: Austin Kleon talks about daily blogging as being related to the ideas of stock and flow, and I think …
: On hiatus A little over a year ago, I told a friend: Started blogging in my bullet journal, realized this is …
: TTFN I’m taking a digital hiatus of sorts starting Friday, 5/10/2019. I haven’t decided how locked down …
: My writing process: Structure is central. A quick note about my own writing and the way I’m working these days. I plan to do a more extensive …
: Current wishlist: everything at this shop, which bills itself as “Goth Mom Central,” but most …
April 2019
: It’s not noon yet and I’ve had a phone meeting and talked with my insurance agent, so probably I …
: Because I was a child when it started, I just started watching 90210 for the first time and I’m …
: Memo: Connected Learning, Libraries, and Change The elements of connected learning (interests, relationships, opportunities, sponsorship of youth …
: When words won't go in your brain I suffer from migraines. I’ve gotten them since I was around 7 years old. There are any number of …
: I found this article because I wanted to read romance novels again. I decided to check out the …
: Memo: Defining Connected Learning Connected Learning can be conceived of in three ways: as a type of learning experience that occurs …
: I’ve been solo parenting for almost a week and we’re currently at Defcon Watching “How Far I’ll Go” …
: 📚 Ito, M., Martin, C., Pfister, R. C., Rafalow, M. H., Salen, K., & Wortman, A. (2019). Affinity …
: Bender, S., & Peppler, K. (2019). Connected learning ecologies as an emerging opportunity through …
: Martin, Crystle A. “Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities: Navigating the Sea …
: Itō, M., Baumer, S., Bittanti, M., Boyd, D., Cody, R., Stephenson, B. H., … Tripp, L. (2009). …
: This morning I told my son, “Mommy used to be a teacher. Did you know that?” He said, “No. But now …
: TFW someone cites a forthcoming book that you know will be key in your research and you can’t find …
: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Top 3 Most Resonant Songs for Me, Personally I mentioned in my post about writing comedy from the heart that the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is …
: Me: I just want an in-depth explanation of how the Connected Learning model is different than it was …
: Writing comedy from the heart It feels like there have been a thousand times Rachel Bloom has said something in an interview and I …
: I know when I'm being submentioned. Chris, I'm glad to hear that my read posts are both heartwarming …
: I read this book twice last year and just re-read it again in anticipation of Austin Kleon’s latest …
: 2019 First Quarter Follow Up: How am I doing? It’s always helpful to check in with ourselves every once in a while, and I like to do it quarterly …
: Kumasi, K. (2014). Connected learning: Linking academics, popular culture, and digital literacy in a …
: Kow, Y. M., Young, T., & Tekinbaş, K. S. (2014). Crafting the metagame: Connected learning in the …
: April 1: Fool We listened to Lovefool We glittered and glued I have rarely been so present As I was …
: Found myself thinking, “I want to play a map game but like a handholdy one, not Breath of the Wild, …
: Dissertating in the Open: Keeping a Public Research Notebook I’m making a few notes to myself here to document my process for keeping a public research notebook. …
: Bilandzic, M. (2013). Connected learning in the library as a product of hacking, making, social …
March 2019
: You might look at Archive of Our Own, which has a large volunteer cohort of tag wranglers, and the …
: Yes. Disability/chronic illness + parenting means spoons (ie energy) that I used to be able to …
: If you want to check out the video or notes for my keynote presentation at today’s IndieWebCamp New …
: My favorite website since isbelalugosidead.com. (Which is now lapsed? @willrad I might have to buy …
: Larson, K., Ito, M., Brown, E., Hawkins, M., Pinkard, N., & Sebring, P. (2013). Safe Space and …
: Ito, M., & Martin, C. (Fall 2013). Connected Learning and the Future of Libraries. Young Adult …
: Ito, M., Gutiérrez, K., Livingstone, S., Penuel, B., Rhodes, J., Salen, K., … Craig Watkins, S. …
: Adolescence is tech week for adulthood.
: Uninformed take: Metroid is a metaphor for early parenthood.
: Being a parent is like teaching eight different preps every day and never the same prep two terms in …
: Made chicken souvlaki kabobs and they turned out beautifully but never again. Way more trouble than …
: These books are magical, but like all our faves, they’ve got some problems. See American Indians in …
: Kaitlyn Tiffany interviews Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention …
: Google Books exports highlights and marginalia to a Google Doc titled Notes from “Book Title.” The …
: indieweb-post-kinds Post editor URL doesn't display editor When I use Post Kind WordPress editor URLs with the ?kindurl= extension, I get an editor window that …
: I’m giving the keynote at IndieWebCamp New Haven on March 30. You can attend remotely! In fact, …
: I can’t wait to see what I come up with, either! I’ve been trying to track down other keynotes via …
: Attending remotely, as I’m able given I have a toddler. And, oh yeah, keynoting!
: Testing some IndieWeb functionality and this tweet seemed worth sharing…
: Neutral good, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
: I started implementing separate RSS feeds for different types of content a while back but just set …
: Dissertating in the Open: Your First Meeting with Your Committee It’s been more than 3 months since I had my first committee meeting, but I still want to write a …
: Having a paper accepted with revisions on the first submission is reason to celebrate, yeah? …
: Me, writing my comps about cosplay: I’m almost out of space and I haven’t even mentioned Butler on …
February 2019
: Unexpectedly shattered I’ve been working on editing the fourth episode of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast, Things of …
: I attended my first dissertation defense yesterday. I came home and told W. that we’ll be doing …
: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell I just finished reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. And now I want to be best friends with her, …
: I organized my closet and now I’m too tired to cook dinner. This is peak Kimberly.
: Trying on a new epithet: librariacafan.
: Still drafting the first chapter, but it has a cover and a summary… The Watchers Council had made …
: Miserable human beings who you wouldn’t want to spend a second with in real life are capable of …
: Making a note to myself to come back to this Austin Kleon blog post and write about it in …
: I’ve fallen down an internet rabbit hole! My current work = reading about cosplay. Cosplay is part …
January 2019
: Why Do I Have to Choose Between Being a Writer and Being a Mother? We need narratives about women …
: Book Review: Pop Classics Buffy the Vampire Slayer 📚 Most people who know me know that the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my favorite things. …
: I could learn to repair drywall and fix sinking bathroom tile but for now I’m just going to believe …
: Just submitted my first draft of my first chapter of my comps lit review to my committee for …
: Stop optimizing. Start nourishing. A week ago, my friend shared the video for Lizzo’s song “Juice.” I commented, “I want to feel as …
: You can tell I’m approaching middle age because I think of my car as my new car and I just got an …
: On Millennial burnout Some notes on Millennial burnout. This started as a Twitter thread because I needed a frictionless …
: I found this Man Repeller post via the Holisticism newsletter. (One of my favorite reads every …
: Submitted a solo-authored manuscript today, so in true millennial fashion, I feel like I deserve …
: 2019 Word of the Year: PHASE It’s January 9 and I’m finally ready to talk about my intentions for this year. I selected PHASE as …
December 2018
: I’m lucky: they gave me a canonical #spidersona, trying to figure out how to make a better world for …
: Have now escaped 100% of @bullcityescape's rooms. And we'll be back when they make new ones!
: I’m here for improv in libraries AND I recommend checking out FairPlayMN’s documents on levels of …
: Writing music and reading music are different music. My writing music is video game or film scores. …
: I need to be reading & writing about information literacy as a sociocultural/sociotechnical …
: Today I listened to Lindsay Mack’s amazing first episode of the new version of her podcast, in which …
: What Kimberly Wrote, 12/12/2018 I wrote 2 pages about new models of information literacy in affinity spaces today, or about 968 …
: Toward a personal brand I find myself admiring people who seem together. They are well-coiffed. Their clothes are carefully …
: Friends with Secrets Three friends with different backgrounds participated in online text therapy …
: Me, to W— this morning: I don’t know if you can cast every musical with the characters from Daniel …
: Dissertating in the Open: Putting Together a Committee WITH TEMPLATES! Y’all, I’m scholarlily-enamored of my committee. (Scholarlily is a new adverb. I give it to you.) …
: I had a great first meeting with my doctoral committee today and am in that rare antsy …
: Dissertating in the Open: Designing a Comprehensive Literature Review I think every doctoral program is different in what they expect from students for qualifying …
November 2018
: Yesterday I received my first order from Whisper Sisters, purveyors of fine perfume oils. I found …
: Adulting achievements After yesterday’s musings on adulting, I found myself looking for various resources that indicate …
: How Netflix?s She-Ra found a specific sound for its kick-ass princess The reboot?s soundtrack was …
: Herding Cats: A Simple Method for Working with the Disorder of Our Lives : zen habits zenhabits.net …
: On adulting I'm Turning 30. Do I Need Adulting Lessons? There's a whole cottage industry devoted to teaching …
: #100DaysOfCode 2/100 Completed @freeCodeCamp Applied Accessibility, Responsive Web Design …
: Dissertating in the Open: Identifying a Research Question & Writing a Prospectus First, huge thanks to Dr. Laura Gogia for the descriptive phrase “Dissertating in the Open.” Early …
: #100DaysOfCode 1/100 Completed @freeCodeCamp Basic HTML & HTML5, Basic CSS, & Applied Visual Design. …
: #100DaysofCode I’m publicly committing to the 100DaysOfCode Challenge starting today! #100DaysOfCode I did my first …
: Aquariums (American English plural) always feel like transcendent and magical spaces to me.
: If MAGIC is aligning ENERGY with INTENTION in order to bring about CHANGE, VOTING is a MAGICAL ACT. …
: From the NY Times: Brown Point Shoes Arrive, 200 Years After White Ones Brown Point Shoes Arrive, 200 Years After White Ones Ballet dancers of color have long painted, dyed …
: #AcWriMo: A declaration Hi friends. Here I’m declaring my intent to participate in #AcWriMo. Here are my goals: Revise and …
October 2018
: What do I want to do with my life? Resources to help you find the answer. I was talking with some fellow co-working moms about matrescence and how it kind of shakes up …
: Hi yes @sfosternyc is 100% my pretend Broadway BFF.
: Me: I think I’m going to embrace my age. I’m thinking of reading Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mercedes …
: Hi there. I’m just over here working on my comps (makerspaces, gaming, fandom, theory, methods) and …
: On living a fragmented life Saturday night, W. and I went to the tour of Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy. If you like …
: Trends in YA Library Services I did a quick count today of the trends identified by the Center for the Future of Libraries and the …
: My brother made this awesome animated short. It’s probably my favorite of all his work. You can find …
: [caption id=“attachment_6254” align=“aligncenter” width=“840”] On Monday, we go to work. But right …
September 2018
: This image by The Latest Kate is my ideal self.
: So many people I know and love probably need this card right now. (Let’s be honest; I’m one of …
: [caption id=“attachment_6238” align=“aligncenter” width=“840”] My choice of craft reveals a lot …
: Little known facts about The Incredible Hulk, according to my almost-two-year-old: He plays soccer. …
: You know you’re from Durham when your toddler distinguishes food trucks from all other trucks. …
: Fundamental parenting truth: the night before you plan to commit to eating healthier is the night …
: [caption id=“attachment_6223” align=“aligncenter” width=“840”] Equinox celebration[/caption]
: Let's party like it's 2016. Because I still know some people who are into it and because it’s super fun to play with my kid, I’m …
: Another day, another rejection. #shareyourrejections
: The top of my dresser has been a mess for weeks. Took less than 15 minutes to get it in shape while …
: Dear LIS researchers of the early oughts, Second Life is not a game. Please stop clogging up my …
: All you really need to know about me to understand me is that my high school years were bookended by …
August 2018
: Disappearing from most of the Interwebs until after Labor Day. See y’all later! (Deleting Twitter, …
: Submitted a paper to a conference before I’d run the study. One reviewer suggested the study …
: I constantly have to remind myself that of the 6 semesters of my doctoral program, only 1 happened …
: Newly dedicated magic corner. I just took a little time to clear out and clean my corner desk, which was never getting used for …
: Some quick thoughts on my IndieWeb implementation. Hi Internet friends. I have been tweaking my website a lot this week and wanted to write a few notes …
: Hey, Twitter. If you’re one of my followers who doesn’t know me IRL but would actually recognize my …
: Unfollowing Everybody I'm probably going to unfollow everybody from Twitter on Monday. Please don't take it personally. …
: I saw @tceles_B_hsup play Dickon in The Secret Garden. He was dreamy. A couple years later we were in a I saw @tceles_B_hsup play Dickon in The Secret Garden. He was dreamy. A couple years later we were …
: @CupcakeGoth @Gwenda I actually have a Goodreads shelf called "jilli-recs" and these may have to go on there. @CupcakeGoth @Gwenda I actually have a Goodreads shelf called “jilli-recs” and these may have to go …
: @Gwenda I needed to find out what all of these were, and OF COURSE @CupcakeGoth had my back... cupcake-goth.dreamwidth.org/tag/avon+satan… @Gwenda I needed to find out what all of these were, and OF COURSE @CupcakeGoth had my back… …
: Don't let me forget: next week I want to write up & blog some advanced lit review techniques that I Don’t let me forget: next week I want to write up & blog some advanced lit review techniques that I …
: Things I like: space, unicorns, space unicorns, cats, space cats on unicorns, goth stuff, cupcakes, books, food sme… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Things I like: space, unicorns, space unicorns, cats, space cats on unicorns, goth stuff, cupcakes, …
: I bought this dress & wore it to a wedding recently and basically I want this to be my whole I bought this dress & wore it to a wedding recently and basically I want this to be my whole …
: @MagpieLibrarian I genuinely thought this was deliberate. @MagpieLibrarian I genuinely thought this was deliberate.
: Can't even focus enough today to copy notes from my bullet journal into Google Docs. Can’t even focus enough today to copy notes from my bullet journal into Google Docs.
: Pretty sure I can start counting consuming @acafanmom's Patreon as work? Yay! Pretty sure I can start counting consuming @acafanmom’s Patreon as work? Yay!
: Genuinely refreshing Twitter to keep me awake bc my kid won't nap and I feel like I'm dying. Genuinely refreshing Twitter to keep me awake bc my kid won’t nap and I feel like I’m dying.
: When you realize you're closer to being the Darling Mermaid Darlings than you are to being Chuck or the Pie When you realize you’re closer to being the Darling Mermaid Darlings than you are to being Chuck or …
: Heeeeey Twitter, anybody up for being my writing buddy and offering feedback on a 153-word abstract for a lit revie… Heeeeey Twitter, anybody up for being my writing buddy and offering feedback on a 153-word abstract …
: To everyone who follows me in hopes of seeing pictures of @tceles_B_hsup's kid... Sorry. To everyone who follows me in hopes of seeing pictures of @tceles_B_hsup’s kid… Sorry.
: This is Damask Bowie, reporting for NPR News. twitter.com/jennievander/s… This is Damask Bowie, reporting for NPR News.
: @allisunrae I'm definitely still working on the critique part. But honestly, if you simultaneously synthesize inste… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… @allisunrae I’m definitely still working on the critique part. But honestly, if you simultaneously …
: A grave error I have made a grave error. I ate carrots and hummus for lunch, but that is not a lunch. It’s a …
: Be who you want to be. A thing I’m telling myself today that you may need to hear, too: Who do you want to be later? Go …
: First newsletter issue goes out today The first issue of my newsletter goes out today. Thoughts on peak nostalgia and assurances that you …
: Katie Linder on Radical Self-Trust I find myself having a lot of existential crises lately. I think it makes sense for somebody who is …
: Not Being the Best Isn't the Same as Being Mediocre I’m reading Emilie Wapnick’s book How to Be Everything and I got to this section header and felt …
: Twitter. Let's talk about the intersection between #CLinTE and LIS education. Any iSchools doing great work in CL that you Twitter. Let's talk about the intersection between #CLinTE and LIS education. Any iSchools doing …
: Impatient for #CLS2018 proceedings after seeing all these great tweets. Impatient for #CLS2018 proceedings after seeing all these great tweets.
: My life = productive morning + watch The Great British Baking Show the rest of the day.
July 2018
: Lori Morimoto on Twitter Thread. This is one of the reasons I haven’t spent my time in school worrying about doing everything …
: edu522 Librarians and teachers looking to squeeze three more weeks of PD into their summer might want to …
: Woman About the Internet Drew Zandonella-Stannard perfectly captures the reality of early parenthood in the latest issue of …
: Newsletter: You Got This I have been really digging newsletters for the past several months. I’m planning to do a write up of …
: My new newsletter: Like a high five in your inbox. Platonic love notes and things that made me think of My new newsletter: Like a high five in your inbox. Platonic love notes and things that made me think …
: It’s that thing of when other people are working on your area of research interest but they haven’t …
: 🔖📚 No Romance Required 30 Books About Girl – Boy Friendships Me: “Okay but everyone wants to marry …
: Me to my advisor today: Okay but what if my dissertation is about makerspaces AND gaming AND fandom? …
: Hoopla Cookbooks Just browsed the cooking section of the Durham County Library Hoopla Collection and I’m blown away …
: What Kimberly Wrote, 7/24/2018 I wrote 279 words about definitions of “makerspace” today. Tomorrow: reviewing all 26ish pages I’ve …
: The Jonathan Van Ness of Library Science Just thought to myself, “I want to be the Jonathan Van Ness of library science.” I’ll let you know …
: Hey writers. What are your day jobs? Hey writers. What are your day jobs?
: Planning Microtasks to Match Your Energy (or Spoons) I’m fairly open about the fact that I have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and polycystic ovary syndrome and …
: This is a great example of a library policy that was excluding people and how a library professional changed it. This is a great example of a library policy that was excluding people and how a library professional …
: Spider-Woman Reading the Hopeless/Rodriguez run of Spider-Woman and feeling super seen. Sorry for weird colors- I …
: Happy anniversary, Will! When you have been together for almost 20 years and you’re both librarians. Happy anniversary, Will!
: Writing Motivation Me: ugh writing this comps lit review is such a slog Also Me: I should probably put together an …
: Internet like it's 2001 Me, February 2001 I’ve owned my own personal domain since 2001, though it’s a different domain name …
: What Kimberly Wrote, 7/18/2018 My makerspaces lit review is just over 25 pages, with two sections left to write: definitions and …
: I Robot, You Jane True story, the “I Robot, You Jane” episode of Things of Bronze is the episode I’m most excited …
: Your Website Hey friend! Do you have a website and/or blog? I want to visit it! Tell me about it, please.
: Instant Pot Bought an Instant Pot at the urging of fellow co-working parents and I don’t know how long it’s been …
: It's my birthday. I’m 37 today. It’s a number that sounds grown up. I think I felt more grown up at 27, though. Maybe …
: Roxane Gay It feels perfect to come across this on my 37th birthday.
: A good night Tonight I went to Goth night at a Tarot-themed bar/lounge. I ate delicious Indian food from the …
: I've forgotten how to feel better. Most of my adult life has been impacted by chronic illness. I’ve got two: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis …
: How old is my kid even? I’ve been saying my kid is 22 months old for a few days but I’m just now realizing he’s only 21 …
: Headcanon At age 22 months, M. is generating Curious George/Pigeon crossovers, so yeah, definitely my kid.
: What Kimberly Wrote, Through 7/9/18 My makerspaces lit review is now at just over 15 pages. It’s mostly cutting and pasting from …
: Now: July 2018 Here’s a complete list of everything I’ve got going on right now. And by “going on,” I mean a level …
June 2018
: A Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow Remember how I was going to read Chris Guillebeau’s Side Hustle and see if it had any lessons for …
: #FSN2018 Falling down the #FSN2018 rabbit hole and it’s keeping me going right now.
: Too much/not enough Isn’t it odd how it’s possible to feel simultaneously that you are too much and not enough?
: What Kimberly Wrote, through 06/27/18 I haven’t been keeping track daily like I hoped to, but this chunk of my literature review now has …
: A Goth in New Orleans, Day 1 [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“2592”] Embrace your cliches.[/caption] [caption id="" …
: I married well. Just had a very serious conversation with my husband about our future as immortals and what type of …
: On the eve of falling in love with a new city I’m going to New Orleans tomorrow for the American Library Association conference and I already know …
: Birthday Party Kiiiiind of want to host/play in an improv comedy jam for my birthday on July 14.
: Toddler Parent Responsibilities In the interest of helping myself recognize what things I do as the parent of a toddler, I’m making …
: Alternatives to "What do you do?" and "What are you going to do with that?" It’s not that careers aren’t an important part of our identity, they just aren’t the only part. When …
: Instead of asking “what is my one true calling in life?”, ask “what are the many things I would like …
: Now: June 2018 Here’s a complete list of everything I’ve got going on right now. And by “going on,” I mean a level …
: What Kimberly Wrote, 06/11/18 Finished converting my concept map to an outline. Tomorrow: WRITING!
: A visitor This friend was sitting on my front porch welcome mat when I left for the chiropractor this morning. …
: A blog post about everything. This might get a little stream-of-consciousness. Consider yourself warned. I went to a play today. …
: What Kimberly Wrote, 6/4/2018 Today I added 11 studies to my concept map for my makerspaces literature review. Tomorrow: finishing …
: Make a Note I’ve gotten into the habit of saving links in Feedly or Pocket with every intention of writing a …
: 2018 So Far I was listening to Lindsay Mack’s Tarot for the Wild Soul monthly medicine podcast for June, and she …
May 2018
: Anne McCaffrey I don’t know, do y’all feel like Anne McCaffrey liked dragons?
: Ira Glass's Commencement Speech at the Columbia Journalism School I love commencement speeches as a genre. I wasn’t remotely inspired by the one at my own college …
: #edcampcode Who’s going to #edcampcode in Raleigh on June 20? @nathan_stevens?
: What Kimberly Wrote, 5/21 - 5/23, 2018 I’m working on the concept map for my makerspaces in libraries lit review. Nice progress so far and …
: They weren’t kidding about Reviewer 2.
: What Kimberly Wrote, May 20, 2018 Surprise work session today! Took advantage of bonus nanny time to get a couple’s work session in at …
: 📺 She-Ra and Girl Culture When I learned Noelle Stevenson was showrunning a She-Ra reboot, I was psyched. I haven’t read …
: What Kimberly Wrote, May 17, 2018 Today I have reviewed and written a synthetic note for one journal article. I also wrote my earlier …
: What Kimberly Wrote, August 2015 - May 16, 2018 As promised yesterday, I’m going to start tracking my daily work productivity, mostly to help me …
: From Wil Wheaton: I love reading about other creative people’s processes, especially writers, so this look inside Wil …
: Crocheted Bobbles Finally taking on Kim Werker’s Craftsy class, Next Steps in Crochet. Here is my little swatch with a …
: #libfive I love the amazing work that the students at Mount Vernon Middle School are doing to educate school …
: The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts Finished 05/09/2018. This is a (perhaps the) foundational work on young adult library services. I …
: Thinking of you on Mother's Day Art by Mari Andrew. If you are a person for whom Mother’s Day is less fraught, perhaps you spent it …
: How to Learn Anything A couple of months ago, I asked my friends, “What do I know or can I do that you wish I would teach …
: Podcast Movement 28 Day Podcast Challenge I’m participating in a 28 Day podcast challenge with Podcast Movement through the end of this month. …
: Reply to Greg McVerry With respect to standardized markup around online courses, are you familiar with lrmi.dublincore.org …
: The Librarians Who Moonlight as Artists: A Roundtable Discussion Occasionally, Google gets it right when it suggests articles for me, and all of its creepy data …
: Obligatory Voting Selfie, 5/8/18 Primary
: 🔖🎭🎵 Hear Aaron Tveit’s ‘Come What May’ Before Moulin Rouge! Musical Premieres in Boston I cried a little watching this. I adore Moulin Rouge. It shaped my aesthetic more than anything had …
: This is what a happy birthday looks like.
: Doing My Part to Fix the Internet: A Follow-up A little over a year ago, I wrote about how a post by Vicki Boykis and a comment by Chris Aldrich …
: #MomLife Text Adventure You have 40 minutes before your childcare ends. Do you: A) ? take a shower B) ? take a nap C) ? take …
: The 57 Bus Reading this book in the car while the toddler naps. I started this book on Monday. It’s a very …
: Healing PCOS I’ve been awaiting this book since it was announced. Now it’s here and I’m going to devour it! I’ve …
April 2018
: Rupert Giles, Actual School Librarian Probably going to write a series of fics in which Giles just has to do normal school librarian …
: Epawnine and Clawsette Thanks to Saturday Night Live’s Lobster Les Mis, Clawsette and Epawnine are now in the running for …
: The Joy and Sorrow of Rereading Holt’s "How Children Learn" How Children Learn by John Holt Marked to-read 04/28/18.
: PRE ORDER "Roll Like a Girl" Enamel Pins (ships Late June/ Early July) If you got me one of these, it would arrive just in time for my birthday in mid-July! I like the …
: Internet Memories, 1993 I’ve been on the Internet for a quarter of a century. I think I want to write a big, full memoir on …
: Want to read: The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids by Alexandra …
: How to repay us I love this so much.
: Percolating Projects, April 2018 Here’s a complete list of everything I’ve got going on right now. And by “going on,” I mean a level …
: Galatea Kent What, you DON’T have a bunch of Harry Potter role-playing names just lying around?
: Same except add mom responsibilities and oh yeah I’ve already failed oops.
: PopSugar Stole Influencers’ Instagrams — Along With Their Profits This has me thinking about the dangers of algorithms and the role of social media silos in the …
: 🎧 Listened to Janelle James Discovers She’s a Comedian and Not a Gardener. It feels ironic that the …
: 🔖 Songs By Librarians For Librarians: NYPL Sings I love this! I have long dreamed of being a …
: What balance looks like right now When my mind is sharp, I work on my comprehensive exams. When it’s fuzzy but not dull, I work on …
: Silicon Valley S5E3 Was watching Silicon Valley S5E3 and Richard started waxing poetic about redecentralizing the …
: Jenny Lawson is Very Fond of Creepy Smiling Dead Animals and Worries Quite a Bit I’ve always enjoyed The Bloggess when she came across my radar (And that’s why you should learn to …
: Haenyeo: Women Divers of Korea Haenyeo: Women Divers of Korea - Marked to-read on 04/20/2018. Found via Broadly via Laura Olin.
: Define yourself in 4 films. #Filmstruck4 Splash (1984), Labyrinth (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Beaches (1988) Tagged by @allieacts. Tagging …
: .@tceles_B_hsup retweeting this feels really personal.
: Mars and Her Children, Mars and Her Children - Marked to-read 4/19/18. Found via Laura Olin.
: To Somebody, You Are an Expert This morning, I popped M. in the stroller and walked him the three quarters of a mile to the doula …
: You can help the web be better in 2018: just ditch Facebook and use your browser instead Step 1 was returning to my own site. Step 2 was returning to RSS I think Step 3 will be returning to …
: Cathy Fisher on fixing Fb: Go back to your 2001 fan site This is basically what I’m doing on my own website. I ask myself, “How did I use the Internet in …
: This has been my desktop wallpaper all semester. (@raulpacheco @CalmingManatee)
: Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering This is a beautiful piece about trees, forests, libraries, reading, writing, distance, and …
: Fostering Family Learning with Video Games Families at Play - Marked to-read on 04/15/2018. Found via Connected Learning Alliance.
: Library: An Unquiet History Library: An Unquiet History - Marked to-read on 04/15/18.
: There's no way to make something better than to let it out into the world first, right? Kim Werker’s weekly newsletter contains gems like this. I highly recommend subscribing.
: And now we have everything: On motherhood before I was ready And Now We Have Everything - Marked to-read on 04/15/18. Found via I’ll Be Right Back.
: Walking: A Reading List In his newsletter last week and this week, Austin Kleon has recommended several reads about walking. …
: Tata to Twitter, Too (Again, Kind of) Yesterday I posted about how I’m done posting directly to Facebook. Today, I’m announcing the same …
: Our beliefs grow out of our experiences. I’m working on writing a statement of educational philosophy and yesterday I was stumped. I sat down …
: Farewell to Facebook, Kind Of I won’t be posting directly to my Facebook timeline anymore. In keeping with my move to embrace the …
: Information literacy needs to include creation and ownership. This is just the beginning of an idea, but as I dig deep into the IndieWeb and think about social …
: You can't really see it here but Tropical Diver is a gorgeous reef exhibit at the @georgiaaquarium and I kind of want to live there. Beautiful coral AND a Skeletor Moray? Sign me up! You can’t really see it here but Tropical Diver is a gorgeous reef exhibit at the @georgiaaquarium …
: Filter by post type I use this blog as my home on the web, so in addition to traditional blog posts, you’ll find here …
: Time with the best of friends is always too short.
: Maker Faire Burlington 2018 (Official)
: The 7th Annual Festival of Legends: Dragons
: Community and creativity in mundane retail spaces Austin Kleon’s meditations on retail spaces for community building and creativity have me thinking …
: Mermaid Legends Come to Life in Freeform’s Siren - Siren | Freeform I watched the first eight minutes or so of this and got major X-Files/BtVS vibes and I’m into it.
: All my clearest thinking happens between 11 pm and 1 am these days.
: Chorus member from #JesusChristSuperstarLive is a legit Halloween costume choice, right?
: Me, to the toddler at lullaby time: And now, something seasonal. sings “Gethsemane” @tceles_B_hsup: …
: Finally giving The Future of Library Services for and with Teens the close read it deserves & …
March 2018
: Current success metric: did I do literally any work today, at all?
: Today my kid got giddy over the fact that “boot” and “book” begin the same way. Is wordplay a …
: Dear IndieWeb, it may be time to start considering the user, not just the technical spec. Eli Mellen makes some excellent points here. I’ve been slowly chipping away at going full Indieweb …
: Me, spraying this on my unwashed hair: my hair isn't dirty! It's BEACHY! #mermaidlife #seawitchvibes Moroccan Sea Salt Spray - Me, spraying this on my unwashed hair: my hair isn’t dirty! It’s BEACHY! …
: My toddler keeps saying “At me! At me!”
: 🔖🎮 Read Hitting the Restart Button: Mass Effect Andromeda (The Learned Fangirl) by Kristin.
: From Princess to General: How Many Times Can Leia Save the Galaxy? 🔖🍿 Read From Princess to General: How Many Times Can Leia Save the Galaxy? (The New York Times).
: Starting a Podcast: Process Here’s a quick write-up of the stages I go through when working on an episode of my podcast. 1. …
: I took my kid for a walk so obviously glitter. I took my kid for a walk so obviously glitter.
: First smoothie of the year: chocolate almond (but I added a teaspoon of instant coffee because grad student/toddler mom.)
: The Moonchild Tarot When I decided to come back to tarot and get to know it better, I looked at tens and tens of decks. …
: Starting a podcast: Resources, part 1 Yesterday I mixed and mastered the first episode of my upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast, …
: Preparing for comprehensive (qualifying) exams: My process so far I have been chipping away at the comprehensive literature review my program requires that I write to …
: Loath to spoil this 90s art girl bedhead with self-care, but I'm gonna. Loath to spoil this 90s art girl bedhead with self-care, but I’m gonna.
: Does the world need another Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast? Yes, yes it does. When? Soonish. http://thingsofbronze.com #buffyslays20 Does the world need another Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast? Yes, yes it does. When? Soonish. …
: #Repost @bymariandrew (@get_repost) … Caption from me, Kimberly: I have polycystic ovary syndrome …
: ME: OMG this book is great, why haven’t more people cited it? checks publication date sees “2017” …
: Imposter syndrome: a scene Me: I don’t know why anyone would hire me to do anything. I’ve never done anything. My only skill is …
: Women are flocking to wellness because modern medicine still doesn't take them seriously As a woman with chronic illness, both physical and mental, who is a prime target for the wellness …
: I asked my friend to run a play-by-Slack, X-Files flavored game of Monster of the Week, and THIS …
February 2018
: Be Your Own Toddler, Part Two This is an extension of this earlier note. A common piece of advice for people with intrusive …
: TFW you’re sitting in the waiting room at the optometrist reading about podcasting but wish you were …
: It's okay to not be okay. In my earliest days as a mother, I often found myself perusing the diagnostic criteria for …
: Auction haul: Buffy crew jacket, Sunnydale High Library playset. [gallery size=full columns=1]
: Theatre geek tourism: Sam French. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]
: Geek tourism: Meltdown Comics. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]
: My first rosé! #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]
: Sunrise over the City of Angels. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]
: Roadside sculpture near Hollywood & Highland. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]
: View from my brunch seat in El Segundo. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]
: A better picture of my little @everyday__magic crystal haul. [gallery size=full columns=1]
: Bought these crystals at @everyday__magic but forgot to ask what they are. But they're pretty and …
: What I got W for Valentine's Day. Really leaning into our Giles/Jenny Calendar dynamic. [gallery …
: It begins... #thingsofbronze #buffy #btvs #podcast [gallery size=full columns=1]
: How Facebook Is Killing Comedy I happened across this piece in Austin Kleon’s newsletter. It beautifully expresses a sentiment that …
: Starting #lettermo with a bang. I'll reveal the contents of this package once I'm sure it's reached …
: It feels like providence that this ran across my Instagram feed the morning after I decided to lean …
: Today's #lettermo release: the first of my Buffy stationery goes out into the world with an Evil …
: Sleepy mama mermaid #seawitchvibes. [gallery size=full columns=1]
: Now that I know it's been received and opened, here are the contents of that mysterious package from …
: Today's #lettermo is an Emm Roy postcard, but I forgot to take a picture before dropping it in the …
: I have been keeping up with #lettermo, even though I haven't been documenting it. This is the first …
: Flat surface space is at a premium with a toddler running around, but I turned my dresser top into …
: Fairy lights under the snow last night. This image is rife with symbolism, right down to the …
: Today’s #dailytarot draw: Judgment. Card from the Tarot of Pagan Cats. Text from #wtfistarot by …
: Gearing up for #lettermo / #incowrimo.
: My toddler napped in the car outside the Montessori/co-working space for an hour and a half; …
: It says something about how I engage with culture that two days after a new show’s release I expect …
: New 'Queer Eye' Is A Reboot, Not A Retread Hi I’m Kimberly and I will be ignoring real life long enough to binge the new Queer Eye, okay bye.
: On-brand: wearing a black babydoll dress & black leggings with lace trim, dancing to Bauhaus like …
: Shannon Crawford Barniskis | School of Information Studies I’m harboring a serious scholar crush on Shannon Crawford Barniskis right now. Her work connects …
: Velvet Chain TFW you need to dig out your CD binder so you can take the official Buffy soundtrack that's been in …
: This twenty-year-old bit from Wanda Sykes has taken on new meaning since I became a parent (she said …
January 2018
: My 2018 Reading Challenge My reading challenge for 2018 has two components: Always be trying to read one more book than I have …
: I really like the idea “Begin as you mean to continue.” Today I lazed about in bed with W & our baby …
December 2017
: Work in progress: TMNT, pattern by @weelittlestitches. Created a whole account just for stitching at …
: We’re at the beach until NYE. The first thing I did after our unbelievably peaceful three hour drive …
: Now that it’s been gifted, I can share my latest #xstitch. Text designed by @hirralee. Skyline …
: Fueling up for holiday dinner prep: egg and cheese minicroissant sandwiches, peppermint mocha.
: Historical Women Taking Care of Business Today in crazy on-brand for Kimberly, this NY Times Watching list of shows and movies featuring …
: I have pulled the two of wands twice this week. From #wtfistarot by @bakaraw “In this card, we may …
: My Word for 2018: LOVE I found my word for 2018, and it is LOVE. In 2018, I will love myself as much as I love anyone else, …
: 🔖🎮 Read The Nintendo Switch Gave Me Back My Video Games by Mark Serrels (Kotaku AU) Yes, this. When …
: The question I ask the cards for my #dailytarot draw is, "What energy am I living in today?" In the …
: In praise of academic spouses Moira Hansen has written a beautiful piece here about academic spouses. As I was reading it, I …
: Harry Potter mobile RPG lets you become your own wizard for the first time Yes please.
: From Princess to General: How Many Times Can Leia Save the Galaxy? This piece has me scrambling to read the Princess Leia novel & comics before I see The Last Jedi.
: Kristen Bell Reunites High School Musical Cast Members for Encore!, Premiering December 10 on ABC | Playbill High school classmates reunite 20 years after graduation to perform Into the Woods on the premiere …
: K: I miss The Kitty. Maybe I’ll look at pictures of him. W: That will make you happy. K: Can you …
: Just finished stitching The Princess Bride by @weelittlestitches while listening to the Pop Culture …
: Coursework Complete: What Now? Hi. I’m Kimberly, and I just submitted my last coursework assignment ever (unless I take more after …
: Honestly, The Harry Potter Alliance’s list of values basically sums up my values.
: Free af: A meditation on finishing coursework It’s a Friday night at 10 pm. My toddler is sleeping beside me. I just spent the past hour browsing …
November 2017
: Yesterday’s #dailytarot pull: the two of wands, Tarot of Pagan Cats. I pulled this yesterday & …
: Brainstorming @thehpalliance ideas thanks to an assist from the UNC SILS Coalition of Youth …
: Tea, snacks, tablet, mermaid blanket. Time to engage the literature.
: #dailytarot single card pull: The Knight of Chalices (Son of Cups),Tarot of Pagan Cats. It seems …
: “In the Fool, we say yes to the universe; in the Magician, the universe says yes back to us.” …
: Self-care: reading #wtfistarot at the chiropractor during my therapy. I have been looking for …
: Leonie’s parenting advice. So needed! #myshiningyear
: Let's Save the World A Lot: #AASL Fan Activism Workshop Recap Last Thursday night, I attended the workshop “From Stories to Action: Inspiring Heroes for Our Own …
: Homemade peppermint mocha, Larabars, #bulletjournal, Trello. Peak mom+grad student.
: 5 WAYS TO DISRUPT THE WELLNESS INDUSTRY This is a great blog post on how to engage in a traditionally exploitative space without feeling …
: Probably I should give myself credit for every. single. thing. I do in addition to raising a …
: Just watched the #BroadwayOnPBS Great Performances She Loves Me with Jane Krakowski & Zachary Levi …
October 2017
: Where is the Humanity in the Computer Science Curriculum? Coding is not neutral and neither is cataloging. This is a great argument for requiring computer …
: The longer I watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend the more I’m sure I’m Darryl.
: What I'm Learning: Cosplay This is the start of a new series on What I’m Learning. Interest-driven learning is both my key area …
: Since people always want to add a c to Hirsh, I’m considering adding a 2nd domain name to …
: Inspirational Research: Improvising our Way through Tragedy: How an Improv Comedy Community Heals itself through Improvisation It can be easy when you’re immersed in academia to kind of forget what the point is. I’m starting a …
: On not doing great Sometimes I’m not doing great. Sometimes I’m struggling. In these times, though, I’m usually doing …
: Drawing as Self Discovery: 5 Ways to Start | Mari Andrew | Skillshare Mari Andrew’s Skillshare drawing class is free until Friday. I think I’m going to try it out over …
September 2017
: Lessons Learned from a Week and a Half of I worked through the first two weeks of Wendy Belcher’s Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks in …
August 2017
: My Upcoming Paper Topic #12weekarticle #AcWri Hello, The Entire Internet, my writing partner. How’s your writing going? Today’s assignment from …
: Creating Physical Writing Space as a Grad Student/Parent I’m cramming all of Week One of Wendy Belcher’s book into one day. I might even start on Week Two. …
: My Feelings About My Experience of Writing #12weekarticle #AcWri In my doctoral program, before you can take your comprehensive qualifying exams, you have to submit …
May 2017
: Guarding My Time and Energy: Going #LessEmail I don’t feel comfortable going #NoEmail, but I certainly use email for many things for which it is …
: Recommend a blog for me to try reading, please.
March 2017
: “I wish I’d worked instead of lying on a hammock in the sunshine with the baby and the cat,” said no …
: Breaking the compulsion to check for notifications I have turned off push notifications for most apps on my phone and tablet, so that I won’t …
: Just testing status format in WordPress. Nothing to see here…
: Doing my part to fix the internet I happened upon this tweet from my friend Whitney the other day: Another good read from the Hot …
February 2017
: Self-Care in Difficult Times We live in a scary time. Many of us have been living in a scary time for hundreds of years. Some of …
September 2016
: The best I can do is not a fixed point. Still reading the advanced reading copy of the @unfuckyourhabitat book. There’s a whole section …
: Let’s all care about things! I was a teenager in the 90s, so I’m used to everybody else having this constant air of detached …
July 2016
: How I Bullet Journal, Summer 2016 Edition I’ve been bullet journaling for almost two and a half years, and I finally feel like I’m hitting my …
May 2016
: Poster Presentation at ALA 2016: Special Education Training for School Librarians I will be presenting the results of my study, Special Education Training for Preservice School …
April 2016
: Effortless Clarity I experienced a rare moment of effortless clarity in improv practice yesterday. I’m on DSI’s hip-hop …
March 2016
: Advanced Improv Notes: Referential Humor This winter, I took the Advanced Harold class at DSI Comedy Theater. DSI uses forums for class …
February 2016
: Advanced Improv Notes: Consequences I just finished taking the Advanced Harold class at DSI Comedy Theater. DSI uses forums for class …
November 2015
: In praise of informal mentors in improv I’ve only done improv at one place, DSI Comedy Theater (462 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC - …
: Improv will not fix you... …because you’re not broken. YOU ARE WHOLE AND YOU ARE ENOUGH. ******* I’ve been having a challenging …
: Three tips for dealing with an improv slump Modified from a note I published on Facebook… First, YOUR TASTE GROWS FASTER THAN YOUR SKILL. …
October 2015
: A moment to be proud Lately, I’ve been feeling rutty/restless in my improv. I had a run of shows that didn’t feel great, …
September 2015
: My Favorite Parts of Performing: Prep & Notes It feels weird and a little wrong to admit this, but my favorite part of performing isn’t the …
: Don’t run away from it. Sometimes, you get a note in practice that on the surface looks like it applies really specifically …
: More on generosity in improv Last week, I had two opportunities to play with improvisers less experienced than myself. (Like most …
: Improv and generosity I’ve only been doing improv for a little while, but I sure do think about it a lot. And something …
July 2015
: Beginner’s Mind and Advancing in Improv I’ve been trying to read the UCB Comedy Manual, and fairly successfully reading Will Hines’s …
June 2015
: A Love Letter to Fandom My darling fandom, I adore you. And I’m not referring to any of your specific aspects, but you, as a …
: Booking Through Thursday: Graduation | lectitans Booking Through Thursday: Graduation | lectitansI’m keeping my book blog separate from my tumblr, so …
: What I’ve learned after 3 weeks on an elimination diet I wrote up some tips for spoonies here. If you’re eliminating gluten, dairy, corn, and soy, and you …
May 2015
: Tips for Spoonies on an Elimination Diet Hello, friends! I’m on an elimination diet right now to see if I can identify specific foods as …
: Mass Effect 3! SPOILERS FOR CITADEL DLC CONTENT BELOW. I started playing the Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3 …
: At improv practice... R: Are you doing the bar mitzvah show? B: Yeah… Boys becoming men… Everybody: Men becoming wolves… …
April 2015
: Renaissance Spoonie I have a LOT of interests, and at various times I have kept up with not only the interest itself, …
: Health lessons learned the past two weeks I have my second session with Monica, my health coach/friend-from-childhood today. I wanted to write …
: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Yesterday I had my first session with Monica Barco of Nourish Health Coaching. Monica and I have …
March 2015
: Mass Effect! While having the most fun playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, I remembered that, oh yeah, I like video …
February 2015
: The Remarkable Difference Adequate Treatment Makes I have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. It’s an autoimmune disease in which my body attacks my thyroid. The …
December 2014
: Unicorns are for grown-ups. “You have horseys on your sweater,” my grown husband said to me. (I don’t have a husband who isn’t …
November 2014
: The Cure for Overwhelm: Plan a New Project (#mightyugly2015) Right now, I’m working full-time, taking a graduate-level library and information science course, …
September 2014
: Booking through Thursday: Shakespeare Okay, show of hands … who has read Shakespeare OUTSIDE of school required reading? Do you watch the …
August 2014
: Stuff I Learned: June & July, 2014 June and July were very busy months for me and I learned a lot. I thought I’d share some of it with …
June 2014
: An open letter to Joss Whedon Dear Joss, Happy birthday! I hope you’re having a wonderful time. I imagine you’re working, which is …
May 2014
: What I Learned from Improv: 101, Week 2 Remember how I went to improv class last week? I did it again this week! And I learned some new …
: What I Learned from Improv: 101, Week 1 Last night was my first improv class at DSI Comedy Theater, where I took sketch comedy writing from …
April 2014
: What I Learned from Sketch Comedy I’m two sessions away from finishing Sketch 201 with DSI Comedy Theater. Since January, I’ve spent …
February 2014
: Thinking Out Loud: Affinity Phases If you’re familiar with the work of James Paul Gee and Henry Jenkins, then you’re probably also …
January 2014
: Stop Worrying and Start Showing Up When I was a junior in high school, my teacher unceremoniously dropped a test with a low grade on it …
December 2013
: Review: Pull Down the Night Pull Down the Night by Nathan Kotecki. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. 2013. Reviewed from ARC …
November 2013
: The Quantified Self and Student Learning [caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“224”] Image from Bytemarks on Flickr[/caption] Lately I’ve …
September 2013
: Missed Collaboration Opportunities: Health/PE I think as a school librarian, there are some collaborations that come really easily, like language …
June 2013
: Summer Reading: All the Mermaid Books! A few months ago, just for fun, I typed in “are the new vampires” in my Google search box, just to …
: Poetry Friday: Swim Your Own Race The Poetry Friday roundup is over at The Poem Farm today. Our host, Amy, shares a poem about diving. …
May 2013
: Poetry Friday: The Naming of Cats My husband has a cat that he generously shares with me. Or perhaps it would be better to say the cat …
December 2012
: Common Core Text Exemplars A post from a friend on Facebook that linked to a blatantly incorrect article about new reading …
November 2012
: Inviting ourselves to the table: The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative I learned just today about The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. This initiative, sponsored by …
October 2012
: Review: The Suburban Strange The Suburban Strange by Nathan Kotecki. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. 2012. Reviewed from ARC …
: Nonfiction Monday Review Roundup: Written in Bone A review roundup happens when I read a book but either didn’t have the time to write a review or …
June 2012
: Making Time In her first #TeachersWrite minilesson, Kate Messner talks about making time to write. This has …
: Summer Enrichment: #TeachersWrite and #levelupbc Like so many folks in the education industry, I recently embarked upon my summer vacation. I was …
April 2012
: Book Review: Social Media for Social Good In Social Media for Social Good, former social media consultant Heather Mansfield, principal blogger …
March 2012
: The Virtual School Librarian: Providing Library Services for Distance Learners Storytime: My 17-year-old brother is a student at an online high school. (I think it’s TRECA but I’m …
February 2012
: Using Developmental Characteristics to Build and Defend Your Collection When you are building a collection and especially if you need to defend your collection against …
October 2011
: Merging blogs Since I’m now working as a middle school librarian, I feel like what I read is inextricably tied to …
July 2011
: Summer Blog Blast Tour Recap Here’s a complete list of this week’s interviews: Monday: Tara Altebrando at Chasing Ray Shirley …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Vera Brosgol Vera Brosgol is the creator of Anya’s Ghost, a young adult graphic novel about Anya, a teenage girl …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 2 The fun continues: Sean Beaudoin at Chasing Ray Neesha Meminger at The Happy Nappy Bookseller Rachel …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour 2011, Day 1 Hi there! It’s time once again for our semiannual (because we do one in winter, too, see?) …
: Twitter and PLNs PLN Challenge #3 is all about using Twitter to build your PLN. I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of …
June 2011
: PLN: Looking Forward and Back The PLN Challenge continues! The Teacher Challenge blog asked us to answer two questions: 1. What do …
: Building and Engaging with my Personal Learning Network (PLN) Over on The Book of Faces, I noticed that Edublogs is hosting a PLN challenge - 30 days to build …
May 2011
: Master's Paper Published Online I have recently published my Master’s Paper here in my portfolio. This paper won the Dean’s …
February 2011
: Guest Post: Tim Lebbon Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon’s new historical action novel, The Secret Journeys of Jack London: …
: The Secret Journeys of Jack London Blog Tour Kickoff The blog tour for The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild kicks off today with an interview …
: The Secret Journeys of Jack London Blog Tour Are you ready to take a journey into the wild? Bestselling authors Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon …
January 2011
: Publication: Resolving the Quiet Crisis My column in the January 2011 issue of School Library Monthly, entitled “Resolving the Quiet Crisis: …
: New Resource: Unit Plan I have recently added a unit plan as an example of the type of instructional planning services I …
: New Resource: Monthly Report I created this monthly report for the school library media center where I completed my field …
: Two Video Resources: Screencast and Book Trailer Here are two video resources I created during my field experience:
: Two More Stories Here are two more videos of me telling stories in my storytelling class. The volume in both is very …
: Hello and welcome! Welcome to my new home, here at my own domain. LiveJournal was just not doing what I needed it to do …
: Books read in 2010 1. Angel: After the Fall, Volume 1, Brian Lynch 2. The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin 3. Hooked …
: Homeschool Giveaway: Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis Author and blogger Tanita S. Davis has set up a contest exclusively for homeschoolers to win a copy …
November 2010
: Alt History/Steampunk Cover Design Contest Have you ever found that the cover of a book grossly misrepresented its contents, and that this …
: Non-fiction Monday Book Review: Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts This review was written for my children’s literature class, so it addresses some concerns from a …
: New Resource: Storytelling I’m currently enrolled in a storytelling class. This is a video of my first attempt at storytelling. …
October 2010
: New Resource: Banned Books Week Display For Banned Books Week at the end of September 2010, I created the following display at my field …
September 2010
: Book Review: Tales of the Cryptids This review was written for my children’s literature class, so it addresses some concerns from a …
August 2010
: Book Review: Stan Lee This review was written for my children's literature class, so it addresses some concerns from a …
: New Resource: Kerry Madden Author Exhibit I’ve updated the Education and Library Services page to include a link to a virtual author exhibit …
July 2010
: Book Review: Black Cat This is another of the evaluations I wrote for my children’s literature class. Myers, C. (1999). …
: Book Review: Going North For my children’s literature class, we write evaluations of the books we read. I thought I’d share …
June 2010
: Backwards design, inquiry learning, and Pokemon: Scenario Before we jump in to the actual lesson planning part, let’s set up a scenario. Let’s imagine that …
: My First ALA Annual I'm very excited to be attending ALA for the first time next week. I'm trying to plan out my days. …
: Backwards design, inquiry learning, and Pokemon: Introduction Soon after I wrote Pokemon for the 21st Century Learner, JP at 8bitlibrary.com continued the Pokemon …
: The Generosity of the Internet: Smoothies, Streamys Nominees, Felicia Day, Leo Babauta & Tim Gipson Again, I quote Maureen Johnson’s Manifesto: Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if …
: Maureen's manifesto and my consumption Hi there. Via Gwenda, I found my way to Maureen's manifesto. Do read the post itself but I quote …
: 48hbc postponed until Wednesday-Thursday? So there’s no way I’m getting time logged in for the 48 hour book challenge proper, but I’ve been …
: My 48 hours postponed, probably. My sister and husband are living with a broken air conditioner right now, and with temperatures …
: Booking Through Thursday: Short Stories vs. Novels Which do you prefer? Short stories? Or full-length novels? I like both, but which I’m inclined to …
: 48 Hour Book Challenge: It's almost time! For the past couple of years, MotherReader's 48 hour book challenge has signified the start of …
May 2010
: 📚 Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 3 Michael Trinklein @ Chasing RayNick Burd @ Fuse Number 8 Tom Siddell @WonderlandSarah Darer Littman …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 2 Mary Jane Beaufrand @ The Ya, Ya, YasRita Williams-Garcia @ Fuse Number 8Jennifer Hubbard @ Writing …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 1 The Summer Blog Blast Tour is back and it kicks off today! Browse around for interviews with the …
April 2010
: Happy National Library Week! Also, Happy School Library Month! Here just a few weeks away from the end of the semester, I feel like I've finally gotten into a …
February 2010
: Resource Review: GameFAQs GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com) is a fully-searchable online archive of video and computer game …
January 2010
: Pokemon for the 21st-Century Learner In his excellent post, Pokemon 101 for Teachers & Librarians, JP of 8bitlibrary.com answers the …
: An actual announced hiatus, kind of. My participation in the Kidlitosphere is on again-off again, mostly off, and right now while I’m not …
: Comment Challenge 2010 Check In How are you doing? Here’s my count: Jan 8 - 5 comments Jan 9 - 5 comments Jan 10 - 0 comments Jan 11 …
: Poetry Friday: Comes a Train of Little Ladies I had my first rehearsal for The Mikado last night and in honor of that I'm using some lyrics from …
: Comment Challenge 2010 21 days x 5 comments per day = 105 comments. Do you think I’ll make it to 100? Those who do are …
: Currently Reading and Goals So I have some goals in addition to reading 40 books this year that I’d like to share with you. Read …
: Happy New Year! 2009 in Review and Reading Resolutions With all the writing I’ve been doing in library school, blogging in depth has fallen by the wayside …
December 2009
: Library Services Page Added I have recently finished my first semester of library school. Some of my assignments demonstrate the …
November 2009
: Me and Twilight I’m about to bare my soul here, so if you decide to criticize, please do so gently. I first read …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day One It’s time for interviews again! I’m not participating due to having lots of school work, but here …
: NaNoWriMo Day 1 (cross-posted from my personal LiveJournal - originally posted there at 12:39 am) I’m already past …
October 2009
: NaNoWriMo Consider yourself warned. This reading journal is about to become a writing journal! Here’s my …
: KidLitCon etc. I didn’t get to go to KidLitCon but I’m still learning a lot about it because I’ve been reading all …
: Guest Post from Thomas Randall: STRANGE GIRL IN A STRANGE LAND When Little Willow asked me if I wanted to participate in Thomas Randall’s blog tour, I jumped on …
September 2009
: The September Carnival of Children's Literature The September Carnival of Children’s Literature is online now. Please go take a look!
: The Waking Blog Tour with Thomas Randall Follow The Waking blog tour to learn more about Dreams of the Dead, the first book in this thrilling …
: Poetry Friday: Against Cinderella by Julia Alvarez We read this poem in my YA Lit class the other day, and it’s phenomenal. I can’t believe it. Whoever …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #133 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: …7-Imp’s 7 Kicks is our weekly meeting ground for …
: Weekend Wonderings Remember these? I’ve been doing more of that blog navel-gazing that we all do from time to time. I …
: Poetry Friday: Rain by Edward Thomas Rain has been setting the mood here the past couple of days, creating a pleasant sort of gloom. In …
: BBAW: My Shortlist Remember how I was going to participate in Book Blogger Appreciation Week? That was before I got all …
: Book Blogger Appreciation Week Hi there! We’re about to enter into a busy busy week - a board meeting, evening class, a paper due, …
: Library School Update Hello there! I started my school library media coordinator program on August 25th and life has been …
August 2009
: The School of Information Overload and Library Science So I’ll be using this space to chronicle my journey through library school over the next couple of …
: The Swan Kingdom by Zoe Marriott After Princess Alexandra’s mother is killed, her father marries a woman who charms the kingdom. …
: One Shot World Tour: Southeast Asia Over at Chasing Ray, Colleen has a round-up of all of today’s Southeast Asia posts. From the …
: Non-Fiction Monday: You Don't Look Like a Librarian by Ruth Kneale One of my recurring obsessions (that is to say, I get crazy about it for a few weeks and then forget …
: How to Build a House by Dana Reinhardt Harper needs to get away from home for a while, to escape her heartbreak over her father's divorce …
: Color Me Brown Book Challenge: Theatre Recommendations Color Online is hosting the Color Me Brown Book Challenge. The goal is to read and review books …
: Books for Boys, Books About Girls In this column at School Library Journal, school librarian Diantha McBride says: I’m afraid this …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #126 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks is our weekly meeting …
July 2009
: Poetry Friday: Richard III I’m currently working on a production called I Hate Shakespeare. It runs through quite a few of …
: Two Mini Reviews: Lessons from a Dead Girl and Goy Crazy Today I have reviews of two books for you. Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles When Laine's …
: Poetry Friday: e e cummings I’m getting married on Wednesday. (Yes, that soon, and on a weekday. It turns out when your in-laws …
: Where do the Kidlit conversations happen? For my purposes, the term "kidlit" includes young adult literature as well. For many reasons, I’m …
: Posts Other People Wrote: My Gift to You Today is my birthday (yay!) and I’m going to give you the gift of some posts from other bloggers …
: 5 Blog Posts to Help You with Book Clutter We in the Kidlitosphere are probably queens and kings of book clutter. I think I must have fifteen …
June 2009
: Reading List! I just received an email from my advisor/YA Lit professor with a list for what we’ll be reading this …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #120 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: “Welcome to our weekly meeting ground for taking some …
: Get Books @ Your Library The Collaborative Summer Library Program is at it again, with different programs for children (pre-K …
: #48hbc Summary I didn’t keep track of any blogging or networking time, because I did so little of it. Next year. …
: #48HBC Update: 9 hours, 14 minutes Book: Accidental Love by Gary Soto Time Spent Reading It: 1 hr 31 min Another cute, fun read. (Aside …
: #48hbc Taking Off the Pressure So I’ve read 4 books in the past couple of days, which is more than I’ve read in the past several …
: #48HBC Update: 7 hours, 43 minutes Book: The Queen of Cool by Cecil Castellucci Time Spent Reading It: 1 hr 15 min I really enjoyed …
: #48HBC Update: 6 hours, 28 minutes So since I last posted, I spent a lot of time going to dinner, wandering around stores, hanging out …
: #48HBC Update: 3 hours, 52 minutes So I’ve been “participating” for almost 17 hours now and spent less than 4 of it reading. Oops? …
: 48 Hour Book Challenge, Start! It’s time for MotherReader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge! I’ll be starting at 8:15 pm local time tonight …
May 2009
: Seven on Sunday From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, our 7 Kicks posts are our weekly …
: What happened between myself and comic books? I was reading some posts over at Oz and Ends (a lot of fun) and a couple of them were about comic …
: SBBT: Friday I was sick yesterday and so I did not post this. Here it is, a day late. Today’s Schedule Jenny …
: SBBT Thursday Today’s SBBT Schedule Siobhan Vivian at Miss Erin Alma Alexander at Finding Wonderland Laurel Snyder …
: SBBT: Jo Knowles Jo Knowles is a writer of many dimensions. She does freelance work, a large part of which is for …
: 📚 A Shakespearean Summer Author Lisa Mantchev is sponsoring a Shakespeare challenge, which is Liv of Liv’s Book Reviews is …
: 📚 SBBT: Amber Benson I met Amber Benson once. It was in February 2001, at a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Posting Board Party. …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Day One; Guys Lit Wire Book Fair for Boys Today is the first day of the third annual Summer Blog Blast Tour. This event is organized by …
: What are you reading? I thought I’d take some time today to tell you what I’m reading currently. In the car, I’m listening …
: How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot Ever since Steph Landry spilled a big red Super Big Gulp on queen bee Lauren Moffat’s white D&G …
: MotherReader's 48 Hour Book Challenge I just signed up for MotherReader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge. I had a lot of fun with this back in …
: Poetry Friday: Aeneid I.23 - 33 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Id metuens, veterisque memor Saturnia belli, prima quod ad Troiam …
April 2009
: Monday Musing I don’t know if this will become a regular feature, but here’s a quick thought I’m having today: …
: Poetry Friday: Aeneid I.19 - 22 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Progeniem sed enim Troiano a sanguine duci audierat, Tyrias olim …
: 5 Ways to Use Kidlitosphere Central Stay up-to-date on the latest kidlitosphere news. It can be hard to keep up with everything that's …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #111 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, these Sunday posts are our weekly …
: Poetry Friday: Aeneid I.12 - 18 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Karthago, Italiam contra …
: Poking Around Kidlitosphere Central In case you haven’t seen it yet, Kidlitosphere Central is a hub of activity/resources for the …
: 7 Resources for Literacy Activists As my mind turns to my new career as a school media coordinator, I find myself even more committed …
: The exciting news... I’ve waited to share this with the internet at large until I told my colleagues at work. But I’ve …
March 2009
: Booking Through Thursday From Booking Through Thursday: What is the best book you’ve never read? This is hard for me to …
: Reading: When to Give Up on a Book Over at Read Roger, The Horn Book editor Roger Sutton wants to know: I’m curious to know what rules …
: Non-Fiction Monday: Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui by Karen Kingston Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui, by Karen Kingston, is both an organization book and a spiritual …
: 7 Kicks #104 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, these Sunday posts are our weekly …
February 2009
: A Manifesto of Sorts I do a lot of blog reading, in topics including blogging, craft, educational technology, fashion, …
: Just One More Book Marriage/Life Meme Over at Just One More Book, Andrea and Mark are celebrating their wedding anniversary with a meme. …
January 2009
: Non-Fiction Monday: How to Be a Budget Fashionista by Kathryn Finney 📚 I know that Non-Fiction Monday is supposed to focus on non-fiction for kids, but I don’t read much …
: Reading for 2009: Steampunk Sometimes, I take it into my head to get a really good handle on a topic/genre. I often ask Little …
: The Cybils Shortlist has been published! You can find it at their site. If nothing else, this is an excellent way to find new books to read. …
December 2008
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: Booking Through Thursday 1. Do you have a favorite author? Yes, Piers Anthony. 2. Have you read everything he or she has …
: Books for Gift Giving, Part 1 This post is part of Colleen’s initiative for people to blog about giving books as gifts, which is a …
November 2008
: Welcome! Welcome to my new home on the web. Please take a look around!
: Booking Through Thursday From Booking Through Thursday: So–just for today–how about sharing 7 things that you’re thankful …
: Why I NaNo, even though I've never finished So this year my sister said to me, “I’m not even gonna pretend I’m gonna do NaNoWriMo.” Well, I …
: 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #90 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: “As a reminder, our 7 Kicks posts are the weekly …
: Name Your Character Based on Her Personality via Lifehacker: What a Lovely Name is a new website that lets you select multiple tags for …
: Movies and Reading Habits Looking at my list of books read and unreviewed, I find both The Golden Compass and Twilight. I …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour From slayground - Today’s WBBT schedule: Mayra Lazara Dole at Chasing Ray Francis O’Roark Dowell at …
: Thanks, slayground! Today’s WBBT interviews: Martin Millar at Chasing Ray John Green at Writing and Ruminating Beth …
: Today's WBBT Schedule Thanks as always to slayground for the code! Today's WBBT schedule: Ellen Klages at Fuse #8 Emily …
: WBBT, Day Two In case you missed them, here are yesterday’s interviews - thanks again to slayground for the code! …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day One Due to the recent intensity of work, I’m not interviewing anyone this time around, but you can find …
October 2008
: NaNoWriMo Hi there, friends! Once again, I have registered to participate in National Novel Writing Month. (If …
: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: Happy Teen Read Week! For more information contact: Sara Easterly, Publicist for readergirlz Sara Easterly & Friends …
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: Cybils Nominations Open October 1st: How Can You Participate? Nominations for the third annual Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards (the Cybils) …
September 2008
: Poetry Friday: The Bait I love a good love poem. I wish I could express what my criteria for that is. So, here, abbreviated, …
: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray I feel like if I summarize even the first little bit of this book for you, I will spoil some …
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
August 2008
: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: The Vampire Problem: Betraying the Remarkable Human I don’t want to go into too much detail here, but I want to talk quickly about something I’ve run …
: The Best Thing on the Internet Readergirlz Videos! So exciting, because now I can see slayground in video on my computer, and it’s …
: Guys Lit Wire is on Facebook! If you’re on Facebook, please be sure to become a fan of Guys Lit Wire and encourage male teen …
: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco Indigara, Tanith …
July 2008
: The Return of Weekend Wonderings I'm not sure where I came across this link - probably in the Publisher's Weekly newsletter. …
: Poetry Friday: Never Never Land by Betty Comden and Adolph Green I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. …
: I missed something big. So apparently on my birthday, a little over a week ago, the Kidlitosphere exploded with people …
: Greetings from... wherever I've been. So, it's been almost a month. Most of which I've spent unpacking, preparing for a play, doing the …
June 2008
: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: New Blog: Library Pendragon I'm plugging it everywhere today: my friend Joanna's new blog, Library Pendragon. Joanna is a media …
: Poetry Friday et al. Before we get to the poetry, first: 1. I have a review in the new issue of The Edge of the Forest. …
: Poetry Friday The associations our brain makes are funny things. I went looking for a poem about sisters, because …
: Reading and Writing Our Life Stories It occurred to me just now that reading and writing are so very intertwined, that you can’t really …
: Summer Reading Round-Up Update: This post is about reading programs for summer 2008. If it's helpful, you might also enjoy …
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: Monday Misdirection As I haven't collected any links this week, I don't have much for you today. First: J. K. Rowling …
: An informal survey This question is for school and youth services librarians. How much and in what ways do you get to …
: Stigma and Censorship Go read Lee Wind’s post about his experience attempting to donate GLBTQ books to a junior high …
: Guys Lit Wire Guys Lit Wire is live! Here's a blurb from the site: Guys Lit Wire exists solely to bring literary …
May 2008
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: ubi est lectitans? (That's Latin for Where have I been? Where am I going? Life gets in the way. Work makes me tired, and various projects …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour Recap Monday, May 19th Adam Rex at Fuse #8 David Almond at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast R.L. …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Monday's Interviews Adam Rex at Fuse #8 David Almond at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast R.L. LaFevers at …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour Next Week! It’s that time of year again - time for the Summer Blog Blast Tour! I’m not interviewing anyone this …
April 2008
: NaPoWriMo #2 Vergil’s Aeneid, Book I, Lines 8 - 11 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Musa, mihi causas memora, quo …
: NaPoWriMo #1 April is National Poetry Month, and during this time many bloggers celebrate NaPoWriMo: National …
March 2008
: Gaining Expertise Let's say I wanted to gain expertise in a certain area of children's/YA lit. Say, I don't know, …
: The Lightning Thief I just finished reading The Lightning Thief. I won’t be reviewing it here, as I’m saving it for my …
: Poetry Friday: Beware the Ides of March! Tomorrow is March 15, which on the Roman calendar was known as the Ides of March. Now, the Ides are …
: Fascinating Insight If you haven’t been watching it, you should check out the LiveJournal community . This is a …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #53 Last week I tried to have a kick a day. I’m going to go for the same thing this week. We’ll see how …
: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #52 Seven good things this week: At last week’s music rehearsal for my current production, I was ready …
February 2008
: Whee! My first published book review is up at this month's The Edge of the Forest.
: “FLY WITH US. READ WITH K US Airways and Reading Is Fundamental Put Children’s Books on Planes; Launch “Read with Kids …
: The Next Step to Reinstate RIF's Funding FROM CAROL H. RASCO, President and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental Please ACT NOW …
: Poetry Friday: The Mermaid I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the whole of the day; With a comb of pearl I would …
: Which Science Fiction Author Are You? I am:Robert A. HeinleinBeginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with …
: Food for Thought National Women’s History Month starts on Saturday; this week’s Booking Through Thursday question …
: GuysLitWire From Colleen at Chasing Ray: Just to update you on the idea that several of us have been bouncing …
: New in Paperback for February 2008 Just making a list for myself based on the list published by LOCUS. Faerie Wars, Herbie Brennan Un …
: Book Scans Looking for vintage book covers? Go to Book Scans! "The goal of the Bookscans Project is to provide …
: Quotes That Suit Our Personalities I’m "reading" Holly Black’s Valiant right now on CD on my commute. I almost stopped because I feel …
: The Return of Weekend Wonderings Here on Sunday night I revive my Weekend Wonderings. (I meant to do this yesterday morning but I was …
: Booking Through Thursday All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, …
: Testing... LiveJournal is now blocked at work. While I wasn’t generally using it, it is my preferred feed …
: The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler Becker Drane has the best job in the world: he is a Fixer in The Seems, a behind-the-scenes society …
: Miscellaneous Reading-Related Thoughts 1. I officially have the patience for novels again. Yay! 2. I got to go to Kerry Madden's release …
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, …
: LA! I’m coming to LA for a few days this weekend and officially have no plans. Any kidlitters in the …
: This Week's Library List To Check Out: Valiant, Holly Black Ironside, Holly Black The Ferryman, Christopher Golden Sold, …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #49 It's that time of the week again, when jules and eisha ask us to list "Seven(ish) Exceptionally …
: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco
: Reading Is Fundamental As a public school teacher, I am distinctly aware of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and …
: Hi there! Hello, litosphere. Remember me? As mentioned in my last post, I haven’t had the attention span for …
January 2008
: Where have I been? I have been out and about. I haven't had the attention span for fiction in weeks. So I've been …
December 2007
: Celebrate the Author Challenge Over at Becky’s Book Reviews, Becky is hosting the Celebrate the Author Challenge. The basic idea is …
: Poetry Friday: Twas a Florida Christmas I found this through a quick googling: There weren’t any chimneys, but that caused no gloom, for …
: New Year, New Projects 2008 is The Year of Ambition for me. I am going to take my dreams of various sorts and see what I …
: Random Ramblings In a numbered list, no less! 1. My reading goal for the year was 30 books. I’ve already surpassed …
: Bad Day Books I’m having a bad day. What do you like to read when you’re having a bad day?
: Poetry Friday: Poetry Theatre It's a Theatrey weekend for me. Tonight I'm going to see The Little Prince, and then tomorrow it's …
: Hello again! It’s been more than a couple of weeks since I last posted. I’ve been in a non-litty headspace. But …
November 2007
: Meme and musings I'd be interested to know what their methodology is for that. It's appropriate, though, as I …
: Poetry Friday: Original Thanksgiving Haiku I’ve seen a lot of folks posting Thanksgiving poems today, which makes sense as it is the last …
: Focusing the Blog This is going to be a stream-of-consciousness entry. Consider yourself warned. In the past few …
: Blogging the Cure: Robert's Snow As you know if you've been visiting any children's book blogs for the past few weeks, Robert's Snow …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour: Dia Calhoun Author Dia Calhoun took the time to answer some questions for the Winter Blog Blast Tour. All of …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour Today is Colleen’s birthday! Happy birthday, Colleen! Here are today’s interviews: Lisa Ann Sandell …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day 2 Here is today's Winter Blog Blast Tour schedule: Lisa Ann Sandell at Chasing Ray Perry Moore at …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour Here is today's Winter Blog Blast Tour schedule: Perry Moore at The Ya Ya Yas Nick Abadzis at …
: Winter Blog Blast Tour: Kerry Madden Back this summer when we did Recommendations from Under the Radar, I wrote about Kerry Madden's …
: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow Week Four As you know if you've been visiting any children's book blogs for the past few weeks, Robert's Snow …
October 2007
: Robert's Snow: Week Three The text and code for this post were written by Jen Robinson. As you know if you've been visiting …
: NaNoWriMo As November approaches, I’d like to remind you that I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo and …
: Robert's Snow This Week Monday, October 22 Rose Mary Berlinat Charlotte’s Library Christopher Demarestat Writing and …
: Blogging for the Cure: The Week in Review Monday, October 15 Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit Michelle Chang at The Longstockings Kevin Hawkes at …
: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow Monday, October 15 Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit Michelle Chang at The Longstockings Kevin Hawkes at …
: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow Monday, October 15 Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit Michelle Chang at The Longstockings Kevin Hawkes at …
: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow Monday, October 15 Randy Cecil at ChatRabbitMichelle Chang at The LongstockingsKevin Hawkes at …
: Blogging for the Cure: Brie Spangler Today I’m highlighting illustrator Brie Spangler’s snowflake for Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure. …
: Blogging for the Cure, Day Two We're still blogging about snowflakes available in the Robert's Snow auction! Here are this week's …
: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow For the next few weeks I’ll be participating in Blogging for the Cure, which jules of 7-Imp sums up …
: An Explanation of Sorts Upon seeing that two books I was sent review copies of months ago and haven't touched except to put …
: Theatre blog! I've started a new theatre journal: mimula http://mimula.livejournal.com
: Bradbury Season: Cinderella Skeleton I'm not in the habit of writing about picture books, but there are some that still strike my fancy, …
: Booking Through Thursday Tuesday Buy a Friend a Book Week is October 1-7 (as well as the first weeks of January, April, and July). …
: Monday Misdirection For today's Monday Misdirection, I shall simply point you in the direction of my first October …
September 2007
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #30 Each Sunday at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, jules and eisha ask us to talk about good …
: The October Project In anticipation of NaNoWriMo, I’ve decided to set up a bit of a challenge for myself. Here’s the …
: Theatre Thursday: Hamlet, William Shakespeare Welcome to Theatre Thursday! Because plays are books too, I will be featuring each Thursday a play …
: Booking Through... Tuesday? Because I’m overly fond of alliteration, I’ve decided that in order to be able to make Thursday …
: Theme Days As I mentioned in my earlier post, I'm hoping to institute a theme for just about every day of the …
: Monday Misdirection I’m trying to develop a theme for each day on my blog here, because that way I won’t agonize over …
: Robert's Snow If you would, please go to Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast and read how you can help out …
: Anticipating NaNoWriMo As I gear up for this year's NaNoWriMo, I'm making reading lists. I've never won NaNoWriMo. I …
: Poetry Friday In case you didn't hear, Madeleine L'Engle has died. I felt a quick pang of pain at this, and have …
: Booking Through Thursday Each week at Booking Through Thursday, Deb asks a book-related question. Here's this week's …
: Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun First, an aside: you may have noticed in my posts that I tend to include anecdotes and that I am not …
August 2007
: Friday's Radar Recommendations A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy : The Vietnam books by Ellen Emerson White, Big A, little a : to …
: Recommendations from Under the Radar: Kerry Madden's Maggie Valley Trilogy You can't feed a family of ten or eleven with just love and music, but they sure do make life more …
: Thursday's Radar Recommendations In case you missed them, here they are! A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy :Friends for Life and Life …
: Recommendations from Under the Radar: Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf It's especially fitting that I'm bringing this book to your attention on the ninth anniversary of my …
: Wednesday's Radar Recommendations A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: The President's Daughter series by Ellen Emerson White Big A, …
: Recommendations from Under the Radar: Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn If I explain to you how I first encountered Innocence, then I'll ruin the ending for you. So …
: Recommendations Under the Radar: Tuesday Recap I missed posting this yesterday thanks to the day job, so if you missed it like me, here were …
: Recommendations Under the Radar: The Angel of the Opera When I was nine years old, I took a class on the fine art of lip synching. Yes, it was a class, for …
: Recommendations from Under the Radar I love books, and some of them are ones you haven’t heard of. I’m not the only one feeling this way, …
: The Internet Is A Marvelous Thing I have many book reviews to write, but as it is time to set up for the new school year, most of my …
: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #24 Each Sunday the ladies of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast ask us to list seven good things …
: Poetry Friday I've been thinking a lot about feminism of late, and so today I chose a poem that relates to the …
: Best Read with Vegemite Today we're going down under with the Summer Blog Blast Tour group! It's the first installment of …
: Poetry Friday I’m currently stage managing a production of the musical Rags, which is about Jewish immigrants …
: Wicked Cool Overlooked Books In May, Colleen of Chasing Ray started a monthly litblog event: on the first Monday of the month, …
July 2007
: Make Lemonade LaVaughn is only 14, but she knows more than anything else in her life that she’s going to go to …
: Tell An Author You Care Day: Dia Calhoun Emily Beeson has declared July 16 Tell An Author You Care Day. I'm getting in on this at the end, …
: Book Quiz You're The Poisonwood Bible! by Barbara Kingsolver Deeply rooted in a religious background, you have …
: Poetry Friday I'm leaving tomorrow for a week-long vacation in Florida. The state of Florida is my favorite place …
: Harmless This is the story of what really happened. This is the truth. When Emma moved to Orsonville back in …
June 2007
: Poetry Friday In honor of my cat-related article up at Associated Content, I’m posting a cat poem today. Had …
: Associated Content Associated Content has published my article Unique Websites for Cat Lovers.
: expecto patronum! When my students ask me, "What can you DO with a Classics major?" I answer: "Well, you pretty much …
: Literary Gifts Barbara Johansen's ALA roundup mentioned a museum visit that sent me in search of one of my favorite …
: Harry Potter Screenings THIS THURSDAY If you’re in Dallas, Portland, Sacramento, Raleigh/Durham, Minneapolis/St Paul, Pittsburgh, Atlanta …
: A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life Simone’s family is perfect. Her father is a political cartoonist, her mother is an ACLU attorney, …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 7 The Summer Blog Blast Tour concludes with Justina Chen Headley at Finding Wonderland. Colleen …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day Six Today's Interviews Tim Tharp at Chasing Ray Justina Chen Headley at Big A, little a Ysabeau Wilce at …
: Poetry Friday Revelations in the Key of K by Mary Karr I came awake in kindergarten, under the letter K chalked …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day Five Today’s Interviews Eddie Campbell at Chasing Ray Sara Zarr at Writing and Ruminating Brent Hartinger …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Kazu Kibuishi The Summer Blog Blast Tour continues here at lectitans with Kazu Kibuishi. Kazu is the creator of …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day Four Today's Interviews Mitali Perkins at Hip Writer Mama Svetlana Chmakova at Finding Wonderland Dana …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 3 [NOTE: This entry is backdated because I was away from the computer on June 19.] Today’s Interviews …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day Two Today’s Interviews: Tom & Dorothy Hoobler at Chasing Ray Mitali Perkins at Big A, Little a Sara Zarr …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Dana Reinhardt The Summer Blog Blast Tour begins here at lectitans with Dana Reinhardt. Dana is the author of two …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day One The Summer Blog Blast Tour is underway! The tour lasts from today through next Saturday. Each day …
: Poetry Friday In honor of the end of school and in light of the fact that I have an in-service workshop today, I'm …
: Thinking Blogger Award Back in May, Kelly at Big A, little a tagged me with the Thinking Blogger Award. Thanks, Kelly! The …
: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Preview Far too often I’ve heard a student say, “I don’t read." To the end of hearing those words replaced …
: Women Writers and Male Readers Colleen at Chasing Ray pointed me to an interesting article entitled “Still not an equal …
: Pirate Reading Challenge Oh my goodness, it’s 1:30 pm. When did this happen? Yes, folks, Summer Vacation has begun. (This is …
: Arrrrr! Welcome, me hearties! I be Captain Anne Scarlett, also known as Mermaid Jane, and this be my ship, …
: Hoist the colours! THE BASIC RULES: 1. The challenge begins June 12, 2007 and lasts until September 19, 2007. There be …
: 48 Hour Book Challenge Summary 9:30 AM Friday to 9:30 AM Sunday Books Read: 4 Pages Read: 1243 Time Spent Reading/Reviewing: 18 hrs …
: Weekend Wonderings This week's question is rather light, and ties into my recent reading of Wildwood Dancing and The …
: 7-Imp's 7-Kicks #14 Over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Eisha and Jules invite folks to post seven good …
: 48 Hr Book Challenge #4: The Various, Steve Augarde When Midge's mother goes on a tour with the London Philharmonic, she sends Midge to Mill Farm to …
: Non-Challenge Post I interrupt my challenge posts to bring you this tidbit. Several months ago, I filled out a form at …
: 48 Hr Book Challenge #3: Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier Wildwood Dancing is a fairytale lover’s dream: familiar tales, retold and mixed with folklore, …
: 48 Hr Book Challenge #2: Jack Sparrow - The Coming Storm, Rob Kidd I found myself stuck at Barnes and Noble tonight while waiting to meet my family for dinner, so I …
: 48 Hr Book Challenge #1: Dancing on the Edge, Han Nolan Miracle got her name because, as her grandmother Gigi tells her, she was born from a dead woman. …
: It Begins: 48 Hour Book Challenge My official start time for the 48 Hour Book Challenge is going to be 9:30 am. I will go from 9:30 am …
: Poetry Friday More pirate poetry for you today. Today I have Sea Fever, by John Masefield. I first encountered …
: 48 Hour Book Challenge Starts Tomorrow I'll be participating in Mother Reader's 48 Hour Book Challenge starting tomorrow. I'll begin at …
: Listmaking Now that I'm reading lots of kidlit blogs, I find myself needing to make lists, all the time. I …
: Weekend Wonderings This week, I've been thinking a lot about gender and societal expectations. It started with …
: Pet Peeve: Misuse of Words On Thursday, TadMack at Finding Wonderland issued a few Most Egregious Misuse awards. She focused on …
: Exciting Blog Discovery! A Fuse #8 Production is an awesome blog. I’ve known this for a while. Just today, I read a recnt …
: Poetry Friday In honor of Script Frenzy, I’m posting some soliloquies from my favorite scriptwriter - Wm …
: Script Frenzy Has Begun! Script Frenzy is in full swing. Can I knock out 667 words before midnight tonight? I think I can. …
May 2007
: Weedflower As the only Japanese girl in her class, Sumiko knew what being lonely felt like. Still, she was …
: Hello there, plus, Weekend Wonderings Hi there, remember me? I’ve been neglectful of this here reading blog. I’ve been ill and overworked, …
: Poetry Friday Anyone who knows me well can tell you I have a pirate problem. On my last day of student teaching, …
: Poetry Friday More Emily Dickinson! Because I could not stop for Death (712) by Emily Dickinson Because I …
: Remembering Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Alexander died today. People know him best for his Chronicles of Prydain. They fueled my …
: Out of the Madhouse …yesterday my life’s like, “Uh oh, pop quiz.” Today it’s “rain of toads.” Thus spoke Xander Harris …
: I'm a nergeerk. Your Score: Outcast Genius95 % Nerd, 73% Geek, 52% DorkFor The Record: A Nerd is someone who is …
: Script Frenzy Contact: Tavia Stewart 510-628-0327 Tavia@ScriptFrenzy.org FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU NATIONAL …
: Weekend Wonderings In June, I’ll be participating in the Summer Blog Blast Tour, organized by Colleen Mondor of Chasing …
: Poetry Friday Gelett Burgess. 1866– 36. The Purple Cow (Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who’s Quite Remarkable, at …
: 📚 Weekend Wonderings This week’s question is brought to you by yesterday’s Free Comic Book Day, my pleasure in watching …
: Books to Read: My Area of Expertise My Area of Expertise: The Ancient Mediterranean. The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan The Sea of …
: Free Comic Book Day Tomorrow At the beginning of the school year, the school newspaper sent a kid around to interview all the new …
: Poetry Friday Still more Catullus. Latin text from The Latin Library; translation/adaptation mine. V. to Lesbia …
: Meme: First Book A meme of my very own! What’s the first book you remember reading? Give us the title, author, date …
: Reading the Classics: Peter Pan Here’s a new feature for lectitans: Reading the Classics. I’ll be reading classic books and posting …
April 2007
: Weekend Wondering There has been much debate recently about blog reviews and their trustworthiness. Becky has an …
: Poetry Friday More Catullus. Latin text from The Latin Library; translation/adaptation mine. III. The Tears of …
: Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale When Kaye was a little girl, she had faerie friends. When she and her glam-rock mom moved, the …
: A Visit to the Past In honor of the 10th anniversary of the original airing of “Welcome to the Hellmouth” and “The …
: The Second Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge 📚 It is a strange quirk of being a teacher that there are days when you aren’t allowed to go to work, …
: Author Interview: Sonja Foust In Sonja Foust's debut short story, _Love in Shadow_, a tomboyish fairy named Shadow realizes she …
: Book Review: LOVE IN SHADOW 📚 Shadow is a fairy, formerly a highway robber. Lon is her boss, who runs a cargo transport business. …
: Book Meme I got this from slayground. Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? I like all three, …
: Weekend Wonderings I haven't been able to write a good introduction to this week's question, so I will skip straight to …
: Poetry Friday, Part Two The readergirlz pick this month, On Pointe, is a verse novel, so today I’ll be sharing a few …
: Poetry Friday, Part One More Catullus. Latin text from The Latin Library; translation/adaptation mine. II. The Tears of …
: This Week's Library/Bookstore Haul I’ve been to the library three times this week. The first time was for the Friends of the Library …
: Pucker: A Story About Redemption Let me say this right up front: this is not a story about kissing, or wrinkles, or things that are …
: The Last Dragon When you have too much sadness, the magic drowns in it, like people in water. If you think things …
: Millicent Min, Girl Genius Millicent Min has an impressive resume. She started elementary school at age three, has over seven …
: Weekend Wonderings Yesterday, my family friend Sarah (tribalkittykat) and I went to the North Carolina Renaissance …
: Library School While I intend to continue teaching for a while, I am researching library schools now. So if you …
: Poetry Friday I’m a Latin teacher, so it’s only fitting that I post Latin poems. From now on, you can expect from …
: Library School Memories If you want to know what I looked like about 20 years ago, be sure to check out this blog’s new …
: The Thrill of an Amazon Box There are few things quite as thrilling as getting a package from Amazon. Amazon usually means media …
: Weekend Wonderings Here’s a new feature: each weekend here at lectitans, I will post a question and invite other …
: Reading Goals Over at A Year of Reading, Franki asks us to share our own reading goals. Here are mine! 1. Read 36 …
: A To Do List Here on vacation, I don't devote quite the same energy to reading and writing blogs that I do at …
: Poetry Friday From “The Mermaid” by Alfred Lord Tennyson: I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the …
: In honor of National Poetry Month I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled; Not prone to overstated gushing praise Nor yet to seething …
: Library List! Here’s what I hope to pick up on my next trip to the library: The Silver Child, Cliff McNish - …
: Booklist 2007, and assorted notes Read in 2007: 1. Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), Justina Chen Headley 2. The Royal …
: A Forgotten Princess, A Queen Remembered A few years ago, my family and I took a trip to Roanoke Island and visited the Elizabeth II. While …
March 2007
: MySpace Account If you were a friend on my old MySpace account and got a new request from me, think nothing of it …
: readergirlz April Issue The April issue of readergirlz is now online. This month’s book is On Pointe (Affiliate Link) by …
: Book Meme Over at Jen Robinson's Book Page I found this meme: Where do you do most of your reading? Your …
: Poetry Friday From Emily Dickinson: I ’M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of …
: Bookhands This may be the longest I’ve gone between posts since back when I started this blog. I’m going to …
: Meme: 5 Non KidLit Blogs Kelly at Big A, little a tagged me to list 5 Non KidLit Blogs I read. We’ll skip over the part where …
: Poetry Friday Gus: The Theatre Cat by T. S. Eliot (an excerpt… for the full poem, go here) “I have played,” so he …
: Because what is a blog for, if not to plug your friends? This is a reading blog, and my friend Sonja Foust is an author. She’ll be published on Friday, the …
: Booklist 2007 Update Read in 2007: Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), Justina Chen Headley The Royal Diaries …
: On Reviewing One of the reasons I decided to join the kidlitosphere was the fact that it is so full of …
: And now for something completely different... www.youtube.com/watch This is the show that’s been keeping me from blogging. I’m the shortest of the …
: Poetry Friday A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne AS virtuous men pass mildlyaway, And whisper to …
: Up and Coming My current show opens this Friday and so I don’t have a lot of time at home to play online. I do …
: Writing Blogs This is the second part of a two-part response to Bookseller Chick’s excellent post Writer as …
: Reading Blogs This is the first part of a two-part response to Bookseller Chick’s excellent post, Writer as …
: Library Report et al. I’ve started writing the response to Writer as Blogger, Blogger as Writer. I’ve decided to make it a …
: Poetry Friday For my inaugural Poetry Friday post, I am using one of my favorite poems. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 …
: Promises, Promises I feel like a jerk. I am not posting the lengthy post I promised just yet. But here’s a preview of …
: 2007 Booklist Update Read in 2007: Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), Justina Chen Headley The Royal Diaries - …
: Two Reading-Related Announcements The lovely blackholly aka Holly Black, one of the co-authors of the Spiderwick Chronicles, solicited …
: Coming soon... Later - today, I hope - I will be writing a response to Bookseller Chick’s Writer as Blogger, …
: lectitans's day off I’m taking a much needed and deserved sick day tomorrow. I didn’t get to do any reading today, but …
: Synchronicity Truth: I’ve been blogging for years. I don’t even know how many. Six maybe? Truth: I have had an LJ …
: Miss Erin's Character Meme This Character Meme was created by Miss Erin. Character you’d most like to have over for tea? Elinor …
: Goals and Booklist My goal for last year was a book every two weeks, coming to about two a month. I ended up topping …
: The Great Library Tragedy I want to go to the library ASAP to return Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies) and pick up …
: Truth: Reading Is A Lovely Way to Spend a Saturday A quick rundown of my life at the moment: I teach full-time and I’m in a play. I’m only in my second …
: Books to Read I am going to keep a list of books to read. This way I won’t forget the title/author of a book I …
: readergirlz pick #1 and miscellaneous ramblings Today I dropped by the library and picked up the readergirlz pick for this month, Nothing but the …
: Welcome! Inspired by readergirlz, I’ve started this reading journal. … FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INSPIRING …