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Jul 1, 2025: Finished reading: The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh 📚 So great.

Jun 29, 2025: Swatching my little fabric stash In her Intro to Fabrics lesson, Brooks Ann links to an article she wrote for Threads Magazine called How and Why to Swatch Fabrics. She includes …

Jun 27, 2025: I’m taking Brooks Ann Camper’s Skirt Skills Custom Sewing class. Yesterday I put together my notebook for the class. My goal is to use stuff I already …

Jun 27, 2025: 📚 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 the room/in the bed heat scale, this book puts …

Jun 24, 2025: 🔖🧵 Read Just Make it Already! How to Boost Your Sewing Confidence. Brooks Ann Camper includes this as a bonus link in the orientation for Skirt …

Jun 24, 2025: It’s very Kimberly that I just had a nightmare in which the nightmarish occurrence was that the public library had pushed the YA bookshelves so close …

Jun 20, 2025: Finished reading: To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai 📚 Super cute and fun!

Jun 18, 2025: 🧵 I made a pillow! Well, I covered a pillow. I used instructions from the Sewing 10 class from Brit + Co. My seams were so wobbly that I actually had …

Jun 16, 2025: 📚💬 “When no help comes from outside, a lost crop becomes a famine.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to …

Jun 14, 2025: Finished reading: Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Another delight from Timothy Janovsky. Full review coming soon!

Jun 14, 2025: Finished reading: Idol by Kristen Callihan 📚🎧

Jun 10, 2025: Finished reading: Tangled Up In You by Christina Lauren 📚 A super cute Tangled retelling!

Jun 8, 2025: 📚 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 the 1889 Exposition Universelle, about a …

Jun 8, 2025: Disabled writer heroes: Leigh Bardugo. Esmé Weijun Wang. Johanna Hedva. I have more but these are the ones top of mind at this moment.

Jun 7, 2025: Finished reading: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera 📚 I love this book. Full review soon!

Jun 7, 2025: 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 are this new version of yourself, integrated with …

Jun 5, 2025: I’ve been conducting inventory on our 5000ish volume school library and it’s been going well. It’s surprisingly physical work. Today my arms don’t …

Jun 4, 2025: Crucial Track for June 3, 2025 "The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song would you use to describe …

Jun 4, 2025: Crucial Track for June 4, 2025 "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Describe the perfect song for a …

Jun 4, 2025: 🔖 Read The real reason Musk retreated by Daniel Hunter (Waging Nonviolence). This article about the power of collective action really made me feel …

Jun 1, 2025: Finished reading: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey 📚 A fascinating book about what our ghosts say about us.

May 30, 2025: 📚💬📝 “Tending to your body and mind is a way to tend to your work.” Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled …

May 30, 2025: 📚💬📝 “A disabled life is a life interrupted.” Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice

May 30, 2025: Finished reading: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera 📚 Another re-read. I basically cried through the last two chapters.

May 29, 2025: 📚💬 “In that moment Manuela began counting her blessings to have found friends who not only came to the rescue but who knew there was no problem in …

May 28, 2025: 📚💬 “Ghost stories, for good or ill, are how cities make sense of themselves: how they narrate the tragedies of their last, weave cautionary tales for …

May 25, 2025: Finished reading: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera 📚 This is a re-read. It’s a testament to Adriana Herrera’s work that even though …

May 25, 2025: Mijn Nederlansen vrienden, do people ever put hagelslag on stroopwafel?

May 24, 2025: Finished reading: Firelight by Sophie Jordan 📚

May 22, 2025: Fandom is something people do on the edges of their obligations, #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: I’m just going to sit back and enjoy Julia Bullard’s keynote, I Am Giving This Talk Instead of Sleeping, will share links when the #FanLIS2025 videos …

May 22, 2025: Now Billy Tringali, Maria Alberto and Jeremiah Martinez with Fun, Friends, and Fitness – Why Fans Attend Anime Conventions

May 22, 2025: “Students who research a topic related to a personal fandom feel more confident in the research process because they are already positioned as an …

May 22, 2025: Next! Amber Sewell with Fandom does belong in the classroom: Designing a study of fandom, student confidence, and intertextual expertise #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Chason-McCarthy discusses critically endangered crafts that fanbinding can revitalize, e.g. foreedge painting, paper marbling, tanning. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Distracted by personal stuff from live-blogging #FanLIS2025, sorry!

May 22, 2025: Chason-McCarthy conducted ethnography at Renegade Bindery Discord and TikTok fanbinding community. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Chason-McCarthy draws a connection between fanfiction purges from places like LiveJournal and Tumblr and fanbinding and is also suggesting that book …

May 22, 2025: Beck Chason-McCarthy with Multi-Sited Ethnography of Online Fan Binding communities: implications for LIS fields and Allied Crafts #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Nelson is interested in how we can use parafandom to delineate the different intentions behind disinformation and misinformation, and how we can use …

May 22, 2025: Everything Nelson is sharing is fascinating but my brain just isn’t processing quickly enough to live-blog it. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Nelson is discussing the relationship between dis/misinformation and parafandom. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Next up Melissa D. Nelson with Almost, beyond, or alongside fandom? An alternative frame for QAnon #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: There are increasing mentions and interest in pink kryptonite in both canon and fanfiction. The use of pink kryptonite raises significant questions of …

May 22, 2025: In some of these fanfic, other characters use pink kryptonite or their own abilities to impact Superman. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Fanfic featuring pink kryptonite tends to also incorporate other obscure elements from Superman/DC. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Ue and Starzomski-Wilson are discussing 3 fanfiction texts, undated but apparently from the 90s, and it’s hard to tell from a particular fanfiction …

May 22, 2025: In a couple of comics, pink kryptonite causes Superman to be attracted to Jimmy Olsen. In a short Justice League cartoon, pink kryptonite turns …

May 22, 2025: So far Ue and Starzomski-Wilson have identified 4 canonical uses of pink kryptonite. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: In canon, pink kryptonite affects sex/gender. Fans writing stories featuring pink kryptonite tend to do a lot of research and apply it consistently …

May 22, 2025: Tom Ue and Kristofer Starzomski-Wilson up next with Make It Pink: Superman, Pink Kryptonite, and Fandom #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Dreßler “Not everything is queer just because it appears to be.” #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: German-speaking fans do identify gaps but tend to fill gaps with heteronormative content even in queer stories. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Dreßler is sharing so much in the findings portion that I can’t keep up! #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Stories Dreßler analyzed tend to apply heteronormative tropes to queer relationships. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Dreßler looked at fanfiction on fanfiction.de, analyzed 40 stories from the Sailor Moon and Naruto fandoms, focusing on gay main characters (as …

May 22, 2025: Next! Saskia Dreßler with How subversive is shipping really? An analysis of heteronormative elements in same-sex relationships focused on …

May 22, 2025: What happens when these cafes shut down and their archival records disappear and functions cease? #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: These K cafe spaces tend to demonstrate uncompensated feminized fan labor while cafe proprietors tend to be men who may not be fans themselves. …

May 22, 2025: Cafes decorated with standees and posters provide a historical record of the life cycle of a media text. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Fans’ notes and art posted in cafes tend to be dated and signed, creating an informal archive, #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Some cafes deliberately center the fan experiences as part of their marketing while others don’t.

May 22, 2025: Das is comparing cafes in Delhi, Kolkata, and Siliguri. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: Das’s RQ: “Do fandom-centered cafe systems exhibit characteristics of alternate, informal memory institutions?” as opposed to formal, traditional …

May 22, 2025: Das is investigating cafes as a method of cross-cultural fandom for Indian fans of Korean entertainment. #FanLIS2025

May 22, 2025: First up, Susrita Das with Food, fan art, and preserving a moment in time: a case study of the fandom-themed cafe ecosystem as alternative memory …

May 22, 2025: Ludi Price is introducing the fifth FanLIS Symposium. #FanLIS2025 doesn’t have a particular theme. Ludi asks how are things different in FanLIS now …

May 22, 2025: Super exciting opportunity shared at #FanLIS2025, the British Library and the University of Glasgow are sponsoring a PhD student to explore the …

May 22, 2025: I’m attending the #FanLIS2025 Symposium today and will be live-blogging!

May 21, 2025: There’s so much info in this manga session that I can’t really keep up with live-blogging! #aisl25

May 21, 2025: Next up at #aisl25, Building Manga Collections Students Will Love with Suzie Bergstrom.

May 21, 2025: Deborah works as a trainer for Teaching Books, which includes a Book Resume for each title that librarians can use to justify inclusion of books in …

May 21, 2025: Deborah suggests pairing informational texts with graphic novels. For example, kids who love Ben Clanton’s Narwhal and Jelly series might be …

May 21, 2025: Prolific author Kate DiCamillo’s Orris and Timble series has a new book coming soon. #aisl25

May 21, 2025: Deborah says there is a trend of middle grade books with parents/adults having mental illness and kids having to keep secrets to keep siblings …

May 21, 2025: Deborah shares 2 books about whale falls, providing an environment for an ecosystem after a whale dies. These could be good for lateral reading, …

May 21, 2025: Looking at highly awarded, favorite authors and illustrators, variety of genres, cultural representation, and fan favorites. #aisl25

May 21, 2025: Deborah introduced Kari Lavelle’s Butt Or Face? series.

May 21, 2025: Starting off #aisl25 with Deborah Salyer talking about What’s New in Books for Children.

May 21, 2025: 📚💬 “…surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places 👻

May 21, 2025: Today I’m attending my first Association of Independent School Librarians institute, Booked for the Day: Reading, Reflection, and Revitalization. I’m …

May 17, 2025: 📚💬 “Here, then, is a central paradox in the way that ghosts work: to turn the living into ghosts is to empty them out, rob them of something vital; to …

May 16, 2025: Finished reading: Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Córdova 📚 This is such a perfect move of Disney’s The Little Mermaid to contemporary romance. There is so …

May 15, 2025: 📚💬 “Romantic heroes are the greatest cryptids of all.” Zoraida Córdova, Kiss the Girl 🧜‍♀️

May 14, 2025: Finished reading: By the Book by Jasmine Guillory 📚 A sweet Beauty and the Beast retelling.

May 14, 2025: North Carolinians, use this tool from EveryLibrary to contact your state senator about H636, a bill that “threatens student rights, undermines local …

May 13, 2025: 📚💬 “The contemporary attitude toward Spiritualism as a particularly ridiculous belief stems in no small part from the misogyny with which it was …

May 13, 2025: “If Emerson could find God in a forest, why couldn’t a medium find departed loved ones in a darkened room?” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American …

May 13, 2025: 📚💬 “Ghosts, you could say, flock to women left alone.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places 👻

May 12, 2025: 📚💬 “Even though the soles of her feet felt like she was walking on broken glass, she glided across the greenroom and stood face-to-face with her …

May 12, 2025: 📚💬 “Live in a house for any length of time, and you make it your own memory palace.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places 👻

May 12, 2025: 📚💬 “Uncomfortable truths, buried secrets, disputed accounts: ghost stories side out of the shadowlands, a response to the ambiguous and poorly …

May 12, 2025: 📚💬 “Those aspects of a life that are discontinuous, fragmented, or unexpected, are made whole through the ghost story.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An …

May 12, 2025: 📚💬 “A haunted house is a memory palace made real: a physical space that retains memories that might otherwise be forgotten or that might remain only …

May 12, 2025: 📚💬 “The past we’re most afraid to speak aloud of in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in …

May 9, 2025: Finished reading: If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy 📚 Super cute modern Cinderella retelling.

May 6, 2025: Finished reading: Deep Blue (Survival Instincts, #0.5) by Adriana Anders 📚

May 6, 2025: 💬 “I feel like I’m spending half my work time managing my mental and emotional ability to navigate a situation where I can’t confidently apply what I …

May 6, 2025: 🔖 Read Should You Ditch Fixing Your Weaknesses And Lean Into Your Strengths? by Nicole Aherling (The Good Trade). My top 3 strengths are either Input, …

May 5, 2025: Thank you @cygnoir@social.lol for pointing the way to this beautiful thread about the power of connections we make online. 📚💬 “She strode the earth …

May 5, 2025: Finished reading: Between the Devil and Desire by Lorraine Heath 📚

May 4, 2025: Much like I sometimes try to find Paramount+ on my phone by looking for the Star Trek app, just now I tried to find the Poirot app (which is, in fact, …

May 3, 2025: Please enjoy this extremely Kimberly blackout poem by Austin Kleon.

May 2, 2025: Me: Masquerade NYC posted a time, an intersection, and a passcode! But we can’t participate because we don’t live in New York. Spouse: I’m sorry. Me: …

May 2, 2025: Finished reading: In Bed With the Devil by Lorraine Heath 📚 Lorraine Heath is great at her job.

May 2, 2025: Am I Nostalgic for the 90s Because They Were Legitimately Great or Only Because I’m Middle-Aged?: The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Apr 30, 2025: Finished reading: Born In Ice by Nora Roberts 📚 This one made me a little weepy.

Apr 30, 2025: Ravynn K. Stringfield writes about the love evident in the rigor of Haniq Abdurraqib’s book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest and …

Apr 29, 2025: 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 complete works or backlist, A Love Letter to the Single …

Apr 28, 2025: Finished reading: Oathbound by Tracy Deonn 📚 Ugh so good, Tracy Deonn is so wonderful and I hate that I have to wait a long time for the next book in …

Apr 25, 2025: Finished reading: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe 📚 A gorgeous picture book biography.

Apr 25, 2025: I think one of the reasons I loved the early web is that you could exist on it purely as words. As a person whose body has often felt like a …

Apr 25, 2025: 📚💬 " ChatGPT has access to every poem ever written, at least in theory, but it can’t feel anything when it generates a poem from a prompt. Is this …

Apr 24, 2025: 🔖 Here’s a project IMLS supported that you won’t see in partisan social media posts about where that 0.003% of the federal budget went: Libraries’ …

Apr 24, 2025: 📚💬 “It’s a near certainty that generative AI can have some positive effects on human writing, but for that to be true, we must hold fast to what makes …

Apr 24, 2025: 📚💬 “What do we make of a technology that is simultaneously undeniably powerful, has access to all the information in the world, and can produce …

Apr 24, 2025: 📚💬 “The things ChatGPT is ‘smarter’ at… are relatively limited as compared to our human capacities for experience, reflection, analysis, and …

Apr 24, 2025: 📚💬 “It’s not that ChatGPT makes stuff up. It has no capacity for discerning something true from something not true. Truth is irrelevant to its …

Apr 24, 2025: 📚💬 “Large language models do not ‘write.’ They generate syntax.” John Warner, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

Apr 23, 2025: This is happening and I’m very excited. 📚

Apr 22, 2025: 📚💬 “Removing thinking from writing renders an act not writing.” John Warner, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

Apr 22, 2025: 📚💬 “…ChatGPT cannot write. Generating syntax is not the same thing as writing. Writing is an embodied act of thinking and feeling. Writing is …

Apr 22, 2025: 📚💬 “…segregating people by those who are allowed and empowered to engage with a genuine process of writing from those who outsource it to AI is hardly …

Apr 21, 2025: Finished reading: Born in Fire by Nora Roberts 📚 Technically I read this in the binding of the Irish Born trilogy that has all 3 books, but I’m giving …

Apr 21, 2025: 📚💬 “‘That was it,’ Maggie said with a laugh. ‘I was bright. Brie was sweet.’” Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

Apr 21, 2025: 📚💬 “All you need for Paris, Maggie, is a romantic heart.” Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

Apr 18, 2025: Finished reading: Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome 📚

Apr 18, 2025: Finished reading: Thank You, Omu! (Caldecott Honor Book) by Oge Mora 📚 A lovely picture book about generosity with super cool cut paper mixed media …

Apr 17, 2025: Finished reading: Shadow’s Heart by Kresley Cole 📚

Apr 15, 2025: In How to Tell When We Will Die, Johanna Hedva writes about how they are going to be in pain no matter what, so they choose to go out and have …

Apr 13, 2025: Finished reading: What I Did For a Duke by Julie Anne Long 📚 Oh wow. I love both main characters in this one. The heroine is so tired of being seen as …

Apr 11, 2025: Finished reading: The Secret Garden by Mariah Marsden and Hanna Luechtefeld 📚 The Secret Garden is one of my favorite books from childhood and this is …

Apr 11, 2025: 🔖🍿 Read Why Minecraft Movie Fans Are Getting Rowdy and Going Viral by Lynn Zubernis Ph.D. (Psychology Today) Found this via Austin Kleon’s newsletter. …

Apr 10, 2025: 💬📚 “Rather than seeing ChatGPT as a threat that will destroy things of value, we should be viewing it as an opportunity to reconsider exactly what we …

Apr 10, 2025: 💬📺 “The thing, Hastings? Do you think Poirot concerns himself with mere thingness?” Season 1, Episode 2, “Murder in the Mews,” Agatha Christie’s …

Apr 8, 2025: Finished reading: I Kissed an Earl by Julie Anne Long 📚 A headstrong lady! Shipboard romance! As always, Julie Anne Long does the job.

Apr 7, 2025: 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 wrote a great post about how you can show up for …

Apr 7, 2025: 💬📚 “Do you want to look back on a life of items crossed off lists drawn up in response to the demands of others? Or do you want to hang on to, and …

Apr 6, 2025: 📺 Watched The Residence. So great! A country house mystery where the country house is the White House. Uzo Aduba is wonderful, as always. Full of fun …

Apr 6, 2025: 🍿Watched A Minecraft Movie. Super fun if you’re familiar with Minecraft. I loved seeing it in the theater with a bunch of folks who clearly love …

Apr 6, 2025: Finished reading: How to Tell When We Will Die by Johanna Hedva 📚 This book challenged me. I don’t know the last time I had to look up several …

Apr 6, 2025: 📚💬 “I want a life capacious enough to contain what I choose to be true about myself and that which I did not but have nevertheless learned to work …

Apr 6, 2025: 📚💬 “…kindness is a form of magic we can choose to know how to do. What matters is attending to suffering, no matter why it’s there.” Johanna Hedva, …

Apr 3, 2025: Finished reading: Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson 📚 A great picture book about the Children’s Crusade in Birmingham in 1963, perfect …

Apr 3, 2025: Oh no I’m attending a LEGO Education Info Session and it’s in Teams. I don’t care for Teams.

Apr 1, 2025: Finished reading: The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander 📚 A gorgeous picture book poem.

Mar 31, 2025: Finished reading: Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long 📚 Julie Anne Long is really good at the job. Lots of yearning in this one, in the best way.

Mar 31, 2025: Thank you @cygnoir@social.lol for sharing this link of how you can be an ally on Transgender Day of Visibility and every day! 🏳️‍⚧️

Mar 31, 2025: Looking at my online presence you might believe all I do is read books, but I also play Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters.

Mar 30, 2025: Bio update! My bio everywhere now reads: Three books in a trench coat. Escribitionist. Mom. School librarian. Citizen of Romancelandia. I manage …

Mar 29, 2025: 📚💬 “In illness, the now feels like punishment.” Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

Mar 29, 2025: 📚💬 “Maybe the blast radius of disability destroys everything and also makes new worlds. Maybe these are worlds of paradox: both the radical limitation …

Mar 29, 2025: 📚💬 “The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible …

Mar 28, 2025: Finished reading: How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis 📚 Super fun but also upsetting because of the social commentary middle book in a space heist …

Mar 28, 2025: 📚💬 “…this is the conundrum all sick and disabled people live with. To be pathologized is to be allowed to survive.” Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We …

Mar 27, 2025: 📚💬 “When you have chronic illness, life is reduced to a relentless rationing of energy.” Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, …

Mar 27, 2025: Finished reading: Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas 📚 A great graphic novel!

Mar 27, 2025: 📚💬 “How can you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?” Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, …

Mar 27, 2025: 📚💬 “How many of us have already met our doom and then had to get out of bed and go on?” Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, …

Mar 27, 2025: 📚💬 “Disability describes a condition that is both more othered from and profoundly closer to one’s body than any other political condition that I can …

Mar 27, 2025: 📚💬 " All the ways we cannot do something, all the ways we won’t be able to do something—what sort of political dreams can come from this as a starting …

Mar 27, 2025: 📚💬 " What about stories that are enlivened, vivified, not despite illness and disability but because of them?" Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will …

Mar 27, 2025: Finished reading: Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long 📚 So great. Julie Anne Long is excellent both at the plot level and at the prose level.

Mar 23, 2025: 🎭 I’m at Beetlejuice The Musical and it’s like the musical theater version of Bats Day at the Fun Park. Everyone is here in their goth finery and it …

Mar 21, 2025: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚 As great as everyone says. It’s striking how much chronic illness and grad school prepped …

Mar 21, 2025: Please read today’s Book Riot Literary Activism Newsletter and EveryLibrary’s statement on the appointment of Keith E. Sonderling as Acting Director …

Mar 21, 2025: 📚💬 “…having large amounts of time but no opportunity to use it collaboratively isn’t just useless but actively unpleasant…” Oliver Burkeman, Four …

Mar 21, 2025: Oliver Burkeman writes about professor Robert Boice’s attempt to get PhD students to work a little bit daily and take weekends off. The students …

Mar 21, 2025: 📚💬 “…the presence of problems in your life… isn’t an impediment to a meaningful existence, but the very substance of one.” Oliver Burkeman, Forty …

Mar 21, 2025: 📚💬 “…reading Is the sort of activity that largely operates according to its own schedule.” Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for …

Mar 21, 2025: Finished reading: The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long 📚 A book with an awesome heroine and a delightful hero. Julie Anne Long is new to me and …

Mar 20, 2025: 📚💬 “Results aren’t everything. Indeed, they better not be, because results always come later—and later is always too late.” Oliver Burkeman, Four …

Mar 20, 2025: 📚💬 " …a good hobby probably should feel a little embarrassing; that’s a sign you’re doing it for its own sake rather than for some socially sanctioned …

Mar 19, 2025: 📚💬 " In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth." Oliver Burkeman, …

Mar 19, 2025: Sometimes, I’ll think of someone I connected with online and wonder how they’re doing. I’ll miss them and if I don’t have their email address or they …

Mar 19, 2025: Greetings from our spring break staycation.

Mar 18, 2025: 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 year, I try it out and see if it actually fits. If …

Mar 18, 2025: “…what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the …

Mar 18, 2025: 📚💬 “…if you’re procrastinating on something because you’re worried you won’t do a good enough job, you can relax—because judged by the flawless …

Mar 17, 2025: EveryLibrary has created a tool you can use to send an email to your legislators and governors urging them to support federal funding for Libraries. …

Mar 17, 2025: 📚💬 " The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things." Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: …

Mar 17, 2025: 🔖 Book Riot’s Literary Activism Newsletter explains: Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now.

Mar 17, 2025: I was looking at my On This Day page, reading an old post I wrote that’s especially thoughtful and in-depth about improv, and it struck me that I …

Mar 17, 2025: 🔖 Read The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? by Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian). I’m trying to find a space where determinism and …

Mar 16, 2025: Finished reading: Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis 📚 The first novella in a series of three. At first I thought it might not be the right …

Mar 16, 2025: Finished reading: Dark Russian Angel by Odette Stone 📚

Mar 15, 2025: 📚💬 “… there’s no reason to believe you’ll ever feel ‘on top of things,’ or make time for everything that matters, simply by getting more done.” Oliver …

Mar 15, 2025: 📚💬 “… once you become convinced that something you’ve been attempting is impossible, it’s a lot harder to keep on berating yourself for failing.” …

Mar 14, 2025: Finished reading: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell 📚 I really enjoyed this! Sad boys falling in love in space.

Mar 12, 2025: 📺🍿 How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas wrote about the influence the movie A Christmas Story had on the show. I replied with this: This has …

Mar 10, 2025: 🔖 Read HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me by Tim Carmody (Wired) Carmody and I came to HTML within a year of each other, both via …

Mar 10, 2025: Finished reading: Whiteout by Adriana Anders 📚 Like if The Thing, that Antarctica episode of The X-Files, and a Michael Crichton book all had a baby …

Mar 8, 2025: Finished reading: The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath 📚 A wild premise deftly handled.

Mar 6, 2025: I’m very psyched that a local romance lover is launching a mobile romance-focused bookstore. She’s launched an Indiegogo to help her get over the …

Mar 6, 2025: 💬📚📝 “…a story’s as much house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

Mar 6, 2025: Finished reading: Falling Into Bed with a Duke by Lorraine Heath 📚 Lorraine Heath knows the job. Minerva Dodger is a delightful heroine.

Mar 5, 2025: Finished reading: Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes 📚 A very useful and straightforward book about romance novel structure.

Mar 3, 2025: Finished reading: The Heroine’s Journey: For Readers, Writers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger 📚 This is a great book about story structure …

Mar 3, 2025: 📚💬📝 “…what are we writers but Machiavellian manipulators of a stranger’s emotions?” Gail Carriger, The Heroine’s Journey

Mar 1, 2025: Life is a lot right now. I give you permission to take a harm reduction approach to literally anything you need to. Taking some supplements is better …

Mar 1, 2025: Finished reading: A Duke Worth Falling For by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love Sarah MacLean so much.

Feb 27, 2025: Finished reading: The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa 📚 Cute rom-com with a heroine who has put walls around her heart and has to learn when to open the …

Feb 27, 2025: A big pile of meh I haven’t been writing much lately, something that has special irony since on Sunday I took Sarah MacLean’s Start Your Romance Novel Today class. …

Feb 23, 2025: Finished reading: To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins 📚 Another awesome heroine.

Feb 22, 2025: Finished reading: Anything You Want by Derek Sivers 📚

Feb 22, 2025: Finished reading: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 📚 A classic for a reason.

Feb 22, 2025: 💬📚 “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some …

Feb 22, 2025: 💬📚 “Don’t be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid …

Feb 22, 2025: 💬📚 “You wouldn’t be a writer if reading hadn’t enriched your soul more than other pursuits.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing …

Feb 21, 2025: 💬📚 “… everything we need in order to tell our stories in a reasonable and exciting way already exists in each of us.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some …

Feb 21, 2025: 💬📚 “I don’t think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough at it, and I don’t think you have time to waste …

Feb 20, 2025: 💬📚 “Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material …

Feb 20, 2025: 💬📚 “Take the attitude that what you are thinking and feeling is valuable stuff, and then be naive enough to get it all down on paper.” Anne Lamott, …

Feb 20, 2025: 🔖 Read: Letters from an American: February 18, 2025 “So this is how liberty dies…” Making sense of Trump’s first three weeks Peace or partition? Putin …

Feb 19, 2025: 🖖🏻 I’m watching the episode where Worf joins the crew of DS9. When the camera panned up from his feet to his face, I thought, “Oh, it’s my buddy Worf! …

Feb 17, 2025: Finished reading: Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins 📚 I loved the heroine in this one. Spring is a tough rancher who has been cut off from her feelings for …

Feb 15, 2025: Finished reading: Rebel by Beverly Jenkins 📚 Ms. Bev knows her business and does it well.

Feb 14, 2025: In Romancelandia, Valentine’s Day is, as the French say, un jour férié. In honor of the day, if you give me the title and description of any book …

Feb 13, 2025: 🔖 Read The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup. Courts are not known for their harm prevention—they’re best used when trying to hold someone …

Feb 13, 2025: 🎮 Playing the first Final Fantasy pixel remaster and it makes me so happy. The music especially. I have played this video game more than any other. …

Feb 12, 2025: 📚💬 “We can’t hide in romance. We have to find strength in it.” Adriana Herrera in today’s episode of Fated Mates

Feb 12, 2025: 🎮 Downloading the Final Fantasy I - VI pixel remasters. Very excited!

Feb 10, 2025: When to call me Dr. In her week notes, cygnoir links to my post, Political action guidance for the overwhelmed, and credits me as Dr. Kimberly Hirsh. I appreciate the …

Feb 9, 2025: Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn Typography by Building a Nutrition Label.” Thoughts: This actually helped …

Feb 8, 2025: 🍿 Watched Saturday Night. A delight, specially crafted for sketch comedy nerds like myself.

Feb 8, 2025: Finished reading: After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez 📚 So great. It made me cry. Jeremiah, the hero book, is a phenomenal example of …

Feb 6, 2025: Today’s Coding Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn CSS Flexbox by Building a Photo Gallery.” Thoughts: This is where my …

Feb 6, 2025: Later-coding update from Monday: Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn the CSS Box Model by Building a Rothko …

Feb 6, 2025: It’s just a terrible time for timelines. I’m mostly hanging out in my email inbox and Discord these days.

Feb 5, 2025: 🔖 Read The history of anti-authoritarian struggle is a history worth repeating by Sarah Freeman-Woolpert (Waging Nonviolence).

Feb 4, 2025: 📚 Happy book birthday to Adriana Herrera and A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke!

Feb 4, 2025: I played Spyro the Dragon (Reignited Trilogy version) and had fun but 3D games mostly give me motion sickness so now I feel gross. Uninstalled and …

Feb 3, 2025: 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 drown in too much of it and need to scale back. So if …

Feb 2, 2025: 🔖 Read The Logic of Destruction by Timothy Snyder. Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something …

Feb 2, 2025: 🔖 Read How to organize under authoritarian creep in a closing civil society. This is my playbook moving forward.

Feb 2, 2025: 🔖 Read Trump’s education department says book bans are a ‘hoax.’ Teachers disagree..

Feb 2, 2025: Finished reading: Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J. Tuli 📚

Feb 1, 2025: 🍿 Watched Dog Man. Exactly what it says on the tin. If you enjoy the Dog Man graphic novels, you’ll enjoy the movie, and if you don’t, you won’t.

Jan 31, 2025: Coding Project: Mystery Shack Survey Form Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of Colored Markers.” Thoughts: This was fun to …

Jan 30, 2025: Today’s Coding Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp projects, “Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of Colored Markers.” Thoughts: CSS is already …

Jan 29, 2025: Little coding update! Completed the freeCodeCamp projects “Learn HTML by Building a Cat Photo App”, “Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu.” This is …

Jan 29, 2025: 🔖 Read Primark launches clothing range designed for people with disabilities. I love this. I hope we see it spread to other retailers.

Jan 29, 2025: It’s hard to feel much like writing these days. I’m going to be building some hand-coded projects and learning more hand-coding stuff, so I’ll be …

Jan 29, 2025: Bless Miss O’Kistic for this timeless tweet.

Jan 28, 2025: Finished reading: A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles 📚 A Tory pursuing seditionists for the Home Office and a radical pamphleteer fall in love in …

Jan 28, 2025: 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 what to do next. (The newsletter has free …

Jan 26, 2025: Finished reading: A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles 📚 Just excellent.

Jan 26, 2025: Help me out, Internet. I saw someone talking about a cross-posting service a while back, maybe @pratik@writing.exchange? What is that service called? …

Jan 25, 2025: Me just now: I think my boots don’t look as cool with the laces looser on the foot and tighter on the ankle. Also me: Kimberly, you are a middle-aged …

Jan 24, 2025: Stepping away from timelines and replies for a little while, but still planning to share resources and blog. If you want to be sure I see what you …

Jan 24, 2025: Sharing more resources to help you defend libraries. Kelly Jensen works so hard on the Book Riot Literary Activism newsletter. It is the best place I …

Jan 23, 2025: 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 wanted to share the American Library …

Jan 22, 2025: 🔖 Read Please Don’t Use Generative AI To Mimic Historical Figures. This is all kinds of a bad idea. The BlueSky thread linked in the post shares a …

Jan 22, 2025: 📚💬 “Kill the protestors, arrest the leaders, gaol the journalists. It’s what they do. It’s what tyrants do.” K. J. Charles, A Fashionable Indulgence …

Jan 22, 2025: Information is my love language! GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and crisis …

Jan 21, 2025: 📚 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. Mine is libraries. I’ll be posting resources on …

Jan 21, 2025: Your mind is valuable. Your attention is an important part of your mind. Stop treating it like slop. - Simon Woods

Jan 20, 2025: Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚 This was a good book to read today, full of helpful ideas. Reading notes coming soon. Highly …

Jan 20, 2025: Not everything I post on my personal site is getting pushed through to social media. If you want to learn how you can see all of it, I have a /follow …

Jan 20, 2025: 🔖 Read Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. I first read this in high school and was long overdue for a re-read. If you’ve never …

Jan 19, 2025: Finished reading: The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh by KJ Charles 📚 A fun short story. A hot 🔥🔥🔥.

Jan 17, 2025: Bit of venting (no advice needed): it’s frustrating to have multi chronic illnesses because a good day for one condition can be a bad day for another. …

Jan 16, 2025: Finished reading: Priest by Sierra Simone 📚 Y’all, this is both explicit and taboo. Content warning for suicide (one of the MC’s siblings, before the …

Jan 15, 2025: 💬📚📝 “For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are the ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: …

Jan 15, 2025: 💬📚📝 “…we no longer need Chicken Little to tell us the sky is falling, because it already has. The issue now is how to take care of one another.” Anne …

Jan 15, 2025: 💬📚📝 “…a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing …

Jan 15, 2025: 💬📚📝 “The core, ethical concepts in which you most passionately believe are the language in which you are writing.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some …

Jan 14, 2025: I really needed my past self’s advice to stop trying to optimize myself. Thanks, me.

Jan 12, 2025: Finished reading: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward 📚 Listened to the audiobook. This one is very much of its time (2005).

Jan 12, 2025: Finished reading: How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days by Kerrelyn Sparks 📚 The pacing in this is wild, and by wild I mean slow. But it was interesting …

Jan 11, 2025: 🍿 Watched This Is My Life. Nora Ephron’s film directorial debut. I love a story about a mother and her kids.

Jan 11, 2025: 🔖 Read 799 Books: The Story of The Stanford L. Warren Library.

Jan 11, 2025: 🔖 Read For Durham Artist Gabriel Eng-Goetz, Community Is the Greatest Muse.

Jan 11, 2025: 🔖 Read Wake County Employs SROs in 80 Schools; Some Parents and Civil Rights Advocates Say Their Presence Harms and Criminalizes Students .

Jan 10, 2025: My very kind and generous household family gave me time and space to rest during the pain phase of my migraine yesterday. I’m now in the postdrome …

Jan 9, 2025: The first week of the New Year left me exhausted from peopling. And I came into the second week exhausted from an unusual work schedule. I have to …

Jan 8, 2025: My aesthetic isn’t dark Twee, actually. It’s more goth bookstore girl. Like if Rory Gilmore were Wednesday Addams rather than just being insufferable. …

Jan 6, 2025: Finished reading: Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat 📚 This book is well-written and compelling. It’s also intense and full of potentially triggering …

Jan 6, 2025: People of Micro.blog please welcome my friends from all of us enjoying books and talking about it online, @lgmhamm and @cedickie. Two of our new …

Jan 5, 2025: 🍿 Watched Wicked Part I. I had a great time! I am a person who took a while to warm up to Wicked the show. The movie does a lot to move it in the …

Jan 4, 2025: Finished reading: The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson 📚 I loved this! A woman who has to learn to let love in, a man who is patient enough to …

Jan 3, 2025: Austin Kleon’s list of 100 things that made his year always delights me. I aspire to notice more things like he does.

Jan 2, 2025: 💬📚 “A new notebook is not about starting over—it’s about leveling up.” - Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method

Jan 1, 2025: 📚 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, Oathbound by Tracy Deonn APRIL 15 Love in 280 …

Jan 1, 2025: My timeline is conspiring to get me planning, via @cygnoir@social.lol and @cheribaker@writing.exchange. (But I may delay until tomorrow, I am so …

Jan 1, 2025: 📚 Anticipating My Reading Year 2025 In anticipation of my reading this year, I want to articulate one main goal and a few stretch goals. My main reading goal is to read one more book …

Jan 1, 2025: 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 gut/intuition/heart wanted to write this in the new year. So …

Dec 31, 2024: 🔖 Read The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction by Elizabeth Minkel (Fansplaining). If you care about fandom, fanfiction, bad actors, and the …

Dec 30, 2024: Finished reading: Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli 📚

Dec 27, 2024: 📚 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 books I read this year in here. I read 106 books …

Dec 25, 2024: Hi Internet friends. I hope your December 25 goes swimmingly!

Dec 23, 2024: 🎮 Finished The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom last night. Super fun! I love puzzles, I love getting to be Zelda without her having to be disguised, …

Dec 23, 2024: I’m coining a new aesthetic: Dark Twee. Think Jessica Day meets Lydia Deetz. A goth children’s librarian. More to come.

Dec 18, 2024: Finished reading: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen 📚 Viking fantasy romance/romantasy. Not exactly a cliffhanger but not NOT a cliffhanger, …

Dec 17, 2024: I am very resentful of my body’s need for sleep.

Dec 17, 2024: 💬📚📝 “…in order to be a writer, you have to be reverent.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Dec 17, 2024: 💬📚📝 “Writing is about communicating what’s going on. Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most …

Dec 16, 2024: I’m planning to make 2025 a Year of Making, for reasons. (The reasons are that making stuff is good for my mental health.)

Dec 14, 2024: Finished reading: Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon 📚 I really enjoyed this, mostly for the fantasy and emotional stuff. Love a nerdy heroine and a …

Dec 13, 2024: 📚 2024 has been a good year for queer sommelier romances.

Dec 13, 2024: 🔖 Read The open social web is the future of the internet. Here’s why I’m excited. by Ben Werdmuller. This is a great articulation of what’s good.

Dec 12, 2024: I am very behind on Lower Decks and I kinda need to just hide from the Internet until I catch up.

Dec 10, 2024: 💬📚📝 “All you can give us is what life is about from your point of view. You are not going to be able to give us the plans to the submarine. Life is …

Dec 10, 2024: 💬📚📝 “The development of relationship creates plot.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Dec 10, 2024: I’ve been writing in 750 Words for a few days. I’m feeling motivated to make notes on our travels from 2023. Eventually, maybe I’ll pull some pearls …

Dec 9, 2024: Finished reading: Swordcrossed by Freya Marske 📚 Lovely! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Dec 6, 2024: 📺📚📓 Read The Great Experiment: race and authorship in Shonda Rhimes’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story by Claudia Calhoun (Adaptation). This is an …

Dec 6, 2024: Finished reading: A Touch of Stone and Snow by Milla Vane 📚 I might love this even more than A Heart of Blood and Ashes. A mild 🔥🔥🔥🔥.

Dec 2, 2024: 💬📚 “When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. This is your utopia.” Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: …

Dec 2, 2024: 💬📚 “I’m a student, not a guru.” Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

Nov 27, 2024: 🍿 I’ve watched still more made-for-TV holiday movies: Jingle Bell Run Meet Me Next Christmas Hot Frosty Hot Frosty taught me that no matter how built …

Nov 26, 2024: Finished reading: A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane 📚 So, so good. I’m so happy to have found my fantasy romance sweet spot. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Nov 22, 2024: 🍿 Watched Christmas on the Ranch. I like this but he asks her to give up her life in New York and move to his ranch in Ohio before they even kiss. …

Nov 21, 2024: Is this still a migraine or am I in the postdrome phase? The Kimberly Hirsh story

Nov 21, 2024: I love my job and my family, and yet I find myself resenting that I have to do anything today besides sit around reading A Heart of Blood and Ashes. 📚 …

Nov 20, 2024: Finished reading: The Beast of Blackmoor by Milla Vane 📚 Milla Vane asks, “What if grimdark, but romance?” and I answer, “Yes please!” So great. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Nov 20, 2024: Finished reading: Killer Underwear Invasion! How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation, and Conspiracy Theories by Elise Gravel 📚 This is a great book, …

Nov 18, 2024: Chronically ill stationery nerd life: you can’t find the pill sorter you thought was on your nightstand, but at least while you were searching for it, …

Nov 18, 2024: Finished reading: Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 📚 Most of this book is set in the Smoky Mountains near Asheville and I just kept …

Nov 18, 2024: It took over a week, but my little web lab(yrinth) is live. (Previously mentioned here.)

Nov 18, 2024: My word for 2025 is MORE. I want to do more next year. Details forthcoming.

Nov 18, 2024: After all that thinking about traveler’s journals and field journals, I think I’m going to end up sticking with an official Bullet Journal or …

Nov 17, 2024: Finished reading: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera 📚 I love Adriana Herrera’s Las Leonas series so much. This is a very hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥. …

Nov 16, 2024: Hello friends! If you’re seeing this on BlueSky, that’s because my website automatically syndicates there. Your replies get piped back into me via …

Nov 16, 2024: Finished reading: Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet 📚 White wrote the first novels I remember reading: Stuart Little, Charlotte’s …

Nov 15, 2024: 💬📚 “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” E. B. White quoted in Some Writer! The Story of E. B. …

Nov 15, 2024: 💬📚 “Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most …

Nov 13, 2024: Finding myself holding dear to my heart stories where people fight evil in community: Sailor Moon, Buffy Seasons 1-4 & 7.

Nov 11, 2024: I have scheduled a sleep study. I think I’m done for the day. I have been productive, right? (I’m also taking the kiddo to the pediatrician this …

Nov 10, 2024: Bought a new domain and hosting package to have a spot to put random web projects, as one does.

Nov 9, 2024: Currently reading: Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna Ebenstein 📚

Nov 9, 2024: 📚💬 “By learning to live with our fear of death, we also learn to live with our fear of that which we cannot control, to sit with the mystery at the …

Nov 8, 2024: 🔖 Read 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won. This is helpful.

Nov 7, 2024: It is November 7. I am wearing sandals.

Nov 7, 2024: 🔖 Read Please publish more (on your website) by Colin Devroe. Micro.blog is the best way I’ve found to do this. (Full disclosure: I contract for M.b …

Nov 6, 2024: ThredUp: It’s sweater weather. Weather forecast: It’s going to be 79° F. Me: So like… Short-sleeved sweaters?

Nov 6, 2024: On November 9, 2016, I took my one month old baby to the New Parents Group at my doula’s office. Parents and babies sat together and unpacked and …

Nov 5, 2024: Finished reading: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 📚 🔥🔥🔥

Nov 2, 2024: Finished reading: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase 📚 The. Best. 🔥🔥🔥

Nov 1, 2024: The Cure might not be goth, but I am, and I’m excited about their new album.

Oct 31, 2024: Lukewarm take: Moominpappa is a terrible parent.

Oct 30, 2024: 🍿 I have watched more Hallmark and Hallmark-style autumnal movies: October Kiss Haunted Wedding You Cast a Spell on Me The most fun thing with these …

Oct 29, 2024: 💬📝 “The best writing is often done by persons who are snatching time from something else.” E. B. White

Oct 29, 2024: Finished reading: Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase 📚 So good. Loretta Chase knows the job. 🔥🔥🔥

Oct 28, 2024: I have voted. I have given to two giving circles aimed at moving state legislatures in the direction I want them to go. I am finding that even …

Oct 24, 2024: That feeling when you’re cited in the book you’re reading to tell you how to do your job better.

Oct 23, 2024: 🍿 Watched Autumn at Apple Hill. 🍿 Watched Autumn at Apple Hill. I wanted made-for-TV Christmas movie vibes without succumbing to the early Christmas fervor, because I adore autumn …

Oct 21, 2024: Finished reading: The Truth About Him by M. O’Keefe 📚 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Oct 21, 2024: Finished reading: Everything I Left Unsaid by M. O’Keefe 📚 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Oct 19, 2024: Unglamorous voting selfie!

Oct 16, 2024: Finished reading: You Had Me at Happy Hour by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Of course Timothy Janovsky can write a book that has incredible mental illness & …

Oct 16, 2024: 🔖 Read Spinning your wheels by Annie Mueller. This is a great read. Sometimes the only way out is through, and the only way through is patience, and …

Oct 16, 2024: Fan Studies Network North America 2024 starts tomorrow. It’s one of my favorite conferences. Between work and parenting, I don’t know how much I’ll …

Oct 14, 2024: 💬📚 “His brain doesn’t work like everyone else’s, so he’s largely stopped expecting understanding from others.” Timothy Janovsky, You Had Me at Happy …

Oct 13, 2024: 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 glass that isn’t cracked. A belated anniversary …

Oct 13, 2024: I love the idea of week notes or month notes but honestly the rhythm of my life is such that neither one quite works for me. I might play with life …

Oct 13, 2024: 🍿 Also watched They Live. A very different flavor of Carpenter. Two great tastes that taste great together!

Oct 13, 2024: 🍿 Watched John Carpenter’s The Thing. I love practical effects so much.

Oct 12, 2024: Finished reading: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston 📚 I love it. I’m a sucker for a second-chance romance. Casey McQuiston always does a great job. This …

Oct 11, 2024: My website should be automatically cross-posting to Threads now. Hi Threads friends! (Hi everyone else, too.)

Oct 11, 2024: 📚 The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen looks like exactly the kind of thing many of my Internet friends and acquaintances …

Oct 11, 2024: Finished reading: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins 📚 This is a modern gothic. I bounced off of it in print but audio worked beautifully for me, as there …

Oct 8, 2024: 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. K lives three states away from me and is a …

Oct 8, 2024: Finished reading: The Lion’s Daughter by Loretta Chase 📚 An older book by a luminary of the genre. I love when romance includes a lot of adventure and …

Oct 6, 2024: Notebook update: buying only elastic to use with the cover we have in the house is a no-go. The cover isn’t strong enough; it really is meant to slip …

Oct 4, 2024: 🔖 Read Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness lithub.com Literary Hub …

Oct 3, 2024: 💬 “On your personal site, getting it wrong is not a bug, it’s a feature.” Matthias Ott, Own Your Web – Issue 1: Your Superpower

Oct 3, 2024: 🔖 Read The IndieWeb is for developers. This is a great set of points.

Oct 3, 2024: I love my child and it cracks me up that he has managed to come into my room and take up the whole king-size bed so that both W. and I have retreated …

Oct 2, 2024: 📺 Watched the DS9 episode, “Destiny,” and I feel like the Bajorans could really benefit from reading Oedipus Rex as an object lesson in the futility …

Oct 2, 2024: 🔖 Read Chaos Layouts and Other Tales from Electric Worlds by Melon. I love this so much. I want to be on Melon’s web. I think to make myself a space …

Oct 2, 2024: Monthnotes: September 2024 If you asked me what happened in September 2024 and I answered without looking at my calendar, I’d say nothing much. My mom was hospitalized for …

Oct 2, 2024: Finished reading: If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens 📚

Oct 1, 2024: For anyone following along, here’s the resolution of my notebook question. We have a gorgeous side load leather notebook cover in our house already. …

Sep 30, 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 there’s a ghost in her new house. Here’s the …

Sep 30, 2024: Analog people of Micro.blog (and Mastodon and Bluesky and the open web I guess?), talk to me about those notebook setups where you have a cover and …

Sep 30, 2024: I don’t use Fb a lot, but I do check out my On This Day, which today gave me this gem: “Emilie Wapnick says you can be struggling AND thriving, and I …

Sep 26, 2024: Finished reading: Operation: Cover-Up by Tate Godwin 📚

Sep 23, 2024: 📺 Just finished watching the latest season of Hilda. My heart is so full. 🥹

Sep 23, 2024: Finished reading: Hungry Bones by Louise Hung 📚 Full review coming soon!

Sep 23, 2024: This is Midnight and this copy of WTF Is Tarot? And How Do I Do It? by Bakara Wintner is his now.

Sep 21, 2024: 📚 Read Even Books Have Ancestors or That Time I Was a Fourth Grade Publishing Mogul by Louise Hung (Teen Librarian Toolbox). I’m reading Louise’s …

Sep 18, 2024: Finished reading: Knockout by Sarah MacLean 📚 Another extra hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Bless Sarah MacLean for giving us a short, round, dark-haired, brilliant, weird …

Sep 16, 2024: I spent almost 4 hours each weekend day sitting at the hospital with my mom, who has colitis of mysterious origin. Today, I had tea with a friend and …

Sep 13, 2024: 📚 The ebook of Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them by Jillian Venters is on sale at Amazon and B&N! I love this …

Sep 13, 2024: Confession time: when I started the new job, I uninstalled Inoreader from my phone and I haven’t been keeping up with my RSS feeds since. My brain is …

Sep 12, 2024: Three years ago I named my aesthetic “witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia” which still holds but I’d like to add “children’s librarian” to the …

Sep 10, 2024: Finished reading: Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean 📚 Whoo. This is a hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥 on the romance.io scale. Romance is unmatched and so is Sarah MacLean.

Sep 9, 2024: 📚💬 “…the deeply rooted culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe was utterly destroyed between 1939 and 1945.” Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the …

Sep 9, 2024: 📚 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 might have been like before she had to move to the …

Sep 8, 2024: 🎭 Just saw Clue and found it delightful. If it’s coming to where you are, definitely check it out.

Sep 7, 2024: 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 for three weeks. And, as you might expect, in that …

Sep 6, 2024: Today: a cascade of tough stuff. My hypothyroid symptoms are still mysterious, I forgot my work key, my work plans got waylaid, I cleaned up a nasty …

Sep 6, 2024: Changed my bio so it only reads “escribitionist.”

Sep 4, 2024: Finished reading: Bombshell by Sarah MacLean 📚 Sarah MacLean is just so good. This is like… A 3.5 on the romance.io scale? The language is slightly …

Sep 2, 2024: Listen I don’t repost a lot from or on social, but Muppet History is out here doing good work and making me feel seen.

Aug 29, 2024: Apparently my mid-life crisis is mostly watching Derry Girls and thinking, “Yes! That’s exactly what it felt like to be a teen girl in the mid-to-late …

Aug 28, 2024: TV : Jim Henson :: The Web : Me

Aug 27, 2024: Finished reading: Love, Come to Me by Lisa Kleypas 📚 This has a steam rating of 🔥🔥🔥. A very early Kleypas. Be warned: the hero is a Confederate …

Aug 27, 2024: Hi. I’m Kimberly and caring for my chronically ill body is a lot of work.

Aug 26, 2024: Yay, my doctor ordered antibody tests and a thyroid ultrasound. It’s such a treasure to have a doctor who trusts you when you describe your symptoms.

Aug 23, 2024: 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 asks, “What was your favorite after school …

Aug 22, 2024: Finished reading: When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman 📚 Full review forthcoming.

Aug 22, 2024: Got lab results today, my thyroid numbers look great but I feel very specifically like a Kimberly whose thyroid is not functioning properly & my other …

Aug 21, 2024: 🔖 Read The Comfort of Drawing Batman by Austin Kleon. Austin Kleon’s newsletter is the one that I let come to my inbox even after I’ve switched all …

Aug 21, 2024: Finished reading: When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein 📚 Super cute, very hot. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 on the romance.io scale.

Aug 20, 2024: I just feel like we need to be more specific than saying things like “In the 1900s” or “In the mid-1900s.” Could we not give a decade? If I see …

Aug 19, 2024: Photo dump of the school library ready for the first day of school.

Aug 17, 2024: Finished reading: This Will Be Fun by E B Asher 📚 Full review forthcoming.

Aug 11, 2024: 📚 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 doors. Helena Greer’s romances set at Carrigan’s …

Aug 11, 2024: Finished reading: Indigo by Beverly Jenkins 📚 This is so good. I learned more about abolitionism from this romance novel in a more engaging way than …

Aug 10, 2024: It has been an exhausting week, in a good way. I’m so thrilled to be working with excellent colleagues who are themselves thrilled to have me there.

Aug 8, 2024: Finished reading: Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer 📚 Loved it! This releases August 27. Expect a full review soon!

Aug 6, 2024: Finished reading: Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey 📚

Aug 6, 2024: 📚 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 new release for you. Love Requires Chocolate, by …

Aug 5, 2024: 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 ourselves by looking at that, so here are 7 …

Aug 3, 2024: I don’t want my 7-year-old to really understand Interview with the Vampire, obviously, but I did tell him that Taylor Swift is in a feud with an …

Aug 2, 2024: Finished reading: The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler 📚 Read this to prepare for collaborating with teachers at work who want support finding books to …

Aug 2, 2024: 🔖🍔🥤 Read The Enduring Mystery of Cook Out. A Cook Out Junior Tray with a cheeseburger (mayo only), double fries, and Coke was the first meal I had …

Jul 31, 2024: Finished reading: Tender Rebel by Johanna Lindsey 📚

Jul 31, 2024: It’s me, hi, I’m the one watching the Olympic opening ceremonies 5 days late. It’s me.

Jul 31, 2024: 💀🪦 I wish I could have gone to Funeral Services Education Camp.

Jul 29, 2024: Finished reading: Love Only Once by Johanna Lindsey 📚

Jul 29, 2024: Hey friends, I am starting a new half-time job as a school librarian in August, so I’ll be taking a break from curating Micro.blog while I get settled …

Jul 25, 2024: I’ve been reading the staff handbook for my new school library job and my dress is supposed to meet or exceed the standards expected of students. …

Jul 23, 2024: San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow. Here are a couple resources that help me feel like I’m part of it. this video of Loki interrupting the Thor: The …

Jul 20, 2024: Finished reading: Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean 📚 If you want to see Sarah MacLean do a magic trick and turn the villain of two books into the …

Jul 20, 2024: 🔖📚 Read Sherlock Holmes self-insert fanfic written by a 7th grader in 1903. I love this so much.

Jul 20, 2024: Updated my bio: Middle-aged magical girl. Mom. Once and future school librarian. Contract curator for Micro.blog. Citizen of Romancelandia. I manage …

Jul 19, 2024: 🔖 Read Frida Kahlo’s life of chronic pain by Carol A. Courtney (OUPblog). Looking for examples of chronically ill and disabled creatives to be models …

Jul 19, 2024: I was reading Austin Kleon’s newsletter and feeling jealous of how he seems to do so much and see so much. I realized that I spend so much of my time …

Jul 19, 2024: 🔖 Read Welcome to Your Cronehood by Catherine Newman (Cup of Jo). I am not psyched about menopause. I’ve already lived a lot of my life for me rather …

Jul 19, 2024: 🔖🗺️ Read How Paris Hopes the Summer Olympics Will Transform the City—for Good by Lindsey Tramuta (Condé Nast Traveler). This is a fascinating article. …

Jul 18, 2024: 🎮 I got Metroid: Samus Returns. I’m really enjoying it. I know there will be parts that are super difficult, but I am happy to use walkthroughs or …

Jul 18, 2024: 🔖📚 100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read by James Folta (Lit Hub) This is the kind of content carefully calibrated to please …

Jul 17, 2024: Hey y’all! The Connected Learning Lab published the work from my postdoc today! Two new reports for library staff and leaders compiling valuable …

Jul 15, 2024: Finished reading: Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean 📚 Sarah MacLean is just the best.

Jul 14, 2024: Some years on my birthday, I share who I want to be in the following year. This year, in addition to the stuff from earlier years, I want to add: I …

Jul 14, 2024: 🎮 Finished Metroid: Zero Mission. This is a remake of the original NES Metroid with a lengthy epilogue. I mostly enjoy Metroidvanias for the …

Jul 12, 2024: 🎉🎂 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 since going to France and confirming that I do …

Jul 11, 2024: 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 it’s all rather stream-of-consciousness. Hey! I …

Jul 11, 2024: I’ve been doing French on Duolingo for a bit over a year (and Dutch before that) and this morning I realized I can translate a not insubstantial …

Jul 10, 2024: Hey friends of Micro.blog. I am a contractor working mostly on M.b curation for about 5 hours a week. So if you perceive I’m not doing as much as Jean …

Jul 9, 2024: Finished reading: Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love this one. The hero is so dreamy.

Jul 9, 2024: “I luxiriated in books.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Jul 8, 2024: 📚💬 “All I ever wanted was to belong, to wear that hat of belonging.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Jul 8, 2024: 📚💬 “Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to show up anywhere.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Jul 8, 2024: 📚💬 “I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you …

Jul 8, 2024: 📚💬 “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Jul 8, 2024: 🔖📚 Read Notes on Romance Novels as “Camp”. Andrea, author of the Shelf Love newsletter, does an amazing job of arguing for romance novels as Camp.

Jul 5, 2024: Finished reading: The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean 📚 This one made me cry. I just really love a second chance.

Jul 3, 2024: Finished reading: A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean 📚

Jul 3, 2024: Finished reading: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean 📚

Jul 3, 2024: Me: What if I eat yogurt and granola for every meal today?

Jul 2, 2024: That thing where you’ve just spent a couple days immersed in something over which you have no control, so you very carefully align all the Nintendo …

Jun 26, 2024: Want to read: The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth 📚

Jun 24, 2024: 📚🔖 Read The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy by Verlyn Flieger (Literary Hub) Dr. Flieger says: Tolkien created modern …

Jun 24, 2024: 🔖 Read Ten Years Out of Academia by Anne Helen Petersen. I’m 3 years out from my doctoral defense and 6 months out from holding an academic job. I …

Jun 23, 2024: Finished reading: The Price of Pleasure by Kresley Cole 📚 This one made me smile at the end.

Jun 23, 2024: 🍿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 Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist frequently and …

Jun 22, 2024: 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 read them both this morning in quick succession. CJ …

Jun 21, 2024: 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 way, but oh well. I kind of want to just type it …

Jun 20, 2024: 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 on things that have captured my attention lately. …

Jun 19, 2024: 🎉 It’s Juneteenth! The National Museum of African-American History and Culture interviewed the museum’s curators about Juneteenth and shared what they …

Jun 18, 2024: Finished reading: The Captain of All Pleasures by Kresley Cole 📚 I do love a sailor heroine.

Jun 17, 2024: Hey Internet in general and Micro.blog specifically! I was on vacation and away from much of the Internet from 6/8 - 6/15. Is there anything I missed …

Jun 17, 2024: Finished reading: If You Desire by Kresley Cole 📚 Somehow forgot to post this when I finished it. It was my favorite of the MacCarrick Brothers …

Jun 13, 2024: Finished reading: If You Deceive by Kresley Cole 📚

Jun 8, 2024: Finished reading: If You Dare by Kresley Cole 📚

Jun 6, 2024: Want to read: Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success by Christine M. Larson 📚

Jun 4, 2024: Finished reading: The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe 📚 Another excellent Gilded Age historical romance.

Jun 3, 2024: 🔖📺 Read The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice. For 20 years, I couldn’t say what I watched the former president do on the set of the show that …

May 31, 2024: Finished reading: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun 📚 This made me bawl. I love a childhood best friends to enemies to lovers story, and this one is …

May 31, 2024: Oh the irony of being unable to go to the pharmacy to pick up your (my) migraine meds because you (I) have a migraine. (Please do not recommend …

May 30, 2024: Today: woke up way too early read about Romance Writers of America filing for bankruptcy and the absurd way they’re trying to blame it on Courtney …

May 29, 2024: 🎮 Played Assemble with Care. I’m really feeling wholesome games lately, especially those with a warm pastel color palette and soothing music. In this …

May 28, 2024: Finished reading: The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe 📚 I loved it. A delightful heroine, a debutante with dreams of owning a women-only casino. …

May 28, 2024: Midnight is very sleepy.

May 28, 2024: Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 3 by Chris Claremont 📚 Read as single issues and only the Uncanny X-Men books, not the annuals, but this …

May 25, 2024: That feeling when you went to the pool with children and you only had snacks for lunch and your knee hurts and you’re ready for bed at 3:30. Hashtag …

May 25, 2024: Finished reading: The Rogue of Fifth Avenue by Joanna Shupe 📚 Gilded Age New York, a hotshot lawyer, and a responsible eldest daughter who finds her …

May 23, 2024: Whoops, I was too busy actually paying attention to FanLIS to take notes. Also, it turns out virtual conferences are much less exhausting when you’re …

May 23, 2024: I’m attending FanLIS this morning. This is my favorite little academic space: the intersection of fan studies and library & information science. I …

May 22, 2024: Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 2 by Chris Claremont 📚 Again, read as single issues in Marvel Unlimited, but this is the best way to …

May 22, 2024: Finished reading: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean 📚 This has my favorite of Sarah MacLean’s heroes. Give me a guy who is clever and …

May 20, 2024: 📚 Reading The Dark Phoenix Saga (not for the first time) and I had forgotten how heavily this whole deal, especially Scott talking to Dark Phoenix …

May 20, 2024: 🔖📚 Read Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker Made an Irreverent, Charming Kids’ Book by Stephen Bell (Harper’s Bazaar). I’m super curious to see the book. …

May 19, 2024: 🍿 Watched UHF on the big screen today, when I’d only watched it at home before. Early on I seemed to be the only person laughing but maybe people were …

May 19, 2024: Finished reading: Essential X-Men - Volume 1 I read these as single issues in Marvel Unlimited, but this is the easiest way to track them.

May 18, 2024: Currently reading: The Best There is at what He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men by Jason Powell 📚 Started watching X-Men 97 📺 which reminded …

May 17, 2024: Want to read: A Web of Our Own Making by Antón Barba-Kay 📚

May 16, 2024: My kid told me, “A cross between a piglet and a pug is a puglet.” When I replied, “Good night,” meaning to indicate that it was time to sleep and not …

May 16, 2024: Finished reading: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love every Sarah MacLean heroine.

May 14, 2024: Finished reading: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean 📚 Lady Phillipa Marbury is a refreshing take on a bluestocking.

May 14, 2024: Hello world, I am full of hormonally-induced ill feeling including headache, nausea, and cramps. Until further notice, I hate everything except my …

May 14, 2024: 📚🔖 Here is the actual study with the evidence of the correlation between fiction reading and cognition.

May 14, 2024: 🔖📚 Read If You Read a Lot of Fiction, Scientists Have Very Good News About Your Brain. It’s always good to look at the actual studies behind news …

May 13, 2024: Just a little reproductive system education, because I’ve met many adults who have uteruses and don’t know this: the menstrual cycle refers to the …

May 13, 2024: 📚 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 about the feeling of being in good hands: I’ve come …

May 13, 2024: 🔖 Read a pair of pieces about art and mothering: The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering by Jessica Grose (NYT Gift Link) “Is …

May 11, 2024: Finished reading: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean 📚 I do love a good 19th Century casino. Thank goodness for the romance-guaranteed happily …

May 10, 2024: Thanks to everyone for your kind words over on Manton’s post about my joining the Micro.blog team! I want to be clear that I’m not taking over for …

May 9, 2024: 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 days and 30 minutes) younger than me. She hasn’t …

May 9, 2024: Finished reading: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean 📚 Yes, I finished this less than 36 hours after I finished the last …

May 9, 2024: Between chronic illness and acute illness it feels like I have so little time when I can be doing things besides resting.

May 9, 2024: 🔖📚 Read How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind by Lucy Jones (Literary Hub).

May 9, 2024: First pool visit of the season yesterday. If I could do everything in water, I would. 🧜🏻‍♀️

May 8, 2024: Finished reading: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean 📚 I love the heroine in this so much. Big eldest daughter, …

May 6, 2024: 🔖📚 Read What Eve L. Ewing’s Career Trajectory Tells Us About Black Women’s Place in Mainstream Superhero Comics by Ravynn K. Stringfield. Dr. …

May 6, 2024: 🔖📚 Read A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life by Heidi Reimer (Literary Hub).

May 5, 2024: Finished reading: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean 📚 My first MacLeaniverse adventure and, of course, I loved it.

May 3, 2024: Finished reading: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo 📚 So great. I loved it so much. More later.

May 2, 2024: Me: goes to Target Ah, it’s so nice to be out in the world.

May 2, 2024: 🔖 Read The films that gave us unrealistic expectations about what makes a ‘home’. …I too had one of those houses I had always dreamed of. But it …

Apr 30, 2024: Now that the offer letter is signed and everybody at the school has been notified, I’m happy to share that next year I’ll be the librarian at my son’s …

Apr 30, 2024: 🔖📚 Read Tackling Ballet’s History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman. The infinitely kinder cousin of ignorance is curiosity. A great short piece …

Apr 29, 2024: 🔖📚 Read My Son’s Love Life Is None of My Business, Except It Is by Yukiko Tominaga (Electric Literature). This is a lovely piece about love and …

Apr 28, 2024: Finished reading: The (Fake) Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Whew! Timothy Janovsky wasn’t kidding when he said this was his steamiest book yet! …

Apr 28, 2024: Y’all got me ready for “I cry a lot but I’m so productive” but I was not prepared for the resonant truth of “I’m so depressed I act like it’s my …

Apr 26, 2024: 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 the world’s behalf at all the decades of Josh it …

Apr 25, 2024: Finished reading: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian 📚 Full review coming soon but y’all, this is so great. It’s out May 7. Olivia Waite says if …

Apr 24, 2024: New bio! Mom. PhD. Once and future school librarian. Freelance academic. Citizen of Romancelandia. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I love books …

Apr 23, 2024: 🔖 Read The Messy Places Are Where the Learning Happens: On Being a Beginner by Michelle Boyd (Digits and Threads) A great reminder to deliberately be …

Apr 22, 2024: Finished reading: The Witch Queen of Halloween by Kresley Cole 📚 This is a super fun romance novella, inspired by horror movies. Might become an …

Apr 21, 2024: Finished reading: The Player by Kresley Cole 📚 A con artist falling in love with her tech billionaire mark? Sign me up.

Apr 20, 2024: 🔖📚📝 Read Mothering and Writing Are Both Undervalued Labor, so How Do Women Do Both? . An excellent excerpt from the book The Mother Artist: Portraits …

Apr 19, 2024: 📚💬 “…publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Apr 19, 2024: 📚💬 “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some …

Apr 19, 2024: 🔖📝 Read An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write. I love to write in a library carrel. More than once I’ve considered …

Apr 18, 2024: Finished reading: The Master by Kresley Cole 📚

Apr 17, 2024: Over here fantasizing about spending my own money on ModCloth and eShakti dresses, as well as having a place to wear them. 👗

Apr 17, 2024: Finished reading: The Professional by Kresley Cole 📚 I finished this in just a couple of days. Definitely read the info on the author’s website before …

Apr 16, 2024: 🗒️ Month Notes: March 2024 March was a full month! Our local historic cinema shows retro films. W & I went to This Is Spinal Tap together. It turns out it’s still hilarious. We …

Apr 15, 2024: One of the cool things about kids is that some are obsessed with stuff like Pokémon and some are obsessed with stuff like cats, while still others are …

Apr 15, 2024: Finished reading: Munro by Kresley Cole 📚 The heroine in this one is a time-traveling Transylvanian knife-throwing carnie so, you know, she’s awesome. …

Apr 13, 2024: 🔖🧶 Read This Is Your Brain on Fibre by Michelle Woodvine (Digits & Threads). A great article that explores a lot of the reasons fiber crafting is good …

Apr 13, 2024: Finished reading: Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole 📚 This is a banger of a Beauty and the Beast retelling, with an ending I radically prefer to the Disney …

Apr 12, 2024: 🔖 Read You are having a midlife crisis. It’s fine. This is an interesting pairing with The Cut’s The Case for Marrying an Older Man. The former points …

Apr 10, 2024: Finished reading: Shadow’s Seduction by Kresley Cole 📚 It took me a long time to get into this one and it’s not as strong as a lot of the other …

Apr 9, 2024: Finished reading: Shadow’s Claim by Kresley Cole 📚 I really liked this one, the way the main characters interact with each other is both sweet and …

Apr 8, 2024: Don’t buy any plants today, y’all.

Apr 7, 2024: Finished reading: Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole 📚 “She’d thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was—the …

Apr 5, 2024: Happy First Contact Day, y’all! Only 39 years until warp flight & meeting Vulcans! 🖖🏻

Apr 5, 2024: Nap first or eat first? The Kimberly Hirsh story

Apr 3, 2024: Finished reading: Dark Skye by Kresley Cole 📚 Other people seem to hate this one but I like it pretty well. Lanthe and Thronos’s story is epic, …

Apr 3, 2024: 📚 When I’m catching up on a long-running series, I sometimes forget that there are people who, for example, couldn’t read 19 Immortals After Dark …

Apr 1, 2024: Did you know that April is School Library Month? It’s true! Did you know that I’m trained as and have worked as a school librarian? Also true!

Mar 29, 2024: Finished reading: Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas 📚 A lovely historical about an author and a publisher who fall in lust and then love. Her body is …

Mar 28, 2024: Finished reading: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 📚 A lovely romance novel with an autistic heroine. I highlighted a lot.

Mar 24, 2024: Finished reading: Matilda by Roald Dahl 📚 We went to see Matilda the Musical and I loved it. I’d watched the Netflix movie of the musical and years …

Mar 22, 2024: Finished reading: MacRieve by Kresley Cole 📚 This one is beautifully done as always. There’s a traumatic backstory of childhood sexual abuse for the …

Mar 19, 2024: 🔖 Read Why I Celebrate The Spring Equinox As The Real “New Year”. I really love this. I want to live more in line with the seasons. Spring is a great …

Mar 17, 2024: Finished reading: Lothaire by Kresley Cole 📚 Of course if you’re reading Immortals After Dark you must read this one. You simply must.

Mar 16, 2024: 🍿 Watched Yes Day. This is a super fun family movie! I love it in no small part because of Jennifer Garner and Jenna Ortega but also it’s just super …

Mar 16, 2024: I’m celebrating (?) the Ides of March a day late with an Italian Night Club sandwich from Jimmy John’s and Roman Raspberry Talenti Sorbetto. (True …

Mar 15, 2024: 📚 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 weeks ago. It was awesome. Adam Gidwitz has a new …

Mar 13, 2024: Finished reading: Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre 📚 Read this billionaire romance because it’s the next Fated Mates read along. It’s very …

Mar 12, 2024: I know there are things to do in life besides play Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, but I don’t care to do them. 🎮

Mar 11, 2024: Finished reading: Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole 📚 This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I couldn’t put it down.

Mar 8, 2024: To quote @cheribaker@writing.exchange: Don’t wish us Happy International Women’s Day. Instead, help to vote out the ghouls who deny women’s agency …

Mar 7, 2024: Finished reading: Demon From the Dark by Kresley Cole 📚 I really enjoyed this one and tore through it. Give me a sad, traumatized couple of people who …

Mar 6, 2024: New glasses, same as the old glasses except they actually fit.

Mar 5, 2024: Finished reading: Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole 📚 I really liked, maybe even loved this one. The back half is all adventure, super …

Mar 5, 2024: 🔖 Read The “Disney adult” industrial complex by Amelia Tait (The New Statesman via The Rec Center) The grown-up Disney superfan has become a …

Mar 3, 2024: Finished reading: “Untouchable” in Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole 📚

Mar 3, 2024: 📚 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 exclusively reading romance for a while. From May to …

Mar 3, 2024: 🔖 Blogging is the medium of incomplete stories I love this. I often feel that blogging is the most natural medium for my writing, which makes sense as …

Mar 2, 2024: 🗒️ Month Notes, February 2024 Lars-Christian noted that month notes work better than week notes for him due to the cadence of his life, and I think this will be true for me, too. …

Mar 1, 2024: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop by John Scalzi 📚 This was a re-read. A bit of a time capsule …

Mar 1, 2024: 🎮 Okay people of the Internet. I’m about to start Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. See you in a couple hundred hours.

Mar 1, 2024: 🔖 Read The Memex Method Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is [BS]… Cory Doctorow on the value of a blog as a commonplace book.

Feb 29, 2024: 🎮 Finished Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3. Classics all, only accessible for me due to the rewind feature in Nintendo …

Feb 28, 2024: “Books always heal the hands they come through.” Leonie Dawson, 40 Days to a Finished Book (If you purchase the course through this link, I will …

Feb 27, 2024: 📝 I’m doing a writing project currently and I set a goal of 10000 words but ran out of planned stuff to say at 5000, so today I added this to the …

Feb 27, 2024: 🔖 Read What Is Mental Load? (And Why Is It Important?) by Randi Donahue (The Good Trade). It feels a propos that I read this sitting in the dentist’s …

Feb 27, 2024: 📝 I wanted to respond to Lars-Christian’s post asking what the point of daily writing is. Here’s what I said: I wanted to let you know you’re not …

Feb 26, 2024: Finished reading: Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole 📚

Feb 26, 2024: Finished reading: Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole 📚

Feb 24, 2024: Finished reading: Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole 📚 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ I tore through this one so fast. I think it might partly be because the heroine …

Feb 22, 2024: Finished reading: Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole 📚 My favorite Immortals After Dark book so far. A burlesque dancer becomes a ballerina, …

Feb 19, 2024: Finished reading: Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night by Kresley Cole 📚 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ as always. Werewolves continue to not be my thing but I love witches.

Feb 15, 2024: Finished reading: No Rest For The Wicked by Kresley Cole 📚 Listen, all these Immortals After Dark books are 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️, okay? That’s just what’s up. I …

Feb 14, 2024: I added “Citizen of Romancelandia.” to my bio everywhere.

Feb 14, 2024: 📚🗨️ “This union was supposed to be for eternity—it followed that their courtship would be extended.” - Kresley Cole, No Rest for the Wicked See, …

Feb 14, 2024: Hello, Internet! I hope you have a great day today.

Feb 13, 2024: 📚 This is your reminder that The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond is out today!

Feb 12, 2024: Taking a break from academia I’m taking a deliberate break from all things academia and academia-adjacent. I spent the past 2 years working on a big project as the key academic …

Feb 12, 2024: I’m currently doing Leonie Dawson’s 40 Days to a Finished Book ecourse and I love this that she said: It’s a collage of words. You don’t have to start …

Feb 11, 2024: Finished reading: A Hunger Like No other by Kresley Cole 📚 Incredibly high spice level, all the chili pepper emoji 🌶️! A Valkyrie/vampire hybrid and a …

Feb 11, 2024: Finished reading: The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung 📚 A 2024 Caldecott Honor winner.

Feb 11, 2024: Finished reading: Two New Years by Richard Ho 📚 Winner of the 2024 Sydney Taylor book award.

Feb 8, 2024: Finished reading: Nacho y Lolita/Nacho and Lolita by Pam Muñoz Ryan 📚 Pam Muñoz Ryan won the Children’s Literature Legacy Award. This was where …

Feb 8, 2024: Finished reading: Fox Has a Problem by Corey R. Tabor 📚 Reading my way through this year’s American Library Association Youth Media Award winners. …

Feb 8, 2024: Now I’m thinking about Odo’s maintenance of his humanoid form and how it can be read as an analog for neurodivergent masking. Like, he’s really trying …

Feb 8, 2024: 🖖🏻 Odo is DS9!Data. (And I know, Data is TNG!Spock.)

Feb 7, 2024: Finished reading: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas 📚 A sizzling historical that has two refreshing leads: she’s a writer, not a bluestocking. He is a …

Feb 6, 2024: What are you obsessed with right now? For me it’s the podcast Fated Mates, all things romance book-adjacent, and Parisian vibes.

Feb 6, 2024: The personal brand paradox wepresent.wetransfer.com WePresent https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/personal-brand-paradox-debbie-millman When a …

Feb 6, 2024: 🗒️ 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 King, Jr. day. They choose a theme for the day and …

Feb 6, 2024: Parents who are freelancers/self-employed, what do you do when your kid is home sick? Do you just sort of give up on getting work done?

Feb 6, 2024: 🎮 Finished Link’s Awakening. Super fun!

Feb 5, 2024: 📺🎄 Watched Christmas Flow, mostly for the Parisian locations.

Feb 4, 2024: 📺 Watched Emily in Paris. All of it, fairly quickly. Gorgeous views of Paris and fun to see how much of the French I understood but I don’t find Emily …

Feb 3, 2024: Finished reading: Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas 📚 Classic 90s pre-Victorian historical, medium spice level.

Feb 1, 2024: 📺 Watching Emily in Paris, mostly for the gorgeous locations and Sylvie’s fashion. Emily’s relationships with men stress me out.

Jan 31, 2024: I just shared in a fibromyalgia Facebook group what it takes for me to get decent sleep. Thought I’d share here as well: 300mg gabapentin …

Jan 30, 2024: Finished reading: The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun 📚 Lovely! What if the dude who was producing The Bachelor fell in love with the bachelor? This …

Jan 29, 2024: 📚 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 becoming wiser in its ability to both teach and …

Jan 28, 2024: My kid has started randomly singing “Bela Lugosi’s dead” (like, that one phrase) so I can retire now. My adorable babybat.

Jan 27, 2024: 🍿 Watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. Surprised to find that Sean Penn was my favorite part of the film, …

Jan 27, 2024: 🗨️📚 “Take the time to take time because nobody else will do it for you.” Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Margaret, and Sophie Mas, How to Be …

Jan 27, 2024: I went upstairs to get my glasses. I came downstairs with two books and no glasses. This is peak Kimberly. (I’m nearsighted so I don’t need the …

Jan 26, 2024: Finished reading: New Adult by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Like if 13 Going on 30 was instead 23 Going on 30. Timothy Janovsky’s characters make me so happy, …

Jan 24, 2024: People of the Internet who wear scents from small businesses, what do you do when your signature scent is discontinued? I have a bottle of Whisper …

Jan 24, 2024: Finished reading: A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña 📚 A lovely, slightly spicy romance. This one resonates a lot because one of the main …

Jan 21, 2024: Finished reading: A Proposal They Can’t Refuse by Natalie Caña 📚 Super sweet and a little steamy romance.

Jan 21, 2024: I was in Baltimore for just over 24 hours for a conference but I did find time for just a bit of goth literary tourism.

Jan 20, 2024: Sorry to have missed the Micro.blog analog meetup! My sense of timing is a bit discombobulated due to conference travel and changes to it. See y’all …

Jan 20, 2024: Want to read: Grove Hollow Metamorphosis: A 1980s Gothic Paranormal Romance Novel by Shelby Nicole McFadden 📚 Probably going to buy this one but I’ve …

Jan 20, 2024: Finished reading: In the Case of Heartbreak by Courtney Kae 📚 Highest of recommendations here. This book is a cute romance but it’s also healing to …

Jan 19, 2024: 📚🗨️ You are not a burden… You are a blessing. Just Courtney Kae still wrecking me with In the Case of Heartbreak, that’s all.

Jan 19, 2024: 📚🗨️ Your feelings are valid and important no matter how they make me feel… you aren’t responsible for my response. Read this in Courtney Kae’s In the …

Jan 19, 2024: 🗨️ Get a group of people around you that you love, and that love you… Give them an idea that has enough empty space in it that they can make it their …

Jan 16, 2024: Ah hiding in the bathroom to get a little quiet, my old friend.

Jan 16, 2024: 🗒️ 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 friend C. I worked on my session for LibLearnX, …

Jan 16, 2024: Kinda sad today’s idea gardens post from Austin Kleon is one of the paid ones because I want everyone to be able to check it out. For similar vibes, …

Jan 14, 2024: Finished reading: Love Requires Chocolate by Ravynn K. Stringfield 📚 Full review coming later, but I loved this confection of a YA romance from Ravynn …

Jan 12, 2024: 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 in, and give you a whole new story to enjoy. Which …

Jan 11, 2024: Finished reading: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond 📚 I thought this was going to be a romance book with a heist, but I was mistaken. It’s a heist book with …

Jan 11, 2024: And, the answer is ... Following Alex’s lead, I’m answering some questions. Best sandwich? I don’t like having to choose but I really like a good roast beef with provolone …

Jan 11, 2024: Friends of the Internet, timelines move too fast for where my head is at right now. I’m not abandoning them but I hope you know that if something big …

Jan 10, 2024: 🍿 Watched Heartburn. This one is written by Nora Ephron & directed by Mike Nichols, and it’s mostly very sad. But the cries it made me cry were mostly …

Jan 10, 2024: 🍿 Watched The Intern. Another Nancy Meyers film. I really liked this. It made me cry. I think it was a little tricky because it seemed both to …

Jan 9, 2024: 🍿 Watched It’s Complicated. Happy to have watched. It seemed to me mostly to be about how a manbaby doesn’t want to contribute to his new family and …

Jan 9, 2024: 🗒️ 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 New Year’s Day, my little household made our way …

Jan 9, 2024: If you like analog tools, you probably want to sign up for @cygnoir’s analog meetup.

Jan 9, 2024: 🔖 I’m genuinely thrilled for the Gen Zers and others who have the energy for a weekly everything shower, but this chronically ill Xennial is pretty …

Jan 7, 2024: 🎮 Finished The Legend of Zelda (NES). A classic, of course. I’ve never been able to get very far before, but I played it with Nintendo Switch Online …

Jan 7, 2024: Finished reading: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Another delightful romance given to us by Timothy Janovsky, whose little details feel so …

Jan 7, 2024: High pain day today.

Jan 5, 2024: 🔖📺 Watched Pokemon Concierge and read Pokémon Concierge’s Psyduck Is for the Millennial Pokémon Fans. I’m a Xennial: Pokemon was more for the kids I …

Jan 5, 2024: I like @ayjay’s idea of reflecting on what you’ve read weekly or monthly.

Jan 4, 2024: 🔖 Read The Web Renaissance Takes Off by Anil Dash. Sign me up. (I’m trying to make a web-related pun here about Lucrezia Borgia, but it’s just not …

Jan 3, 2024: Finished reading: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 📚 I’m late to this party but happy to finally be here. As sweet and hot as the romance here …

Jan 3, 2024: Gonna be updating my about page soon. If you were going to choose something to include on my about page, what would it be?

Jan 3, 2024: 🔖 Read Ambient Co-Presence by Maggie Appleton. This sounds really nice. My favorite locale for physical ambient co-presence is a university library, …

Jan 2, 2024: 🔖 Austin Kleon’s list of 100 things that made his year is excellent, as always.

Jan 1, 2024: Leigh Bardugo encourages people on New Year’s Day to Begin As You Mean to Go On, meaning to spend 15 minutes doing something you want to do more of …

Jan 1, 2024: 🔖 Read 2024: The Year of the Personal Website by Matthias Ott. How about, from now on, we make every year the year of the personal website – and make …

Jan 1, 2024: Responding to this post on gift-giving: For me, the sweet spot for a gift is when you can use it to show that you’ve paid attention to what the person …

Dec 31, 2023: 🍿 Watched Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story. A fascinating documentary about a fascinating person.

Dec 31, 2023: My Reading Year 2023 Some notes on my reading year 2023. I read 47 books. I overwhelmingly read romance, much more than any other genre. I have no regrets about that. …

Dec 30, 2023: Finished reading: For Never & Always by Helena Greer 📚 I love it so much. Finished it in under 48 hours. Helena Greer has given us a lovely place in …

Dec 29, 2023: It is not humanly possible for Helena Greer to write fast enough to meet my desire for Carrigan’s content. It’s generous of her to give us a book a …

Dec 29, 2023: Me: I started this book last night and read only one chapter before bed. Now I’m on page 214. W: Sounds like my wife. 📚

Dec 28, 2023: Finished reading: How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow 📚 Lovely and sweet. Made me cry when the main character’s mom really shows up for her. …

Dec 28, 2023: 📚🗨️ “I want to live my life being irrationally hopeful. Loving people and fish and cities with my whole heart.” Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a …

Dec 26, 2023: Yesterday my mom, who in April 2022 was told she would probably never walk again, walked (with a walker and people around to spot her) up my front …

Dec 25, 2023: 🍿 Watched Hats Off to Christmas. This is the most paradigmatic Hallmark Christmas movie. It has everything: a struggling small business a suit guy who …

Dec 24, 2023: Finished reading: Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun 📚 This one was so lovely it made me cry. I can’t even sum up. Go read the description if it …

Dec 24, 2023: 🗨️📚 “the emptiness was the absence of myself.” Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

Dec 23, 2023: I made this Funko Pop of myself using this Microsoft Designer prompt and I love her so much.

Dec 21, 2023: My little family is in the production of A Christmas Carol honoring the retirement of the director of the theater where W & I met. At rehearsal last …

Dec 18, 2023: Bringing back The PhD Story’s predictive text New Year’s Resolution: My resolution for 2024 is to be a good time.

Dec 18, 2023: How I talk about books online 📚 In today’s issue of Happy Dancing, Charlie Jane Anders writes about how to fix GoodReads to avoid people review-bombing books to lower their ratings. …

Dec 17, 2023: Finished reading: You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky 📚 Oh my goodness I love it. Matthew Prince starts out as a spoiled party boy …

Dec 15, 2023: 📚 Listening to Patrick Stewart read A Christmas Carol and it’s just feels like having Jean-Luc Picard read it to you. 😍

Dec 15, 2023: Finished reading: In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae 📚 A lovely place-based friends-to-lovers second chance. As often happens, the third act breakup …

Dec 15, 2023: Finished reading: Eight Kisses by Mindy Klasky 📚 Eight Hanukkah romance stories. I read one each night. My favorites are the one with the Frisky Bean …

Dec 14, 2023: 📚🗨️ When people who don’t have fibromyalgia ask me how it feels, I tell them to imagine the last time they had a bad flu, then to picture going …

Dec 12, 2023: Me: My heel hurts. My doctor: Have you tried using that ointment I told to use for pain on it? Me: I will now.

Dec 12, 2023: 🔖📚 Read How To Get Started Reading Romance Novels by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade). This is an excellent guide. Also? If you have unkind things to …

Dec 11, 2023: Me: I’m going to take a 20 minute nap (sets alarm) Narrator: She took a 90 minute nap. She did not hear the alarm.

Dec 11, 2023: I have 3 one -month gift subscriptions to Jami Attenberg’s Craft Talk to give away. Let me know if you want one.

Dec 11, 2023: I just don’t feel like writing a year-in-review post, y’all. So I might not.

Dec 10, 2023: 🍿 Watched Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. My kid’s first time seeing both. Home Alone is, of course, a classic. Home Alone 2 isn’t a …

Dec 8, 2023: 🕎🖖🏻 I would like to thank s-h-a-s-e on Tumblr for this Hanukkah gift of Sarek, Amanda, and Spock celebrating. In the words of Adam Sandler: You don’t …

Dec 8, 2023: Book Character, Age 25: Seeing her has me feeling seventeen again. Me, Age 42: Please. You’re only 25. You’re barely not 17. 2006 Me, Age 25: (shaking …

Dec 8, 2023: 🍿📺🎄 Watched The Christmas Train. Based on a David Baldacci novel & bringing a bit of star power with Dermot Mulroney, Joan Cusack, and Danny Glover. A …

Dec 7, 2023: Happy Hanukkah from this honorary M.O.T., whose 41% Jewishness is all on her dad’s side. 🕎

Dec 7, 2023: Today’s stay poor slowly scheme: open a romance-only bookstore. 📚

Dec 7, 2023: I was using Bing to play with ChatGPT-4 and I asked it who I am. It returned what is perhaps the most truthful answer.

Dec 6, 2023: 📝 Planning Writing Goals with Kate McKean Kate McKean’s Agents and Books newsletter yesterday includes a flowchart to help you plan writing goals for next year. I’m in the “I need a new idea” …

Dec 6, 2023: 📚 Today’s library haul. Catching up on Holigays22 and some other holiday reads, plus a YA biography of my hero Sarah Bernhardt - quand même!

Dec 6, 2023: Finished reading: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur 📚 The first holiday rom-com of a month where I hope to read many. Elle is an …

Dec 5, 2023: It reveals something about my character that I’m really psyched about being on someone’s dissertation committee.

Dec 5, 2023: 🔖 Read Bring back the blog by Alan Jacobs. Hear, hear.

Dec 4, 2023: Fun with migraines: in the past year or so I’ve started having vertigo in the prodrome stage, tilting involuntarily when I walk. In the past couple of …

Dec 3, 2023: 🍿 Watched Airplane!. Super fun. I can’t begin to imagine how delightful it must have been for the people who saw it when it was first released.

Dec 3, 2023: 🔖💻 Read The Indie Web Manifesto. Before the IndieWeb, there was the Indie Web. This was published in 1997.

Dec 3, 2023: 🔖💻 Read The Hacker Manifesto. the beauty of the baud I love this turn of phrase. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what …

Dec 3, 2023: 🔖 Read True/useful by Seth Godin. Seth shares a handy matrix for helping us stay resilient and cultivate belief, shaking off cynicism and avoiding …

Dec 3, 2023: 📺🍿🎄 Watched The Naughty Nine. This is a heist movie about kids on the naughty list breaking into Santa’s workshop. It honors all the heist tropes and …

Dec 2, 2023: A list of lists: in his book Keep Going, Austin Kleon writes about a variety of types of lists you might keep and I made a list of them: to-do to-make …

Dec 1, 2023: New bio on most of my profiles: Mom & PhD with a librarian’s heart and an academic’s mind. I manage multiple chronic illnesses and I love books and …

Dec 1, 2023: 📓 I know Twitter is all the things we all know it is now but I still love that some scholars wrote a journal article about the relationship between …

Nov 30, 2023: 📺🍿🎄 Watched Reporting for Christmas. I really like this one. A hard-hitting Chicago reporter heads to a small town in Iowa to cover the 40th …

Nov 30, 2023: Me: I’ll put this little tumbled sodalite crystal on my bedside table, it will make me happy. The Kitten: Ooh a new toy!

Nov 30, 2023: 💬 “Recover yourself. That’s where your creativity is.” Kate McKean in today’s Agents & Books Q&A issue.

Nov 30, 2023: I was thinking about Austin Kleon’s urging to show your work and I thought, “But Austin, what do I do when I don’t even feel up to making things to …

Nov 30, 2023: 🔖Read Twenty Rules for the New Escribitionist. 23 and a half-year-old blogging advice that is still pretty solid.

Nov 30, 2023: I’ve had kimberlyhirsh.com for fifteen years today. I had other domains before that. I’m really glad I claimed this one. It’s been great for me both …

Nov 30, 2023: 🔖 Read You Can’t Unsubscribe from Grief by Jenessa Abrams (Electric Literature). This is a gorgeous essay. I really needed it right now.

Nov 29, 2023: 📺🍿🎄 Watched A Biltmore Christmas. Mostly for Jonathan Frakes & Robert Picardo 🖖🏻 but I ended up really liking it. There’s a lot of 40s Hollywood …

Nov 29, 2023: Well, it’s taken more than 7 years, but it’s finally happened: my child’s taste has completely eclipsed mine in my Spotify Wrapped.

Nov 29, 2023: 📺🍿🎄 In the movie A Timeless Christmas, I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept that a man time-traveled from 1903 to 2020, but asking me to accept …

Nov 28, 2023: 🍿📺🎄 Watched A Christmas Frequency. A radio producer sets her show’s host up on on-air blind dates to save the show from the slump it’s in because the …

Nov 28, 2023: Darth Vader and I are finishing off the Thanksgiving babka with some cherry Coke.

Nov 28, 2023: 💻 Recently my less-than-alma mater asked, “Remember the 90s at Carolina? I didn’t get there until 1999 so I had different things in my metaphorical …

Nov 27, 2023: 📺🍿🎄 By the way, time travel is a whole subgenre of holiday made-for-TV movie. See: Eve’s Christmas (yes, that IS Amber from Clueless!) Back to …

Nov 27, 2023: 📺🍿🎄 I was watching Hulu’s A Christmas Frequency and everything was going great but then it shattered my suspension of disbelief by having one guy give …

Nov 26, 2023: 🍿 Saw Wish. A story full of good ideas. Music nice but not as memorable as, say, Encanto. Chris Pine is, of course, a delight. Full of beautifully …

Nov 22, 2023: 📝 Jami Attenberg in today’s Craft Talk newsletter: it’s important to write the things you can write.

Nov 22, 2023: Today in Year of Making, LEGO set 40658, Millennium Falcon Holiday Diorama.

Nov 22, 2023: Anybody know if there are vampire stories, in any medium, that address the question of neuroplasticity? I feel like an animated corpse shouldn’t have …

Nov 21, 2023: Finished reading: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 📚 A bunch of excellent and chilling stories. Horror and make it literary. …

Nov 21, 2023: I just want to be able to feel grief in my heart and also sleep. It doesn’t seem like a lot to ask but my body disagrees.

Nov 20, 2023: It’s never too late to start a year of making, so here I am starting my Year of Making 2023 on November 20. This is the Goldberry shawl, designed by …

Nov 20, 2023: ❤️ 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 him and the one who has been a constant presence …

Nov 17, 2023: Want to read: Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 📚

Nov 17, 2023: Want to read: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey 📚

Nov 16, 2023: If you’re in North Carolina and interested in having natural organic reduction (aka human composting) available as a funeral option, please consider …

Nov 16, 2023: Want to read: Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek 📚

Nov 15, 2023: 🔖💬 “Your death matters. You can choose something that will reflect the values and beliefs that you held in your life, and translate them into your …

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads 📚

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom 📚

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: The Victorian Book of the Dead by Chris Woodyard 📚

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death by Chris Woodyard 📚

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Good Grief: Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels 📚

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: The Anatomical Venus by Joanna Ebenstein 📚

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: The Morbid Anatomy Anthology by Joanna Ebenstein 📚

Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris by Mel Gordon 📚

Nov 13, 2023: A timeline of my dissertation inspiration📓📝 For AcWriMoments Day 8, Margy Thomas and Helen Sword encouraged us to trace a lineage of the ideas we work on. I decided to do this with my …

Nov 13, 2023: 🔖📚🎭 Read Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Literary Hub).

Nov 12, 2023: Finished reading: Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary 📚 A helpful framing of normal, baseline …

Nov 12, 2023: November is not my favorite month.

Nov 12, 2023: 🔖 Read The enshittification of academic social media (The Thesis Whisperer).

Nov 10, 2023: Set up the Vapor1994 theme with custom colors on my website until I create a custom theme. A few font-size and color tweaks to make still but mostly …

Nov 9, 2023: 🔖 Read Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?. Fun to read about all the IndieWeb’s neighbors!

Nov 8, 2023: Finished reading: The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish 📚 A 17th Century bit of philosophical fantastical adventure.

Nov 8, 2023: 📚💬 “I endeavour to be as singular as I can.” Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World

Nov 8, 2023: Hey Micro.bloggers and other interested parties, do you have favorite resources that helped you learn how to create a Hugo theme?

Nov 8, 2023: 🔖 Read Two Wins for Public Libraries This Week at the Polls by Kelly Jensen (Literary Activism). Good things are happening but we need to remain …

Nov 8, 2023: 🔖 Read: What happened to blogging for the hell of it? On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege Follow-up to the phone post & an easy …

Nov 8, 2023: 📝 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 by NaNoWriMo. I’m doing this work with support from …

Nov 7, 2023: 🔖💻 Read Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore by Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker).

Nov 7, 2023: Voting selfie!

Nov 7, 2023: 🔖📚 Read A Pennsylvania Public Library Had Funding Cut Because of LGBTQ+ Books. Then, An Olympian Stepped In.. An important reminder from Kelly Jensen …

Nov 4, 2023: 🔖 Read The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts by Brewster Kale (The Guardian). A useful reminder that even …

Nov 1, 2023: If, like me, you grieve Halloween’s passing, I’m delighted to inform you that I have officially extended Halloween season. The last day of the season …

Oct 31, 2023: Get ready for a jump scare next time you open this backpack.

Oct 30, 2023: 📚 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 this book: With a renewed emphasis on facilitating …

Oct 27, 2023: 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 publisher’s summary of this book: With a renewed …

Oct 27, 2023: I often find myself watching movies in 22-minute chunks, partly because of being a parent and partly because of having a short attention span lately. …

Oct 26, 2023: 📺👱‍♀️ Buffy’s experience in the episode “I, Robot… You, Jane” is super relatable. I had two friends with online boyfriends around 1997 and I wasn’t …

Oct 25, 2023: 📚 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 Haunting of Hill House, The Hacienda) and watching …

Oct 24, 2023: LinkedIn: Recommended job for you! FBI Special Agent! Me: Ooh, I wonder if I can get assigned to The X-Files.

Oct 20, 2023: Yesterday the House Committee on Education held a session called Protecting Kids: Combatting Graphic, Explicit Materials in School Libraries. In this …

Oct 17, 2023: Finished reading: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas 📚 Great all the way through but extra compelling for the last third. Like Mexican Gothic, it uses …

Oct 12, 2023: 🔖📺 Read How The Haunting of Hill House conveys the horror of family. In the world of Hill House, devotion to family is a tender kind of madness that …

Oct 10, 2023: I’m having one of those days where you give yourself credit for every single thing you do. So here’s what my work task list looks like today so far. ✅ …

Oct 10, 2023: On visiting Paris 🇫🇷 I’ve been obsessed with Paris as long as I can remember. Maybe it’s because I was born on Bastille Day. Maybe I read Madeline at an early age. Maybe …

Oct 9, 2023: Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding 📚

Oct 9, 2023: Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding 📚

Oct 8, 2023: Feted my kid thoroughly and now I am so tired.

Oct 7, 2023: Tonight I’m very obsessed with the idea of reading The Secret Garden as a child as a gateway to a love of Gothic literature. 📚

Oct 7, 2023: My kid is 7 today. I love him so much.

Oct 5, 2023: Finished reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 📚 Keeping this Gothic train rolling. This one is excellent, of course.

Oct 5, 2023: 📚💬 “When I am afraid, I can see perfectly the sensible, beautiful not-afraid side of the world, I can see chairs and tables and windows staying the …

Oct 3, 2023: Finished reading: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 📚 Another Gothic. Governesses, am I right?

Oct 2, 2023: 💬📚 Dropping this quote here so that next time I try to hung it down I’ll find it on my own site and not have to go to GoodReads: “She strode the earth …

Oct 2, 2023: Finished reading: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe 📚 Making my pivot to Gothic now that it’s October. (I skipped my usual campus …

Oct 1, 2023: 📚💬 Roderick Usher has sensory integration issues: “He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable; …

Sep 30, 2023: I have only skimmed this EdWeek piece on the science of reading but the person saying reading instruction doesn’t need to be changed because it worked …

Sep 30, 2023: 🔖🖼️ Pokémon teams up with Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam My kid doesn’t like art museums and only tolerated the Van Gogh museum because the scavenger …

Sep 29, 2023: 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 October. Here’s the description of my session: Over …

Sep 29, 2023: 📚 Books about Freelance Writing Originally posted on LinkedIn: One of the tools in my toolbox for carrying me through times between big projects is freelance writing. As I expect to …

Sep 29, 2023: LinkedIn introduction I’ve been experimenting with posting on LinkedIn more frequently and while some of my posts there are posted at my domain first, others are specific …

Sep 26, 2023: We’ve reached the moment when we learn if my claim that I wouldn’t go on the academic market because I didn’t want a tenure track job is genuine, or …

Sep 25, 2023: I’ve been watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for the first time since I watched it as a kid when it originally aired. I remembered liking Quark and that …

Sep 23, 2023: Finished reading: We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian 📚 I loved it so much, finished it in under 48 hours. “Newsies for shippers” is an apt …

Sep 22, 2023: Today’s Literary Activism newsletter from Book Riot shares information about several student groups fighting book bans. 📚

Sep 21, 2023: So, this week on Lower Decks, we learned that Vulcans have an understanding of the importance of informed consent when conducting social research. 🖖🏻

Sep 19, 2023: 📚 I’m reading Sandra Hughes-Hassell’s book, Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning and planning to share my reading notes. …

Sep 13, 2023: I’ve got big days the next couple of days so what am I doing? Reading past bedtime, of course. (Future Kimberly, please forgive me.)

Sep 13, 2023: 📚💬 “She didn’t know much about buildings, but it was clear that this one needed an unbelievable amount of work. But at the end of it? Something she …

Sep 13, 2023: Finished reading: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera 📚 So good! Manuela is going to marry a wealthy man, for the good of her …

Sep 13, 2023: I was planning on getting to work soon but my office mate had a different idea.

Sep 12, 2023: I’m sleepy and in pain which is a rough combo because it’s hard to actually sleep while in pain.

Sep 12, 2023: There are few feelings as good as canceling a bunch of library holds because your family already owns all the books. 📚

Sep 11, 2023: Midnight says hi. 🐈‍⬛

Sep 10, 2023: 📚 There are still spots available for online attendance at Public Librarianship in Contentious Times, a conference hosted by the University of …

Sep 8, 2023: Pro tip: too tired/anxious to introduce yourself at a social event? Wear a bookish shirt and wait for people to come ask you about what you’re …

Sep 8, 2023: 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 train station. Every time we went into the city, we …

Sep 8, 2023: 🔖🖖🏻 Happy Star Trek Day! I just read Teaching in Trek: A Look at the Education System of the Future by @joepraska@universeodon.com. I love thinking, …

Sep 8, 2023: Finally watched the Amsterdam episode of Ted Lasso and just really missed Amsterdam the whole time. It was a really cool place to be and I’m sorry …

Sep 7, 2023: Farewell, Wednesday. 🐈‍⬛💔 CW: Pet death When we brought our kitties home last week, Wednesday had a little nasal discharge. The person at the front desk was all, “Yeah, that’s …

Sep 6, 2023: About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my first writing craft book. In case you didn’t believe that I was excited, I recently found my journal …

Sep 5, 2023: 📺🖖🏻 Finished my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation today. It felt much less intense watching “All Good Things…” now than when it originally …

Sep 4, 2023: 🔖 💻 Read Now is the time for grimoires: It isn’t data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise by Ethan Mollick (One Useful Thing). This is the most …

Sep 3, 2023: Fan Studies Network North America is October 11 -15 and open for registration! I’ll be facilitating a conversation among FanLIS scholars about fan …

Sep 3, 2023: 📚🍳 Started reading the introduction to Jules Sherred’s Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook and I might cry. “The …

Sep 1, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo: ‘People sneer at the things women and girls love’ by Sian Cain (The Guardian). She really is my hero.

Sep 1, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Falling in Love With the Avengers, America’s Most Toxic Work Force by Leigh Bardugo (New York Times, gift link) I love Leigh Bardugo so much.

Aug 30, 2023: Meet Midnight and Wednesday.

Aug 30, 2023: 💬📚 “I hunker down with books when I need time to process what’s happening in my own life. Books give me the space to breathe.” Kelly J. Baker, Final …

Aug 30, 2023: Currently reading: Final Girl: And Other Essays on Grief, Trauma, and Mental Illness by Kelly Baker 📚 Austin Kleon says to climb your creative family …

Aug 30, 2023: 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 a cross-cast production of A Midsummer Night’s …

Aug 27, 2023: Finished reading: From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper 📚 Loved it even more than Payback’s A Witch. Full review coming later this week.

Aug 27, 2023: 📚💬 “Disaster and hero, monster and martyr, beauty and beast . . . Choose your own dichotomy. Because it doesn’t matter. We were always built to be …

Aug 27, 2023: W: I just don’t have a framework for doing this kind of writing… Me: You need to read a lot of it and then just start writing. W: holds up invisible …

Aug 26, 2023: If generative AI traffic is declining, does that mean AI can just become another tool we use and we can talk about it normally without talking about …

Aug 25, 2023: Everybody else: You seen Barbieheimer yet? Me: Nah, I’m going to the theater to see Terminator & Robocop. (Time travel is rad. So are retro cinema …

Aug 25, 2023: The belief at the beginning of a writing project that we don’t know how to write it comes for all of us who write, no matter how many writing projects …

Aug 25, 2023: I just donated to and joined Students Protecting Education, a national organization that a group of high schoolers started in response to book banning …

Aug 23, 2023: 🔖🖖🏻 Read ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Had to Update the Look of Beloved Characters — and Battle the Pitiless Gaze of HD. I love that they were able to let …

Aug 23, 2023: Welcome to the analog part of qualitative data analysis. Whenever I get to the coding-the-codes stage, I need to channel Austin Kleon and use my …

Aug 22, 2023: In the US? You might think the Kids Online Safety Act is good but before you decide, please read this piece at Ars Technica, this piece from the …

Aug 21, 2023: My infant starts first grade tomorrow, nbd.

Aug 21, 2023: My aspiration as a parent is to one day have a plan for the day and a half of free time my kid has the first week of school.

Aug 21, 2023: I find myself resentful of my body’s need for sleep.

Aug 20, 2023: If you’re in New Zealand and you have improv experience, you should probably go do this workshop with Bianca Casusöl. She’s the best.

Aug 19, 2023: 🔖 Read To Be a Consumer of Culture Means Living in a Hostage Situation by Aaron Bady (Slate) A great exploration of the role of fan labor in culture …

Aug 18, 2023: Looking at my On This Day page, I found this blog post about letting go of self-punishing goals. I really needed it, as I’ve spent much of this …

Aug 18, 2023: 📚🔖 Read The Parentified Protagonist: From Shifting Roles to Shapeshifter, a guest post by Stephanie Willing (Teen Librarian Toolbox).

Aug 18, 2023: 📚 Book Riot’s Literary Activism newsletter is always valuable. This week, Kelly Jensen takes a deep dive into the use of ChatGPT to decide whether …

Aug 17, 2023: Finished reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper 📚 It’s a witchy romance between two bi women and it has a punny title. What’s not to love? …

Aug 17, 2023: 📚💬👱‍♀️ “When Pearl Dragon and cheap wine and even magic have all failed us… there will always be Buffy marathons.” Lana Harper, Payback’s A Witch 😭 …

Aug 17, 2023: There was a big storm in Durham a couple days ago. Much of the city was without power. As soon as their power was restored, the libraries opened as …

Aug 16, 2023: Bookstore Romance Day Recommendations 📚♥️ We’re just a few days out from Bookstore Romance Day! A couple things to know about romance novels: First, they always end with the love interests …

Aug 14, 2023: Finished reading: Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander 📚 This book is super queer and super cute. Simone’s a chef. Ray’s a kitchen manager. They take a long …

Aug 13, 2023: Want to read: Disabilities and the Library by Clayton A. Copeland 📚

Aug 13, 2023: Want to read: Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age by Meryl Alper 📚

Aug 12, 2023: Want to read: 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow 📚

Aug 12, 2023: Want to read: Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men over Motherhood by Allison Yarrow 📚

Aug 12, 2023: 🖖🏻 Did I just revise my LinkedIn bio so it starts with a Star Trek quote? Yes, yes I did, and the whole thing is very professional.

Aug 12, 2023: 🔖 Read On looking down. A lovely meditation from @dwalbert on the things we notice when we walked. Our family stayed in Le Vésinet, a garden city …

Aug 11, 2023: J’aime les vacances. ⛱️

Aug 11, 2023: 📚🔮 “…the Tarot constitutes first and foremost an apprenticeship in seeing.” Marianne Costa, The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards

Aug 10, 2023: Finished reading: Solomon’s Crown by Natasha Siegel 📚 Gorgeous prose in this book that’s like if The Lion in Winter was mostly a romance between …

Aug 10, 2023: I may be leaning into being a middle-aged librarian stereotype, but I’m leaning into being a goth middle-aged librarian stereotype.

Aug 10, 2023: 🎮 Played the Pikmin 4 demo, ended up buying the Pikmin 1 + 2 bundle, and I feel so guilty every time my little plant guys die in battle. 🌱

Aug 9, 2023: 📚💗 August 19 is Bookstore Romance Day! My fiction reading has been almost exclusively romance (across a variety of subgenres) since May and it’s …

Aug 8, 2023: This is true friendship.

Aug 7, 2023: Finished reading: The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes 📚 This one didn’t click with me right away, but that was about me and what else I’ve read …

Aug 7, 2023: 📚💬 “…my body is the keeper of secrets, and this pen is its liberator.” J. C. Cervantes, The Enchanted Hacienda

Aug 7, 2023: 📚📺 The trailer for The Power dropped. I loved this book so much. The show has an amazing cast. I’m looking forward to watching it.

Aug 5, 2023: Finished reading: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 📚 Listened to the audiobook. I understand why so much of the beginning of this book had to …

Aug 5, 2023: 🔖 Read The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries. Karawynn Long compares the trajectory of Overdrive/Libby to platforms like Amazon and Facebook …

Aug 5, 2023: 📚💬 “We are who we are, not because of our birthright, but because of what we choose to do in this life.” TJ Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

Aug 5, 2023: 📚💬 “Why can’t life work whatever way we want it to? What’s the point of living if you only do it how others want you to?” TJ Klune, The House in the …

Aug 4, 2023: 📺👱‍♀️🖖 Glen Weldon’s rewrite of song titles from “Once More, with Feeling” to include Star Trek stuff is precisely calculated to delight me, …

Aug 1, 2023: Finished reading: The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest 📚 Adorable romance about a publishing assistant who starts an email friendship with the author …

Jul 29, 2023: 🍿 Watched Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie. A reimagining of the TV show. I loved how well it used the Palais Garnier. Sweet story and you get all the …

Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 📚 Lovely! A scholar of faerie lore travels to a frozen Scandinavian town …

Jul 28, 2023: 🔖 Skimmed Publicize Your Principles. This idea might be helpful for articulating Micro.blog’s principles. ATTN: @manton @jean

Jul 27, 2023: 📚💬 “I was supposed to remain comfortably outside the stories with my pen and my notebook.” Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries

Jul 27, 2023: 📚 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 she’s going to use naturalistic observation and …

Jul 26, 2023: 📚💬 “He felt lighter somehow. Like he wasn’t paint blending into the wall. He felt real. He felt present. Almost like he could be seen.” T. J. Klune, …

Jul 26, 2023: 📚💬 “Home is where we get to be who we are.” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

Jul 25, 2023: There’s a special irony in the fact that GalaxyCon Raleigh’s Cosplay, Cons, & Parenting panel takes place from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, exactly when parents …

Jul 24, 2023: o no I am become the dad in the LEGO movie

Jul 24, 2023: 📚 Finding my throughline: Library enthusiast 💻 I recently listened to Katie Rose Guest Pryal on Camille Pagán’s podcast, You Should Write a Book, talking about how she found the throughline in her …

Jul 24, 2023: So I’m on Bluesky. (If you’re seeing this on Bluesky, it’s thanks to Micro.blog cross-posting!) If they ever actually federate, I’ll follow folks on …

Jul 24, 2023: 🔖📚 Read IN A WAVE OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY RETELLINGS, WHERE ARE THE GREEK WRITERS? by Lyndsie Manusos (Book Riot). Lots of exciting recommendations in …

Jul 24, 2023: 🔖🍿 Read Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is a Fascinating, Spectacular Philosophical Experiment by Olivia Rutigliano (Literary Hub). Well, I was already …

Jul 23, 2023: I love how the Web works. I post that I want to read Jillian Hess’s book, How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information. Anna Havron reads it and …

Jul 23, 2023: I should really stick with my watch-mostly-Star-Trek plan. 🖖🏻

Jul 23, 2023: Was too busy actually celebrating my 14th wedding anniversary yesterday to blog about it. A thoroughly Durham date: browsing & picking up orders at …

Jul 21, 2023: 💬📚 “Sometimes silence was the loudest thing of all.” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

Jul 21, 2023: 💬📚 “Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

Jul 20, 2023: Finished reading: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 📚 Listened to the audiobook. Super adorable. Super hot. Super made me teary with it’s AU …

Jul 19, 2023: Finished reading: Nimona by ND Stevenson 📚 Weird I waited so long to read it. A lot going on here and I’m always delighted by the way ND Stevenson’s …

Jul 18, 2023: Finished reading: Ana María and The Fox by Liana De la Rosa 📚

Jul 17, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books by Janet Manley (Literary Hub).

Jul 17, 2023: 🔖📓 Read Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels (Disability Studied Quarterly).

Jul 14, 2023: Photo of my lovely husband W & myself in front of Ferris Bueller singing in the parade! Thanks to Retro Film Series!

Jul 14, 2023: 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 life, the universe, and everything. (I am the one …

Jul 13, 2023: I have a (relatively subdued thanks to new meds) migraine (3 hormone shifts a month cause these for me whee!). I also went and had 3 fillings all on …

Jul 12, 2023: Finished reading: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna 📚 What a sweet, cozy cup of tea of a book. This one made me so happy. …

Jul 11, 2023: 💬📚 “It was always irksome when an idea went nowhere, but Mika knew by now that there would always be new ideas.” Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret …

Jul 11, 2023: Okay it’s not noon and my library’s collective daily borrow limit for Hoopla has been reached which… I feel like we must have a really low collective …

Jul 10, 2023: It’s my birthday Friday! I’m keeping Kimbertide low key this year. If you want to play along, watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or The Muppet Movie, play …

Jul 8, 2023: Finished reading: Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚 Another sweet romance set in the Toronto Muslim community from Uzma Jalaluddin. This one …

Jul 7, 2023: 🔖🎭📚 Read It’s Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama by Michael Paulson (NYT, gift link) via Book Riot’s Literary Activism …

Jul 6, 2023: I’m signed up for Threads. I’ll actually use it when it implements ActivityPub and/or is available in-browser.

Jul 3, 2023: Finished reading: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi 📚 I read this start-to-finish in about 8 hours. It’s a romance that …

Jul 2, 2023: My On This Day page surfaced this blog post today: Constructing websites as constructing ourselves: Thinking out loud I still think about this all the …

Jun 30, 2023: Apparently my idea for what counts as the prettiest hair is bound to the year 1993. This soft hair on Deanna Troi, with thin bangs, the front pulled …

Jun 30, 2023: I seem to have no attention span today. I’m going to blame the postdrome stage of migraine.

Jun 29, 2023: Finished reading: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚 This is a beautiful homage to Pride & Prejudice, as well as to the Toronto Muslim community. A …

Jun 28, 2023: 📝 Brilliant gem from Jaya Saxena in today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter: my writing got better the moment I allowed myself to be the kind of writer I …

Jun 28, 2023: 📚 Me, reading Ayesha At Last: This is a Pride & Prejudice retelling, I know this, so when is Khalid going to go all Mr. Darcy? Author Uzma Jalaluddin, …

Jun 27, 2023: I am on Day 4 of a migraine. I’m about to try a new medication for it. Here’s hoping it makes a difference.

Jun 27, 2023: Picard: I feel as if I’m in the Scottish Highlands. Colonist: The cornerstone of every building was taken from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen… Me, A …

Jun 23, 2023: Hey friends, what are some good values statements from organizations? (I’m deliberately not defining criteria for good, but please feel free to …

Jun 23, 2023: 🔖 Read What Is A Third Place? (And Here’s Why You Should Have One) by Emily Torres (The Good Trade). I’ve been thinking about third places, their role …

Jun 21, 2023: My desk chair broke a little bit and I’m having trouble determining whether I can fix it…

Jun 20, 2023: 📚💬 “To me intellectual life is fundamentally different from academic careerism.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the artist at work

Jun 20, 2023: 📚💬 It is precisely because common structures of evaluation and advancement in various academic jobs require homogenous thought and action… that …

Jun 20, 2023: Belated Travel Blog: Into Amsterdam for the First Time Our first foray into Amsterdam besides going to the airport was heading to the International Newcomers office at the World Trade Center (right by the …

Jun 20, 2023: 🔖 Read Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself. Writing, as a career, is inherently boat-rocking.

Jun 19, 2023: 📚💬 “Science fiction is the literature of social and technological change.” Nalo Hopkinson, “What is science fiction for?” in Science Fiction: Voyage …

Jun 19, 2023: Belated Travel Blog: Aalsmeer I loved Amsterdam almost immediately, at first because of how the major roads are laid out. Buses have their own two lanes, totally separate from the …

Jun 19, 2023: 🍞 This bread is from Simple Mills’s Artisan Bread mix. It has a beautiful crack, but vinegar as a leavening agent leaves something to be desired. The …

Jun 18, 2023: In response to @mbkriegh’s In Praise of the Choir: This post reminds me of Austin Kleon’s writing on Brian Eno’s concept of “scenius”: Scenius Further …

Jun 16, 2023: Finished reading: The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller 📚 This is a lovely romance set in Gilded Age New York, where a scandalous society widow and …

Jun 16, 2023: 💬📚 “Real life is people leaning on each other when things are hard. It’s loving each other so much there’s no question about facing things together. …

Jun 14, 2023: Halfway through the week of no school or camp and we’re not doing too badly, thanks to grandma time, the pool, and a moratorium on screen time limits… …

Jun 14, 2023: 📚💬 “Love isn’t naïve, Alva. It’s hope, and it’s faith, and it can outlast buildings and wars and empires.” The Widow of Rose House, Diana Biller

Jun 12, 2023: 🔖📚💖 A couple of links about pleasure reading for your reading pleasure: What Romance Novels Taught Me About Taking Pleasure More Seriously by …

Jun 8, 2023: There’s something really special about being a 90s comedy nerd married to another 90s comedy nerd.

Jun 8, 2023: I like how when I text someone and am a lot, knowing they’re a lot too means I know we’ll both be okay because we’re both a lot and they won’t be mad …

Jun 7, 2023: 🎙🖖Listened to Our Opinions Are Correct, Episode 131: The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan. Spoilery still from the Strange New Worlds Season 2 …

Jun 7, 2023: 🔖 Read A LETTER FROM THE NEW CORPORATE OWNERS OF HOOPER’S STORE (McSweeney’s). This is hilarious and ends with a perfect button.

Jun 6, 2023: 📝📓 Fascinated by this ethnographic study on youth’s “pocket writing” practices. Most fiction I write happens in my pocket now and is mostly private, …

Jun 5, 2023: Installing Linux on my Windows machine…

Jun 5, 2023: 🔖 Some interesting links around “wholesome” as a word for things that restore us, rather than a conservative metric by which to judge people: When Did …

Jun 4, 2023: 🔖📓 Read How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward. I love some of these alternate ways of creating age groupings. I could …

Jun 4, 2023: 📺 Watched The Baby-sitters Club S02E07, Claudia and the Sad Goodbye. 💔😭 If you know, you know.

Jun 3, 2023: 🔖📓 Can ChatGPT Replace UX Researchers? An Empirical Analysis of Comment Classifications This is an interesting study with implications for qualitative …

Jun 3, 2023: Finished reading: Wyngraf #1 The first issue of a cozy fantasy magazine. Full of lovely stories I very much enjoyed. Mother-daughter dragon calming, …

Jun 3, 2023: Does anybody else know why all I feel like doing is lying in bed and watching Netflix Originals? 📺

Jun 2, 2023: 📺 The Babysitters Club S02E03, “Stacey’s Emergency,” brilliantly depicts what it’s like living with chronic illness.

Jun 2, 2023: I’m only now catching up on the second season of The Babysitters Club and having Mary Ann as a triple virgo is brilliant. 📺

Jun 2, 2023: 🎙️💬 “Sometimes it can be hard when we’re fucking exhausted to choose the thing that feels nourishing.” Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul Episode …

May 30, 2023: Finished reading: Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel by Leigh Bardugo 📚 Gorgeous graphic version of the Darkling’s origin story.

May 30, 2023: Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer starts June 17 and the Slack is hopping right now, in case you want to join in on the fun. 📝

May 29, 2023: 🌊 Today is the first day of the 10th Annual 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. As often as you can between now and Labor Day, “get near, in, on or under …

May 29, 2023: It was hard finding time to write while traveling, so I didn’t do all the travel blogging I would have liked. But I have consistent childcare for the …

May 28, 2023: Where have I been? I like Manton’s Where have I been post and have had a pretty significant change in where I’ve visited since the start of the year, so I thought I’d …

May 28, 2023: 🔖📚 Read This Is Dedicated To Anyone Who Ever Left - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Lyz Lenz.

May 28, 2023: 🔖📚 Read “I think, like marriage, home is a fantasy” - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Amanda Montei Here are all of my intellectual intentions and here …

May 27, 2023: 📺 Me, watching Bridgerton: How can anyone tell these Bridgerton brothers apart? They all have the same coloration. I guess two of them are a little …

May 27, 2023: 🔖 Read Monkey House: Strange Reflections at the Singerie by Kate Zambreno (VQR).

May 27, 2023: 📺 Watched Velma. The two primary criticisms - that it relies too heavily on meta-humor and that the characters are selfish & don’t grow - are spot on, …

May 26, 2023: 🔖 Read The Winter Zoo by Kate Zambreno (The Yale Review). For a few years when M. was a toddler, our family went to Knoxville - the place of my …

May 25, 2023: 🍿 Watched Howard. It’s always striking when you realize the outsize influence an artist has had on you, and watching this it really hit home what an …

May 25, 2023: 📚 Here comes the BBC with a list of the 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time. Maybe when I’m recovered from jetlag I’ll see how many are on both …

May 25, 2023: Want to read: The Light Room by Kate Zambreno 📚

May 25, 2023: Time for a needs assessment! Micro.blog community, what resources do you need in the Micro.blog Community Library?

May 25, 2023: 📚 Purchased 2 different books from museums to be shipped directly to my house rather than carrying them home myself: Sarah Bernhardt - Et la femme …

May 25, 2023: Just learned that it would cost £22 to have 100g of Tchai-Ovna’s Faeries Blood Tea shipped to me here in the US. Yikes.

May 25, 2023: 🔖 Read How to Scale Back, Even When It Seems Impossible. Do you need to lose something else to find yourself? Katie Pryal writes about how she had to …

May 25, 2023: 🔖📝 Reading Revision can be fun. No, really. by Charlie Jane Anders. …revision can actually be kind of exhilarating at times. Because instead of …

May 23, 2023: Home again and happy to be here.

May 23, 2023: 🔖 Read The Healing Power of JavaScript. ❤️

May 22, 2023: Happy World Goth Day! Tomorrow I will go home, where I will have access to all my goth perfumes and jewelry. Today, I give you this photo of Sarah …

May 22, 2023: I’ve created playlists on YouTube for all 3 Micro Camps, in case you, like me, have a long flight and might want to download and watch them all on the …

May 22, 2023: Last full day in Europe and I’m spending it alternating between packing and lying down. Don’t underestimate how much stuff you can acquire in 4 …

May 21, 2023: “Y’all” is the best contraction. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

May 21, 2023: 📚 Revisiting Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. N. K. Jemisin: Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train …

May 21, 2023: 📺 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is exactly the Star Wars show I would have written as a kid: Kai Brightstar Nash Durango The Crimson Firehawk …

May 20, 2023: Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale 📚 A sweet historical romance involving a Quaker and a rakish Duke.

May 20, 2023: Announcement time! Do you write a blog? Send it to me and I’ll read it!

May 20, 2023: Quand même A while back I said I was going to get obsessed with Sarah Bernhardt (I seem to have said it somewhere other than my own website ☹️) but never …

May 18, 2023: 🔖🌐 Read Webring History. animated email gifs, web counters, scrolling and/or blinking text, midi background music that could not be turned off and the …

May 18, 2023: I was feeling disconnected from the Micro.blog community, and I was pretty sure it wasn’t just because I wasn’t posting that much. So I changed the …

May 17, 2023: O no two meetings left, not done for 3+ hrs, and yet so sleepy. Might be an afternoon caffeine day. I would love to just live in Paris forever but it …

May 17, 2023: 🔖 How Does Motherhood Impact Your Creativity? It’s Complicated vogue.com Read: www.vogue.com Vogue: Fashion, Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion Shows …

May 16, 2023: I’m in Paris this week so I don’t know how much of Micro Camp I’ll catch live, but the schedule looks great.

May 14, 2023: Missing Moulin Rouge playing in my hometown but it’s okay because I got to see the actual Moulin Rouge.

May 12, 2023: 🔖🎵 Read Patiently Holding the Sound: Gretchen Parlato on motherhood as a musical inspiration. What a great interview.

May 11, 2023: 🔖🌐 Read Bring Back Personal Blogging by Monique Judge (The Verge).

May 11, 2023: My blog host, Micro.blog, has declared it the Summer of Blogging and is offering 4 months of their standard hosting plan at a price of $1/month. I …

May 11, 2023: I’ve been obsessed with this chandelier for a long time and today I finally got to see it in person.

May 11, 2023: Reading the souvenir book they sell at Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare and Company: A Brief History of a Parisian Bookstore. For George, it was …

May 11, 2023: Je suis à Paris. J’adore Paris. Yesterday I sat in the reading room of Shakespeare and Company, wrote in my notebook, and pretended to be A Writer. (I …

May 10, 2023: I’m grieving dooce by going through her archives and reading this post while I am in Paris is extra beautiful. I was cranky and tired and in pain the …

May 10, 2023: Content Warning: Suicide There’s an AP news piece confirming what I suspected when I first saw Manton’s post about Heather Armstrong’s death. Heather Armstrong, also known as …

May 8, 2023: Starting Season 7 in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, finding myself very glad there’s so much other Trek media including TNG tie-ins so …

May 7, 2023: Want to read: The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder 📚

May 6, 2023: 🔖📝 Read My Commitment to Wellness as a Lifelong Writer by Yolande House — Breathing Space Creative I’ve learned that honouring my needs each and every …

May 6, 2023: Over the past week, I’ve worked through Esmé Weijun Wang’s workshop, Building a Writing Habit While Living with Limitations. In the workshop, we …

May 4, 2023: 🔖📚 Read BookTok encourages reading as an aesthetic and no one is safe from its gaze by Elena Cavender (Mashable). Insightful piece about how limiting …

May 3, 2023: Finished reading: Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond 📚 Loved it. Scorchingly hot, fun secret agent hijinks. Highly recommend.

May 1, 2023: I am reading Gwenda Bond’s Mr. & Mrs. Witch right now and one of the 🔥 scenes actually made me cry because it was so beautiful and made me so happy. 📚 …

Apr 28, 2023: 🔖📓 Read Automated transcription and some risks of machine interpretation. Dr. Daniel Turner does a great job illuminating how large language models …

Apr 28, 2023: Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess 📚

Apr 27, 2023: Want to read: It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach 📚

Apr 26, 2023: Want to read: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 📚

Apr 22, 2023: Me: I put my hair up and brushed my teeth! I’m ready to face the day! flops onto bed

Apr 21, 2023: I’m trying to see myself as others see me. Would you please tell me: When have you seen me happiest? What do you come to me for? Where do I stand out …

Apr 19, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men by Laura Miller (Slate). The magnitude of an …

Apr 18, 2023: 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 Anders (Happy Dancing newsletter). Anders talks about …

Apr 16, 2023: 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 syncing class, because the Leon County, FL gifted …

Apr 16, 2023: Went by the Oscar Wilde house yesterday and the plaque saying he lived there said: OSCAR WILDE POET, DRAMATIST, WIT and I liked it so well I’m …

Apr 15, 2023: 🔖🎨 Read On growing alongside your artistic practice (The Creative Independent). Mother-artist Bailey Elder talks about growing as an artist and being …

Apr 15, 2023: 🔖 Read Durham Officials Push for Affordable Housing in Southpoint Redevelopment. Pleased with my city’s Planning Commission members.

Apr 14, 2023: 🔖📝 Read When You Aren’t Sure Whether Your Writing Is ‘Important’ by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). You just need to find one person who understands and …

Apr 14, 2023: 🔖📝 Read Kids Will Still Read Banned Books by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). Chung doesn’t minimize the harm of book banning, but discusses how it’s …

Apr 14, 2023: 🔖📝 Read How Can You Write About Pain Without Retraumatizing Yourself? by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic).

Apr 14, 2023: 🔖📝 Read On Pitching and Rejection by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). pitching is not just about figuring out what editors or publications may be …

Apr 14, 2023: It’s my defense-aversary! I’ve been a PhD for two years. For me, getting the PhD was much bigger than having the PhD has been. Perhaps I’ll write up …

Apr 14, 2023: 💬📚📓📝 No dissertation is worth a lifetime of revision. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 12, 2023: I haven’t been sharing a lot of travel adventures not because I haven’t been having them, but just because making the time to share is tricky. But …

Apr 11, 2023: 🔖 Read Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend. Dreamed I decided to get obsessed with Lois Lane, decided this meant I should …

Apr 10, 2023: 🔖📝 Read “I Hate the Idea of Healing” A Conversation with Maggie Smith One thing that mothering has taught me is that I can’t be precious about where I …

Apr 9, 2023: Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 📚 My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers Anthony feels like coming home (miss me with your …

Apr 7, 2023: 🖖🏻📺 Data: *has a personal problem* *does extensive research* Captain Picard, I have done all the research but I do not have the answer to my problem. …

Apr 6, 2023: Full-on happy misty-eyed over this week’s Picard. 🖖🏻📺

Apr 6, 2023: 💬📚📝📓 Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy writing the books to follow. William Germano, From …

Apr 6, 2023: 💬📚📝📓 Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing better. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 6, 2023: 📓 Read Subjectivity and Reflexivity: An Introduction by Franz Breuer, Katja Mruck & Wolff-Michael Roth (Forum: Qualitative Social Research). A quick …

Apr 5, 2023: 💬📚📝📓 Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 5, 2023: 💬📚📝📓 Revision is a job for optimists. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 5, 2023: The Barbie Selfie Generator is pretty fun.

Apr 5, 2023: Hey Internet! I’m interested in your perceptions. What are my superpowers? What are my areas of expertise?

Apr 4, 2023: 💬📚📝📓 …the operating instructions of scholarly publishing rarely form a part of graduate training… William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 3, 2023: 💬📚📝📓 Write everything you want published as if there are people who make decisions and work within limited budgets—their checkbooks, or their …

Apr 3, 2023: 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 editor had expressed interest in it. After it was …

Apr 3, 2023: Looking at my Scholarly Pipeline (Notion template I made, pay what you want) for the first time in a while & I’ve got an idea for a piece of …

Apr 3, 2023: Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd 📚

Mar 31, 2023: Teenagers at this park are listening to the Macarena. Do I feel old or 15?

Mar 31, 2023: It took a couple years, but I finally created a page on my website curating all my writing about dissertating in the open.

Mar 31, 2023: 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 your future self. My current research contract …

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend 📚

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley 📚

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists ; Publ.on the Occasion of the Exhibition at Manchester City Art Galleries, 22 November 1997-22 February …

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff 📚

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites by Laurence Des Cars 📚

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: English Pre-Raphaelite Painters: Their Associates and Successors by Percy H. Bate 📚

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Haunted Texts by William Evan Fredeman 📚

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer,T. J. Barringer 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art by Dennis Sydney Reginald Welland 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel by Sophia Andres 📚

Mar 30, 2023: I love the Gothic Charm School book very much and am happy to have bought it as an ebook so I can re-read it as I travel, but I miss the special font …

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Haunted Greece by John L. Tomkinson 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairy Tales, Now First Collected by Joseph Ritson 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-eastern and Central Europe by Eva Pocs 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Banshee by Patricia Lysaght 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Handbook of Fairies by Ronan Coghlan 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine Mary Briggs 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Dictionary of Fairies by Katherine Briggs 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Nicola Bown 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairy Lore by D. L. Ashliman 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Tolkien on Fairy-stories by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies by Anna Franklin 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Good People by Peter Narv‡ez 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Northumberland Folk Tales by Rosalind Kerven 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols by Cassandra Eason 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Strange and Secret Peoples by Carole G. Silver 📚

Mar 30, 2023: Hello Internet! I’m having a vampire night due to migraine. I’m going to get up and take my morning medicine so I can wait an hour and then have …

Mar 29, 2023: Want to read: The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions) by 📚

Mar 29, 2023: Want to read: The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler 📚

Mar 29, 2023: Finished reading: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow 📚 This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I was all in. Super fun …

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Ladies of Leisure. This one bummed me out. I think it sells Dept. of Speculation short.

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚📝Read Is Parenthood the Enemy of Creative Work? by Kim Brooks (The Cut) That’s one of the major things parenting is teaching me, the balance between …

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read The books that help define motherhood – for mums everywhere to read Is it ever possible to reclaim yourself without endangering your child? I …

Mar 29, 2023: 📺 Want to watch: SMILF Catastrophe Motherland The Letdown Workin’ Moms

Mar 29, 2023: 🍿 Want to watch: Tully.

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Art or Babies. you can make your art without being an art monster: You can do it as… an art mother.

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Why are we only talking about ‘mom books’ by white women? by Angela Garbes (The Cut). I love Angela Garbes’s writing. This is another old one. …

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read The Stranger Guest: The Literature of Pregnancy and New Motherhood by Lily Gurton-Wachter (Los Angeles Review of Books) Another old bookmark. …

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle by Parul Sehgal (The New York Times). Recent books on motherhood, however, frequently …

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Maggie Nelson: Inflections Forever New by Ariel Lewiton (Guernica). We’re all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don’t …

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read Why All the Books About Motherhood? by Laura Elkin (The Paris Review). Another bookmark I’ve been sitting on for years. These new books recast …

Mar 29, 2023: 🔖📚 Read We Need to Talk About Whiteness in Motherhood Memoirs by Nancy Reddy (Electric Literature). I bookmarked this 4 years ago & am only reading it …

Mar 28, 2023: 🔖📝📚 Read The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? by Lara Feigel (The Guardian) Feigel writes about motherly ambivalence.

Mar 28, 2023: 🔖 Read Writer Moms: Can We Do Deep Work While the Kids are Home? by Sara Bates. Before we do… the practical things we need to do in order to create …

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle 📚

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) by Hettie Judah 📚

Mar 28, 2023: 🔖📝📚 Read I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child? by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett (The Guardian). …

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris 📚

Mar 28, 2023: 🔖 Read How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris by Ravynn K. Stringfield (Shondaland). Great interview! I need to go track down …

Mar 28, 2023: 🔖 Read Rebecca Solnit on Women’s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster (Lithub). I want to be an art monster like Grover: lovable and loving and …

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood 📚

Mar 28, 2023: 🔖📚📝 Read The Mother, the Artist, and Me by Caroline Hagood (Elle). This is a great essay about what can happen when we bring our kids into the work of …

Mar 28, 2023: Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 📚 I want to write a long response to this one but don’t have time today. It’s less about …

Mar 27, 2023: 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 need to organize an improv jam for sleepy …

Mar 26, 2023: I just want to fight censorship 📚 and make theatre 🎭.

Mar 26, 2023: Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders 📚 I love this so much! Charlie Jane Anders says to invent imaginary friends to …

Mar 25, 2023: Finished reading: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn 📚 I might love this even more than Legendborn, which I didn’t think was possible. Tracy Deonn goes …

Mar 25, 2023: I cannot recommend Book Riot’s censorship coverage highly enough. They’re doing great work, with Kelly Jensen leading it. If you’re in the US, you can …

Mar 24, 2023: Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I do weird things like buying a Krang cosplay t-shirt or getting all 3 The Librarians movies on Amazon Prime. …

Mar 23, 2023: 🖖🏻 Brent Spiner is my hero.

Mar 23, 2023: 📺💬🖖🏻 “I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn’t slightly familiar.” Picard 3x06, The Bounty. IT ME.

Mar 23, 2023: Yo Internet, why does the Voyager theme tug at my heartstrings so? I barely remember the show but it always gets me misty.

Mar 22, 2023: 🔖 Read Should I learn coding as a second language? by Meghan O’Gieblyn (Wired). the most celebrated historical revolutions (those initiated, that is, …

Mar 21, 2023: 🔖 Read …

Mar 21, 2023: 🔖 Read Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story wired.com Read: www.wired.com Wired.com https://www.wired.com/2013/04/hypertext/

Mar 21, 2023: 🔖📚📝 Read A Beginner’s Guide to Writing IP in Publishing — ERIC SMITH ericsmithrocks.com Read: www.ericsmithrocks.com ericsmithrocks.com …

Mar 19, 2023: Want to read: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs 📚

Mar 19, 2023: Want to read: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚

Mar 19, 2023: Want to read: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry 📚

Mar 15, 2023: Ah yes, that weird need-to-cry, don’t-know-why feeling… (I suspect this is about the fact that the amount of stuff you have when traveling expands to …

Mar 15, 2023: Scenes I want to explore more: TTRPGs, literary (incl but not limited to sff). What pubs, websites, podcasts, people, other stuff should I check out?

Mar 14, 2023: 🗨️ My response to Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It Happy anniversary, Jason! Is the font on that Notes entry Tahoma or …

Mar 12, 2023: 📺 Shrinking is doing a great job dressing a teen in 90s throwback clothes and if y’all see me walking around in overalls with one side undone now you …

Mar 11, 2023: hey hey you know how that moral philosopher profiled in the New Yorker would solve the trolley problem? whichever way would give her the most material …

Mar 11, 2023: Had abbrevia.me describe me based on my tweets. Alt text contains the text of the description, which was too many characters to include here. I know …

Mar 9, 2023: 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 I’m writing this). I think I must have eaten …

Mar 7, 2023: Finished reading: Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto 📚 This has been a great read while wandering Amsterdam. I …

Mar 7, 2023: 📚💬 “Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.” Frieda Menco, Holocaust survivor, quoted in …

Mar 5, 2023: Anne Frank kept a commonplace book.

Mar 5, 2023: “She didn’t die. She was killed. Because she was a Jewish girl.” Hannah Pick-Goslar, a friend of Anne Frank’s 💔

Mar 2, 2023: 🔖 Read Understanding Blogs by Tracy Durnell. An excellent exploration of what makes blogging its own medium.

Mar 2, 2023: I guess I missed World Book Day & International Cat Rescue Day in Europe but it’s still March 2 back home, so happy both of those! As I like to say …

Mar 2, 2023: Haven’t listened to Worlds Beyond Number yet but Erika Ishii in this TechCrunch interview is making me cry so that’s cool: “When you find people to …

Mar 1, 2023: I’ve got a couple recent co-authored articles: Description framework of makerspaces: Examining the relationship between spatial arrangement and …

Feb 28, 2023: 🎮 Playing Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe with my kid. Super fun. Couch co-op Kirby seems to be his gateway to playing instead of just watching. …

Feb 28, 2023: Hi friends! It’s time for an Amsterdam Photo Dump! There are 8 photos here so if you’re viewing this on a timeline, be sure to click through to …

Feb 27, 2023: 🔖 Read Sci-Fi Publishers Are Bracing for an AI Battle by Elizabeth Minkel (Wired). I’m interested to see how this shakes out.

Feb 24, 2023: Finished reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚 Happy to have read it. Turns out vibes are enough when you’ve got charming …

Feb 24, 2023: I'm a piler-filer. Who are you? Austin Kleon blogs about pilers and filers, a dichotomy/spectrum he learned about reading Temple Grandin’s book, _Visual Thinking _, in which Grandin …

Feb 24, 2023: 🔖 Read The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing by Vauhina Vara (Wired). This is an excellent long read. There are a lot of good questions here. How can …

Feb 23, 2023: Currently reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚 Now that I’m reading for vibes & character instead of a narrative arc, …

Feb 22, 2023: My kid’s school is hiring a classroom teacher in his age range. So if you got the gig you might get to teach him, and I hear he’s pretty delightful.

Feb 21, 2023: 🔖📝 Read IF YOU LOVE WRITING, YOU SHOULD RELISH REJECTION. This is a really helpful piece that reframes rejection as the water writers swim in.

Feb 20, 2023: 🔖🎓 Read All my classes suddenly became AI classes. I love the assignment here that asks students to work with ChatGPT as if it were a student and they …

Feb 19, 2023: 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 because it’s not very refined. First, I have a …

Feb 19, 2023: Yesterday I saw 3 people (I’d guess women) at Amsterdam Centraal 🚄 walking together wearing matching pairs of gorgeous plain black Docs and then felt …

Feb 16, 2023: Status: in a parasocial relationship with the crew of the Enterprise D.

Feb 16, 2023: I’m not saying I’m just saying, the introduction to GENDER AT SEA talks a lot about Moana and what the story can tell us about women in maritime …

Feb 16, 2023: Who goes to the Dutch National Maritime Museum and buys an edited collection titled Gender at Sea as a souvenir? This academic. 📚🌊🎓

Feb 16, 2023: Hello, I require this shirt.

Feb 16, 2023: 🔖📝 Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing by Anthony Ocampo, at the recommendation of Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield. This is one of the reasons I …

Feb 15, 2023: Today I’m grieving the closure of Catapult magazine and classes. 📝

Feb 13, 2023: The latest Dutch food: nasi saté ajam. This is an Indonesian dish. Because Indonesia was once a Dutch colony, there’s a lot of Indonesian influence in …

Feb 13, 2023: 🔖📚📝 Read Mess Up Your Good, Premium, Luxury Notebooks. Yes! Great advice from Anna Havron.

Feb 13, 2023: 🔖 Read Antisemitic text was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. 💔

Feb 11, 2023: Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚 This one took me a while to get into. Before giving up, I hunted down a review. The review indicated …

Feb 10, 2023: 🔖 📝 Joanna Penn discusses her use of AI to help her write a short story. This could be a valuable model for educators to use to teach students how to …

Feb 9, 2023: 🔖 Read The Summer-Camp Feeding Frenzy Has Already Begun.

Feb 9, 2023: 🔖 Read Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice. …the people who live in the shadow of the refinery often don’t have …

Feb 8, 2023: Another Dutch meal. This is hutspot. It’s smoked sausage with gravy on a bed of potatoes, onions, and carrots. I liked it better than the one with …

Feb 8, 2023: 🔖 Read THE JEDI ACADEMY WILL NO LONGER TEACH ANAKIN SKYWALKER’S MASSACRE OF THE YOUNGLINGS. A+ geek satire.

Feb 8, 2023: 📺 Watched Key & Peele - I Said…. This is a beautiful sketch that heightens literally as high as you can go. Strong one to have early in the show.

Feb 8, 2023: 🍿 Watched Bert Williams - The Poker Game. Stunningly good object work.

Feb 8, 2023: 🍿Watched Mantan Moreland & Ben Carter - Indefinite Talk. This bit is so fun. Ought to be mentioned in the same breath as Who’s On First?

Feb 7, 2023: 🔖 Read The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme. My favorite take on Pagliacci is Rhett Miller’s theme song for the podcast The Hilarious World …

Feb 7, 2023: 📚💬📓 “… being transparent about one’s positionality, and choosing a granularity of analysis appropriate to your actual knowledge and experience, are …

Feb 6, 2023: 🔖 A swirling soup of thoughts in my head about self-presentation after reading these posts: The personal brand paradox - Debbie Millman Build a …

Feb 6, 2023: You know what’s really great for a migraine is the monthly test of public warning sirens in the Netherlands. OH WAIT NO THAT DOES NOT HELP WITH A …

Feb 5, 2023: 🔖 Read Is My Child Eating Enough Pirate’s Booty? Parenting comedy is a microgenre that always lands with me.

Feb 4, 2023: 🔖 Read “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather.” Took me a little while to get into the format of this short story but in the end I loved it. Big The Hazards of …

Feb 3, 2023: Today’s adventure: NEMO Science Museum. Very cool, but I’m spoiled by having an awesome science museum in my hometown. I think it would have seemed …

Feb 2, 2023: Finished reading: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 📚 I’m extremely late to this one. It’s excellent, of course. I love the way Angie Thomas shows that …

Feb 2, 2023: 🔖 Read Interview with Kelly J. Baker: “I can’t push through when I’m stuck.” “My writing routine became write frantically whenever I had a chance or …

Feb 1, 2023: Another Dutch meal: stamppot boerenkool. This is smoked sausage with sauce on a bed of potatoes mixed with kale. I really liked the sausage but it …

Feb 1, 2023: I made a menu of Dutch foods for us to try. They’re sort of home food staples, not anything too elaborate or traditional. This is the first thing we …

Feb 1, 2023: I’m so excited to hang out with my friends for new stories.

Jan 31, 2023: 🔖 Read WE’VE LOST THE PLOT by Megan Garber (The Atlantic). “Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on …

Jan 30, 2023: Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I love it so much. I left the hardcover at home but bought the ebook to read while I’m traveling, which …

Jan 30, 2023: 🔖📺🎮 Read Television Is Better Without Video Games and Video Games Are Better Without Gameplay (Ian Bogost, The Atlantic). Maybe Ian Bogost should stop …

Jan 30, 2023: My kid made a Kirby and the Forgotten Land fanzine, I am dead from cute.

Jan 28, 2023: 📺🖖🏻 When I watch TNG or Picard, Data is Data, but anyone else Brent Spiner plays is Brent Spiner doing an awesome job. But Data is, viscerally for me, …

Jan 27, 2023: 📺 Watched Ares. Brilliant dark academia horror with all the hallmarks: secret society, dangerously powerful young people, gorgeous fashion, a lower …

Jan 27, 2023: Quiet Time in Aalsmeer Our second week in the Netherlands has been quiet so far. Exactly a week after we got here, I came down with a cough that has developed into a pretty …

Jan 26, 2023: Duolingo really emphasizes the importance of learning the Dutch word “krant,” which means newspaper. I was confused at first because it seems like a …

Jan 24, 2023: The video of the Pop Culture Dialogue I was part of on inherited fandoms is now on YouTube.

Jan 24, 2023: In just a bit I’ll be contributing to the live-streamed Pop Culture Dialogue on Inherited Fandoms, hosted by the Popular culture Studies Journal. You …

Jan 23, 2023: I love your newsletter, whoever you are, but I’ve put it on web-only. Trying to get quiet in here 🧠. I’ll find you when I’m ready.

Jan 23, 2023: Well I guess the jet lag is over because instead of getting a brilliant solid stretch of sleep that didn’t start until 2 am, I was out by 11 but up …

Jan 20, 2023: We took a walk through the village down to the Westeindeplassen (a lake) today. Here are some photos from that walk.

Jan 20, 2023: The other day W pointed out that the way we communicate in memes is basically the same as Tamarians in “Darmok” 🖖🏻. When I say, “Spiderman pointing at …

Jan 19, 2023: Our first 60 hours in Europe In case you missed it: my husband, W, received a Fulbright award to study European & transatlantic copyright harmonization, especially with respect to …

Jan 19, 2023: 🔖 Read The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too by Elizabeth Minkel.

Jan 19, 2023: 🔖 Read The Fannish Potlatch: Creation of Status Within the Fan Community by Rachael Sabotini (Fanfic Symposium) via Lori Morimoto’s Introduction to …

Jan 19, 2023: Me in the Netherlands on Day 3: UGH I can’t believe I haven’t been to ALL THE MUSEUMS, what am I even doing

Jan 18, 2023: 🎮 Played the Dragon Quest Treasures demo. Cute with some fun mechanics and a cool world but not so compelling that I’d purchase without a steep …

Jan 18, 2023: 🔖📺👱‍♀️ Read Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form: “I’ve Earned the Right to Stand Where I Am”. “Was it an ideal working situation? …

Jan 18, 2023: Woont u in Nederland? Ik ben in Aalsmeer. Wil u afspreken? Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands, maar ik spreek veel Engels.

Jan 18, 2023: Me: wants to message all my friends and family My friends and family: are sleeping, I hope, as it’s 3:30 AM where most of them are

Jan 17, 2023: Well, a cat walked us home from the bus stop so I guess we and everyone we know are moving to Amsterdam.

Jan 14, 2023: 📺 Finished watching Wednesday. Glad I stuck with it. I appreciate Wednesday refusing to be in the same teen drama show as everyone else. I was …

Jan 13, 2023: 📺💬 Tyler: Come on, don’t you like a day that’s all about you? Wednesday: Every day is all about me. This one just comes with cake and a bad song. 🖤🌧️🖤 …

Jan 13, 2023: 📺💬 “It’s not my fault I can’t interpret your emotional morse code.” 🖤 Wednesday 🖤

Jan 12, 2023: 🔖 Back on my dark academia bullshit thanks to WEDNESDAY (the show is DA, the character is goth) and so I read this interview with Donna Tartt.

Jan 12, 2023: Real struggle to focus today which is probably a combo of getting to bed late because I wanted to keep tabs on how my mom was doing in the ER (poorly …

Jan 10, 2023: Pro-tip: asking questions about why you’re doing the research in the way you’re doing it and what you originally said you were going to do and how …

Jan 10, 2023: 📺 Watching WEDNESDAY and every time Christina Ricci says, “Wednesday,” I’m all, “Are you talking to yourself?” in spite of the killer job Jenna Ortega …

Jan 10, 2023: How I Begin In Austin Kleon’s paid newsletter post today, he asked his readers, to share how we begin. I opened by saying, “I don’t know how I begin.” Then I …

Jan 10, 2023: Tarot: My Year Ahead I’m taking Lindsay Mack’s tarot class called The Threshold. Here’s my reading for the year ahead. Four major arcana - huge! This whole spread fits …

Jan 9, 2023: Make a note: 2023 is the year of unsubscribing.

Jan 9, 2023: Hey librarians! Where do you get information to help you do your job?

Jan 9, 2023: 📚💬 “Be open to the possibility that you are bigger, more magical, more powerful than you dare imagine, that you are here to do something that is …

Jan 8, 2023: 🔖 Read How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics by Emily Alford (Longreads). This is my favorite Wednesday think piece so far. Ricci’s …

Jan 6, 2023: It seems extra cruel that while my mom can’t actually carry herself around on her legs, she can feel lots of pain in them.

Jan 6, 2023: 🔖 Read All in Good Fun: How Fanfiction Reignited My Passion for Writing by Briana Lawrence, linked in this week’s The Rec Center The first time I …

Jan 6, 2023: Hello. LIS scholars, scholars of #LIS for those of you on hashtaggy places: are you familiar with LIS research that points to PEOPLE as the …

Jan 6, 2023: Hey Internet. What’s fun with a kid in Amsterdam? Besides De Poezenboot, obviously. 🐈‍⬛

Jan 3, 2023: Me: gets Steam Deck for Christmas Me: proceeds to add tons of 90s PC adventure games to my Steam wishlist

Jan 3, 2023: 🎮 Started playing The Secret of Monkey Island on the Steam Deck. Correcting a gap in my point & click bona fides. So far Yakko & Wakko Warner as the …

Jan 3, 2023: Loved my first day hike, hiked in spite of the sense of impending bursitis. Two days later, bursitis is still here plus some other joint pain and I’m …

Jan 2, 2023: Q: Was there ever a series of books you were skeptical about, but ended up liking very much? A: I can’t think of any right now but this is a great …

Jan 2, 2023: Q: who was your crush in middle school lmao A: Had a different one each year. Not naming names but one of them performed surgery on my mom a few years …

Jan 2, 2023: Q: the longest time you’ve ever gone without showering? A: Don’t know but far too long, more than a week. I’m generally bad about it & new parenthood …

Jan 2, 2023: Dense fog advisory today until 10 AM. Big woodland goth vibes.

Jan 2, 2023: Finished reading: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 📚 Poirot’s first case. A bit of homage to Doyle at the start, then on to the …

Jan 1, 2023: Begin As You Mean to Go On, courtesy of Leigh Bardugo: Read for pleasure: Read The Mysterious Affair at Styles on my Kobo. Make things (courtesy of …

Jan 1, 2023: Q: What’s one thing that typical town libraries should change to increase community participation? A: Find ways to reach people who aren’t already …

Jan 1, 2023: Q: What are your plans this weekend? A: Nothing big - maybe going to the Farmer’s Market & then prepping bc on 1/16 I leave for Amsterdam - W got a …

Jan 1, 2023: Anon message: You’re still one of the first people I think of fondly when I’m reminiscing. 🪵🫀 Reply: Aww thank you! That’s super sweet.

Jan 1, 2023: Next anon q: Do you remember your Bronzer days with joy? Or with time (and events) does it feel like just an old phase you went through? Answer: So …

Jan 1, 2023: Next anonymous question: Favourite fandom/ship for fanfic? My answer: Oh my goodness this is way harder than the career question. My AO3 bookmarks say …

Jan 1, 2023: Next anonymous message: You are the best! My reply: Thanks! Backatcha!

Jan 1, 2023: Fourth anonymous question: Favorite place you’ve ever visited? My answer: The Library of Congress

Jan 1, 2023: Third anonymous question: If you could choose any career would it be what you’re doing right now or something else? My answer: This is such a hard …

Jan 1, 2023: Second anonymous question: Who’s the last person you texted? My answer: My sister

Jan 1, 2023: First anonymous question: Hottest sport? My answer: I don’t really sport and I’m super heat sensitive so… All of them that aren’t water or snow …

Jan 1, 2023: Saw @heroicendeavour@glammr.us answering anonymous questions and thought it might be fun to do this myself. I reserve the right to refuse to answer …

Dec 31, 2022: Did the PBS Kids NYE countdown so… Here’s to some good stuff happening in 2023.

Dec 31, 2022: 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: tarot stuff, bullet journal migration. I need a nap …

Dec 31, 2022: On this day last year, I wrote: “…my word of the year for 2022 is MEND. My goal is to keep going.” Last night I quote tweeted someone who said “Please …

Dec 31, 2022: PS If you’re wondering why I’m still awake at 4 it’s because my mom keeps having miserable side effects from the TKIs for her leukemia and then I …

Dec 31, 2022: My Child Woke Me Up at 1:30 and I’m Still Awake at 4: The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Dec 30, 2022: 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 tomorrow. When I wrote my year in reading post on …

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! by Joanna Penn 📚 …

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets …

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath by Kirsten Beyer 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Rose (New Poets of America) by Li-Young Lee 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Troll: Hilda Book 1 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading …

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Midnight Giant: Hilda Book 2 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end …

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Black Hound: Hilda Book 4 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end …

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Stone Forest: Hilda Book 5 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end …

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson 📚 Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie 📚 Another fun one. Poirot has more heart here.

Dec 30, 2022: Currently reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie 📚 Another pre-movie watch read.

Dec 29, 2022: Cat help me, I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole that is Benoit Blanc/Phillip fluff and I’m very happy here.

Dec 28, 2022: Part of me wants to take all my favorite character tropes and rewrite them as mom. Mom detective. Mom swashbuckler. Mom grand dame. Just a bunch of …

Dec 28, 2022: Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚 Wow, that went fast. Super fun.

Dec 27, 2022: Currently reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚 Reading in advance of watching the Branagh film.

Dec 27, 2022: Finished reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer 📚 I love it so much. Sweet, hot but closed doors, I really do wish Carrigan’s was a real place, that …

Dec 24, 2022: 🔖📚 Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger. This is a beautiful and perfect Gideon the Ninth mall employee AU. Gideon …

Dec 23, 2022: Currently reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer 📚 I’ve read 141 pages in this book since I picked it up yesterday afternoon.

Dec 23, 2022: 🍿 Watched Glass Onion. Had fun. Still adore Benoit Blanc.

Dec 23, 2022: 📚 I’m sure there are a lot of things I’ll want to tell you about Season of Love but the first is that there’s a Veronica Mars reference and a …

Dec 22, 2022: I feel like my new glasses give me a nebbishy vibe and I kind of love it. Who’s ready to cast me as Seymour?

Dec 22, 2022: Finally picked this beauty up from the library. I had it from NetGalley but didn’t get it read before it expired. (Don’t fret over the menorah with …

Dec 22, 2022: I drew the Ace of Swords as my anchor card for winter. I made it my phone background to help me remember that this season, I can use my sharp mind to …

Dec 22, 2022: 🔖📝 Read Finding the Secret Door Into Your Novel. When a novel is wick, it has a life about it. (Have we talked about how I married Dickon, Internet? …

Dec 21, 2022: Said I was gonna disconnect cross-posting from Twitter, forgot to actually do it, gonna leave it on for now since they’ve walked back the bananas …

Dec 21, 2022: Finished reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 📚 Finished this in 2 or 3 days. I was drawn to it because of the cover & buzz. I stayed in it because of …

Dec 21, 2022: Happy solstice!

Dec 21, 2022: Kelly J. Baker’s latest newsletter is about a year of not writing & what that means when being a writer is a key piece of your identity. It helped me …

Dec 20, 2022: New glasses! Who knew I had a face under those cateyes?

Dec 19, 2022: Currently reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 📚

Dec 18, 2022: Disconnecting cross-posting to Twitter after this post. Find my follow page at kimberlyhirsh.com if you want to keep up with me.

Dec 18, 2022: Finished reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I loved it so much. I know Leigh Bardugo is done with the Grishaverse for a while but I hope not …

Dec 18, 2022: 💬📚 “None of this had been fated; none of it foretold… They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive. But maybe that was the trick …

Dec 18, 2022: Woodland Goth: The Goblins of Labyrinth by Brian Froud 📚 Yep, I created a whole Woodland Goth bookshelf. Goblins of Labyrinth is a collectible. I …

Dec 17, 2022: 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 club, it might be useful to discuss my own …

Dec 16, 2022: 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 flip phones. I do have a problem with the …

Dec 16, 2022: Me, misquoting Lord of the Rings: “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the …

Dec 16, 2022: I use a smartphone AND I read novels.

Dec 16, 2022: Revised 5 TV shows to introduce me, now in chronological order of release! 📺 Star Trek: The Next Generation 🖖🏻 Animaniacs🐁 Buffy the Vampire Slayer …

Dec 15, 2022: Replacing Firefly in my 5 shows to introduce me and subbing in CXG.

Dec 15, 2022: 'Wednesday' is full of "Whoa." 📺 I just finished the first episode of Wednesday. I have so many thoughts and feelings. First, I’ve seen criticism that the Addams Family works best …

Dec 15, 2022: Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows 📺: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 👱‍♀️ Firefly 🌌 Star Trek: The Next Generation 🖖 GLOW 🤼‍♀️ The X-Files 🛸

Dec 15, 2022: 🔖📺 Read Wednesday Forgets Why We Fell in Love With the Addams Family. “The Addams Family films were about family being a haven of pure acceptance and …

Dec 15, 2022: Apparently tonight is a waking-after-every-sleep-cycle night. Not my favorite.

Dec 14, 2022: I want my hair to look like Emily Axford’s hair.

Dec 14, 2022: 🍿 Watched Santa Games (Hulu). Super cute. A sweet story about family & the power of second chances mixed with a funny take on social media, …

Dec 14, 2022: 🔖 Read A year of new avenues robinsloan.com Robin Sloan https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/ I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage …

Dec 14, 2022: 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 done, I decided to try writing 750 words a day …

Dec 14, 2022: 🔖 Read What Is a Strike? Reflections from the Virtual Front Lines of the UC Academic Worker Strike by Mary Jirmanas Saba (LA Progressive).

Dec 13, 2022: Currently reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 📚 Kind of resent that I have to do anything besides read this book, even though I love a lot of the …

Dec 13, 2022: 🔖 Read Attention, trust and GPT3 “If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, don’t interrupt people …

Dec 12, 2022: 📚💬 “I am most interested in confessional writing when it allows us to move into the personal as a way to go beyond it. In all my work I invoke the …

Dec 12, 2022: 📚💬 “I had been so well socialized by graduate school that I was torn between which writing path to pursue, agonizing over whether I could write from …

Dec 12, 2022: 🔖💀 Read If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body by Caitlin Doughty (New York Times Gift Link). I hope we get human composting in …

Dec 12, 2022: Lately I often find myself feeling alert but unable to focus. This is a new vibe for me. If you’re a person who experiences this feeling regularly and …

Dec 11, 2022: Finished reading: 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl 📚 Read this because it’s on Austin Kleon’s list of books about motherhood & art. …

Dec 11, 2022: “Perhaps having children makes one increasingly distrust the symbolic world. Because suddenly nothing is as important as the very real particular.” …

Dec 11, 2022: This week’s Craft Talk from Jami Attenberg is another great one: “Don’t ever talk yourself out of writing something because you don’t know how it fits …

Dec 11, 2022: Y’all ever think about how the worst moments in your life personally align with some of the most personally important cultural moments? 1989-1992 was …

Dec 10, 2022: 🔖 Read Creativity as Spiritual Practice by Rabbi Adina Allen (My Jewish Learning). “Each of us is endowed with creative capacity simply by being …

Dec 10, 2022: 📝🎭🎨🧶🧵🎵💃🏿 This is a reminder that I write Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative mothers. If those are the kind of stories …

Dec 10, 2022: 🔖📺📝 Read TV Recaps Taught Me How to Write Criticism by Joelle Kidd. I love Kidd’s discussion of the role of pleasure in criticism.

Dec 10, 2022: 🔖📺 Read Wednesday Addams Is the Ultimate Outcast by Miyako Pleines (Catapult). 🖤

Dec 8, 2022: 🔖 Read Haunted by the Ghost of 2019, Helena Fitzgerald “A return to 2019 is an attempt to erase all of the losses that happened between then and now, …

Dec 8, 2022: Want to read: Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose 📚

Dec 8, 2022: My personal Pokémon avatar was behind today’s advent calendar door.

Dec 8, 2022: 🔖 Read How’d That Thing Go? by Kate McKean. “I don’t want a schedule, I want a sandbox. I want a list of things that need to be done and a container …

Dec 8, 2022: 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 her old job. She has all of December to just be, …

Dec 7, 2022: Just listened to a super stressful strike townhall and I’m tempted to watch tonight’s Neverafter but I think TNG is the smarter move right now.

Dec 7, 2022: 🍿 Watched Falling for Christmas. I’ve been an unironic Lindsay Lohan fan since I saw Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, so I was delighted to see …

Dec 6, 2022: Q asks Baby Q Amanda Rogers if she’s ever caused the spontaneous combustion of someone she doesn’t like, then gives Picard a look as if to say, “You …

Dec 5, 2022: Trying to figure out if I can make a crow cane head work on my adjustable cane so I can walk the streets of Amsterdam pretending it’s Ketterdam and …

Dec 5, 2022: 🎮 Apparently my Dragon Age: Origins character isn’t in leather armor that looks like underwear. She’s in her actual underwear because I guess I …

Dec 5, 2022: 🎮 I’m more than 10 yrs behind & have already played Inquisition but some quick thoughts after 1 hr of DA: Origins: I appreciate that the music in the …

Dec 5, 2022: Getting blood work done, it’s been 20 minutes since my appointment time and I still haven’t been seen, fasting and haven’t eaten in almost 15 hours… …

Dec 5, 2022: My whole family and I are moving to Tom Bombadil’s house. He and Goldberry are such gracious hosts and we will be relaxed there. (Please note: we …

Dec 3, 2022: Y’all don’t even know how transformed this fireplace is from just a couple months ago. W painted it white & my brother-in-law MM and I hung the …

Dec 3, 2022: The head teacher at my kid’s school for next year sent an email saying that the only school supplies he will need are a backpack and a lunchbox and I …

Dec 3, 2022: 🔖🎮 Read Playing ‘Tunic’ Reminds Me How to Approach Sickness and Recovery by Martin Cahill (Catapult).

Dec 2, 2022: I have done all the things in Stardew Valley 1.4 and it took me ~245 hrs. That’s ~245 hrs when I was playing Stardew Valley and not doomscrolling. You …

Dec 2, 2022: My Reading Year, 2022 📚 Everybody is doing their year-end stuff, so I thought I’d do mine. I read 46 books this year including comics/graphic novels and poetry. About 12 of …

Dec 1, 2022: True facts about my time on the early web: In many chats (like, html + server side scripting with auto-refresh), my handle was Elora Danan and my …

Nov 30, 2022: Wonderful things 🥳: My kid fell asleep before 9:30 for the first time this week. 😴 I ❤️ Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, & Andy Serkis singing as both of …

Nov 30, 2022: Some notes on my Spotify Wrapped: Joe Hisaishi is the composer for My Neighbor Totoro, which is what I wake M up with on the rare morning he’s not …

Nov 30, 2022: Friends! Are you on Mastodon? Are you seeing this on Mastodon? I’m about to stop using indieweb.social to syndicate my posts to Mastodon but you can …

Nov 30, 2022: My son sings “Step by Step” at school sometimes. I always thought it sounded like a union song and, indeed, the lyrics come from a miner’s union. I …

Nov 30, 2022: Hey Micro.blog friendos, I activated ActivityPub & can follow Mastodon peeps via M.b but how do I tell people to find me at …

Nov 29, 2022: I’m like a toddler over here with big feelings, might cry from relief because my parents got my brother’s special needs trust and ABLE accounts …

Nov 29, 2022: 🔖 Read ‘Y’all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time by David B. Parker (The Conversation), h/t @benwerd. As …

Nov 29, 2022: Today has not been my favorite day, for reasons I may choose to detail more extensively in the future. For now, I’ll just say that the day began with …

Nov 29, 2022: 🎮 If you told me in 2015 that I would be really psyched about getting farming sims by 2022, I would have laughed at you. Yet here we are.

Nov 28, 2022: 🔖 Read 1 in 4 hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants (ResumeBuilder), h/t @benwerd. The convenience sampling …

Nov 28, 2022: 🖖🏻 I’ve been falling asleep to the TNG episode “Relics,” and every time Captain Picard says “Ensign Rager” it sounds like he’s saying “Ensign Raygun.” …

Nov 28, 2022: 🔖 Read Taking on the Feminine Labor of Creating Holiday Magic by Sarah Hunter Simanson (Catapult). This year will be the first Christmas that my mom …

Nov 28, 2022: 🔖 Read PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet by Jamie Zawinski. (h/t @manton) At the moment, if I can’t do it in a browser, I’m not doing …

Nov 28, 2022: Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and The Language of Thorns to give us the immersion of …

Nov 28, 2022: 💬📚 “I don’t remember my own story… I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly awake until I began to …

Nov 26, 2022: Thanksgiving 1: Plain black leggings, gray sweater. Thanksgiving 2: Floral dress. Thanksgiving 3: PlayStation T-shirt, Star Wars leggings

Nov 26, 2022: Today: Thanksgiving #3, Booster #2. Tomorrow: Rest, D&D.

Nov 24, 2022: Locking myself in the bathroom at my parents’ house to get a break from overstimulation, happy Thanksgiving 1996 everybody.

Nov 24, 2022: 🔖🌲 Read On Mother Trees: What Old-Growth Trees Taught Me About Parenting by Kaitlyn Teer (Catapult). A gorgeous essay in conversation with The Giving …

Nov 24, 2022: 🔖🍿 Read The Mom in ‘Home Alone’ Is a Messy and Magnificent Model of Motherhood. It’s easy to forget how hard Kate McAllister works to make sure her …

Nov 24, 2022: 🔖📝♿ Read As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator by [Sarah Fawn Montgomery](www.sarahfawnmontgomery.com/l (Catapult). This is my new favorite …

Nov 22, 2022: Currently attending Dr. Anuja Cabraal’s session on emoji coding. The analysis process and how we choose to analyze influences the results. Well said, …

Nov 22, 2022: 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 avoiding spoilers, just move along… . . . . . . . …

Nov 22, 2022: Today is a day of widespread pain and miserable stomach cramps. Thanks a lot, chronic illness exacerbated by shifting hormones…

Nov 22, 2022: 🔖 Read What is Jewish Spirituality? Mystics have their experiences, but what matters is what they learn from them…

Nov 22, 2022: 🔖 Read The Eight Genders in the Talmud. Super interesting discussion of how halakhah handles things that don’t fit a binary.

Nov 22, 2022: 🍿 I’m about 30 minutes into Disney’s Disenchanted and while it definitely doesn’t have the magic of Enchanted, Amy Adams is still a gd delight and I …

Nov 21, 2022: 🍿 Watched Eve’s Christmas. This & Back to Christmas have similar premises. If I woke up to discover I’d had a successful second chance at romance but …

Nov 21, 2022: Me: Ugh. Why am I so irritable? looks at Euki app calendar Me: Oh.

Nov 21, 2022: Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m an IndieWeb person and they have no API at present for me to …

Nov 20, 2022: Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚 I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty confused but that’s okay. 💀

Nov 20, 2022: Okay, I have enough people still hanging out on Twitter to stick around, reactivated syndication. Via @toddgrotenhuis on micro.blog - Introduce …

Nov 20, 2022: Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & Mastodon (@kimberlyhirsh@indieweb.social).

Nov 19, 2022: I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But I’ve rejected hundreds, so… Yay?

Nov 19, 2022: It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major arcana only), the most perfect fan artist’s tarot I’ve …

Nov 18, 2022: You are a creature of flesh. You have all the same bodily needs any wild mammal does.

Nov 18, 2022: My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do academia use to refer to video games?” Didn’t get any …

Nov 18, 2022: Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. 🎵

Nov 18, 2022: The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I always come back so hi, time for me to reinvigorate my …

Nov 18, 2022: I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!

Nov 18, 2022: Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.

Nov 18, 2022: Guess I better start cross-posting to Instagram more!

Nov 17, 2022: A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to be gone now.

Nov 17, 2022: I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.

Nov 17, 2022: 💬📚 “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and heat, our animal closeness.” Angela Garbes, Essential …

Nov 17, 2022: 💬📚 “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: …

Nov 17, 2022: 💬📚 “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodies— handling the refuse, the filth and putrescence, living in the stink.” Angela Garbes, …

Nov 17, 2022: Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚 Thanks for the rec, @agilelisa!

Nov 16, 2022: So worn out and it’s almost time to start the second shift of my day job (parenting).

Nov 16, 2022: Decided to do morning pages over at 750words. It’s not longhand, but it also doesn’t give me hand cramps, so. 🤷‍♀️

Nov 16, 2022: 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 seems to not be dating him anymore and you think …

Nov 15, 2022: 🔖📚 Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did. Excellent piece about the dangers of outing anyone before they’re ready. …

Nov 15, 2022: 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 make a list, it’s probably maybe 10 or so people …

Nov 15, 2022: 🔖 How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like myself, struggle to finish writing long things.

Nov 15, 2022: 🔖 Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman (Catapult). Great piece. Every time I think I’m parenting M …

Nov 15, 2022: Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. 🖖🏻

Nov 14, 2022: 📺💬 On MythicQuest… Ian: Poppy, lines are so Web1. You don’t wanna be in Web1, do you? Me: I do! I love Web1!

Nov 13, 2022: It’s Sunday morning and I am back to being overwhelmed by meal planning, how’s your day? I should say that M & I made banana bread and pumpkin bread …

Nov 12, 2022: Maybe not 50K words of literally anything... It turns out giving yourself credit for everything you write is actually really challenging because you have to pull it all together somewhere, and …

Nov 12, 2022: 📚💬 “Proximity to power, however real that feels, is a simpler choice than solidarity. True allyship lives in relationships, true solidarity requires …

Nov 12, 2022: 💬📚 “The perspective mothers bring to their jobs—whether it’s law making, coalition building, project management—is that family and care work are …

Nov 12, 2022: 💬📚 “We are entrusting that which we say is most precious—our children, our future— to other people, yet we are not willing to pay them a living wage? …

Nov 12, 2022: 💬📚 “Childcare professionals, many of them mothers, are three times as likely to live in poverty as workers in other professions.” Angela Garbes, …

Nov 11, 2022: The number of people grieving the loss of Kevin Conroy in my various timelines has confirmed that I’m following the right people.

Nov 10, 2022: Hello I require a meme where Lore is impersonating Data on Twitter, they’re both verified, will pay in high praise kthx 🖖🏻

Nov 9, 2022: Over at Mastodon, I have a lot of new infosec/cybersecurity followers. I assume y’all followed me because Kevin Beaumont follows me. Kev & I are …

Nov 9, 2022: Moved Mastodon instances from mastodon.social to indieweb.social because the prior kept timing out. People who were following me shouldn’t need to do …

Nov 9, 2022: 💬📚 “Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Nov 9, 2022: 💬📚 “Early on in quarantine, I found myself thinking, ‘What is the most valuable thing I could be doing with my time?’ The answer clearly wasn’t …

Nov 8, 2022: Just moved a publication on my CV from “In Progress” to “In Press.” An RA gathered data in 2018-19. A professor & myself wrote the first draft in …

Nov 8, 2022: 🔖📝 Read How to Finish. Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay blank and sharpen pages I’ve already made? Should I …

Nov 8, 2022: 🔖📝 Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist. I covet the Alphasmart/Freewrite, but I don’t think it’s the …

Nov 8, 2022: 🔖📝 Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space” “…every draft after the first draft for me is a kind of process of stripping away the stuff that …

Nov 8, 2022: 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 idea of being a NaNo Rebel with the goal of writing …

Nov 7, 2022: Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in touch.

Nov 7, 2022: 🔖📚 Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn). I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily …

Nov 7, 2022: 📚🍳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 homemade food that won’t eat up all your energy for …

Nov 7, 2022: 🔖📝 Read Writing Advice Isn’t Made for Bodies In Pain. Too many things I want to quote here, so if the headline appeals you should just go read the …

Nov 7, 2022: “if you’re looking for a sign from the universe that it’s okay to stop trying to force your work, that it’s not just okay but good to tend to yourself …

Nov 7, 2022: Over and over again I search for this comic by Sylvie Reuter that is the best depiction I’ve ever seen of how I, personally, experience depression. …

Nov 7, 2022: 🔖📺 Read ‘Bad Sisters’ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister Ooh. When I’m ready for intense TV I might try this. “Sisterhood was a world …

Nov 7, 2022: 🔖 Read Emma Thompson’s Third Act. I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred spirit, a screen aunt like Carrie Fisher is a screen …

Nov 6, 2022: 🍿 Watched Back to Christmas. Jennifer Elise Cox steals the show. I was hoping Michael Muhney (Sheriff Lamb on Veronica Mars) would get to play someone …

Nov 6, 2022: 🍿 Watched Snowbound for Christmas (on Amazon Prime). Based on the book Snowbound with the CEO. A lot of changes from the book. Cute enough, though.

Nov 6, 2022: Seeing Scott Thompson as the French (Canadian?) hotel front of house manager in Snowbound for Christmas is a fun surprise. 🍿

Nov 6, 2022: Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey 📚 Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in making things steamy, but leaves plenty to the …

Nov 5, 2022: 📚 Went to the library to pick up my hold on I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes and Nona the Ninth was waiting …

Nov 4, 2022: 🔖 Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now. If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed into …

Nov 3, 2022: As I eagerly await Linda Holmes’s inevitable holiday TV movie round up, I have used her previous ones to curate a list of 33 new-to-me movies …

Nov 2, 2022: Big Luisa Energy today and I don’t like it. Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt, and See if she can handle every family burden Watch as she …

Nov 2, 2022: I will remember 2022 as the year I wanted to do everything, actually did some things, and felt like I did nothing.

Nov 1, 2022: Now that I’m trained in human subjects research I find myself siding with the Board of Governors in Jekyll & Hyde. 🎭🎵

Nov 1, 2022: Still in the prep stages for this month’s writing projects. I created a reversible notebook to hold workbooks for both.

Nov 1, 2022: The world is full of writing challenges in November, and it’s rough because I want to do them all. Might try my usual method of attempting everything …

Oct 31, 2022: Happy Halloween from Hilda and Twig!

Oct 31, 2022: The Gothic novel to Broadway musical pipeline 🖤

Oct 31, 2022: Want to get your own website going but need some info on how? Check out getblogging.org.

Oct 31, 2022: One last fic prompt from when M was 3: Spider-Man and Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.

Oct 31, 2022: Another fic prompt from when M was 3: In “The Green Ribbon,” Jenny tells Alfred that she just likes the green ribbon and that’s why she wears it all …

Oct 31, 2022: Fic prompt from when M was 3: in The Velveteen Rabbit but at the end, not only does the Velveteen rabbit become real, but also the boy and his parents …

Oct 31, 2022: I’m not going to spend a lot of time scrolling Mastodon, but I’m set up to cross-post from my blog there (just like I do with Twitter) so if you’re …

Oct 29, 2022: If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out the New Mothers Writing Circle.

Oct 28, 2022: 🔖 Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.

Oct 28, 2022: Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump some trail mix on top. Stir. Eat.

Oct 28, 2022: 🔖 Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom. the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a discreet, yet …

Oct 28, 2022: 🔖Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South Alabama – Flow The dilemma that online researchers …

Oct 27, 2022: 🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies – transform We need to ask ourselves how identifying as an aca-fan impacts the …

Oct 27, 2022: 🔖 Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan – transform I would argue that aca/fan is most vitally understood as a contextual position …

Oct 27, 2022: 🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost. Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions with more strangely-dressed attendees.

Oct 27, 2022: 🔖 Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV. The thing that “counts” as a line on a CV is slow-moving and comparatively hard to access, …

Oct 27, 2022: 🔖 Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV. It’s worth considering the role of fandom within media scholarship, not as a separate object of analysis… but …

Oct 27, 2022: Me, watching the Lower Decks finale after finally finishing watching “Time’s Arrow, Part 2”: Is Buenamigo’s cigar hand-rolled or replicated? 🖖🏻

Oct 27, 2022: 📚 Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto. A super accessible introduction with helpful paraphrases of jargon-filled …

Oct 26, 2022: 💬📚 “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what most media fans experience or enact.” Lori …

Oct 26, 2022: What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies 📚

Oct 26, 2022: Hey, Internet. I want to get Table of Contents alerts for the Journal of Fandom Studies. My institution doesn’t subscribe, so I can’t set up an alert …

Oct 25, 2022: 💬📚 “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan Studies Primer, …

Oct 25, 2022: I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic where Data recruits most of …

Oct 24, 2022: Hello world. I’m weary. For reasons. Sometimes life is a lot. I’m really glad there are great bits when there are because it would be so much harder …

Oct 23, 2022: I love Baby Galadriel so much.

Oct 23, 2022: Having a nightmare where your relative who’s dealing with infection-induced delirium in the waking world wanders off & is convinced by quack medical …

Oct 22, 2022: Voting selfie!

Oct 21, 2022: Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).

Oct 21, 2022: Taking another run at limiting screen time, because I’m wondering if the increase in migraines for me lately is correlated with an increase in screen …

Oct 20, 2022: My superpower is taking any Star Trek: The Next Generation B-story focused on Data and forgetting the A-story that goes with it “The Outrageous Okona” …

Oct 20, 2022: My kid goes to a Reggio Emilia school; his kindergarten class is a community of researchers. Today he & I talked about our epistemological stances. …

Oct 19, 2022: 🔖 Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”

Oct 19, 2022: 🔖 NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow this story earlier.

Oct 19, 2022: I get excited and ambitious and then I have a flare and then I forget all my passions and ambitions. Listen, body: I am doing my best to build a life …

Oct 17, 2022: This is an example of process art.

Oct 17, 2022: I want to food, to cook fresh ingredients into beautiful and tasty things. But I like to experience this as meditative and do it when I have energy, …

Oct 17, 2022: How to Scholar(?) In my doctoral program, there was a class that we colloquially referred to as “babydocs.” As it was taught the year I took it, the purpose of babydocs …

Oct 16, 2022: Finished up my time at #FSNNA22 with a dance by the pastries.

Oct 16, 2022: Okay, getting dressed and then heading to the #FSNNA22 Gather lobby to try dancing and throwing confetti.

Oct 16, 2022: Skipping the first sessions of #FSNNA22 today to have breakfast with my family. Back for the 11 am, then missing the closing session to play D&D.

Oct 15, 2022: Today, in Kimberly remembers that scholarly publishing is broken: lots of journals demand either full transfer of copyright or an exclusive license …

Oct 15, 2022: #FSNNA 22 Roundtable: Materiality & Liveness Paul_Lucas: Welcoming everyone to the session "Materiality & Liveness" Talking about WWE and the impact of it being termed an "essential business" …

Oct 15, 2022: I’m attending “Transcultural Fandom Experiences” at #FSNNA22 but not live-tweeting because I’m prepping for the #FanLIS session, “#FanLIS at Home,” …

Oct 15, 2022: #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 Spectatorship articulates the need for a theory of …

Oct 14, 2022: Super headachey, so probably gonna lie down, may or may not do more #FSNNA22 today.

Oct 14, 2022: Me to friend who is also a mom: Want me to drop the water bottle you left at M’s birthday party off at your house? Her: Yes. Me: I’ll let you know if …

Oct 14, 2022: W just reminded me we have a Parent-Teacher conference this morning so I actually will miss the first 2 #FSNNA22 sessions today but should be back in …

Oct 14, 2022: Up too early and going to sleep a little more. I’m going to miss the first #FSNNA22 session of the day because it’s right during kid-day-prep time, …

Oct 14, 2022: 📚 Tom Bombadil (😍) sings SO. MUCH.

Oct 14, 2022: 💬📚 “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Oct 13, 2022: Now is the part of #FSNNA22 where I retreat to my hotel room, order room service, and watch TV except because it’s a virtual conference I retreat to …

Oct 13, 2022: The Daily Mail: Don’t use these emojis! They make Gen Z people perceive you as old! Me: I mean they’re going to perceive me like that either way, so …

Oct 13, 2022: Time for a liedown, hope to be back up in time for the #FSNNA22 publishing session.

Oct 13, 2022: It’s super energizing to go to conferences like #FSNNA22, #CLS2022, and #FanLIS2022. I’m reminded that I do enjoy research, I am part of a community …

Oct 13, 2022: #FSNNA22 Live Blog: Fandom During/After Covid Olivia Johnston-Riley: Next session: Fandom During/After COVID Norbert Nyari: “Reaching Fans Through Deeper Interaction: The Case of Concerts Through …

Oct 13, 2022: Even in Gather, I’m that nerd sitting in the front row. #FSNNA22

Oct 13, 2022: Taking kid to the dentist during the next #FSNNA22 session so I won’t be live-tweeting but hope to keep up with others’ tweets about it. The tool I …

Oct 13, 2022: M after watching me confer in Gather: “Can we play a little Stardew Valley?”

Oct 13, 2022: #FSNNA2022 Live Blog: The New Bedroom Cultures Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke: introducing the panel "The New Bedroom Cultures" Elise Sandbach: “The Growth of Fangirls and Fanfiction During the COVID-19 …

Oct 13, 2022: Kid woke up, so break from live-posting but I’m introducing him to Gather. “What game is that?”

Oct 13, 2022: Side question for anyone at #FSNNA22 or anyone aware of fan studies at all - have folks looked at parents/caregivers and what their fannish activity …

Oct 13, 2022: Good morning! It’s the first day of #FSNNA22, the Fan Studies Network North America conference, and I might be live tweeting and then posting …

Oct 9, 2022: Experimenting with limiting leisure screen time for a little bit. You’ll be able to tell how it goes by following whether I post or not.

Oct 6, 2022: I am asking for COPING advice, not TREATMENT advice: I feel crappy always, with stress and/or migraines and/or insomnia and/or joint pain and/or brain …

Oct 6, 2022: Me, a postdoc and research lead at an R1 institution with a PhD from another institution: I’m not really an academic, though!

Oct 5, 2022: Tape worked great on the part of the giant cat rip that wasn’t a seam, but not the part that was, so I’ll either sew it or try some seam seal for next …

Oct 5, 2022: 🎙️It’s taken me more than 2.5 yrs, but I have finished listening to Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy. It is a delight. A …

Oct 4, 2022: Yesterday: Noodling on work stuff while swapping out winter clothes and putting away laundry. Today: Getting. Things. Done. and marking them off my …

Oct 3, 2022: 📚💬📝 “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein individual action …

Oct 3, 2022: 📚💬📝 “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending domination… in our work without changing individual habits of being…” …

Oct 3, 2022: 📚💬📝 “The point is not to render ideas less complex—the point is to make the complex clear.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

Oct 3, 2022: 📚💬📝 “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the widest possible audience.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: …

Oct 3, 2022: 📚💬📝 “All academics write but not all see themselves as writers.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

Oct 2, 2022: The giant cat popped less than 24 hours after going up with probably less than 10 hours up time. Hubris? I’ve got special tape ordered to try and …

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to be submerged in language, carried away by the …

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe that the struggle to create and maintain a culture where women’s …

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than work that is distinctly feminist in outlook.” bell hooks, …

Oct 1, 2022: It’s spooky season, so I’m living my best life with a skeleton glow necklace.

Oct 1, 2022: Giant cat!

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “…we all should feel utterly free to write as much as time, grace, and the imagination allow.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “Since I have never tried to make a living as a writer, I have had the extreme good fortune to be able to write only what I want to write when I …

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their work.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an endless flow of ideas in my mind.” bell hooks, remembered …

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them close.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “Writing that keeps us away from death, from despair, does not necessarily help us to be well.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work …

Oct 1, 2022: 📚💬📝 “… the being we become in the very act of writing is only ever intimately present to the one who writes.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the …

Sep 30, 2022: There have been 22 weekdays this September. My kid has been in school for only 14 of them. The 8 remaining days: 1 holiday, 1 school break, 3 home …

Sep 29, 2022: Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr 📚 An uplifting and compelling read. Herr documents her …

Sep 29, 2022: 🔖 Read Howl’s Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by Petrana Radulovic

Sep 29, 2022: Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 📚 Super fun! Highly recommend.

Sep 29, 2022: I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the movie (rightly, I think) but Howl is actually a post-ac wizard whose …

Sep 27, 2022: I’m exhausted. My mom has gone to the ER once a week for the past 5 weeks. My kid has not been in school for a full week since the beginning of the …

Sep 25, 2022: 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 a little flat loop, but we didn’t know which …

Sep 23, 2022: Want to read: Ghosts of the Forbidden (Glazier’s Gap Book 1) by Leanna Renee Hieber 📚

Sep 21, 2022: I just ordered a 20 ft inflatable black cat. It will dominate the culdesac. I’m kind of hoping it becomes haunted. (RIP The Best Cat, 11/1999 - …

Sep 21, 2022: My currently-planned NaNoWriMo novel is a YA supernatural rom-com set at musical theatre camp in the late 90s. It miiiiiiight have some …

Sep 20, 2022: You can have all of the research that funding agencies can possibly provide us but if we can’t talk about what it means for our actual lived …

Sep 19, 2022: I love today’s issue of Publish Not Perish in which Jenn McClearen draws a connection between Joli Jensen’s idea of communal writing and rejecting the …

Sep 18, 2022: I just played D&D for the first time in 3+ years and it was so great I almost cried.

Sep 13, 2022: 🎮 Things from today’s Nintendo Direct that feel like gifts they’re making for me, specifically: Theatrhythm Final Bar Line Harvestella demo today …

Sep 13, 2022: I rarely watch actual play TTRPG shows because Life Circumstances have made a 3-hr viewing a real challenge. I backed DesiQuest at the Town Folk level …

Sep 13, 2022: Day 3 of a garbage migraine. Hate it. Rarely get them this bad anymore.

Sep 12, 2022: 📺 Will I need to watch The Book of Boba Fett to follow what’s happening in the next season of The Mandalorian?

Sep 11, 2022: 📺 Excuse me, I am watching The Rings of Power and Disa is my new fave, thought you should know. (And that’s a big deal because Galadriel, Nori, and …

Sep 11, 2022: 📺 Watched The Sandman. It’s so great. I don’t think a better adaptation would be possible. I missed the black speech bubbles but I know those couldn’t …

Sep 11, 2022: Dark academia is too emotionally bleak an aesthetic for me right now, but I enjoy the ability to admire pretty pictures and have a list of new hobbies …

Sep 11, 2022: We took a little walk on the trail behind our house this morning. Here are some pictures of what we saw: misty trees, a red leaf, an acorn cap, a …

Sep 9, 2022: 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 the world. The tools we use shape our thought …

Sep 9, 2022: Currently reading: Fabric by Victoria Finlay 📚

Sep 8, 2022: Peace and long life, y’all. Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖🏻

Sep 7, 2022: I don’t write a lot of lengthy blog posts lately, partly because there’s a lot going on with my mom’s health that wears me out. But I want to write …

Sep 6, 2022: I can suspend my disbelief enough to believe that entities like Dream, Death, Desire, & Despair exist, ravens can talk, nightmares can walk the earth… …

Sep 6, 2022: John Cameron Mitchell doing Ethel Merman singing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is all I have ever wanted. A mid-90s musical theatre nerd’s dream come …

Sep 6, 2022: I’m very sorry for the colleague of my interviewee who was sick today and thus meant interviewee couldn’t get time off-desk and had to reschedule, but …

Sep 6, 2022: Just spent a minute staring at all the app icons on my phone trying to figure out why the Star Trek app wasn’t in alphabetical order in the S section, …

Sep 6, 2022: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is brilliant in The Sandman. I need all the Death spin-offs: High Cost of Living, At Death’s Door, all of it. She’s got …

Sep 6, 2022: Every time I call myself “Miss Kimberly” in my head, I immediately correct myself with “Doctor Kimberly.”

Sep 3, 2022: Finished reading: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚 Listened to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis, which I think made it …

Sep 3, 2022: Me, listening to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with my eyes closed: “Is that Harry Groener? It sounds like Harry Groener. opens eyes, …

Sep 2, 2022: There’s been some hard stuff this week, but I also went to the pool and had dinner outside on my gorgeous deck with my gorgeous family and that was …

Sep 2, 2022: 🍿 Watched The Company of Wolves. Peak 80s gothic fantasy with a gorgeous score and the grossest werewolf transformations I’ve ever seen.

Sep 2, 2022: What’s the most fun thing you’ve done in the past 2 years?

Sep 1, 2022: 💬📚 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Aug 31, 2022: Okay, Internet. What’s the best way to D&D remotely?

Aug 31, 2022: I slept for 9 hours instead of 10 last night (what a luxury, I know, believe me that I give up a lot of leisure time to sleep this much and I don’t …

Aug 28, 2022: The Jiminy Cricket or Frog (of Frog and Toadl in my head: “If you do X, the whole week will go more smoothly.” Me: “Nah, I’m gonna try and finish up …

Aug 27, 2022: Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara 📚 Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of almost non-stop trauma, this book was actively …

Aug 26, 2022: Picture of the view from my deck didn’t seem to actually end up attached to the post about working from the deck. Whoops!

Aug 26, 2022: Working on the deck in summer always feels like working in a treehouse.

Aug 25, 2022: Went to apply for passports for myself & M today and the passport person just wasn’t there, didn’t contact the people with appointments to reschedule …

Aug 24, 2022: My legs started getting medically-restless by 4 pm today. I didn’t have caffeine after 2 or so, took a warm bath with epsom salt & essential oil, took …

Aug 24, 2022: Is there space for robust research-practice partnerships in the time of COVID, or are people too tired for this kind of long-term collaboration?

Aug 24, 2022: 💬📚 “It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Aug 24, 2022: 💬📚 “This was not what he thought acting would be, but what had he known about what acting would be?” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Aug 22, 2022: 💬📚 “…he was an optimist. Every month, every week, he chose to open his eyes, to live another day in the world.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Aug 22, 2022: 💬📚 “He felt in those minutes his body’s treason… that he would be betrayed by it again and again, that he could expect nothing from it and yet had to …

Aug 22, 2022: 💬📚 “He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved. - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life That …

Aug 22, 2022: M. styled my jewelry for our morning playdate. The earrings are stylized bats. He was going for “spooky and pretty,” which, as W pointed out, is what …

Aug 21, 2022: I ventured into the world of Duolingo fanfiction looking for Odile/Melissa stories because they’re a very cute couple, but what I found was… Not what …

Aug 18, 2022: I cannot adequately convey how much I appreciate that Duolingo accepts “y’all” as the correct translation of the second person plural.

Aug 18, 2022: 🔖 Read The Big Bang Didn’t Happen. I know very little about cosmology, but this makes some good points about the limits of academic funding and …

Aug 17, 2022: Coburn, C. E., & Penuel, W. R. (2016). Research-practice partnerships in education: Outcomes, dynamics, and open questions. Educational Researcher, …

Aug 17, 2022: It was so overcast yesterday that the moonflowers stayed open all day.

Aug 17, 2022: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Blippi asks. “A law doctor & a father,” M says. “Why do you want to be a law doctor?” I ask. “Basically, I …

Aug 17, 2022: Postdocs are contingent/precarious, yeah?

Aug 16, 2022: Finished reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King 📚 This dude is so prolific and so fun to read. I would like to write things that …

Aug 13, 2022: 🔖 Read A CRITIQUE OF DARK ACADEMIA: THE ROMANTICIZATION OF OVERWORK. Wearing tweed and wandering old bookshops is fine. Denying yourself sleep over an …

Aug 12, 2022: 🔖 Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes. I would venture that slipping on a tailored button-up and …

Aug 10, 2022: Themes have emerged.

Aug 9, 2022: 🔖 Read THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SEXY PRIVILEGE: WHY DO I LOVE DARK ACADEMIA BOOKS? This ownership over dark academia gives me the courage to keep going with …

Aug 8, 2022: 🔖 Read What’s Dark about Dark Academia I think the real power of dark academia is the way it compresses—and thus preserves—humanistic study at a time …

Aug 6, 2022: Today in Pokemon Research Reflects Real Research: an early career researcher didn’t have access to a journal article she wanted to read, she posted …

Aug 5, 2022: Took the Buzzfeed Inner Aesthetic Stranger Things Character quiz & got Will Byers and Cottagecore: “If you haven’t already, you should absolutely …

Aug 5, 2022: Currently reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King 📚

Aug 5, 2022: 💬📚 “…a story’s as much a house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, _Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative _

Aug 5, 2022: 💬📚 “The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

Aug 5, 2022: 💬📚 “As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such behavior …

Aug 5, 2022: 💬📚 “Do not let your self-doubt turn into self-sabotage.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

Aug 5, 2022: I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black bike shorts with lace trim, so hello from 1995, I guess.

Aug 4, 2022: 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 longer lonely. Her right leg is crooked and smaller …

Aug 3, 2022: I’ve got an ARC of The Nap Ministry’s book REST IS RESISTANCE ready for me to download from NetGalley, and will probably take it to the beach with me …

Aug 3, 2022: 💬📚 “Perhaps people who experience the world in ways that are considered atypical have an intuitive feeling for the limits of typicality.” Ed Yong, An …

Aug 3, 2022: 💬📚 “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are …

Aug 3, 2022: 💬📚 “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Aug 2, 2022: Day 2 #TheSealeyChallenge, Leaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions, Walt Whitman 📚 Selected quotes: Eidolons We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build, But really build eidolons. To the States …Resist much, obey little Thou …

Aug 2, 2022: 🔖 📺 Celia Rose Gooding, who does an amazing job playing Cadet Nyota Uhura on Strange New Worlds, wrote a beautiful guest column for The Hollywood …

Aug 1, 2022: 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 think, what if I am stuck like this? What if I never …

Aug 1, 2022: 🍿 Watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was super refreshing to watch a movie that was deliberately, though not ploddingly, paced. This one’s …

Aug 1, 2022: 📚💬 “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have worth in themselves.” - Ed Yong, An Immense World

Aug 1, 2022: I’m devoting the next few weeks to healing and rest, aside from my existing obligations. I release myself from worry about the future, pressure to …

Aug 1, 2022: 📚💬 “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Aug 1, 2022: It’s August, so I’m going to do The Sealey Challenge and plan to read a book of poetry every day this month.

Jul 31, 2022: Finished reading: The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales 📚 …

Jul 29, 2022: Real talk, I skipped the end of #CLS2022 to hang out with my kid and nap and I have no regrets.

Jul 29, 2022: 🔖 Read Rapport or Respect? (Helen Kara). Dr. Kara makes excellent points about how research can seem friendly but be extractive. This is why I prefer …

Jul 28, 2022: I have a lot of hairs that are white at the bottom, black or brown in the middle, and white at the top. These are a useful indicator of changes in my …

Jul 28, 2022: #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 few takeaways and a list of resources/links in …

Jul 28, 2022: I’m taking the 10:30 - 11:30 PST hour off from #CLS2022 so that I can get some quiet time in before facilitating at 12. See y’all soon!

Jul 28, 2022: 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 Core Values: Three Learning Organizations Carrying …

Jul 28, 2022: I can’t liveblog/tweet any of the 12p Pacific sessions at #CLS2022 today because I’m co-facilitating one. If you want to livetweet or blog, I …

Jul 28, 2022: 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 at it sometimes and worked hard on it others, …

Jul 28, 2022: Over the course of #CLS2022, I’ll be adding my liveblogtweets/notes to the Connected Learning page on my website.

Jul 27, 2022: 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 Burnout and Finding Motivation Naomi Thompson: …

Jul 27, 2022: 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 researcher at Google, place of impact with users in …

Jul 27, 2022: 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 it!) and others to bring people together to hack …

Jul 27, 2022: The next panel at #CLS2022 for Rising Scholars is Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing.

Jul 27, 2022: For the next few days, I’ll be liveblogging/tweeting the Connected Learning Summit (#CLS2022) on Twitter and kimberlyhirsh.com via NoterLive. If it …

Jul 27, 2022: 🎵🎭 I’m listening to the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge and I’m really impressed with how well it uses the 20 years’ worth of music between the film’s …

Jul 26, 2022: Want to read: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris 📚

Jul 26, 2022: 📚 In 2008, 8 years before my kid was born, I replied to a Slate article that asked, “do you really want the Hulk teaching your kid to read?” with a …

Jul 25, 2022: I was distracted around Summerween so I’m declaring July 31 Second Summerween.

Jul 25, 2022: “When we are making our art we must bend all of the resources and possibilities to work for us, not the other way around.” -Jami Attenberg in this …

Jul 24, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery: Succession by Kirsten Beyer 📚 I honestly don’t know how anyone is left living in the Terran Empire. Mirror …

Jul 24, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless by Mike Johnson 📚

Jul 22, 2022: I speak Dutch with a Yiddish accent, I can’t help it, it’s in my blooooood. 🇳🇱

Jul 22, 2022: It’s my and Will’s 13th wedding anniversary today. The traditional gift for this anniversary is lace. The modern gift is fur or textiles. I gave him a …

Jul 22, 2022: Dealing with SDCC envy About 7 years ago, Geek and Sundry (RIP) published a post titled HOW TO HAVE A GREAT, GEEKY WEEKEND WHEN YOU’RE NOT GOING TO SDCC. As a chronically …

Jul 21, 2022: Finished reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King 📚 I love the way King has characters reference his own other work. “Like in that book, Carrie!” …

Jul 20, 2022: True facts about my dreams: when I was reading CARRIE and started having dreams related to it, it felt like a relief, a respite from my stress dreams …

Jul 20, 2022: Pro-tip: Stuck in or overwhelmed by your research? Write a memo.

Jul 19, 2022: Thinking about writing a blog post about the alignment of research, especially qualitative research, over the life of a project. We live in a world …

Jul 19, 2022: I was all, “My blog isn’t cross-posting to Twitter! Whyyyy?” but then I saw that I had disabled it cross-posting anywhere. This post is a test to see …

Jul 18, 2022: The Internet is all “Check out the Whimsigoth aesthetic!” and y’all, a better name for it would be dELiA*s-core.

Jul 17, 2022: Currently reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King 📚

Jul 15, 2022: 🔖 Read ‘Lost’ Fans Gave Me a Safe Place on the Internet. Is Such Fandom Possible Now? (Catapult) by Anna Myers

Jul 15, 2022: 🔖 Read Violence Made Me Feel Like I’d Left My Body. Physical Theater Helped Me Return by Lindsey Trout Hughes 🎭

Jul 15, 2022: Birthday selfie from yesterday in my South Square Mall - oops I meant Starcourt Mall - hat.

Jul 15, 2022: Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King 📚 I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside of 24 hours.

Jul 14, 2022: Me: I don’t know what to do! Should I spend the next 45 minutes reading CARRIE or playing METROID? W: I like the 80s, too.

Jul 14, 2022: Posted on my birthday in 2018: Yesterday I found out that my thyroid is out of whack again. I’m trying to remember everything I learned before, not …

Jul 14, 2022: 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 and a whole year of sticking around is huge. 40 has …

Jul 13, 2022: 🔖📝 Read On Writing with Chronic Migraines (Catapult) by Yuvi Zalkow. I really appreciate Zalkow’s metaphors for pain and tiered system for deciding …

Jul 13, 2022: 🔖 Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield. I always love reading what Dr. Stringfield has to …

Jul 13, 2022: 🔖 Read Video Games Are for Everyone—And That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa Capri. Great discussion of where the gaming …

Jul 12, 2022: I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid hormone levels are suboptimal so now that we’re upping one of …

Jul 12, 2022: The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. My birthday’s in 2 days & as I look back at the past …

Jul 11, 2022: Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I tend to feel the answer is more bookshelves.

Jul 10, 2022: Y’all, check out this picture of Gene Roddenberry cosplaying as a Romulan commander from Balance of Terror from Cinefantastique #20 that I found on …

Jul 9, 2022: Me, pitching future research clients: So in this scenario, see, you’re Buffy, and you know there’s fork guy and he’s scared of the substitute teacher …

Jul 8, 2022: I found a picture of myself on Tumblr. Dropping all other descriptors of myself in favor of “Data in an oversized cardigan.” 🖖🏻

Jul 8, 2022: I’m workshopping a new professional tagline because I want to emphasize that I’m a qualitative researcher. First draft: “I use stories to answer …

Jul 7, 2022: Finished Strange New Worlds Season 1. A+. Somebody give Ethan Peck’s eyebrow an Emmy. 🖖🏻📺

Jul 7, 2022: “There’s surviving, and then there’s living.” - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 🖖🏻📺💬

Jul 6, 2022: Sometimes I’ll have a run of bad dreams such that I then fear sleep for a bit.

Jul 5, 2022: On Kimbertide Day 4, I enjoyed an ice cream sandwich. For day 5, I’m playing Metroid: Zero Mission. 🎮

Jul 5, 2022: 👱‍♀️I had a dream last night that Giles a) was real b) was still in his 40s and most importantly, c) owned a really beautiful indie bookstore. I …

Jul 4, 2022: Finished Stranger Things 4 and I love it so much and also will somebody just play D&D with Will already, yeesh. 📺

Jul 4, 2022: Editor Jordan Pavlin says historical fiction “has a unique ability to elicit deep compassion and empathy,” and I can’t help but wonder if that isn’t …

Jul 4, 2022: 🔖 Ben Werdmüller has a different but related, equally valuable, set of insights on what we should be thinking about this Independence Day. 🇺🇸

Jul 4, 2022: It’s a rough time for our democratic republic. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us what it’s supposed to be about. 🇺🇸

Jul 3, 2022: Kimbertide Day 3: Played a little of the new Capcom Fighting Collection 🎮

Jul 2, 2022: Today for Kimbertide, I made banana bread from a Simple Mills mix.

Jul 2, 2022: Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold 📚 The beginnings of woodland goth. I love it, of course.

Jul 1, 2022: For Day 1 of Kimbertide, I celebrated with a special lunch: hardboiled eggs & sweet baby gherkin pickles. I didn’t know this when I made lunch but my …

Jul 1, 2022: It’s the first day of my birthday month! I often extend the celebration beyond the day itself (July 14) and this year I’ve decided to do it all month …

Jun 29, 2022: Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. …

Jun 29, 2022: “…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most …

Jun 28, 2022: Santigold’s Can’t Get Enough of Myself is mental health goals. 🎵

Jun 28, 2022: 🔖 A solution to writer’s block: Transcribe yourself (Austin Kleon) This is a brilliant piece of advice. The 1000+ words of my post about sweetweird …

Jun 27, 2022: Today I swam one pool-length, then water-walked for about 30 minutes. I also packed up 3 boxes of storage stuff to clear out the room we’re going to …

Jun 27, 2022: I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales. It’s got that perfect new paperback …

Jun 24, 2022: Anti-Racism Daily offers actions to take in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Jun 23, 2022: W is reading M a Pokemon manga where a professor invited Ash & Goh to be her research fellows, which they see as great for their careers, and I don’t …

Jun 22, 2022: Currently reading: Borderland 1 by Terri Windling 📚 Continuing my deep dive into woodland goth.

Jun 22, 2022: Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. …

Jun 22, 2022: 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 freewrite, not a carefully structured essay. Some …

Jun 21, 2022: I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification badges on each icon even when there are 0 …

Jun 20, 2022: No YOU’RE looking up contact juggling tutorials on YouTube to send to your spouse.

Jun 17, 2022: In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to …

Jun 17, 2022: A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: focus …

Jun 17, 2022: Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change bookclubs by …

Jun 16, 2022: Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange 📚

Jun 15, 2022: 🔖 Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I freewrote 1100 words today on reading disability in …

Jun 15, 2022: 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 how I do it” and “This is how you should do it.” …

Jun 15, 2022: 🔖 The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full …

Jun 15, 2022: 🔖 Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too. 📝

Jun 14, 2022: Hello, Internet. Please recommend to me your favorite essay collections that combine TV or other pop culture analysis with personal writing. Thank …

Jun 14, 2022: What’s that thing where your brain is like “Even leisure is too much right now”? Whatever it is, it’s happening to me. The thought of crafting or …

Jun 13, 2022: The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. 🖖🏻📺💬 “It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of disabilities.” “Who …

Jun 13, 2022: Hi! Do you struggle with activities of daily living due to executive dysfunction, cognitive overload, or brain fog? I do. Autism Grown Up, a …

Jun 12, 2022: Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan 📚

Jun 12, 2022: Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany 📚

Jun 12, 2022: 🔖 Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for anyone with chronic illness or many other disabilities. …

Jun 11, 2022: Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter 📚 New (well, ~40 …

Jun 10, 2022: Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment.. He quotes Rumi: “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” This is now my overarching goal.

Jun 9, 2022: Goodnight, everybody.

Jun 9, 2022: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too. “I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my writing practice.” Morgan Parker

Jun 9, 2022: Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub 📚

Jun 9, 2022: Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time Tomorrow is going on my TBR because I could use a 1996 …

Jun 8, 2022: I am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.

Jun 7, 2022: I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know that. It’s not you, it’s that I’m a grump at present.

Jun 7, 2022: Currently reading: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter 📚

Jun 7, 2022: Time for a Gothic Charm School re-read. 📚

Jun 7, 2022: On sweetweird and hopepunk 🎙️ 📚📺🍿 Transcript: Hello friends. I wanted to write a blog post about sweetweird and its relationship to hopepunk and other narrative aesthetics, we’ll call …

Jun 6, 2022: How to Make a Star Wars Reference Hello, friends. I want to talk about something from Stranger Things 4 that is brilliantly done. And that’s a Star Wars reference. There are a lot of …

Jun 6, 2022: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer reading: many stories in Angela Carter’s THE BLOODY CHAMBER. So good. 📚

Jun 4, 2022: Google Keep is my notetaking app of choice, which makes me a bit of a rarity, but if you use it and would like it to be more helpful or if you’re …

Jun 4, 2022: If you’re looking for a writing community, check out Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer. I’m prioritizing reading. Today: Kelly Link’s Intro to The …

Jun 3, 2022: Finished reading: War for the Oaks: A Novel by Emma Bull 📚 Rock music + fey = delightful.

Jun 3, 2022: Today’s outfit: LGBTQ Center of Durham Rainbow Bull Shirt, popsicle shorts from Torrid.

Jun 3, 2022: If you enjoyed the Chapel/Ortegas dynamic in this week’s SNW, there are [21 works tagged with their relationship] …

Jun 3, 2022: “It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 1x05, “Spock Amok” 🖖🏻📺💬

Jun 2, 2022: It’s hot out. I’m tired. I had a call with my doctor this morning. She’s giving me gabapentin for pain. I’m so glad because 900mg magnesium orally + …

Jun 2, 2022: Current phone screen. (Yesterday, W to me: “Look at all these old pictures of Jennifer Connelly.” Me: “Oh yeah, I had those saved on my computer in …

Jun 2, 2022: Gonna start doing outfit of the day posts as often as I feel like it. The shirt says “What’s more punk than the public library?” You can buy one from …

Jun 1, 2022: Woodland. Goth.

Jun 1, 2022: I am all in on Woodland Goth, y’all.

Jun 1, 2022: I feel like the captioners for Stranger Things (who are doing an awesome job describing the music) should Google any place name on the show followed …

May 31, 2022: “You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I see or hear is …

May 31, 2022: I made a book! The fic is Mischief Managed by touchedglitter (who is me). This is pamphlet bound. The big thing I learned was that I need a better …

May 31, 2022: Just followed some Trek fan Micro.bloggers from yesterday’s roll call. I’m current on new shows & doing a rewatch of TNG. Happy to offer advice on …

May 30, 2022: In Star Trek: TNG, S5E11, “Hero Worship,” a kid asks Data what he thinks of a model the kid built. When Data expresses his aesthetic assessment the …

May 29, 2022: Your girl’s over here finding old Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction listed on Fanlore but not linked anywhere and digging it up in the Google …

May 28, 2022: “…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind of political writing that I am most interested in reading.” …

May 27, 2022: 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 @PhoebeJournal today. This one means a lot to me - …

May 27, 2022: How do none of the early results in a Google Images search for Star Trek Bingo have something like “mysterious pathogen takes down whole crew” on …

May 27, 2022: Mood update: the leaden feeling in my heart has been joined by a similar feeling in my stomach.

May 26, 2022: “As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” “The enemy doesn’t care about my feelings, Captain, …

May 26, 2022: The Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a really useful letter template for writing to congresspeople.

May 26, 2022: I don’t have the oomph to discuss this at length but my dad wrote a good journal entry for CaringBridge about the most recent impact of chemo on my …

May 25, 2022: I can’t neglect the world & focus on my child, because my child is in & of the world. I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of existential threats he …

May 25, 2022: Self-soothing by typesetting my 9 year old New Girl fanfic and it actually looks like a book.

May 25, 2022: The world is very dismal and I am heartbroken, but my husband is on a meeting talking to people about how he was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream twice. I …

May 24, 2022: Me “well actually"ing last week’s Fansplaining in the car on the way to pick my kid up: “But Elizabeth the ‘In sleep he sang to me’ part is really …

May 24, 2022: I have extreme MCU fatigue so I’m only going to watch the stuff clearly and closely inspired by comics I’ve actually read and enjoyed. 🍿📺🗯️

May 23, 2022: Not me putting a Lizzie Bennet Diaries gif in a work presentation. Nope.

May 22, 2022: I love a good slice-of-life story but the constant interruptions to Worf’s work once his son Alexander boards the Enterprise in the episode “New …

May 21, 2022: Apparently crows can do metacognition.

May 20, 2022: Symposium’s over, it’s 90F outside. Time for a wardrobe change! [Image description: A white woman with dark hair wears a black tank top with the …

May 20, 2022: Want to read: The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom by Jessa Lingel 📚

May 20, 2022: 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 #FanLIS2022 chat so I wanted to go through and respond …

May 20, 2022: So far my favorite outcome of #FanLIS2022 is another attendee asking me if I’m sure I’m not Caitlin Doughty.

May 20, 2022: 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 reboot later. Dr Suzanne Black: has been joined by a …

May 19, 2022: 🔖 Read Durham GOP’s “Better Board, Better Schools” candidate slate is soundly defeated. What a relief.

May 19, 2022: Week 3 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds and there are already 189 works on AO3. Looking forward to discovering new favorite creators. 🖖🏻

May 19, 2022: There are a lot of great things about attending a conference from home. Still, it’s a bit sad not to be able to go hide in a hotel room and let all …

May 19, 2022: Definitely just brainstormed the paper title “Screw General Order One: Representing Positionality as an Insider When Doing Fan Studies Research.” …

May 19, 2022: Missed a huge chunk of the current #FanLIS2022 paper due to Zoom crash & also lost my NoterLive log because I didn’t think to post it before …

May 19, 2022: A squirrel is trying to break into my house.

May 19, 2022: Gonna be live-posting #FanLIS2022 today & tomorrow. Will transition to LiveNoter in an hour and a half but posting through Micro.blog until I’m done …

May 18, 2022: 🔖🖖📺 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 agree with Smith’s assessment of Discovery. Each …

May 18, 2022: I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, and blog posts on this topic. I have so much more …

May 18, 2022: 🔖 Read How I Build My Common Place Book 🔖 Read How I Build My Common Place Book (Greg McVerry) McVerry generously summarizes his workflow: Document impetus of thought (often after the fact) …

May 17, 2022: 🔖 Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe “she said she often distrusts that other people …

May 17, 2022: Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to re-read this 2018 blog post in which I calculated that …

May 16, 2022: Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a hybrid of fey imagery, Glam Rock glitter, and the lighter side of …

May 16, 2022: Pool’s open!

May 15, 2022: 🔖 Read Why I Blog Part 1 and Part 2 (Kyle Mathews).

May 14, 2022: 🔖💻 Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).

May 14, 2022: 🔖💻 Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).

May 14, 2022: 🔖💻 Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).

May 14, 2022: 🔖💻 Read revisiting architectural blogging (Alan Jacobs).

May 14, 2022: 🔖💻 Read Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick (Tom Critchlow). I like this homesteading metaphor. Neither gardens nor streams quite work for what …

May 14, 2022: Voting selfie!

May 14, 2022: 🔖💻 Read Why blog? (Chuck Grimmett). Well said. These are my reasons, too.

May 14, 2022: I love Discovery and I’ve enjoyed Picard and Prodigy, but Strange New Worlds feels like nostalgic Trek in a way that of the new shows, only Lower …

May 14, 2022: As always, The Trans Advice column is helpful. The latest: Should cis folks use gender neutral pronouns? Your pronouns shouldn’t be some sort of …

May 13, 2022: 🔖Raising Us Wrecked Her Career But My Mom’s Thriving In Her Second Act romper.com Read: www.romper.com romper.com …

May 13, 2022: 🔖📚 Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? | The New Yorker newyorker.com Read: www.newyorker.com newyorker.com …

May 13, 2022: 🔖📚 “This is the Book I’m Meant to Write Right Now” sarafredman.substack.com Read: sarafredman.substack.com sarafredman.substack.com …

May 13, 2022: 🔖📚 Angela Garbes Is Reclaiming Realistic Motherhood thecut.com Read: www.thecut.com thecut.com …

May 12, 2022: 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 this: 9 00:00:36.900 –> 00:00:40.560 Kimberly Hirsh …

May 12, 2022: It’s a rough time right now so I’m trying to notice small joys and one of today’s is that I learned how to use regular expressions in advanced text …

May 12, 2022: I just wrote the beginning of a fiction story after being inspired by Amanda Cook’s “Weaving Serenity” in issue 1 of @wyngraf. I also found a writing …

May 11, 2022: 📚 I joined Austin Kleon’s Read Like an Artist book club today and am also going to read his past choices. I’m starting with a re-read of Jenny Odell’s …

May 11, 2022: 🎙️ I listened to the first episode of A Beautiful Anarchy on my way to pick up the kid. It was about imposter syndrome. There were some really …

May 11, 2022: 🔖 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 latest issue - italics are emphasis from the …

May 11, 2022: 🔖📚 Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice applies to academics, too, and probably any field. “No one …

May 11, 2022: “…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and marvel at the wonder of it all?” Natasha Inwood, “The Road to …

May 10, 2022: If I took a day off every day that I felt sick I would almost never work. Chronic illness is not my fave.

May 9, 2022: It’s a work in progress, but I’m curating a woodland goth playlist. I recommend playing on shuffle. 🎵

May 9, 2022: Oh hey, I should probably share that my husband Will is a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar. Very proud of him & super psyched to take this opportunity both …

May 9, 2022: “Other people are… challenging for me.” La’an is the new Data, pass it on. #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW 🖖🏻

May 8, 2022: Screw General Order 1? SCREW GENERAL ORDER 1?! 😍 #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW 🖖🏻📺

May 8, 2022: I hope everyone who had to mother their own mother is doing something fun today. 9-year-old Kimberly salutes you.

May 8, 2022: Today I wish you nurturing love and bodily self-determination, extra if you have a uterus.

May 8, 2022: Finished reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques 📚 Cozy fantasy, just what I need right now. Two quotes that stood out for me: “Many …

May 7, 2022: Now I’m only halfway through the Strange New Worlds pilot but the Kilean makeup looks to me nearly identical to vampires on BtVS. 🖖🏻📺

May 7, 2022: I just took the IPIP Big Five Factor Marker test. According to the results, I’m intellectual/imaginative af, pretty outgoing, friendly, and …

May 7, 2022: Anybody else assume based on TNG that Picard & Guinan had a friends with benefits situation? 🖖🏻

May 7, 2022: 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 illness, or the world. I can’t clearly identify …

May 6, 2022: Who has two thumbs and is doing Reader’s Advisory for fun? 👍🏻👍🏻 This Kimberly.

May 6, 2022: Usually Spotify Autoplay makes me grouchy but it turns out when I listen to goth music it suggests more goth music so I’m very happy with its current …

May 6, 2022: 🔖📚 Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian. Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.

May 5, 2022: Traumatic previously aside, the Picard finale made me very happy. 🖖🏻📺

May 4, 2022: Here is a Google Document with links to abortion funds. It was created by @helmsinki on Twitter. I donated in my home state, NC, as well as in TN, …

May 4, 2022: “Although I did extremely well scholastically, my lack of human understanding often created social obstacles.” Data on his first year at Starfleet …

May 3, 2022: The theatre-major-to-youth-services-librarian pipeline.

May 2, 2022: I’m supposed to be sleeping but I just learned about the Woodland goth aesthetic. Dark mori style + goth music = the Frouds? Yes please.

May 1, 2022: Currently reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques 📚

May 1, 2022: Currently reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper 📚

May 1, 2022: Currently reading: How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front Book 3) by Marc Bousquet 📚

May 1, 2022: Breaking out Crystal Bar Soap’s Moonlit Harbor to support this Cancer Sun woman through some intense eldest daughtering.

May 1, 2022: Dr. Crusher’s plans for a community theater production of Pirates of Penzance in TNG episode 5x05 delight me. 🖖🏻

Apr 30, 2022: I’m going full 90s with my personal style and nothing can stop me. And I mean what I, now middle-aged, actually wore in the 90s, not the modern …

Apr 30, 2022: My spring/summer silhouette: oversized t-shirt + biker shorts. It gets hot in NC, y’all.

Apr 30, 2022: I’m having the kind of day where you wish you could take your heart out of your chest and just set it in a little box for a while, because the two of …

Apr 30, 2022: I have no chance at Heardle but if someone made Broadweardle I might do well.

Apr 29, 2022: Finished reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚 Recommended. Full review coming in June.

Apr 28, 2022: I’m having a really hard time processing this week’s episode of Picard, for personal reasons. One thing I will say, though, is they could use this to …

Apr 28, 2022: I’m correcting a Zoom Live Transcription transcript and while it’s a lot faster than transcribing it myself, it’s still a lot slower than I’d like.

Apr 28, 2022: Today I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black leggings with a run in the left knee. I think 1996 Kimberly would be really happy with who …

Apr 26, 2022: In case anyone was curious as to whether my personal style has changed in the last 25 years, I was devastated that this green lace dress at the thrift …

Apr 26, 2022: Now is as good a time as any to revisit Vicki Boykis’s essay, Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people.

Apr 25, 2022: Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

Apr 25, 2022: Micro.blog is a free social network if you blog elsewhere and plug in a feed. It can also host your blog/website for $5/mo. For $10/mo, it will host …

Apr 25, 2022: 🔖 Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate …

Apr 25, 2022: Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out to wherever else people end up. This is the …

Apr 23, 2022: Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare 📚 Review soon. On the All About Romance sensuality levels scale, this is Hot approaching Burning. …

Apr 23, 2022: Baby’s first fanfic. Image description: On the title page of a homemade book, “HAO TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGIN BOOK OF DAGINS” is scrawled in brown pencil. …

Apr 22, 2022: W reading a scene to M about a girl doing the school play & it’s The Wizard of Oz: The teacher held up the script. Me: No no, Wizard of Oz is …

Apr 22, 2022: You can take the librarian out of the library, but I’m wearing a cardigan over another cardigan.

Apr 22, 2022: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno 📚

Apr 22, 2022: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno 📚

Apr 21, 2022: 🔖 Read Review: A riveting biographer — and mother — works to solve ‘the mind-baby problem’.

Apr 21, 2022: It’s out! The latest issue of Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative mothers!

Apr 21, 2022: 🔖 Read Cranking.

Apr 21, 2022: 🔖 Read The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal productivity, what it’s good for and what it isn’t. This …

Apr 21, 2022: 🔖 Read Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the “Braided Essay” |. What’s Steven Hotdog to me, or I to Steven Hotdog, that I should weep for him? Ever …

Apr 21, 2022: Me, to myself: I can’t be everyone at once. Me: OR CAN I?

Apr 21, 2022: 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, with my committee cosplaying and my friends and …

Apr 21, 2022: Today I’m reviving my newsletter Genetrix, curating stories of creative mothers. The upcoming issue includes links to 15 articles & 1 artist website. …

Apr 21, 2022: I didn’t even notice the one year anniversary of my dissertation defense (4/14) but I realized today that I’ve been a doctor (of philosophy) for a …

Apr 21, 2022: Okay whose idea was it to only have turbolifts on starships because people would be less likely to be trapped if there were also ramps or something.

Apr 20, 2022: Why Is My Child Still Awake? The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Apr 20, 2022: 🔖 Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible. I love pieces like this. Getting a book holder changed my reading life.

Apr 20, 2022: So I’m delighted by the premise of Is It Cake? but it really feels like a parody reality show from 30 Rock.

Apr 20, 2022: 🔖 Read Should you ever NOT listen to user feedback?. I’m exploring the possibility of a career in UX research & reading this article showed me that …

Apr 20, 2022: I know you’re not supposed to share your morning pages but in mine today I wrote “It’s time to develop a writing practice that fits my life instead of …

Apr 20, 2022: Want to read: Overdue by Amanda Oliver 📚

Apr 20, 2022: 🔖Read Being a Public Librarian Can Be Dangerous Work, Why Don’t We Acknowledge That? - Electric Literature Libraries are resolutely radical …

Apr 19, 2022: It’s really weird to have been the precocious teen on the Internet 25 years ago and be the old person in the writer academia Discord server now.

Apr 19, 2022: In other news, Season 5 of TNG is stacked with memorable episodes. Darmok. Silicon Avatar. The Game. Ethics. The Innermost Light. Time’s Arrow. 🖖🏻📺

Apr 19, 2022: Yesterday I helped my parents sort out the logistics of making the house more accessible for my mom when she’s using mobility aids. A few hours later …

Apr 19, 2022: Anybody interested in becoming a Sesame Street librarian?

Apr 18, 2022: Me, thinking about the logistics of attending my sister’s Master’s hooding: I mean, how many times does your sister finish graduate school? wait for …

Apr 17, 2022: I would like to thank the fine people at Nintendo of America for making the Easter Bunny’s job much easier this year. M: Did you get me the toys and …

Apr 17, 2022: My kid, raised in a mostly secular witchy agnostic home but with a vague understanding of holiday stories, after I explain that the Pharisees in Jesus …

Apr 15, 2022: My closest friends are now the crow who hangs out in my yard and the moon. Also, I received a shipment of crystal-infused bath products today so… Not …

Apr 15, 2022: 🔖🎵🎭🍿 Read Judas Christ Superstar: Easter thoughts on being just (Reader) by Katie Prout. This piece is excellent. JCS is an extremely important show …

Apr 15, 2022: Spouse: So, how do I write up a plan for this research project? Me: Step 1. Get a PhD. Just kidding! Read this one chapter - whoops, all of part II - …

Apr 14, 2022: 🖖🏻📺 This /Film review of #StarTrekPicard 2x07 verbalizes something that’s bothered me all season: “Picard” has invented trauma for the character, just …

Apr 14, 2022: 📺 Blippi is like if someone fed Mr. Rogers several thousand Pixy Stix.

Apr 14, 2022: 🖖🏻📺 I’m not trying to spoil anybody for #StarTrekPicard but I would squee if we saw Mulder & Scully in the next episode. It won’t happen, but let me …

Apr 14, 2022: Me: I don’t remember how to do a remote research interview! It’s been almost two years! Also me: I wrote a blog post to help people remember how to do …

Apr 14, 2022: 📚 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 books were sexy and full of pop culture references? …

Apr 14, 2022: Finished reading: The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond 📚 Review coming soon!

Apr 13, 2022: 🔖 Read Projects: The Alastair Method. Alastair Johnston has created a Kanban-like tracking system for the Bullet Journal that I may modify for use as …

Apr 13, 2022: Ethnographers, what are some of your favorite ways to ease a participant into an interview?

Apr 13, 2022: First iced chai of the season.

Apr 12, 2022: Brent Spiner is killing it on Picard. 🖖🏻📺

Apr 12, 2022: My mom went to the hospital Saturday due to muscle weakness. (Previous surprise visits involved myocardial infarction & colitis, plus a bonus …

Apr 12, 2022: 🔖 Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) by Katy Peplin Such a helpful perspective.

Apr 12, 2022: 🍿 Watched Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis. 🌊 This shows some awesome innovations in water conservation from people all over the …

Apr 12, 2022: Want to read: The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time by Mark Nelson PhD 📚

Apr 12, 2022: Want to read: Water 4.0 by David Sedlak 📚

Apr 11, 2022: Another super informal poll! If you are a scholar, regardless of your relationship ship to academia (student/university employee/working outside …

Apr 11, 2022: Hi there! This morning the outdoor temperature is 44F. When I pick my kid up at 3 pm it will be 80F. Welcome to central North Carolina!

Apr 10, 2022: I’m curious: if you are currently or have ever been in a graduate program, are you familiar with the concept of “personal knowledge management”?

Apr 10, 2022: 🔖 Read Plan to rewrite NC teacher licensing could also raise pay, but it’s too early to say Educators, what do you think? I’m not sure about the …

Apr 10, 2022: According to this blog post, some of the core concepts of Learning Experience Design include: human-centered design constructive alignment learning …

Apr 9, 2022: Notes from the LX2017 magazine As you may have noticed, I’m reading up on Learning Experience Design. LXCON 2017 resulted in a beautiful magazine. I highlighted this bit: To reach a …

Apr 9, 2022: Feeling this.

Apr 9, 2022: 🔖 Read Dirty hands do all the thinking in LXD (LXD.org) by Patrick van der Bogt.

Apr 9, 2022: 🔖 Read The incredible power of paper prototyping (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.

Apr 9, 2022: 🔖 Read Learning Experience Design vs Instructional Design (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.

Apr 9, 2022: 🔖 Read Four Ingredients for a Memorable Learning Experience (LXD.org) by Rodrigo J. Gallego Studying up on Learning Experience Design & Research. …

Apr 8, 2022: Eventually I will get so annoyed with websites that are not responsive that I’ll start cold-quoting companies offering to fix that for them.

Apr 8, 2022: Took the Be Bright Studios Brand Quiz & it says mine is a “Generous Knowledge” brand which, yes.

Apr 8, 2022: Super informal survey but hey library workers, what would a professional organization that worked for YOU look like?

Apr 8, 2022: Chatting with Casey about D&D this morning and I’m thinking about constructivist pedagogy and how the DM can create a gradual release of …

Apr 7, 2022: I’ve been feeling a need for increased witch vibes, so I slipped this pink agate in my pocket and drew a card from Visions in the Liminal Space this …

Apr 6, 2022: Having big feelings because my favorite witch store’s owner moved away, even though the store has been online-only for a couple of years & I hadn’t …

Apr 6, 2022: Sat on my foot and now it’s numb, really missing AIMs circa 2002 from Kelly O’Shea reminding me not to do this.

Apr 6, 2022: Bless the people who create prefilled Easter baskets because this mom who usually loves filling her kid’s basket does NOT have the bandwidth this …

Apr 6, 2022: Gonna write a romance where one love interest has Hashimoto’s and has to bail on a date due to low spoons & the other love interest is like, “Cool, …

Apr 5, 2022: If high-risk people have to be individually responsible for mitigating their risk, employers should be expected to treat risk mitigation as a …

Apr 5, 2022: I really am amazed that as an autoimmune Kimberly I used to just let people breathe all over me.

Apr 5, 2022: 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 to try and adopt somebody else’s from scratch. …

Apr 5, 2022: I’m Kimberly and today I just don’t feel like doing it, where it = anything.

Apr 4, 2022: One last merch design for today: I PhDID IT!

Apr 4, 2022: I made a new t-shirt/merch design: Stick a Fork in Me - I’m PhDone.

Apr 4, 2022: 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 doing a PhD, yay you! I have some advice for things …

Apr 3, 2022: New oversized graphic tee!

Apr 3, 2022: Me, watching #StarTrek: Picard 🖖🏻: Whoa, do they think 3D printers will be that fast in 2024?

Apr 2, 2022: Two true things about my brother @MicahHirsh: he’s an animator and he’s autistic. For Autism Acceptance Month, I’m going to share some of my favorites …

Apr 2, 2022: Yesterday, I told Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal that she should take the good idea she couldn’t do now and do it later. Today, I made DO IT LATER merch.

Apr 2, 2022: Registration for #FanLIS2022 is open! If you’re interested in fan studies in library and information science (#FanLIS), be sure to check out this …

Apr 1, 2022: Hello world. Please mark the wonderfulness of my spouse who, when my kid wanted to go find the neighbors & play after we’d been out all day with …

Apr 1, 2022: Today’s the day it’s best to ignore the internet, so byeeee.

Mar 30, 2022: I have brain fog today. I do not know why I have brain fog today. I’m going to blame hormones. 🧠🌫

Mar 29, 2022: 🎭🎵 Spending my Tues night building an audition repertoire, as one does. The Party’s Over A Trip to the Library Another Hundred People Astonishing …

Mar 28, 2022: 🔖 Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow. A couple key quotes: Start acting like every idea you come across or come up with has the …

Mar 28, 2022: 🔖 Read The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps.

Mar 28, 2022: 🔖 Read One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email.

Mar 27, 2022: 🍿🎭🎵 Watched Anything Goes. Sutton Foster is my hero. Wish I could get to NYC to see her in The Music Man. Everybody in this production was great. I …

Mar 27, 2022: I appreciate the implication from Star Trek: Picard that our timeline is the horrible timeline Q created. 🖖🏻📺

Mar 25, 2022: Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?” by Susan Basalla 📚

Mar 25, 2022: This pandemy has not lessened my misanthropy. Today I got very annoyed that another family was in the Museum of Life and Science bathroom (a large …

Mar 25, 2022: 🔖🎭 Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes. This resonated with me more than anything else …

Mar 25, 2022: 🔖🎵 Read “The Queerest of the Queer”: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko Stratis. I enjoy Garbage so much and I appreciate this …

Mar 24, 2022: 🔖 Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs A good read; not nearly …

Mar 24, 2022: 🔖♿ Read Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith. Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of …

Mar 24, 2022: 📝 The programme for #FanLIS 2022 is live! I’ll be sharing my dissertation research on Friday, May 20. I’ll let you know when registration opens. If …

Mar 24, 2022: 🔖📚 Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks gender …

Mar 23, 2022: 🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote

Mar 23, 2022: 🔖 Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen CW: Racism, rape A beautiful meditation on one person’s relationship …

Mar 23, 2022: I have renewed and revitalized respect for sociologists after trying to quickly understand the sociology of space. Your theories seem impenetrable and …

Mar 23, 2022: 🔖 Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) by Chiara di Lello

Mar 23, 2022: 🔖 Read The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal It breaks my heart when adults won’t figure out …

Mar 23, 2022: 🔖 Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman. A beautiful, heartbreaking short story told in the form of a text adventure.

Mar 23, 2022: 🔖 Read The Coronavirus’s Next Move (The Atlantic) by Katherine J. Wu.

Mar 22, 2022: 🔖 Read The Girlboss Has Left the Building.

Mar 22, 2022: 🔖📺 Read The Comedies That Understand What Peak Scammer TV Does Not.

Mar 22, 2022: Hi scholars. Can you point me to a scholarly definition of “space” that would encompass space broadly constituted, including physical space, …

Mar 22, 2022: 🔖Read The Ukraine Crisis Briefly Put America’s Culture War in Perspective.

Mar 22, 2022: 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 Literacy Through Autonomy and Guidance in the Inquiry …

Mar 22, 2022: 🔖🎮 Read Inside the fight to save video game history. Great intro to the copyright issues at play in the conflict between game companies and museums & …

Mar 21, 2022: Finished reading: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore 📚 Cashore’s GRACELING was the book that fixed me after THE NAME OF THE WIND broke me (because I love …

Mar 21, 2022: 🔖 Read COVID Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.

Mar 21, 2022: 🔖📚 Read “The Invisible Kingdom” Shines a Light on Women’s Chronic Pain. Another great interview with Meghan O’Rourke. Here are some quotes that stood …

Mar 21, 2022: 🔖 Read Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?. Another great piece with an argument centered on the importance of information literacy.

Mar 21, 2022: 🔖 Read How Gullibility Became Our New Normal. I love when information literacy pops up in popular publications like this. These pieces can be models …

Mar 21, 2022: 🔖📚 Read Back Draft: Meghan O’Rourke. O’Rourke’s making the rounds to promote her new book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness which I …

Mar 18, 2022: It’s good to have a statement that sums up what you do, writ large, that isn’t just a job title. And thanks to influences including Star Trek: Picard, …

Mar 18, 2022: 🔖 Read How to Be A Successful Multipassionate Entrepreneur.

Mar 18, 2022: 🔖 Read 5 Ways to Thrive as a Multipassionate Entrepreneur “Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.” Whoa, I needed to read that.

Mar 18, 2022: 🔖 I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and struggling to track it down in searches so now that I’ve succeeded …

Mar 18, 2022: Reading the schedule for GIFCon and my breath caught and I teared up a little at Kat Humphries’s paper title, “What’s this cheery singing all about?”: …

Mar 18, 2022: 🔖 Read Academic Waste. 🎓

Mar 17, 2022: 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 Patrick’s Day. I think most of my affection for it …

Mar 17, 2022: I added a Shop page to my website! Right now all that’s there are my Notion templates (all pay what you can, $0+). In the future I hope to add a Books …

Mar 17, 2022: I’m thinking about adding an Ask Me Anything’s page to my blog. But I also might just sometimes make a post soliciting questions. What questions do …

Mar 16, 2022: Colored a page from Dover Coloring Book Fairy Fashion by Scott Altmann. I’m using jumbo crayons so I don’t get hand cramps. Coloreds this Canadian …

Mar 16, 2022: Shang-Chi is all “1996” and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing how those aren’t synonyms.

Mar 15, 2022: Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang 📚

Mar 15, 2022: I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 and nothing will convince me otherwise.

Mar 15, 2022: 🍿 Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and our parents’ expectations, and the way these …

Mar 15, 2022: Added “A very enterprising, mildly annoying young lady” to my bio. Thanks, #TurningRed!

Mar 15, 2022: Wordle Walkthrough - 03/14/2022 As promised, here’s a walkthrough of my thought process for playing Wordle. This is the game for 03/14/2022. I begin most games with the word ATONE. …

Mar 15, 2022: 🔖 Read Storytelling and the Craft of Quiltmaking. 🧵

Mar 14, 2022: I like to ask from time to time and I haven’t in a while: what’s my brand?

Mar 14, 2022: Whoever wrote that thing about how 13 yos don’t write fanfic has everybody on Twitter talking about their Sailor Moon fanfic. I wrote mine (the …

Mar 14, 2022: Want to read: Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss 📚

Mar 14, 2022: The Klein Librarian for Science Fiction at UC Riverside sounds like a pretty cool job.

Mar 13, 2022: 🍿 Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga because it was nominated for a Hugo. I had a lot of fun with it. I like this kind of gentle …

Mar 13, 2022: Finished reading: How to Make a Living with Your Writing Third Edition by Joanna Penn 📚 Great advice on creating multiple income streams as a writer. …

Mar 11, 2022: 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% of the time, 3 or fewer 32% of the time. I wanted …

Mar 11, 2022: We are at DEFCON Falling Asleep to Mr. Rogers.

Mar 10, 2022: Will the giant invasive ballooning spiders eat the mosquitos in my yard? If so, I don’t welcome like ALL of them but you know, a couple would be okay. …

Mar 10, 2022: In case you’re wondering where my head is at, I spilled the PCR testing solution while trying to test my kid, had to ask the pharmacy tech for a new …

Mar 9, 2022: I changed my goal for April’s Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal now is to publish 22,500 words on my blog over the course of the month. I’ve changed my username …

Mar 9, 2022: Finished reading: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore 📚 So great. Cashore gets five genres in this book and each one is a delight.

Mar 9, 2022: Pro-tip: brains work better when you feed them.

Mar 7, 2022: Finished reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum 📚

Mar 6, 2022: My kid’s school is going mask-optional indoors in April and now I don’t know if I’m going to sleep any time soon because I’m freaking out. I’m freaked …

Mar 6, 2022: Hello, world. Got any cool qualitative UX researcher friends you can connect me with? I’d love to learn more about this career (especially in ed tech, …

Mar 6, 2022: Me: Let’s see who among my LinkedIn connections has qualitative research in their profile. Maybe I can eyeball their jobs and see what might be worth …

Mar 5, 2022: I ran the introductory adventure for Hero Kids for M & W. It was a lot of fun and now I’m very tired. 🎲

Mar 4, 2022: I’m at that point in a documentation/literature review where you have to just let stuff roll around in your brain and while it IS productive, it …

Mar 4, 2022: I can’t tell if the locus of origin of my current inability to focus is in my body, in The World, or shared between them.

Mar 4, 2022: What?! Kristin Cashore just had a character in Jane, Unlimited share my one strong Doctor Who opinion! “Nobody likes Martha Jones but I like Martha …

Mar 4, 2022: 💬📚 “A storm can be a cozy thing when one isn’t in it.” - Kristin Cashore in Jane, Unlimited

Mar 4, 2022: 💬📺🖖🏻 “Exhilaration enhances the absorption of knowledge.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer” [Cool how this sums up my whole deal.]

Mar 4, 2022: 💬📺🖖🏻 “The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer”

Mar 2, 2022: I played a LOT of the Pokemon TCG in my freshman year of college, burned a lot of scholarship money on it. When I stored it away I wasn’t planning to …

Mar 2, 2022: If you must get a flat tire, I recommend doing it on a beautiful day when you have snacks packed in the car and plenty of data on your mobile plan so …

Mar 2, 2022: Me, reading Jane, Unlimited: Wait, wait, wait. Her aunt/guardian was an adjunct at this fancy private university and she got the child-of-faculty …

Mar 1, 2022: I let a tiny bit of crying come out at 3 am Monday morning and now all the crying I haven’t done in the past 2 years is trying to push its way …

Mar 1, 2022: Oof. Doing a second round of coding and I am R-U-S-T-Y rusty.

Feb 28, 2022: How do you handle a day when your brain isn’t doing a great job but you also don’t really want to nap because you will feel logie afterwards and …

Feb 28, 2022: Hey, Kimberly. You actually are not in a good position right now to do an in-depth analysis of every mention or example of social science in the Star …

Feb 28, 2022: 🔖 Read It’s Called Acting: Learning to Fight for the Stage. 🎭

Feb 28, 2022: 🔖 Read Network sitcoms are actually good again. 📺

Feb 26, 2022: 🍿 Watched Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe and I definitely cried twice because I’m a big sister and there were some beautiful …

Feb 25, 2022: 🔖 Read Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of ‘endemic delusion’ “I don’t particularly want to be in a future where I get COVID …

Feb 25, 2022: It can feel like Social Science Communication isn’t a thing, but here are some people doing it: Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Dr. Zeynep Tufecki Dr. …

Feb 25, 2022: 🔖 Loved reading what Kathy Tabbutt had to say about Social Science Communication in the January 23 Fancy Comma newsletter. I’ve been thinking through …

Feb 25, 2022: 🔖 Read Curing Coronavirus Isn’t a Job for Social Scientists. (This article is from May 2020, which is probably why it has the word “curing” in the …

Feb 25, 2022: 🔖 Read Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?.

Feb 25, 2022: It IS great news that’s my mom’s leukemia is in remission. It’s important to me to remember that there is a long road ahead, with monthly inpatient …

Feb 25, 2022: My mom’s leukemia is in remission.

Feb 24, 2022: Please listen to Gaslit Nation, where Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa “take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, …

Feb 24, 2022: I am scared and overwhelmed. Here’s what I’m doing about it: Making sure I take my meds and supplements Reading and following the Gaslit Nation Action …

Feb 23, 2022: Working through Project READY and I wrote an “I am” poem [PDF]. I don’t want to share the whole thing but in case you’re wondering how I define …

Feb 23, 2022: That feeling when your new job pays you to work through the professional development curriculum you created as part of your old job.

Feb 23, 2022: 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 so. The routines I put in place to help me cope in …

Feb 22, 2022: Not sure what my dream casting for most of the roles in Ninth House would be, but @may_wise Mary Wiseman for Pamela Dawes please, okay bye.

Feb 21, 2022: I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words & eliminating irrelevant words & ended up with this word …

Feb 21, 2022: 🔖 Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries. This. The lifting of mask mandates. The expansion of what counts as …

Feb 21, 2022: Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚 So good. It puts the academia in dark academia.

Feb 20, 2022: No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.

Feb 20, 2022: I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I should qualify the question with aside from …

Feb 20, 2022: Scene: Today’s Micro.blog Meetup Them: I have writer’s block and was hoping to get ideas for how to bust through it. Me: Let me tell you about my TNG …

Feb 20, 2022: 🔖 Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture This is so cool and the pictures are phenomenal.

Feb 20, 2022: Me: I was so psyched about the topic and methods of my dissertation when I defended my proposal in February 2020, but I find it hard to get psyched …

Feb 19, 2022: I’m RSVPing to IndieWeb Create Day on March 5, 2022. This might show up as a yes but it’s actually a maybe.

Feb 18, 2022: Me to W: I need to go be in the dark and quiet for a little while now because I’m overstimulated. There were so many people outside when M was …

Feb 17, 2022: I am thisclose to posting a vibe shift reading list.

Feb 16, 2022: I have too many chronic conditions and I don’t like it.

Feb 16, 2022: 🔖 Read The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo …people are still dying, and immunocompromised people disproportionately so. Ignoring that sends …

Feb 16, 2022: 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 about the skills I was building in middle school …

Feb 16, 2022: I just heard my neck crack. I am really over everything. Everything except crafting and my job. And loving my kid. I guess I’m over stuff that I’m not …

Feb 16, 2022: Today’s vibe: driving home from my fasting bloodwork appointment listening to “Surface Pressure” on repeat-1 while basically inhaling a Panera …

Feb 16, 2022: I get annoyed at the voice in my head that, when I’m stressed, offers an oh-so-helpful list of all the stress-relieving things I’m not doing, implying …

Feb 16, 2022: 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 never be a time when I’m not a caregiver and that …

Feb 15, 2022: 💻 Watching We Are NOT Okay: Library Worker Trauma Before and During COVID-19 and What Happens After #LibraryTrauma #WeAreNotOkay #LibraryLove

Feb 15, 2022: I’m intrigued by the pedagogy of uncertainty concept that Ronnie Videla-Reyes and Claudio Aguayo will introduce at this week’s SoTEL Symposium. “…the …

Feb 15, 2022: As we approach the spring of deception, it feels rude to me that the earth is moving forward with the seasons with my mom in and out of the hospital. …

Feb 15, 2022: Changing my profile pic to Luisa Madrigal for a while.

Feb 14, 2022: I was feeling sad about my mom being readmitted to the hospital so I took a break from work and made a pillow cover. Blog post with details …

Feb 14, 2022: I’m a great lover of Valentine’s Day as a time to express special affection for friends & family as well as romantic partners. Today is a hard …

Feb 12, 2022: My mom was discharged from the hospital tonight and will be doing the rest of her induction therapy outpatient. Thought you might like some good news …

Feb 11, 2022: Started Octopath Traveler again tonight and it made me very happy. Last time I played was almost 2 years ago. 🎮

Feb 11, 2022: I think the union rep at this postdoc orientation is doing this presentation outside during the Santa Ana winds, which is a choice.

Feb 11, 2022: I am having a grumping it out day.

Feb 11, 2022: #StarTrek:The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 20 “Qpid” aired 04/22/91. 🖖🏻 Q: You would have me stand idly by as she leads you to your destruction? …

Feb 10, 2022: 🔖 Read How to Reclaim Normal Life Without Being ‘Done’. I appreciate the acknowledgement here that inputs for risk calculation vary widely.

Feb 10, 2022: Got an email about my kid’s school moving to endemic risk management instead of pandemic and I get it but I do worry about those of us who are high …

Feb 10, 2022: 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 Lamott’s Bird by Bird, but I also have more obscure …

Feb 10, 2022: The Teens Leading Change initiative at the LA Public Library is awesome. A great reminder that there are people committed to doing good work in the …

Feb 10, 2022: 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 I have to be reminded frequently is that creating …

Feb 9, 2022: Words cannot convey how psyched I am for Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers Edition. I’ve wanted a Chrono Cross remaster for a long time. PSX-era JRPGs …

Feb 9, 2022: Realized today as I was listening to the John de Lancie episode of Gates McFadden Investigates that I would 100% sign up for a Star Trek acting …

Feb 9, 2022: Today’s 28 Days of Black History post about Jerry Lawson, who led the division that made the first console where players could change out game …

Feb 9, 2022: I just did a search on Google Scholar for the exact phrases “serious leisure” and “pedagogy of play” together and only found one result. I’m going to …

Feb 9, 2022: Finished reading: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon 📚 Again!

Feb 9, 2022: Essays on essays on essays I’m still thinking about essays after reading Jackson Arn’s “Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot​ | Against the Contemporary American Essay. Arn references other …

Feb 8, 2022: 🔖 Read My Platonic Life Partnership Went Viral On TikTok, & People Have A Lot Of Questions I’m a person who’s been squarely romantically committed for …

Feb 8, 2022: Peak on-brand middle aged Kimberly: Cutting out doll clothes sewing patterns while watching the Ask a Mortician video about books bound in human skin. …

Feb 8, 2022: That feeling when you step away from your desk and the good ideas rush in.

Feb 8, 2022: 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 writing about essays. I’ll put together a list of …

Feb 7, 2022: 🔖 Read Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot​ | Against the Contemporary American Essay by Jackson Arn. Timely, given my own musings on essays. There’s a lot of fun …

Feb 7, 2022: 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 form. So versatile, I can’t pin it down. There are …

Feb 6, 2022: I haven’t felt like writing a long blog post for the post couple of weeks. Maybe tomorrow. I’m reading a lot though & that has made me really happy. …

Feb 6, 2022: Currently reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Feb 6, 2022: Currently reading: Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 (CultureAmerica) by Kelly J. Baker 📚

Feb 5, 2022: Finished reading: King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I love it so much. Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina have always been my faves so it felt a little like Leigh …

Feb 5, 2022: Finished reading: Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia by Kelly J. Baker 📚 Highly recommend. Baker’s writing is always incisive and …

Feb 4, 2022: 🔖 Read The Holes We Live With by Katie Rose Guest Pryal. I think my hole is named in the Encanto song “Surface Pressure”: I’m pretty surе I’m …

Feb 4, 2022: Dana has a lightsaber now. [Image description: An 18 inch doll holds an appropriately scaled lightsaber.]

Feb 4, 2022: Want to read: The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University (Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good) by Adrianna …

Feb 4, 2022: 💬📚 The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor …

Feb 4, 2022: 💬📚 Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of the disastrous academic job market. - Kelly J. …

Feb 4, 2022: I thought the Internet should know: Nikolai Lantsov is now my book boyfriend. Sorry, Kvothe. (Links definitely contain spoilers.) 📚

Feb 3, 2022: 💬📚 One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to forget that you are a worker. But when people …

Feb 3, 2022: Finished reading: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 📚

Feb 3, 2022: Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by …

Feb 3, 2022: The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from …

Feb 3, 2022: The doll is named Dana. She is here now and I think she’s actually 200% haunted. The mid-life crisis continues.

Feb 3, 2022: I’m psyched to present my dissertation research at FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures Beyond the Archive. I’ll talk about how cosplayers find, evaluate, use, …

Feb 3, 2022: I Kimberly Hirsh am RSVPing yes to Micro Camp 2022 .

Feb 3, 2022: 🔖 Read Women of a Certain Age. Great piece about how the Golden Age of TV creates space for roles beyond somebody’s mom, somebody’s wife, and harpyish …

Feb 2, 2022: The Kimberly urge to write Picard/Gomez fic. 🖖🏻

Feb 2, 2022: My kid definitely just said “Thwip” in his sleep. 🕸️

Feb 1, 2022: “People as everyday theorists of their experiences” - great insight from Bill Penuel at the Crown Institute Participatory Toolkit introduction …

Feb 1, 2022: Welcome to my mid-life crisis. [Image description: An eBay item page for an 18 inch fashion doll. The page says “You purchased this item on Feb 01, …

Feb 1, 2022: It’s February. Black history is important all year long but February is extra awesome because Black cosplayers show off their stuff daily all month. …

Feb 1, 2022: Me, thinking about my mom’s experience with leukemia: The medicine will be what it will be, but what about her feeeeeeelings? (Never has it been more …

Jan 31, 2022: Me, gathering up all my old dolls that I gave my kid so I can brush their hair: “I know - dolls.” (Oh, Clyde Bruckman. You ask such good questions.)

Jan 31, 2022: Hello, I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just bought and set up creativityforscholars.com. If the domain name intrigues you, why not pop over and sign up for …

Jan 31, 2022: We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and equitable. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on …

Jan 31, 2022: Feeling cute today. [A pale white woman with dark hair & blue eyes wears black cat eye glasses, a black cable knit sweater over a white dress with a …

Jan 30, 2022: 🔖 Read A Counterintuitive Nighttime Routine For The Type A Insomniac. I love this. I’m constantly trying to Type-A-away symptoms of chronic illness …

Jan 30, 2022: The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the …

Jan 30, 2022: We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory 💬📚

Jan 30, 2022: Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable and constant change. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets …

Jan 30, 2022: I just bought the Kindle edition of both volumes of Briana Lawrence’s mixed media magical girl series, Magnifique NOIR, and I am psyched about this …

Jan 30, 2022: Burnham’s “Let’s fly” is probably the best captain catchphrase but Dal’s “Go fast” might be a close second. 🖖🏻

Jan 29, 2022: I have a vague feeling I’m at risk of becoming the first victim in the X-Files episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”: Why did this woman collect …

Jan 28, 2022: Reading misuthewitch’s thesis for my Artist Date today. [Image Description: A tablet in a purple case displays a paper titled, “Make-Up!: The Mythic …

Jan 26, 2022: I’m RSVPing yes to IndieWebCamp Personal Libraries Pop Up Session. Excited to chat about how we track and share book stuff! 📚

Jan 26, 2022: 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 being the person I want to be at 40. Here are the …

Jan 25, 2022: 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 and asked the question: Is there an exhaustive way …

Jan 25, 2022: 🔖 Read The Only Work Ethic I Care About is the One on Star Trek Yes! When a 20th c guy ends up on the Enterprise and is all “What am I supposed to do …

Jan 25, 2022: More than a little psyched about Emily Vardell & Sarah Beth Nelson’s paper Teaching Reference Interview Skills with Improv.

Jan 25, 2022: Okay, world. I’m going to try turning it off and then turning it on again, “it” being this day.

Jan 25, 2022: In the spirit of cosmic effery that embracing radical uncertainty requires, I turned my ankle this morning. Probably a super mild sprain, given the …

Jan 24, 2022: Sent my mom the Six of Crows duology for her Kindle. Pretty pleased with myself. 📚

Jan 24, 2022: Tag yourself. I’m Arcade Fire Dad (sub in improv troupe for band). https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-dad-band-says-about-you

Jan 24, 2022: 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 trying to do things besides worry about her anyway. …

Jan 24, 2022: I’m back to cross-posting from my site automatically to Twitter. Everywhere else I’m going to stick with manusl cross-posting.

Jan 23, 2022: The Empath’s Dilemma: You won’t cry for yourself, but you cry really hard when you start to think how scared and alone the rest of your family must …

Jan 23, 2022: 🔖Read What is “Dark Academia,” and why is it trending on social media in 2022?

Jan 23, 2022: My bedhead is feeling extra goth and channeling Tim Burton a little bit this morning.

Jan 23, 2022: 🔖 Read Julia Cameron Says You Can Get Creative Indoors.

Jan 22, 2022: My mom was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia this week and started chemo yesterday. If you want details, email me and I’ll send you the link …

Jan 21, 2022: 🍿 Watched Encanto. Lovely.

Jan 21, 2022: 🔖 Read The Homebound Symphony by @ayjay I’m trying to be the Homebound Symphony. Just one person sitting in my study with a computer on my lap, …

Jan 21, 2022: Key lines from “Surface Pressure”: Give it to your sister, your sister’s older Give her all the heavy things we can’t shoulder Give it to your sister, …

Jan 20, 2022: I haven’t seen ENCANTO but I gather Luisa is the middle sister and yet her song is the anthem of eldest daughters the world over. 🍿🎵

Jan 20, 2022: Peak IndieWeb Eldest Daughter Kimberly: considering for a few minutes trying to do a self-hosted version of CaringBridge before deciding it’s okay to …

Jan 20, 2022: W’s aunt gave M an amaryllis and it’s blooming. Big Alice in Wonderland vibes. [Image description: a large red amaryllis flower blooms.]

Jan 20, 2022: 🔖 I highly recommend Everything Is Awful and I’m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up as a tool for managing daily living when things feel …

Jan 19, 2022: I am immensely pleased to be getting so much new Star Trek in the next few months. 🖖🏻

Jan 19, 2022: 🔖 Read Tamsyn Muir Understood the Assignment: The Locked Tomb Series’ Expansive Exploration of Death and Grieving by Emma Leff 📚

Jan 19, 2022: 🔖 Read As We May Think by Vannevar Bush This 1945 essay by Vannebar Bush is one of the first texts they had us read when I got my MS in Library …

Jan 19, 2022: 🔖 Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing. Awesome piece with an excellent argument. I’ve been tacking this direction for a while and it’s nice …

Jan 19, 2022: 🔖 Read We Are All Hostages to Anti-Semitism by Yair Rosenberg Excellent piece about how anti-Semitism is not individual prejudice, but part of a vast, …

Jan 18, 2022: 🔖 Read Hypertext Gardens. Efficient traversal provides the information readers think they want, but may hide information readers need. I love the …

Jan 18, 2022: I’m experimenting with building a digital garden via a personal wiki so of course my first page is about Digital Gardens and Streams. I won’t be …

Jan 18, 2022: Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way. Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS 💬📚

Jan 18, 2022: On indefinite hiatus from most social media I’m taking an indefinite hiatus from checking or cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and most other social media services, with the …

Jan 18, 2022: Just a little pro tip, muting words on Twitter will not prevent them from appearing in the “What’s happening” sidebar. A little public service …

Jan 17, 2022: New bio/tagline: “mothering, researching, reading, writing, playing, making, always learning”

Jan 17, 2022: 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 hypothyroidism flare due to the cold weather, which …

Jan 17, 2022: Finished reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I definitely want to write a longer review of this …

Jan 17, 2022: What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess? - Leigh …

Jan 17, 2022: Okay, I’ll do the 10 year challenge.

Jan 16, 2022: Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS 💬📚

Jan 16, 2022: Yesterday I interrupted my kid’s marathon viewing of BLIPPI and transformed it into a marathon viewing of PHINEAS AND FERB, I am the best at …

Jan 15, 2022: My reading life 📚 Since the Micro.blog community is starting a reading group in the near future, I thought it would be a good time to talk about my reading habits and …

Jan 15, 2022: Currently reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I have so much respect for how dark Bardugo is …

Jan 14, 2022: My workplace harassment training is promoting person-first language, but ends with “Ultimately, it is important to treat everyone as an individual and …

Jan 14, 2022: Wisdom from my blog archives: What if everything I am - everything I’ve tried to improve in this particular, optimizing, tool-utilizing way - is just …

Jan 13, 2022: No YOU’RE thinking about writing a fanfic that’s just an IRB application for a xenoanthropology dissertation at Starfleet Academy.

Jan 13, 2022: Now that I’m gainfully employed, mosts of my discretionary spending is going to creators in little $5/mo increments.

Jan 13, 2022: 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 thyroid hormone levels to what I consider optimal. …

Jan 13, 2022: Future Directions for Connected Learning in Libraries This is the fourth post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What …

Jan 13, 2022: Me: If I were going to write fiction, what genre should I write? Brain: YA high fantasy. Me: does analysis by genre & market of the last 20 books I …

Jan 12, 2022: W: Do you know the first documented time “Google” was used as a verb? Me: Yes, it was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer 👩🏼, Willow said it, it was in Season …

Jan 12, 2022: I started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses because it’s, um, overdue & 9 people have it on hold (sorry people, thanks library for eliminating …

Jan 10, 2022: 🔖Read What happens when we die. Beautiful notes from Maria Popova on the novel Mr g.

Jan 10, 2022: Putting together references and resources for making myself a Tidemaker kefta, no big deal.

Jan 7, 2022: Connected Learning in Libraries: Changes and Challenges This is the third post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What Is …

Jan 7, 2022: Want to read: The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic by Joseph W. Meeker 📚

Jan 7, 2022: 🔖 Read The comedy of survival.

Jan 7, 2022: 🔖 Read “I Feel Very Uncomfortable When People Call Me A Writer”. Great conversation between Sara Fredman & Dr. Merve Emre. WRITE LIKE A MOTHER is a …

Jan 6, 2022: This is a note to myself to write about how connected learning has existential value, not just $/academic/civic. For more, see Jermaine’s story on p. …

Jan 6, 2022: Want to read: Dead Collections: A Novel by Isaac Fellman 📚

Jan 6, 2022: 🎵 Had to skip “Moonlight Sonata” on the Spotify Dark Academia Classical playlist because belting “Schroeder” at the top of my lungs is not actually …

Jan 5, 2022: 🔖 Read Lost Time in COVID. Overall, we have, of necessity, learned to value the quality of our time over the quantity of it, and to work with the …

Jan 5, 2022: I just got finished with my onboarding meeting for the Connected Learning Lab and I can’t adequately express how psyched I am to get to do the work I …

Jan 5, 2022: Google Scholar: Hi Dr. Kimberly, would you like some journal articles about families playing Pokemon Go together and teaching and learning in Pokemon …

Jan 5, 2022: How Connected Learning Happens in Libraries This is the second post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What …

Jan 5, 2022: Pretty psyched that this is my new institution.

Jan 5, 2022: 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 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. The hold list on …

Jan 4, 2022: 🔖 Read Everyone should blog.

Jan 4, 2022: 🔖 Read Celebrate by Writing.

Jan 4, 2022: Somebody wrote a post on Micro.blog with the title “Everybody should blog” in the past couple days and I can’t find it now. If you know where it is, …

Jan 4, 2022: What is Connected Learning? I start working remotely for the Connected Learning Lab tomorrow and while a lot of people are excited for me, most of them don’t actually understand …

Jan 4, 2022: Fighting with the VPN so I can have off-campus library access. Academia, how I’ve missed you. :) (I’m re-instituting emoticons instead of some emoji …

Jan 4, 2022: 🎵 I’m listening to the full album of Lady Gaga’s BORN THIS WAY for the first time, and I’m a little embarrassed by coming to her this late, given her …

Jan 3, 2022: 1/3/22 plan: Wake up at normal time, hang out with kid, eat wholesome food, clean bedroom, prep for week ahead 1/3/22 reality: Wake up 1 hr late & in …

Jan 3, 2022: New bio! “Big sister, little mother, perpetual learner. I love books AND computers.”

Jan 3, 2022: New rule: Especially on days when my kid is home from school, it’s okay if my routines don’t go as planned. Extra okay if it’s also a high pain day.

Jan 3, 2022: 10 Video Games to Know Me 🎮 Final Fantasy Final Fantasy VII Street Fighter Alpha 3 Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure Chrono Cross Golden Sun Final Fantasy …

Jan 3, 2022: 10 TV Shows to Know Me 📺 The Muppet Show Punky Brewster Star Trek: The Next Generation The Kids In the Hall Buffy the Vampire Slayer Firefly 30 Rock …

Jan 3, 2022: 🔖 Read True gender-neutral clothing must go beyond fancy sweatpants. I love the idea of a shop where clothing is arranged by type (shirts here, …

Jan 2, 2022: Welp, my corkboard is now mostly a collage of tarot and oracle cards. The mermaids are very concerned about research ethics.

Jan 2, 2022: 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 goes back and forth between details of a cold case …

Jan 2, 2022: Finished reading: Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson 📚

Jan 1, 2022: New (Year) hair before and after brushing. (Better-lit photos coming soon.)

Jan 1, 2022: 💬 “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts of ourselves to come alive and be honored.” Lindsay …

Jan 1, 2022: Happy New Year from the hair I just cut off in a literal and symbolic act of lightening my load. Selfies to come after a shower and hair air drying.

Jan 1, 2022: 🔖 Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter. One way to embrace radical uncertainty is to develop coping mechanisms. This NPR piece …

Jan 1, 2022: Closing out the year with a couple of runs in Hades 🎮 followed by some Star Trek: The Next Generation 🖖🏻. Here’s to staying on-brand in 2022.

Dec 31, 2021: 🔖 Read What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life. This is an excellent way to think about how to live.

Dec 31, 2021: My only resolution for 2022: Embrace [radical uncertainty] (https://www.johnkay.com/2020/02/12/radical-uncertainty/).

Dec 31, 2021: 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 different. I will write up my catalogue of great …

Dec 30, 2021: 🔖 Read There Is No “Best of” List From Me This Year. 📚 Beautiful writing from Kelly Jensen: how books impacted her this year; where she is in her …

Dec 30, 2021: I just finished the midseason finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and I thought it was beautifully done. Space family talking through problems is my fave. …

Dec 30, 2021: Me, watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and seeing a newborn in a glass bassinet in sickbay with the birthing parent nowhere in sight: “What, in …

Dec 28, 2021: I just watched the SHORT TREKS episode “Q & A” and it has me really excited for STRANGE NEW WORLDS. 📺💻🖖🏻

Dec 27, 2021: 🔖📚 Read All Your Followers Will Not Buy Your Book - by Kate McKean katemckean.substack.comkatemckean.substack.com …

Dec 27, 2021: 🔖📚 Read Yes, Social Media Can Sell Books. But Not If Publishers Sit on Their Hands | Jane Friedman janefriedman.comjanefriedman.com …

Dec 27, 2021: 🔖📚 Read Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’ - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com …

Dec 27, 2021: 🔖 Read How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal. This time last year, my grandmother was in the hospital. She’d been …

Dec 25, 2021: 🔖 Read if we’re all about to get Omicron, here are 5 tips from a long-hauler (via @agilelisa on Micro.blog). This is sound advice for living with any …

Dec 25, 2021: I don’t know how your December 25 is going, but my spouse gave me a Roy Kent Christmas card so mine is going very well.

Dec 25, 2021: I’m that annoying friend who loves Christmas way too much but, like, the exhausted goth version of her. I hope you have a good December 25, whether it …

Dec 24, 2021: It’s unseasonably warm here in central NC and will be even warmer tomorrow. Many people have complained that this doesn’t feel like Christmas, but I …

Dec 24, 2021: 💬 “North Americans practice embalming, but we do not believe in embalming.” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin …

Dec 24, 2021: Bodies donated to Western Carolina University’s forensic anthropology program end up in the John A. Williams Human Skeletal Collection and I’m not …

Dec 23, 2021: Until now, you’ve had to have a Micro.blog account to reply to my blog posts or sometimes, when I’ve had it active, use Disqus to reply. Thanks to …

Dec 22, 2021: My Reading Year 2021 📚 I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. This was a slow reading year for me. I read a lot more fiction than last …

Dec 20, 2021: I had assumed that since I, a 40-year-old mother of a young child, have been very into Dark Academia for more than a year, it must be over. But it …

Dec 20, 2021: 🔖 Read The Scholarship of Sexy Privilege: Why Do I Love Dark Academia Books? …there will always be fringe groups who parade their complete rejection …

Dec 19, 2021: Listen Vanessa Hudgens is winning regardless of the quality of the script or her accent.

Dec 19, 2021: Watched A California Christmas & A California Christmas: City Lights. They’re… Fine. There’s the use of a trope in the City Lights epilogue that …

Dec 19, 2021: I had a dream where there was a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer motion comic where the writers had made a new character say “I’m going to kill …

Dec 19, 2021: A core question that must eventually be answered about every space, physical or digital, is “Who is this for?” and if your answer is “Everyone!” you …

Dec 18, 2021: Excuse me, there is a Netflix Rom-Com starring Damon Wayans Jr and Rachel Leigh Cook? Be still my geriatric millennial heart.

Dec 17, 2021: I have something else to say about Single All the Way. Not only is it lovely to see Michael Urie be a lead, but it’s also lovely to see him being …

Dec 17, 2021: As a person who made some of my dearest friends online before video chat was a thing, I’m strugglign with the protagonist of Love Hard being super …

Dec 17, 2021: Io, Saturnalia!

Dec 16, 2021: It dinnae matter to this wee American lassie that Cary Elwes has a naff Scottish accent.

Dec 16, 2021: Some how I did not realize Cary Elwes would have a Scottish accent in A Castle for Christmas and I. Will be. In. My. Bunk.

Dec 16, 2021: I just watched Single All the Way while making part of W’s Christmas present. It is the anti-Happiest Season and I love it extra for that. More …

Dec 15, 2021: Today, I completed my hiring paperwork for UC Irvine & tried to figure out public service loan forgiveness. M & I stopped by Freeman’s Creative to …

Dec 15, 2021: Book Riot published a reading pathway for the work of bell hooks a while back, if you are overwhelmed by her prolific work.

Dec 15, 2021: Upon the death of bell hooks 🎙️ Transcript: Hello internet friends. I’m experimenting today with doing a micro cast. I have this capability on my website and I thought I would go …

Dec 15, 2021: “I am Google make testing Lens g fusing to blog post. a” That’s regular print. It looks like for now, the limits of OCR mean I’m not quite there with …

Dec 15, 2021: Cursive paper blog post Google Lens attempt: “I am using. a blog mas Leng post.” Less successful, but that’s to be expected. Next, regular print.

Dec 15, 2021: I AM TESTING USING GOOGLE LENS TO MAKE A BLOG POST. It works with my block print. I’m going to try cursive next.

Dec 15, 2021: O no I am up too late pondering cool possibilities for the web.

Dec 14, 2021: Peak Kimberly struggle: There’s 54 minutes of childcare left. Do I spend it tweaking my website or playing FF7R?

Dec 14, 2021: In case you’re on micro.blog and missed it, @JohnPhilpin is asking people interested in joining a Micro.blog Reader’s Club to complete this form. 📚

Dec 14, 2021: Target app: Okay so listen we know you’ve bought your kid like 5 sets of pajamas this quarter but look at this one IT’S SO CUTE

Dec 14, 2021: Want to read: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky 📚

Dec 14, 2021: 🎨 M & I are doing Craftsy’s Jump Into Drawing class together. The first activity was shading a unicorn picture. I learned that I prefer line shading …

Dec 14, 2021: 🔖 Read and highly recommend Neurodiversity in Academia: The Autistic advantage in qualitative research.

Dec 13, 2021: Hoping to make it to this week’s Homebrew Website Club if I can do it without waking my kid.

Dec 13, 2021: 🔖 Read The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre.

Dec 11, 2021: 🔖 Read Queer and Jewish Identity Are the Heart of “Where the Wild Things Are”. 📚 I love this. I want to look at In The Night Kitchen and Outside Over …

Dec 11, 2021: 🔖 Read On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood .

Dec 11, 2021: 🔖 Read Will Self: How Should We Read? In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age.

Dec 11, 2021: 🔖 Read Two Musicals on the Perils of Aging. 🎵🎭

Dec 11, 2021: The one finished task to two new tasks pipeline.

Dec 11, 2021: I’m taking a break from most feeds and timelines, disconnecting auto-posting from my blog to curb the desire to check for notifications. If you want …

Dec 10, 2021: I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today. I had a rough night.

Dec 10, 2021: I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (feat. Q) is my new Christmas bop. 🖖🏻🎄

Dec 9, 2021: What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?

Dec 9, 2021: How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? 🖖🏻📺

Dec 9, 2021: I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) Postdoctoral Scholar with the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine. …

Dec 7, 2021: I spent about an hour tonight playing the 1980 Commodore 64 port of Super Star Trek and I have no regrets. 🎮💻

Dec 7, 2021: Want to read: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling 📚

Dec 6, 2021: Me: *finds one footnote in article I’m revising, figures out what needs to change about the part that references it, stars those readings in …

Dec 6, 2021: Want to read: The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Miller 📚

Dec 5, 2021: All. In. On. Trek. [Image Description: A white woman with dark hair and blue eyes wears a black mask. On the mask is a depiction of Captain Picard …

Dec 5, 2021: 🔖 Read So You’ve Just Found Out You’re Jewish. What’s Next? By DNA, I’m almost half Jewish. I’ve known this my whole life. By religious definitions, …

Dec 5, 2021: These are the sufganiyot I didn’t char. (The ones I did char are still pretty delicious.) Gluten-free, dairy-free, corn-free.

Dec 5, 2021: 🔖 Read The 100 Most Jewish Foods.

Dec 5, 2021: Made latkes from a mix this year.

Dec 3, 2021: 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, “Recovering a Sense of Safety,” for perosnal …

Dec 3, 2021: 🔖 Read A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Really Ugly.

Dec 2, 2021: 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 ever for a few seconds. But we interacted a lot via …

Dec 2, 2021: About to metaphorically bleed my heart onto my keyboard, nbd, I’ll see you soon.

Dec 2, 2021: I keep messing around on my phone instead of actually doing anything bc on top of the world being like it is & a raging instance of PMS that has me …

Dec 2, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures | Ars Technica arstechnica.comRead: arstechnica.com …

Dec 2, 2021: This week’s issue of 50 Years of Text Games is about the game The Freshman and its parent app, Choices. I have played the heck out of Choices. Highly …

Dec 2, 2021: Grieving something weird and frivolous today. Last night UNC deactivated my user id, because it’s been more than 6 months since I graduated. I have …

Dec 1, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Safety 📚

Dec 1, 2021: Moleskine’s green velvet notebook makes my little 90s heart sing. $70 is way too much since I go through 2 or 3 of these a year but SO PRETTY I may …

Dec 1, 2021: As has happened for the past 5 years, my kid’s taste and needs have heavily influenced my Spotify year-end wrap-up. Proud that together he and I love …

Dec 1, 2021: Morning pages palindrome!

Dec 1, 2021: Starting December right with eggnog flavored coffee in a seasonal mug and yogurt seasoned with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice.

Dec 1, 2021: Today I send solidarity and support to my colleagues in the UK participating in the UCU strike.

Nov 30, 2021: I’m back on Pokemon Go and looking for friends, so here’s my friend code: 7480 5774 3887

Nov 30, 2021: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron. 📚 In this chapter, Cameron introduces the morning pages and the artist date, …

Nov 29, 2021: Want to read: The Tarot of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 📚

Nov 29, 2021: Also in his first appearance, Tommy the Green Ranger wears this amazing green & white plaid with black short sleeves and a black hood. It’s so very …

Nov 29, 2021: Every time we’re watching Power Rangers and Kimberly says “I’m Kimberly” I say “I’M Kimberly!” and I don’t think my kid likes it. 📺

Nov 29, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron 📚

Nov 29, 2021: 🔖 Read Marked In Remembrance: How Tattoos Help Us Grieve.

Nov 29, 2021: 🔖 Read The Death Positive Movement.

Nov 29, 2021: ▶️💻 Watched What is the Death Positive movement?

Nov 28, 2021: 🔖Read Death Is Having a Moment.

Nov 28, 2021: 🔖 Read The Death Positive Movement Encourages Us to Face Death Directly.

Nov 28, 2021: ▶️💻 Watched What remains.

Nov 28, 2021: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - Spirtual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron. 📚 I don’t have a lot to say overall about this …

Nov 28, 2021: ▶️💻 Watched A burial practice that nourishes the planet.

Nov 28, 2021: 🔖 Read Feminist Death Work: A History.

Nov 28, 2021: 🔖 Read Funerals are expensive, broken and exploitative. They have to change I love what Sarah Chavez says: Your death matters. You can choose …

Nov 27, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron 📚

Nov 27, 2021: Big Kimberly Energy, according to W., is writing a full parody libretto for a musical.

Nov 27, 2021: Anybody else get a little Billy-Crystal-as-Miracle-Max vibe from Brent Spiner’s performance as very-old Dr. Noonian Soong? 🖖🏻📺

Nov 27, 2021: 🖖🏻📺 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 end of the latest episode of Discovery, Lt. Tilly …

Nov 27, 2021: Information is my love language.

Nov 26, 2021: I want to mark Stephen Sondheim’s passing with a story about his influence in my life but there are too many little moments to sum it all up. What a …

Nov 26, 2021: Bless Linda Holmes and her holiday movie guides.

Nov 24, 2021: Some international fans will be getting new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery starting Friday, Yay!

Nov 24, 2021: Hello world. Imagine I’m interested in fountain pens but am a complete beginner. Where would you tell me to go to learn more? What would your advice …

Nov 23, 2021: Reading STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST again and when Austin Kleon described Patti Smith pretending to be an artist I thought “Cool, I’ll pretend to be a …

Nov 23, 2021: Finished: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron. 📚 Cameron’s introduction is very introducey, setting a foundation for understanding the …

Nov 23, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron 📚

Nov 22, 2021: 🔖 Read Catapult | Minor Arcana | Marissa Levien catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co …

Nov 22, 2021: 🔖Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com …

Nov 22, 2021: 🔖Every King Arthur Retelling Is Fanfic About Who Gets to Be Legendary tor.comRead: www.tor.com tor.com …

Nov 22, 2021: 📚💬 “Never send a scholar who studies dystopias to a conference with futuristic themes.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED

Nov 22, 2021: 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 I realized I was only doing morning pages and …

Nov 22, 2021: 🔖Read “How the Real Estate Boom Left Black Neighborhoods Behind”. This is a long & valuable read. I’m researching how I can contribute to reinvestment …

Nov 20, 2021: 📚 Started reading OUTLANDER and if my spouse finds my interest in my scholarship as tiresome as Claire finds Frank’s, I wish he and his kilted flake …

Nov 19, 2021: Beautiful Eclipse medicine spread from Lindsay Mack with The Moonchild Tarot. Time to trust my mind, let go of worries about love, move forward in …

Nov 19, 2021: I watched Star Trek Discovery 4x01 “Kobayashi Maru” last night and I have a lot of feelings. I’m happy to chat if you’d like to. Replies may contain …

Nov 18, 2021: Okay I watched the Season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Discovery and now I need ALL the Detmer & Owo friendfic.

Nov 18, 2021: How to Transform from Mom Kimberly to Professional Kimberly: Replace t-shirt with dress. Add cardigan. Extra hair brushing. Tada!

Nov 17, 2021: From now on whenever you meet a couple, you are required to ask: Which of you is the Stamets & which of you is the Culbert? (I’m the Stamets AND the …

Nov 17, 2021: 🔖 Read Who Writes the Books in Video Games? . This is relevant to my interests. 📚🎮

Nov 17, 2021: I just finished the Season 3 finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and wow. What a beautiful close to a season. I’m heartbroken for all the people who won’t be …

Nov 17, 2021: “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 a year. Maybe since before the pandemic started, …

Nov 17, 2021: I just learned about this Disney-approved line of romance novel reimaginings of the princess stories and I am INTERESTED.

Nov 16, 2021: Welcome to my workspace! These are pictures of my desk, corkboard, and shelves. Mermaid painting by me via Wine & Design. Slay quilt by Casey Rawson.

Nov 16, 2021: Hi there. I’m drafting a Star Trek/Ted Lasso crossover in my head. It’s called “Starfleet Til We Die.” I can’t wait to introduce you to MY crew of the …

Nov 15, 2021: Y’all, I love my kid and helping him manage his emotions is hard work.

Nov 14, 2021: Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that make me cry: “Some Things Are Meant to Be,” Little Women: The Musical “Forever and Ever,” Pooh’s Grand …

Nov 14, 2021: I Don’t Have Time to Watch the Next Whole Episode of Star Trek Before Resuming My Caregiving Duties: The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Nov 13, 2021: It took ibuprofen, me singing a lot of songs, and Rock-A-Bye Baby’s Lullaby Renditions of Queen, but I finally got my freshly vaxxed kid to sleep.

Nov 13, 2021: The song “Forever and Ever” from POOH’S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN has been making me cry for two days and I don’t want to be …

Nov 12, 2021: My kid is getting his first COVID shot tomorrow and I definitely used that as an excuse to buy him a bunch of snacks, a new coloring book, a new book, …

Nov 12, 2021: I have been boosted and will now avoid productivity until Monday. Byeeee.

Nov 11, 2021: Finished reading: Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond 📚

Nov 10, 2021: Darren Rowse in his Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog Course: Are you a high energy person or a low energy person? Me: Yes! (Yes I have been blogging …

Nov 9, 2021: Great news, bad attitude Hi web friends. I’m having a weird day, with some great news but also me not feeling like doing anything, where I can swing from ecstatic about great …

Nov 9, 2021: It feels really good to talk about my work and be able to remind myself that I’ve done a lot of really cool things and that I am and for 17 years have …

Nov 9, 2021: I’m more than 16 minutes into S3E1 of Star Trek Discovery and I haven’t seen Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Culber, Detmer, Owo, or Reno yet, so what are we …

Nov 8, 2021: My kid has discovered Power Rangers and I have a feeling there’s a lot of deja vu in my future except it’ll be my kid asking me to play Power Rangers …

Nov 8, 2021: Good morning. I had fasting bloodwork at 9:30am today, so I’m just eating for the first time today now, and I’m thinking about giving my brain most of …

Nov 8, 2021: 🔖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 are some bits that hit me hard: It’s not enough to …

Nov 7, 2021: 🔖"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 who are also mothers. Some bits from the recent …

Nov 7, 2021: Want to read: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder 📚

Nov 7, 2021: Like the Bloggess, I too look like I have it together when I’m depressed but really think I’m failing at everything and everyone is mad at me and do …

Nov 5, 2021: 📚 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 repertoire to include humorous fantasy romance. …

Nov 4, 2021: M, as we sort Magnatiles: Wow, you’re really good at sorting! Me: Yeah, thanks, I have two graduate degrees in it.

Nov 1, 2021: I can’t move to California but being a science fiction librarian sounds like a pretty sweet gig.

Nov 1, 2021: It’s the month with all the writing events! Hi! I’ll probably be focused on #AcWriMo - I’ve got a journal article to finish revising, a dissertation …

Oct 31, 2021: Finished reading: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston 📚

Oct 31, 2021: 🎯: Hey don’t you want to buy your kid some cute PJs? They’re on saaaaale… Me: Bro I just bought him 4 sets FROM YOU a few weeks ago. Also me: is …

Oct 30, 2021: 🔖 Read ‘They start calling you Hitler’: Why Disneyland has some of the most toxic fans on the internet.

Oct 29, 2021: 🔖 Read From Princes to Pigeons: A Beginner’s Guide to Otome Games 🎮

Oct 29, 2021: I’m starting to actually enjoy revising my own writing. This is a huge development and it’s going to make a big difference in my capacity as a writer. …

Oct 29, 2021: 🔖 Read “The Girl With The Green Ribbon”: A Tale of Many Lives. 📚

Oct 29, 2021: 🔖 Read Dear Congress: Paid leave is not a perk. It’s a requirement..

Oct 29, 2021: It seems to me that institutions don’t/can’t care. People do & can. Am I missing out on knowing about caring institutions?

Oct 29, 2021: Current priorities: Take care of my health. Take care of my kid. Take care of my home. Figure out how I can help primary caregivers on a grand scale.

Oct 29, 2021: In past crises, our leaders have been quick to bail out the banks. They made sure the airlines got rescued. But moms, in the middle of an …

Oct 28, 2021: I’m about to log off for the night but I want to talk about #StarTrekProdigy so tell me about your favorite bits and I’ll reply tomorrow! (Replies may …

Oct 28, 2021: Want to read: They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe 📚

Oct 28, 2021: I have a cool idea. What if, in addition to having a mental health summit, the university committed time and money to improving mental health services …

Oct 27, 2021: M and I decorated some sugar cookies this evening.

Oct 27, 2021: If you’re a person who would be interested in a virtual co-working space for parents, could you kindly let me know? Thanks! (I’m thinking Discord or …

Oct 27, 2021: Thanks to Jennifer Polk’s co-working session, I made big progress on a paper revision today. 📝

Oct 27, 2021: 🔖 Lee Skallerup Bessette’s You Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any? is crucial reading. It hits extra hard in the wake of a clear …

Oct 26, 2021: M: Can we keep playing Breath of the Wild [pretend, not the video game]? Me: Wait, we’re playing Breath of the Wild? Oops! I was playing Ocarina of …

Oct 26, 2021: Hello I am 40 will a local community theater please cast me as Mama Rose now kthx

Oct 26, 2021: This is a reminder that Brent Spiner’s book Fan Fiction, which I reviewed back in September, came out a few weeks ago & you can purchase it now! 📚🖖‍‍

Oct 25, 2021: I’ve got to remember to search parenting groups, not scroll. I just about had an anxiety attack reading about something that happened to somebody …

Oct 25, 2021: Also making a note to myself to write a full blog post about going to see my first community theater production in ages & how it made me feel.

Oct 25, 2021: Making a note to myself here to write a full blog post about Star Trek: The Next Generation 3x21, “Hollow Pursuits,” and the connection to the paper …

Oct 23, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Dr. Lesley Willard: Introducing topic. How do scholars in fan & media studies articulate their discipline? How do these disciplines interact? When …

Oct 23, 2021: Next #FSNNA21 live-tweet: “Fans, Players and/or Users? Bridging Fan and Media Studies” Will post log to kimberlyhirsh.com.

Oct 23, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Adriana Amaral: First, the state of fan studies in Brazil: research focused on digital settings but still working on integrating digital methods with …

Oct 23, 2021: I’ll be live-tweeting the #FSNNA21 panel “Digital Methods and Digital Fan Practices” in a few minutes and share the log at kimberlyhirsh.com after the …

Oct 23, 2021: I set foot in a bookstore for the first time since the start of the pandemic today. I stood there, looking at everything, almost having a panic attack …

Oct 23, 2021: Introducing my five-year-old to Sweeney Todd (original cast), as you do. 🎭🎵

Oct 22, 2021: I’m watching the season 1 finale of Star Trek Discovery and having L’Rell do the previously in Klingon is a nice touch. 🖖🏻

Oct 22, 2021: Extemely chuffed to announce that my first blog post written for @QuirkosSoftware, “A priori coding is A-OK!”, has gone live!

Oct 21, 2021: I don’t like how clear it is that we are living in the mirror universe and the primary Star Trek universe is not ours. At least, this is what …

Oct 21, 2021: I may have been excessively affectively engaged in the conversation about Buffy fic writers’ responses to “Seeing Red.” I really don’t know how to not …

Oct 21, 2021: Help I Read a Lower Decks Fanfic and Now I Resent All Other Activities: The Kimberly Hirsh Story 🖖🏻

Oct 21, 2021: Taking a break from livetweeting to just listen to the Participatory Culture Wars session at #FSNNA21.

Oct 21, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: This doesn’t include the discussion/Q&A because things started to go so fast I couldn’t keep up. Stacy Lantagne: introducing other panelists in "The …

Oct 21, 2021: Planning to use Noter Live to livetweet “The Money Question” at #FSNNA21. Will post all tweets to kimberlyhirsh.com after the session.

Oct 20, 2021: Well mirror universe stuff is very upsetting. 🖖🏻

Oct 20, 2021: I myself am strange and unusual. (Earrings by Witching Hour Baby.)

Oct 19, 2021: I built a Book Event Calendar! It’s only got one event in it right now, as proof of concept, but I plan to add more soon.

Oct 18, 2021: Today I: found contact info for new handyman filled meds cases made cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds put away a little laundry drove kid around to look at …

Oct 17, 2021: Hey book friends. Is there any sort of centralized calendar for virtual author events? My searches are turning up Eventbrite, specific publisher …

Oct 17, 2021: Part of me wants to swim in a vault filled with books like some sort of literary Scrooge McDuck, but the other part of me knows I would get So. Many. …

Oct 15, 2021: This thing where I need to sleep instead of staying up all night watching Star Trek: Discovery is really bumming me out. 🖖🏻

Oct 15, 2021: On my Starfleet ship, we would have Sirenian ops.

Oct 15, 2021: 💻▶️ Watched The Doctor, The Mortician, and the Murder.

Oct 15, 2021: Don’t want to spoil the Lower Decks finale much but I was so distracted by my delight at encountering Captain Sonya Gomez I actually missed anything …

Oct 14, 2021: The other day while doing some Artist’s Way exercises my subconscious bubbled up and told me I wanted a typewriter. Now I’m stuck on this idea.

Oct 14, 2021: 🔖📚📝 Read Catapult | I Found My Literary Community by Writing Book Reviews | catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co …

Oct 12, 2021: 💬 “… fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.” Maria Bamford, THE BURNING BRIDGES TOUR

Oct 12, 2021: Finished reading: Writing the New Ethnography by H. L. Goodall, Jr. 📚

Oct 12, 2021: Academia sure loves bricolage.

Oct 12, 2021: 🔖 Read Catapult | Why Full-Time Freelancing Isn’t For Me | Gabrielle Drolet catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co …

Oct 11, 2021: 🔖 Read The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track.

Oct 11, 2021: 💬📚 “Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Oct 11, 2021: 💬📚🎭 “Ideas don’t get opening nights. Finished plays do.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Oct 11, 2021: 💬📚 “…anger is a map… Anger points the way, not just the finger.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Oct 10, 2021: 🔖 Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes – The Daily Free Press dailyfreepress.comRead: …

Oct 10, 2021: Want to read: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling 📚

Oct 9, 2021: The #FanLIS panel I’m co-moderating with Ludi Price is the first session of Fan Studies Network North America! You should come. It’s a super …

Oct 8, 2021: Want to read: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster 📚

Oct 8, 2021: As in the actual Haunted Mansion ride, the best part of Muppets Haunted Mansion is the ballroom/party scene. In this case, less for the Pepper’s Ghost …

Oct 8, 2021: M (who turned 5 yesterday!) & I are watching Muppets Haunted Mansion and I’m very happy.

Oct 8, 2021: Hey LIS scholars. What is the most elegant, arresting, or fascinating writing you’ve seen in our field?

Oct 8, 2021: Did I just send an email to all the parents at my kid’s school in which I used the phrase “totally buggin’”? Yes, yes I did.

Oct 7, 2021: 💬 “we are conditioned as academics (and also just people in 2021!) to sacrifice long term stability for short term productivity.” From Katy Peplin’s …

Oct 7, 2021: I’ve been without wifi for over 18 hours & while I’m old enough to remember a time before home dialup, it’s a real pain to deal with it now. Thank …

Oct 5, 2021: My brand is: person who spends far too much time thinking about the absence of social science research ethics and the reflexive turn in Star Trek. 🖖🏻

Oct 4, 2021: 💻📺🖖 Watched Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Episode 1 & oh my goodness how fun is this show? So fun! Mariner is my fave. “Do you know Deanna Troi? Her …

Oct 4, 2021: 📚 Me continuing to read Black Sun: Uhhuh uhhuh Sun Priestess is cool, nice chill use of non-binary gender without making it A Thing but WHEN DO I GET …

Oct 4, 2021: 📚 Me, reading Black Sun: Ch. 1 - This parent-child dynamic is upsetting, i don’t know if I can keep going… Ch. 2 - Magical singing bi sea captain …

Oct 4, 2021: 🔖 Read The Invisible Burden That Leaves Moms Drained. Especially timely since I just hosted my kid’s (outdoor masked) birthday party last weekend. I’m …

Oct 4, 2021: 🔖 Read On Pandering. This piece made me think about how lucky I’ve been to always be writing for my past or future self or for a body of colleagues …

Oct 4, 2021: The extent to which my handwriting is a perfect mix of my parents’ handwriting is remarkable.

Oct 4, 2021: 📚 This week’s takeaway from The Artist’s Way is that I’m already really good at making time for the things I love to do and keeping negative people …

Oct 4, 2021: 💬📚 “If I’m expected to be a kin keeper, no one can judge my coffee consumption.” Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed ☕

Oct 4, 2021: Added “Memento mori girl” to my bio and I am far too pleased with myself. 💀

Oct 4, 2021: I have one weird set of emotions when I begin writing in a new notebook and another when I get close to the end of a new notebook, but I can’t fully …

Oct 3, 2021: 🎮 Played Dragon Quest III. Each game in the series gets more expansive. I love that.

Oct 3, 2021: 💻📺 Watched Salt Fat Acid Heat episode 1, “Fat.”

Oct 3, 2021: I had a dream that Gates McFadden became a real doctor. My kid was having breathing trouble & she helped. Then when I needed to send her a message I …

Oct 3, 2021: 🔖 Read Why Everyone Is Always Giving Unsolicited Advice (Tressie McMillan Cottom for the New York Times).

Oct 3, 2021: Excuse me I will be over here flailing because I just learned there is a licensed Star Trek TNG/X-Men crossover novel. 🖖📚📺🗯️ UPDATED TO ADD: Literally …

Oct 1, 2021: Finished reading: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinka 📚

Oct 1, 2021: Why are my neighbors so loud don’t they know it’s after 10 pm and their neighbors have children: the Kimberly Hirsh story

Oct 1, 2021: My son found this toad at school a week ago. He said his friend touched it and it jumped.

Oct 1, 2021: Now that I have Paramount+, my current viewing strategy is: Want something familiar? TNG/DS9/VOY Want something new? Discovery. Want something funny? …

Oct 1, 2021: It’s been a busy day of prepping for my kid’s birthday party (outdoor masked at a park we’re careful) and I think tomorrow when it’s over I will …

Oct 1, 2021: My kid’s school is having fall break today so um we have Paramount Plus now. Because it has All the Ninja Turtles.

Oct 1, 2021: 🔖Read “So Coke-y…So Entitled!”: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jonathan Lethem. 📚🎙️

Sep 30, 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 classroom and how we might learn from the ease …

Sep 30, 2021: I did a thing! I wrote a blog post for a client! Yay me! Time for a dance party! via GIPHY

Sep 30, 2021: Here’s the deal with being employed by someone besides myself right now: they have to pay me enough that I can pay other people to do all the things I …

Sep 30, 2021: One of the frustrating things about chronic illness is that sometimes you have a good brain day but a bad body day.

Sep 30, 2021: Weather report from my kid: the air temperature is warm Luke.

Sep 30, 2021: 🔖📺 Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Building’s Big Twist.

Sep 30, 2021: 🔖📺 Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.

Sep 29, 2021: I’m planning a historical witchy YA fantasy, it’s historical because it’s set in the 90s, the soundtrack is all Garbage & Letters to Cleo, AMA. (Maybe …

Sep 29, 2021: 🔖 Read Star Trek’s food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. 🖖

Sep 29, 2021: Want to read: Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg 📚

Sep 29, 2021: Want to read: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan 📚

Sep 29, 2021: 🔖 Read Amia Srinivasan: “Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas”.

Sep 28, 2021: Witch influencer or Indiana Jones villain? You decide. (Image: A white woman with dark hair wears a black wool Panama hat.)

Sep 28, 2021: Attempted a Hashimoto’s/PCOS friendly version of my great-grandmother’s goldenrod eggs: gluten-free bread, ghee, tapioca flour, almond milk. Not bad. …

Sep 28, 2021: Replaced “Extremely online since 1995” in my bio with “Human cabinet of curiosities,” perhaps the most accurate way I’ve ever described myself.

Sep 27, 2021: Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey Kayser 📚🎭

Sep 27, 2021: 🔖🎭 Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre. In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, …

Sep 27, 2021: Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book Festival video. 📚📝

Sep 27, 2021: 🔖 Read What Reading Looks Like When You’re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).

Sep 27, 2021: Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel like rogue. (The friend is me.) 📚📺🎲

Sep 27, 2021: I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t modeled on how other people talked to me (I was blessed with …

Sep 27, 2021: 💬📚 “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.” Julia Cameron, THE …

Sep 27, 2021: 🔖 Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic. Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book …

Sep 27, 2021: 💬📚 “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Sep 27, 2021: 💬📚 “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Sep 27, 2021: 💬📚 “Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Sep 27, 2021: 🔖Read The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.comRead: www.theatlantic.com theatlantic.com …

Sep 26, 2021: A lot is bad but my kid is dancing to Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and that’s pretty great.

Sep 26, 2021: Me today: Ooh what an interesting journal article! I wonder if I could pitch a research brief on it to my client for the company blog.looks closer …

Sep 26, 2021: Want to read: Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb, Eds. 📚

Sep 26, 2021: 🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today: Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy (Tor.com) How Harrow the Ninth Uses …

Sep 24, 2021: Kid reading your book on a bench at the playground while your sibling plays: I see you. You are not alone.

Sep 24, 2021: That feeling when your own article is at the top of the “Recommended article” list on your Google Scholar homepage.

Sep 24, 2021: 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 but based on the impact of treatment, I’m going to …

Sep 23, 2021: “The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” C. G. Jung, quoted by Julia Cameron in the Artist’s Way. 💬📚

Sep 23, 2021: 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 friends about me they’d tell you that I have …

Sep 22, 2021: My health goals I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. One of the things I’m focusing on right now is feeling better. Today, that …

Sep 21, 2021: My aesthetic is Mermaid Academia.

Sep 21, 2021: In case you wonder what kind of parent I am: yesterday, my kid was recounting a Halloween episode of Muppet Babies and said that Miss Piggy was in …

Sep 21, 2021: I have input days and output days. Today is an input day: learning about UX and user research.

Sep 20, 2021: I just moved my next follow up doctor’s appointment up two months to the week after next because I’m still so tired all the time and not convinced my …

Sep 20, 2021: On preferring learning to doing I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I love to read about writing. I’m the kind of person who finds Strunk and …

Sep 20, 2021: Amy Gentry’s second guest post for The Professor Is In, about transitioning from academic to novelist, is one of the most helpful post-ac pieces I’ve …

Sep 20, 2021: 🔖 Portrait of the Mother as an Artist – Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com Diane Benjamin (Litman ‘64) …

Sep 19, 2021: Watching the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Offspring” as a parent adds a whole new perspective to the experience.

Sep 19, 2021: Have y’all read THE DARK TIDE by Alicia Jasinka? because I started it tonight and it is gorgeous. 📚🌊🧙‍♀️

Sep 19, 2021: Whoopi Goldberg has done a lot of great work in her career, but I think I’ll always feel that Guinan has been her greatest role. 🖖📺

Sep 18, 2021: Finished reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 📚

Sep 17, 2021: So far in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 3x13, “Deja Q,” is my favorite. Having Data be Q’s tutor in humanity is brilliant. And …

Sep 17, 2021: Me, watching Super Monsters with my kid: I can suspend my disbelief to allow that Universal monsters send their kids to night preschool, but putting …

Sep 16, 2021: Brainfog day 😞

Sep 15, 2021: 👩🏻‍💻 That feeling when it takes all day to maintain your (6-year-old budget) laptop…

Sep 15, 2021: There is a medium-small spider hanging out on my corkboard and I’ve decided to adopt it as a pet. I will lure mosquitoes to it and call it cute names. …

Sep 15, 2021: 📚💬 “If this is your first draft, stop worrying.” - Leigh Bardugo in her latest newsletter

Sep 14, 2021: What I mean when I say I have variable disabilities: today, I am using a cane because I have mild vertigo and need the stability. Yesterday I did not …

Sep 13, 2021: 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 this review, I use “Brent” to refer to the character …

Sep 13, 2021: 📚💬 “When academic women, experts in their fields, are seen as not credible, then can women ever be?” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men Explain …

Sep 13, 2021: Want to read: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit 📚

Sep 13, 2021: 📚💬 “My Ph.D. cannot trump my gender.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men Explain Things to Me,” p. 52.

Sep 12, 2021: 🎙️ Listened to Gates McFadden Investigates 101: Jonathan Frakes. Love it. McFadden is a great host & it feels like being with friends.

Sep 12, 2021: “Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way.” Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS. Oh, Zoya, I love you so. 📚

Sep 12, 2021: I finished reading SIX OF CROWS almost 4 months ago. It’s time for me to get back to the Grishaverse with KING OF SCARS. 📚

Sep 12, 2021: Finished reading: Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner 📚

Sep 11, 2021: Went to Internet Archive to find my blog post from 20 years ago. More interesting than anything I had to say was this comment from my grandmother, who …

Sep 10, 2021: Wearing my 90s pop culture goth uniform today: Buffy the Vampire Slayer tee, Nightmare Before Christmas leggings.

Sep 10, 2021: I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to spend my time and one of the things I want to do is make higher ed better for caregivers. It only just …

Sep 10, 2021: New bio: Extremely online since 1995. Mom. Household COO. Consulting scholar-librarian. Book person. Geek-of-all-trades. PhD in Information & Library …

Sep 10, 2021: 🔖💻 Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already believe we were living in the Matrix, this article will …

Sep 10, 2021: 📽️ Watched In a Lonely Place. I watched this because it’s on the movie list on the aesthetics wiki page for dark academia. I’m not sure what qualifies …

Sep 9, 2021: My 20th Domainiversary Today is the 20th anniversary of the first time the Internet Archive captured my first personal domain. The 20th anniversary of my first blog post was …

Sep 9, 2021: Me: yesterday for #StarTrekDay: AHHHH Star Trek, everything Star Trek! this morning when it was all gray and rainy: AHHHH Dark Academia, everything …

Sep 8, 2021: This Picard/Riker 2024 merch is all well and good but what I want is reprints of the Picard/Riker 1992 merch.

Sep 8, 2021: The Voyager theme is over here tugging at my heart strings. This is unexpected. #StarTrekDay

Sep 8, 2021: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I will never not have a crush on Wil Wheaton. #StarTrekDay

Sep 8, 2021: It’s taken me a while but I think I have a stable connection for watching #StarTrekDay and I’m so psyched for Prodigy. I’ve watched the teaser with my …

Sep 8, 2021: If you read through today’s Done List, you’ll notice I put basic self-care tasks like showering and dental hygiene on it. This is because as a person …

Sep 8, 2021: I know enough about Brent Spiner and his history with fans to know that this does not make us BFFs but I’m still psyched he liked my tweet.

Sep 8, 2021: Loading my advanced readers’s copy of Brent Spiner’s mem-noir Fan Fiction to my ereader in honor of Star Trek Day. 📚📺🖖‍

Sep 8, 2021: Repping TNG Operations in my Lauren Christians Handmade dress for Star Trek Day. My kid told his teachers, “I’m being Spot because my mom is wearing …

Sep 7, 2021: 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 I’m making a list of what I did. Here’s today’s: …

Sep 7, 2021: 📺🖖 In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 11, “The Hunted,” there is a whole society of intellectual bros wearing blazers over …

Sep 7, 2021: 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 pages from Carol Dweck’s book Mindset on Twitter this …

Sep 6, 2021: Putting Gardens and Streams II on my calendar. I’m only a maybe because, as always, parenting.

Sep 5, 2021: 🔖📝 The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer ‹ Literary Hub if you’ve read a book penned by a woman with young children recently, there’s a …

Sep 5, 2021: 🔖Read The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days katieroseguestpryal.comkatieroseguestpryal.com …

Sep 5, 2021: 🔖Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.

Sep 4, 2021: “She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬

Sep 3, 2021: I had a client meeting this morning where we made plans for me to do some blogging and podcasting for the client. But it’s also about research. Don’t …

Sep 2, 2021: “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬

Sep 2, 2021: Beginning my third read of Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC. 📚

Sep 2, 2021: Sleep Deprivation, Sugar Crash, or Both? The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Sep 1, 2021: Gonna create a literary subgenre/internet aesthetic and call it “snark academia.”

Sep 1, 2021: I just published another free/pay-what-you-can Notion template. This time it’s a permissions tracker to help you keep track of copyrighted material …

Sep 1, 2021: Welcome to September, or as I like to call it, October Part 1. The world is full of terrors. Today I’m going to deal with my to-do list and then think …

Aug 31, 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 and read there what some colleagues have been …

Aug 31, 2021: Did not realize I was on the Motherscholar Project website so that’s cool!

Aug 31, 2021: 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 happens at around 12:50: Depressed due to losing his …

Aug 30, 2021: Just recorded a conference session. I’m really happy about the accessibility remote conferences provide but everything feels so formal. It’s like I …

Aug 28, 2021: Watched @patrickrhone’s Micro Camp talk Want to write a book? You probably already have this am & it shifted a lot for me in terms of my own …

Aug 28, 2021: 🔖💬 Parents Are Not Okay: Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.

Aug 27, 2021: Shout-out to Kelly J. Baker for naming archivists and librarians first in the acknowledgements of her book, Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s …

Aug 26, 2021: there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my …

Aug 26, 2021: 🔖📚 Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the ‘Father Tongue’ of Academia is both about writing the kind of thing I want to write and is …

Aug 26, 2021: Want to read: How to Write Qualitative Research by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower 📚

Aug 25, 2021: Want to read: Thinking Inside the Box Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel 📚

Aug 25, 2021: Finished reading: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 📚

Aug 25, 2021: My taste in fantasy art is less Lisa Frank and more Frank Frazetta.

Aug 25, 2021: Whoops, I didn’t mean unicorn and waterfall, I meant swan and rainbow. We also had the tiger one.

Aug 25, 2021: Trapper Keeper is back but I’m holding out for the re-release of the unicorn in front of a waterfall.

Aug 24, 2021: How come every time Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaborate the result is adorable? What’s up with that? 📚

Aug 24, 2021: Casey Fiesler asked for tips for creating equal participation in breakout rooms. One strategy to try is providing distinct roles for each individual. …

Aug 24, 2021: Younger S7E5 is delighting me with Janeane Garofalo as an art college dean and Sutton Foster as Liza Miller dancing to a recording of Sutton Foster in …

Aug 24, 2021: 🎙️ Listening to Keegan-Michael Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy on Audible & in ep 5 he mentions the Carol Burnett Show. Comedian guests on The …

Aug 24, 2021: One of the many straws on the proverbial camel’s back that led me to stop watching THE CHAIR after only 8 minutes was when the dean said “We can’t add …

Aug 24, 2021: About to go pick kid up from first day of preschool. (1/2 day today, full day Thurs). Achieved: made coffee made breakfast drank coffee ate breakfast …

Aug 24, 2021: 📚 Just finished the introduction of Data Feminism & am jotting down some thoughts. I hope to expand on these later. To what extent and how do the 7 …

Aug 24, 2021: 📚 Data Feminism has the best (and perhaps only) definition of positionality I’ve ever seen: “Positionality is a term that describes how individuals …

Aug 23, 2021: Colleagues are all “I forgot how exhausting teaching in person is!” & I’m all “I forgot how exhausting getting your kid ready to go to preschool in …

Aug 23, 2021: Want to read: Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White 📚

Aug 23, 2021: Me, prepping for my kid’s very masked return to preschool: IMAGE: Liz Lemon (from the TV show 30 Rock), a white woman with brown hair wearing glasses, …

Aug 22, 2021: Want to read: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly 📚

Aug 22, 2021: 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 and realized it would make a pretty good blog …

Aug 22, 2021: 📺 It’s been interesting seeing other (current or former) academians’ responses to THE CHAIR. I made it 8 minutes but once the notion of just getting …

Aug 22, 2021: Setting aside my TIME 100 list plan to play in the land of YA rom-coms. Just started NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST. 📚

Aug 21, 2021: – Read Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling – Scalawag scalawagmagazine.orgRead: scalawagmagazine.org …

Aug 20, 2021: I clocked a solid chunk of time on my current consulting contract today and I really enjoyed the work. That’s such a good feeling.

Aug 20, 2021: “Being a mom is my calling, and being a writer is also my calling, so they have to both exist simultaneously.” Well said, A’Ziah King.

Aug 20, 2021: 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 felt energized specifically by how she found role …

Aug 17, 2021: Today, in Sesame Street Is the Best Comedy School, Grover and Campers Learn About Trees. Excellent use of the rule of three and a beautiful button.

Aug 17, 2021: Who’s your favorite fictional character with an extreme love of school supplies? Mine is Amy Santiago. (I’m super behind on B99 y’all.)

Aug 16, 2021: We might need to have a talk about how I don’t want to eat any actual meals, just leftovers of the Fran’s Torte L’Orange that my bonus mother-in-law …

Aug 16, 2021: I just processed all the action items from the beginning of the year email the head teacher at my kid’s preschool sent out, capturing them in my …

Aug 16, 2021: Read Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com …

Aug 15, 2021: I use Old Spice Krakengard mostly because the name and graphic amuse me. I always thought it was protecting me from the Kraken but I read the …

Aug 15, 2021: I can’t get a good picture of it but right now there is a lone piece of green glitter sitting on top of my biggest, most obvious gall bladder surgery …

Aug 15, 2021: I hardly ever cried about my dissertation and I’m really proud of that.

Aug 15, 2021: 🔖📝 Read The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com …

Aug 15, 2021: Woke up to a house with no light at all and my first thought was not “The power must be out” but instead “I’ve lost my vision.”

Aug 14, 2021: 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 sync problem starting a bit before the 6-minute …

Aug 14, 2021: Who is Kimberly Hirsh?

Aug 14, 2021: My talk from Micro Camp, “Learning in Public on Your Blog,” is now available on my website!

Aug 14, 2021: What are your top 3 movies you turn to when you are sick and/or anxious? Mine are Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Princess Bride, and Who Framed Roger …

Aug 13, 2021: 🔖 Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy is an energizing read. Psyched to be in her workshop on creative non-fiction …

Aug 13, 2021: 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 already read a lot of the books on these lists. If I …

Aug 12, 2021: So far today I have taken my kid to the pool for swim lessons & stayed for an extra 3 hrs, scheduled a bathroom floor repair, and emailed a client so …

Aug 12, 2021: Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all. N.K. Jemisin on the Timeless …

Aug 12, 2021: Until I get tired of doing it, I’m going to read my way through Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time & then when I finish or am tired of it, …

Aug 12, 2021: New bio: “A good little mommy and always very curious.”

Aug 12, 2021: Solidarity to everyone who was awake earlier than they needed to be this morning.

Aug 12, 2021: In case you were wondering which website has the best favicon, it’s Jennifer Laughran’s.

Aug 11, 2021: My kid is asleep well before 9 pm, what do I do with all this freeeeeedom? (The smart thing would be to go to sleep myself.)

Aug 11, 2021: I cannot convey the extent to which the statement “be part of one of the largest events on campus” would put me off an event. Even in the beforetime, …

Aug 11, 2021: That feeling when someone you only kind of knew from church as a kid over 20 years ago invites you to her Facebook MLM group. 😬

Aug 10, 2021: Hey hey! I’ll be giving a talk at Micro Camp Friday @ 3:30 pm EST about Learning in Public on Your Blog. Want to learn more about the micro.blog …

Aug 9, 2021: 🎬 watched Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy is brilliant here. I can’t believe he was only 22 or 23 when he made this.

Aug 8, 2021: My brain, on August 8, 2021: LetterMo is just around the corner! It’s January now, so February will be here soon! Narrator: It is not January now.

Aug 6, 2021: It’s fine if you’ve been sleeping on SCHMIGADOON so far but this week they gave both Kristin Chenoweth and Jane Krakowski amazing songs so it might be …

Aug 6, 2021: 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 to be the same size, cut them at the same time. …

Aug 5, 2021: I can’t recall if I’d ever seen Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First” before tonight but I just watched it, it’s as brilliant as everyone gives it …

Aug 5, 2021: Hello and welcome to my current existential crisis.

Aug 4, 2021: The CHIP ‘N’ DALE: RESCUE RANGERS theme is a masterpiece of musical maximalism. 🎵

Aug 4, 2021: I love physicist Carlo Rovelli’s phrase, “radical lack of certainty,” quoted in Austin Kleon’s blog post about uncertainty in science and art.

Aug 4, 2021: 📺 I’m not remotely close to caught up on The Owl House but I just want to say that Luz’s tailcoat and tutu combo is the dream. Via romanticwolf131 on …

Aug 3, 2021: Want to read: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee 📚

Aug 1, 2021: Finished reading: The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss 📚

Jul 31, 2021: 🎮 Played Dragon Quest on Android. Gorgeous pixel remake of the foundational JRPG. Super fun! 🐲

Jul 31, 2021: 📚🗯️ Read Once & Future Vol. 1: The King Is Undead by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora. Arthuriana and a story about the nature of stories, plus a kickass …

Jul 31, 2021: 💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing. Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | …

Jul 30, 2021: 📚 A surprise The Locked Tomb book! Yay! 💀

Jul 30, 2021: 📚📺 At Electric Literature, Meera Vijayan writes about the value of seeing Alina Starkov build her strength a little at a time in the face of …

Jul 29, 2021: I feel both seen and attacked by this Lit Hub piece that says the literary character who shares my Enneagram type (4) is Dorian Gray.

Jul 28, 2021: I’m available for work starting September 7. Ideal employed situation is part-time, remote, at least $1500/mo. Also open to contract work. My …

Jul 27, 2021: Putting yourself back together I’ve written before about how matrescence is like kintsugi: having a baby shatters you and the living you do after you have the baby puts you back …

Jul 26, 2021: Today my (medical) doctor called me and when I answered, she said, “Hello, Dr. Hirsh?”

Jul 26, 2021: 📚 This interview with Tamsyn Muir is great.

Jul 26, 2021: Finished reading: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚

Jul 23, 2021: 📚 In HARROW THE NINTH Harrowhark uses the phrase “A fatal longing for the picturesque” and I’m all “AHHHHH is that a THE SECRET HISTORY reference?”

Jul 22, 2021: 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 recommend it. Kids wander through all types of terrain …

Jul 21, 2021: 🔖📺🍿This piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as grand or mischievous as we’re used to. Great piece …

Jul 21, 2021: 🔖🍿📚 It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read: Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray. ‹ …

Jul 21, 2021: The article Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as wealthy as their parents were, and is known as …

Jul 21, 2021: Me, after two nights of terrible sleep: Welp, I worked for 48 billable minutes. Time to pack it in and watch TV!

Jul 20, 2021: My personal history with sewing 🧵 I promise I’m going to write about what I learned from sewing napkins soon. But first: my personal history with sewing! I’ve known how to machine sew …

Jul 20, 2021: Other people’s midi dress is my maxi dress.

Jul 20, 2021: You know what would be an interesting pair of books to read together? The 4-Hour Work Week and How to Do Nothing. 📚

Jul 19, 2021: Random stream-of-consciousness life updates I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. Hello, everyone! How are you doing? Over here, I’m on Day 6 of being In My …

Jul 18, 2021: 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 the studio, planting my seeds and cultivating my …

Jul 18, 2021: 💬📚 “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally f-cking up.” - Tamsyn Muir, HARROW THE NINTH …

Jul 17, 2021: 📚 O no I have HARROW THE NINTH on my eReader and want to hermit up and just read it until I’m doooooonnnnneee.

Jul 17, 2021: 📚 I’m re-reading THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and I want to write down all of Lord Henry Wotton’s bon mots but there are too many and all of them in …

Jul 16, 2021: Just watched the first episode of Schmigadoon and Aaron Tveit channeling John Raitt/Gordon McRae/Robert Goulet is 💯.

Jul 16, 2021: I’m working on developing a new academia aesthetic, it’s kind of a sff academia. Inspired by the Mythic Quest episode “Backstory,” still need to work …

Jul 16, 2021: I love when I have a call with my doctor and I say “I think I should do this” and she says “I agree.”

Jul 15, 2021: 🧵 I made napkins today and I learned a lot! I’ll write about it soon.

Jul 15, 2021: I’m about to start using Noter Live to live-tweet #MIRAULV2021. Conferring on the couch next to my kid who is binge-watching Number Blocks on Netflix. …

Jul 15, 2021: Wait wait wait bootcut jeans are on-trend again? Gen Z, you’re turning exhausted parents into fashion-forward geniuses, and we thank you.

Jul 14, 2021: My kid is watching Doc McStuffins and I’m over here swooning over the knight toy Sir Kirby because his voice sounds like @yakkopinky is doing an …

Jul 14, 2021: I tried Voila AI artist & this is what it says I’d look like as a 3D cartoon princess.

Jul 14, 2021: Happy birthday to me! W & M got me a sewing machine that has a manual! I asked for one I knew was affordable and simple. I can upgrade later.

Jul 14, 2021: 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 life becomes a tradition. Shout out to my friend …

Jul 14, 2021: Want to read: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun 📚

Jul 13, 2021: Finished reading: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett 📚

Jul 13, 2021: 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 and the Internet’s Lesbian dad. Her puns are a …

Jul 13, 2021: Tomorrow is my birthday (40th). If you want to celebrate, here are some options: have donuts read a book go swimming watch something from or about the …

Jul 12, 2021: I just signed up for 1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: The Scholar’s Guide to Writing & Publishing Creative Nonfiction, which I would not have done …

Jul 12, 2021: I didn’t see Katy Peplin’s blog post about grumping it out until just now but now is when I needed it, so that worked out well.

Jul 11, 2021: The thing about being a bard is that performance is more than just singing.

Jul 11, 2021: I need everyone to understand that in Marvel comics, there is the version of Thor that is a frog, and there is also a frog who is not Thor but has …

Jul 9, 2021: The Quiet Space has a website. This evolving project offers tools to help scholars & other knowledge creators manage the organizational aspects of …

Jul 9, 2021: 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 all in Cancer. I don’t believe the stars …

Jul 9, 2021: W: Would you say the town of Brigadoon is changed by the events of the musical? Me: What? No! Visitors to Brigadoon can’t change Brigadoon. It would …

Jul 9, 2021: 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. I get out a glass. I go to the fridge. I get out …

Jul 8, 2021: Hulu has both Beetlejuice and Season 7 of Younger, see y’all next week. 📺🍿

Jul 8, 2021: 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 normal reference range but were, in my opinion, …

Jul 7, 2021: 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 Habitat and wanted to keep some notes in a place …

Jul 7, 2021: Nightstand before & after courtesy the first couple of mini-challenges in the original UfYH book. (I’ll get a commission if you purchase the book …

Jul 7, 2021: I take 20 medications/supplements, some of them more than once a day.

Jul 3, 2021: I’m brewing 2 essays about Star Trek: The Next Generation: about Data, perfectionism, & imposter syndrome in “Peak Performance” (2x21) & about the …

Jul 2, 2021: My kid asked me if he was a camper & I told him we could call our home a camp if he wanted and he named it LD Camp. It stands for Librarian Doctor …

Jul 2, 2021: Years ago now, my sister gave M. a 3D printed Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Today I painted it as we watched Kiki.

Jul 2, 2021: I don’t believe being a librarian is A Calling but I do believe it is a disposition; it is one of my most prominent dispositions & as such my love …

Jul 1, 2021: Welcome to Camp NaNoWriMo with me! I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. It’s July 1 which means it’s the start of Camp NaNoWriMo! I’ve created a new …

Jun 29, 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 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska …

Jun 29, 2021: 🔖 Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders researching affinity spaces, the overlooked punk rockness of …

Jun 29, 2021: 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 this successfully up through the proposal …

Jun 28, 2021: Want to read: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher 📚

Jun 28, 2021: 🔖▶️ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they mention the Challenger or Christa McAuliffe. 35 years & yet …

Jun 28, 2021: 🔖📺 Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. 🦇

Jun 27, 2021: I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. I’ve never not had a plan before. I’m lucky I can afford to …

Jun 27, 2021: Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann Mason, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger 📚

Jun 27, 2021: 📚 I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething with rage.

Jun 27, 2021: I don’t like to drink rosé but I love the roséwave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what faux-luxe looks like for parents of young children. So far, …

Jun 26, 2021: Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy 📚

Jun 26, 2021: 💬📚 “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never exist? Why have I made my present happiness contingent …

Jun 26, 2021: Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly for treating me like a baby, even though it’s …

Jun 26, 2021: My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game. Me: Fun! What’s it called? Kid: “Science Nerd.” 🐢🕹️

Jun 26, 2021: 🔖▶️ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! …

Jun 25, 2021: Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied bathroom that resulted in me taking the handle off …

Jun 24, 2021: JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering my kid for the next round of swim lessons. Also read a …

Jun 24, 2021: Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep hygiene tips to yourself.)

Jun 24, 2021: As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning 40 I realize people in their 40s have simply …

Jun 24, 2021: 🔖📝 I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and anything I don’t …

Jun 24, 2021: Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia 📚

Jun 23, 2021: Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The Kimberly Hirsh story [Caption: a woman with hair that …

Jun 23, 2021: Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie 📚

Jun 22, 2021: 📚 I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.

Jun 22, 2021: What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a bunch about the thing you’re writing about and …

Jun 21, 2021: 9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon! 1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally going to read GIDEON THE NINTH this afternoon! 📚

Jun 20, 2021: In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty mess who was clearly somebody’s mom. I thought, “I’m cute! …

Jun 19, 2021: 📚 (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!

Jun 19, 2021: Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of turkey is not how I expected to spend my Saturday …

Jun 19, 2021: The layers of references in this poster are delightful: cats as Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson chef kiss 🖖📺🖼️

Jun 18, 2021: Finished reading: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Jun 18, 2021: 💬📚 “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER, Leigh Bardugo

Jun 18, 2021: 📚 I’m reading Leigh Bardugo’s WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER & while it took a little while to grab me, here at about 2/3 of the way through I’m constantly …

Jun 16, 2021: I’m announcing it to make it real: I’m going to write a sweet romance novella for Camp NaNoWriMo in July & I’m going to write it in public on a blog …

Jun 16, 2021: 🔖📚 Read What We Can—and Can’t—Learn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction - Electric Literature electricliterature.com Read: …

Jun 15, 2021: 💬📺 “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s manageable.” - Eda the Owl Lady, The Owl House Season 1 Episode 4, “The …

Jun 15, 2021: Anybody else feel like a lot of qualitative methodology writeups in studies are basically “I did a qual! I analyzed a thing! DATA! CODES!” and not any …

Jun 14, 2021: 🔖 Read Toll from political push at UNC continues to mount | NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.com Read: www.ncpolicywatch.com ncpolicywatch.com …

Jun 14, 2021: Me: What am I going to do with my kid all summer? The pool: Hi. Me: 😍🧜🏻‍♀️

Jun 13, 2021: Someone in my neighborhood is doing yardwork at 9 pm and I’m not okay with it.

Jun 12, 2021: Do I pretend I’m Kaz Brekker when I use my new cane? Only with every step I take.

Jun 12, 2021: Part of me is always working on a taxonomy and ontology of #StarTrekTNG episodes. (Currently: only Data can safely go down to the planet. A girl or …

Jun 11, 2021: I have no special insight into the MCU but this song might be a bit instructive (and if you’re familiar with Marvel Comics is pretty hilarious):

Jun 11, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Loki episode 1 finds a startling way to rest the antihero for Marvel TV - Polygon polygon.comRead: www.polygon.com polygon.com …

Jun 11, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Loki episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Thor’s naughty brother gets busted for time crimes - CNET cnet.comRead: www.cnet.com cnet.com …

Jun 11, 2021: 📺 watched Loki Season 1, Episode 1, “Glorious Purpose.” Took me a little while to get into but I’m looking forward to seeing where the show goes. I …

Jun 11, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Star Trek | Games of Fame gamesoffame.wordpress.comRead: gamesoffame.wordpress.com gamesoffame.wordpress.com …

Jun 11, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read 1974: Super Star Trek - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com …

Jun 11, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Addendums | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …

Jun 11, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 5: Wumpus 2 and 3 | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …

Jun 11, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read » Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

Jun 11, 2021: Watching “new” She-Ra with my kid & forgot who my She-Ra avatar was but then we got to episode 5…

Jun 10, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read » Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

Jun 10, 2021: What does after even mean? Lately some of the things that have been lifelines for me during the pandemic have started to feel less lifeliney. The crafting group I meet with on …

Jun 10, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 4: Hunt the Wumpus (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …

Jun 10, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 2: Mugwump, Hurkle, Snark (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …

Jun 10, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 1: Hide and Seek (1972) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …

Jun 10, 2021: 🍿📺🗯️ I just watched the two pre-Loki episodes of Marvel Studios LEGENDS and y’all the MCU gets more obtuse all the time. In comics they do periodic …

Jun 10, 2021: 🔖🎮 ReadBefore Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …

Jun 10, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read 1973: Hunt the Wumpus - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com …

Jun 9, 2021: Text adventure nostalgia I hope your Wednesday’s going well! (Or Thursday if you’re farther east enough than me that that’s what day it is!) I’ve been reading and loving Aaron …

Jun 9, 2021: Today, in letting go of my internalized ableism: using a cane during a hip pain flare.

Jun 9, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Forty Years of Lunar Lander technologizer.com Read: www.technologizer.com technologizer.com …

Jun 9, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Lunar Lander: The Full Story of the Legendary Game and Genre fictionphile.com Read: fictionphile.com fictionphile.com …

Jun 9, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read 1972: ROCKET - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com https://if50.substack.com/p/1972-rocket

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Something Found In The Oregon Trail - Code Dive codedive.substack.com Read: codedive.substack.com codedive.substack.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Oregon Trail Ver. 3 (BASIC 3.1, 1978) | Desert Hat deserthat.wordpress.com Read: deserthat.wordpress.com deserthat.wordpress.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Rafting Down the Columbia River died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Matt’s Store & Starting the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Crossing Rivers died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read The Earliest Versions of the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read A Brief History of the Oregon Trail Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read The Oregon Trail Memes died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Designing the Travel Screen for “The Oregon Trail” | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com medium.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 The FEMICOM museum is my new favorite thing.

Jun 8, 2021: Things that can bring on trochanteric (hip) bursitis: sitting, lying down, physical activity. 😬

Jun 8, 2021: On pain Hello again! My right hip has been hurting the past couple of days. Or almost a week, I guess - it started last Wednesday and has been off-and-on …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🏳️‍🌈 Read The Power of Pride - Arc Digital arcdigital.mediaRead: www.arcdigital.media arcdigital.media …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read Designing the Hunting Game for “The Oregon Trail” | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com medium.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read The Forgotten History of ‘The Oregon Trail,’ As Told By Its Creators vice.comRead: www.vice.com vice.com …

Jun 8, 2021: 🔖🎮 Read 1971: The Oregon Trail - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com …

Jun 7, 2021: 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 consciousness. I work best in two-hour chunks. Today, I …

Jun 7, 2021: 🔖 Martha Bautells’s On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?) resonates with me, as I still grieve the dissertation I didn’t …

Jun 7, 2021: ↪️ in reply to Bridgy stats update I wonder if the drop-off in publishing after August 2020 might be due to pandemic fatigue.

Jun 6, 2021: 💬📚 “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - …

Jun 5, 2021: 🔖🧵🧶 Read What We Learned From a Year of Crafting - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com …

Jun 5, 2021: There are worse things than sitting outside at a children’s museum on a beautiful day with little fans pointed at your face while your spouse plays …

Jun 5, 2021: 🔖📚 Read Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine interviewmagazine.comRead: www.interviewmagazine.com interviewmagazine.com …

Jun 5, 2021: 💬🔖📚 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 crisis. Someone who was a person becomes a mother. …

Jun 5, 2021: 🔖🖥️ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be the most engrossing post I’d read all week and it did not …

Jun 3, 2021: Career Advice for PhDs Websites and Professionals: You should use ImaginePhD! It will help you identify a good post/alt/non-ac career for your …

Jun 3, 2021: 🔖📚 Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A heartbreaking excerpt from Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, …

Jun 3, 2021: 🔖📚 Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together personal experiences of trans matrescence and the …

Jun 3, 2021: 🔖📝 Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhood… While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual fragmented life of a mother is intensified by the …

Jun 1, 2021: Quick Review: The City We Became 📚 I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I love the way N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became captures the spirit of the …

Jun 1, 2021: Finished reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin 📚

Jun 1, 2021: I’ve also made my Scholarly Writing Project Audit and Pipeline Notion template available via Gumroad. It’s pay-what-you-can/want. It is based on …

Jun 1, 2021: For #TrekTuesday, I’ll share that I spend a LOT of time wondering why we don’t see social scientists as key crew members on the Enterprise-D and the …

May 31, 2021: I’ve made my Conceptual Synthesis Spreadsheet Notion template available via Gumroad. It’s pay-what-you-can/want. This spreadsheet is based on Raul …

May 30, 2021: Thanks to a generous person I met in the Mermaids of NC group on Facebook, I am now Dr. Mer-Mom. Apparently having a mermaid tail makes me extra …

May 28, 2021: Build networks & ask for what you need & give what you can. Swimming in a mermaid tail is a hobby with a community. I’ve wanted to get into it for …

May 28, 2021: I got a Rakuten Libra H2O and I am so excited about its OverDrive integration. So many public library books at my fingertips on a screen that’s not …

May 27, 2021: Finished reading: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 📚

May 26, 2021: 📚💬 “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.” Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo, …

May 25, 2021: Want to read: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy by Karen Walrond 📚

May 24, 2021: 📚 Kaz Brekker is the best. Why do we have obligations besides reading books?

May 24, 2021: 📚💬 I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. Obviously Kaz is phenomenal; Wylan is awesome, too. …

May 23, 2021: 📚 In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world” and …

May 21, 2021: Hey guess what? You can download the Creative Commons-licensed version of my dissertation on my dissertation page!

May 20, 2021: Added “consulting scholar-librarian 🔍” to my bio.

May 20, 2021: Getting a lot of targeted ads for EdDs like “Heeeey noticed you just finished a doctorate, want another?” [GIF: Seth Meyer laughing and then saying …

May 20, 2021: 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 few weeks off before launching consulting, …

May 20, 2021: 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 now, here’s a collection of everything I tweeted …

May 19, 2021: 📚 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 Niveus Academy and total opposites. Devon is a nobody, …

May 19, 2021: Just deleted “expected” before “May 2021” in my CV.

May 18, 2021: 📚 How do you keep track of quotes that resonate with you? I usually write them in my Bullet Journal or post them to my blog, but sometimes I snap a …

May 18, 2021: Finished reading: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 📚

May 18, 2021: 📺 I’ve got 2 episodes left of SHRILL. It’s so weird being right in the middle of Annie and Gabe’s ages, too old to be an up-and-coming earnest …

May 18, 2021: Want to read: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel 📚

May 18, 2021: 📺 Fran is always my favorite on SHRILL. Today it’s because she says, “I just don’t think I can work somewhere where I’m not universally admired and …

May 18, 2021: Today in “But they’re worth it”: my kid showed me a tiny grape as though he had found an amazing treasure. If you like kids but don’t want your own, …

May 17, 2021: Yesterday I did 3 things so today my body wants me to do no things. I hope the plan I made with my Dr gets my thyroid levels back to optimal. These …

May 17, 2021: 📚 Sometimes I have to start a book several times before it holds my interest. A GAME OF THRONES was like that, but eventually I caught it in the right …

May 16, 2021: I carry a tote bag around my house as I move through my day. I never know what I’ll be in the mood to read if I have the time to, so I usually have at …

May 16, 2021: Want to read: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams 📚

May 15, 2021: 📚 Right before I started my Grishaverse catch up, I went on a dark academia spree. These were three of the books I read as part of that. They’re each …

May 14, 2021: 📚 Remember how I said my hammock was my favorite reading spot? Here’s a flashback to me reading SIX OF CROWS in my hammock a few weeks ago. The purple …

May 13, 2021: Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope 📚

May 13, 2021: Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph 📚

May 13, 2021: Post-graduation reception.

May 13, 2021: Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)

May 13, 2021: Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing doctoral regalia, including a dark blue PhD hood and velvet …

May 13, 2021: Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller 📚

May 13, 2021: My kid and I are building NYC for the Ninja Turtles & Marvel Superheroes to adventure in, so of course I had to build the @nypl Schwarzman bldg on 5th …

May 13, 2021: 📚 I first read SHADOW AND BONE 5 years ago, on a hammock at the beach, when I was 7 months pregnant. I was too impatient to do a re-read before the …

May 13, 2021: I had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been accepted by my university!

May 12, 2021: I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at kimberlyhirsh.reads if you want to follow along. Right now this almost 20 year old picture of me …

May 11, 2021: I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.

May 11, 2021: Me, watching STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS: Battle, battle, battle. When are we going to get another DIPLOMACY episode? (Padme is my prequel era fave, OF …

May 11, 2021: I fixed the formatting problem which was in fact my fault. When I tried to fix one thing it did another thing and I didn’t realize it and was too …

May 11, 2021: I’ve been attending to my mind almost exclusively for 6 years (and arguably for almost 40). Time to give some attention to her neglected sisters, my …

May 11, 2021: Was playing Ninja Turtles with my kid & his action figures & kid made Leo tell Donnie he’s just a toy & I made Donnie have a full-on existential …

May 11, 2021: I am filled with rage over the number of formatting revisions I am having to make to my dissertation, especially as the most recent one they requested …

May 10, 2021: Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 📚

May 9, 2021: 🔖 I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana Troi Became Our Space Aunt I couldn’t be happier to be aging into my …

May 8, 2021: I was thinking last night about why characters who look a mess but are competent when it counts are some of my favorites and I realized that’s how I …

May 7, 2021: Prepping to launch my consulting career 👩‍‍💼 Hello again, internet. I just finished writing the last thing I had to write for my assistantship. I’m taking a break and not hustling hustling for …

May 6, 2021: Want to read: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle …

May 5, 2021: Added “serious Belle vibes 📚” to my bio.

May 4, 2021: You should probably look at Laz Marquez’s #StarTrekGala art project because it’s AWESOME. 🖖🏻🎨📺

May 4, 2021: 🔖📚 Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] (https://austinkleon.com/2021/05/04/wintering-and-dormancy/), quoting Katherine May’s book …

May 3, 2021: 🔖📺🖖 Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant

May 3, 2021: 🔖📺🖖 Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details what Picard explains in the TNG episode “The Neutral …

May 3, 2021: I think at some point in the past 6 years I became an information scientist. Yay?

May 2, 2021: I’m thinking about metaphors for how people consume information. Infodemic. Infobesity. I think there are more thoughts to be had here, potentially …

May 2, 2021: Went really minimal with my latest bio: motherscholar 👩‍💻 she/her ♿ ❤️💜💙 Durham, NC, USA 🌎

May 2, 2021: I want to share that if you have panic attacks fueled by imposter syndrome more than 2 weeks after your dissertation defense, you are not alone, …

May 2, 2021: Want to read: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins 📚

May 2, 2021: 🔖ReadPost-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com louisaellenstein.com …

May 2, 2021: 🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com bogost.com http://bogost.com/blog/against_aca-fandom/

May 2, 2021: 🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com louisaellenstein.com …

May 2, 2021: 🔖📺 Read On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com adornofangirl …

Apr 30, 2021: Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy: She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar. Quoted in Of Muppets and Men by …

Apr 30, 2021: Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a hunger for the absurd are nicely balanced. Were he …

Apr 30, 2021: Want to read: Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele 📚

Apr 30, 2021: Played Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? via the Internet Archive with M. this morning & explained that Moscow is no longer the capital of the …

Apr 29, 2021: What we do is character comedy. Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show by …

Apr 29, 2021: CS101: Week One I’m auditing Stanford’s CS101 on EdX because while I love Harvard’s CS50x I think I need some back to basics stuff. (All of this recommended by the …

Apr 29, 2021: Woohoo, I think I wrote the introduction of this article, yay me. Back to chipping away at the lit review…

Apr 29, 2021: Here’s me in 2018 unknowingly arguing the key finding of my dissertation: information literacy models should include creation.

Apr 29, 2021: 🔖 Read No One Makes a Living on Patreon.

Apr 28, 2021: Oh hey I got so excited about becoming Dr. Hirsh that I forgot to share photos of my Data make-up test on my non-cosplay accounts. Here you go! …

Apr 28, 2021: Y’all is Kevin Feige okay? Has he ever, you know, been outside? Somebody should probably take him to a park.

Apr 27, 2021: 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 works! I’m putting double pipes around it so people …

Apr 27, 2021: 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 floating around different places I spend time online …

Apr 27, 2021: 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 notes on it and highlighted all over the place but …

Apr 27, 2021: Am I always tired because I’m: A) a newly minted PhD recovering from dissertating B) the parent of a young child C) a person living with chronic …

Apr 26, 2021: My Dissertation Acknowledgments It’s probably going to be a little while before I get my full dissertation up online, so I thought I’d go ahead and post my acknowledgments here. …

Apr 26, 2021: 🔖 Read ‘Buy Nothing’ groups: A place to share goods, services — and gratitude.

Apr 25, 2021: Biggest takeaway from the first 5 episodes of SHADOW & BONE is that I want to get really good at embroidery & goldwork and make all the keftas. …

Apr 25, 2021: 🔖 Read Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com https://anildash.com/2012/12/18/rebuilding_the_web_we_lost/

Apr 25, 2021: 🔖 Read The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com http://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/

Apr 25, 2021: O hai. the early blogosphere was full of people who obsessed over “correctly” labeling and organizing content. Anil Dash, The Lost Infrastructure of …

Apr 25, 2021: Finished reading: Come Back, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Wallace Tripp 📚

Apr 25, 2021: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower by Peggy Parish and Barbara Siegel Thomas 📚

Apr 24, 2021: I have been so focused on writing my dissertation for so long that it’s a challenge to write a lit review short enough for a journal article. 📝

Apr 23, 2021: Finished reading: Thank You, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, Barbara Siebel Thomas 📚

Apr 23, 2021: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Fitz Siebel 📚

Apr 23, 2021: 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 longer. But at over 1000 entries and more all the …

Apr 23, 2021: Hello I have watched the first episode of SHADOW & BONE and Jesper has now replaced Kaz as my Ketterdam favorite. (I don’t think my Ravka fave will …

Apr 23, 2021: You can now watch my dissertation defense presentation! I’ve stopped the video before the Q&A to protect my committee and guests’ privacy, but if you …

Apr 23, 2021: Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Apr 22, 2021: 🔖🍿📺 Read Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.comRead: www.polygon.com polygon.com …

Apr 22, 2021: Today’s weather is the best kind of NC spring weather. It’s 57F and there are fluffy clouds. The trees are all green. I’m in a hoodie under a blanket …

Apr 22, 2021: Want to read: Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts 📚

Apr 22, 2021: Want to read: The Brilliant Abyss, Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales 📚

Apr 21, 2021: I’m so happy that I’m now qualified to wear this Delicious PhD Darling “regalia.” 🤣 (If you’ve never seen this before, be sure to read the reviews.)

Apr 21, 2021: 🔖 Read How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com publishersweekly.com …

Apr 21, 2021: 🔖 Read How to Read When You Have a Baby | Book Riot bookriot.combookriot.com https://bookriot.com/how-to-read-when-you-have-a-baby/ Sound advice here. …

Apr 21, 2021: I resent the fact that Book Riot’s Find Out Your SHADOW AND BONE Character quiz made me choose between Nikolai & Kaz. (I chose Nikolai but I’d rather …

Apr 21, 2021: 🔖 Read On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com …

Apr 20, 2021: I know somebody on micro.blog has put together an On This Day type page that shows you posts on today’s date in previous years. I can’t remember who …

Apr 20, 2021: My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining your attachment to fantasy. 🍿

Apr 19, 2021: Told y’all I was going all-in on Trek. 🖖🏻📚

Apr 19, 2021: Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic from Rofhiwa Bookcafé to celebrate. 📚 📝🎉

Apr 18, 2021: 🔖 Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite series from this era is the 6 issue miniseries …

Apr 15, 2021: Exhausted from defense & migrainey because PCOS, so it’s time to settle in with some #StarTrekTNG. I’m doing a very slow rewatch. Today: “Samaritan …

Apr 15, 2021: Advisor: So make these revisions because those were good questions and you had answers to them. Me: Please send the defense video, I will not remember …

Apr 15, 2021: Katherine Taylor’s essay, I Am Not a Robot, explores Data’s value as a stand-in for autistic people. It also gets at how all kinds of neurodivergent …

Apr 14, 2021: I have a lot of thank yous to catch up on, and I will. But in the meantime, I highly recommend having most of your best friends at your dissertation …

Apr 14, 2021: Lt. Cmdr. DOCTOR Kimberly Hirsh here… I mean Data, whoops… I passed my dissertation defense! Yay me! And immense thanks to the people who attended. It …

Apr 14, 2021: This really does feel like waiting to go to the hospital to be induced. I hope the dissertation defense involves less back labor.

Apr 14, 2021: Really wish I felt like I could sweeten my defense with a laugh track.

Apr 14, 2021: Me, when Wesley Crusher tells Guinan he always gets As: Really? We’re still grading things in the 24th century? 🖖🏻📺

Apr 13, 2021: Last call for anyone who wants to attend my dissertation defense on Zoom, 4/14/21 1pm Eastern! The title is “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? …

Apr 13, 2021: O no my defense adrenaline has arrived 18 hours early

Apr 13, 2021: THE NEVERS as Disability Metaphor ♿ 📺 This post contains slight spoilers for The Nevers. I just watched the first episode of The Nevers. Yes, it was created, written, and directed by Joss …

Apr 13, 2021: Weeks ago now my kid told me, “You don’t need to be a doctor. You’re already somebody special.” Carrying that energy in my heart always.

Apr 13, 2021: 🔖Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. 📺🎵

Apr 13, 2021: 🔖 I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of cosplayers dress as The Martians from Sesame …

Apr 13, 2021: Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?

Apr 12, 2021: Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Apr 11, 2021: Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup test and parenting). Off to Ravka for the next 45 …

Apr 11, 2021: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing by John Scalzi 📚

Apr 9, 2021: Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. 📝

Apr 9, 2021: Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction? The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your Sun & Ascendant are both in Cancer in the 1st …

Apr 9, 2021: Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was garbage & she said “Lol so writing like art has garbage …

Apr 7, 2021: I have decided to go all-in on Star Trek. Especially TNG of course, but for the time being, I’m making Trek writ large my primary fandom.

Apr 7, 2021: I’m not saying I’m just saying I kind of wish the Season 2 finale of Picard would be Picard and Q’s wedding is all. 🖖🏻📺

Apr 7, 2021: Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… 📺🍿

Apr 7, 2021: Don’t mind me, I’m just over here flailing in response to the Picard Season 2 Teaser Trailer. 🖖🏻📺🔖

Apr 7, 2021: Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a source of joy. 🍿🔖

Apr 7, 2021: I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff done, but Natalie Zutter’s piece about Leia disguising …

Apr 7, 2021: Improv as community/business/cult has a lot of problems that would require a radical new model to fix but improv as playful art form taught me a lot …

Apr 6, 2021: I’m in a hammock and I don’t want to get up.

Apr 6, 2021: I just finished Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm and I’m so glad I’ve got the next one ready to go tonight. I’m not saying I’m going to stay up all …

Apr 6, 2021: Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Apr 6, 2021: Teared up watching @levarburton’s cameos for other people. “It’s over. It’s done. You defended the damn thing…” But don’t take my word for it.

Apr 6, 2021: So I’m reading my dissertation and I think it’s… Good? Like it was written by somebody who knows what they’re talking about? I take this as evidence …

Apr 6, 2021: About to start reading and marking up this thing in preparation for next week’s defense, at which I will boldly go where (to my knowledge) no Hirsh …

Apr 5, 2021: Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan Threats’s Reference Sources & Services class. I made the …

Apr 5, 2021: I really miss the internet of 2004 - 2007, specifically the DIY/New Domesticity craft punk blog & forum corner of it. I think my soul is a little bit …

Apr 3, 2021: I have now met all my pre-defense scholarly obligations (paper draft & guest lecture) so I guess it’s time to prepare for my defense. googles makeup …

Apr 3, 2021: 🔖 I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls out the very lines that always makes me cry. 🌈🐸🎵

Apr 3, 2021: True story, my dissertation includes the statement, “I was wrong.” 📝

Apr 2, 2021: 18 hrs post-vaccine woke up a little achey, a little lymph node-y. Not too bad but still planning to rest most of the day.

Apr 1, 2021: 5 hrs post-vaccine, feeling fuzzy-headed and mildly achey, chills receded but I bet they’ll be back.

Apr 1, 2021: J&J vaccine, side effects (or psychosomatic effects?) settling in after 3 hours: vague malaise, mild infrequent chill.

Apr 1, 2021: This windblown lady is vaccinated and waiting outside the Cookout Walk Up Window for a celebratory Cookout tray. (It’s me. This vaccinated and very …

Mar 30, 2021: Thinking of launching an academic editing service explicitly targeted to scholars who are also caregivers. Interested to hear thoughts on this from …

Mar 29, 2021: I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. Yay?

Mar 28, 2021: Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed Tantek Çelik’s chat conversations & blog post about …

Mar 25, 2021: Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both have dark hair and fair skin. I said, “And I, too, am …

Mar 23, 2021: My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. 💗💓📚📺

Mar 23, 2021: Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner 📚

Mar 22, 2021: I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would welcome even more! I’m open to hearing about any positions in …

Mar 22, 2021: 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 heart to start thinking about other things. I’m so …

Mar 21, 2021: Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong 📚

Mar 18, 2021: 4yo: What are you defending? Me: My dissertation. 4yo: Why do you have to defend it? Me:

Mar 18, 2021: Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert. Me: The 10,000 hours rule is not entirely evidence-based and we don’t …

Mar 17, 2021: Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend via text: TELLING FRIENDS THINGS I NEED TO HEAR: THE …

Mar 17, 2021: You know that thing where you’ve pursued something long enough that now you’ve pretty much been exposed to all the fundamentals of it, and instead of …

Mar 17, 2021: Debating with myself about regalia since I’m not going to an in-person ceremony. Definitely not trying to get the fancy stuff I dreamed of 10 yrs ago, …

Mar 16, 2021: “The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern life… Settling for mediocrity in everything but academic work is …

Mar 16, 2021: “[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Dr. …

Mar 16, 2021: “Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the career that people think you should have.” - Dr. Kelly …

Mar 16, 2021: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚

Mar 16, 2021: 🔖 What are we folding when we are folding laundry in quarantine is a beautiful poem by Sarah Ruhl. Probably time for me to pick up my copy of 100 …

Mar 16, 2021: 🔖 I love this take. I’d love to see it even more fleshed out: WandaVision Is Basically a Retelling of the Scarlet Letter (LitHub) 📺

Mar 16, 2021: Apparently it’s going to be an up-every-two-hours kind of night.

Mar 15, 2021: SAVE THE DATE! My dissertation defense is set for April 14th from 1 - 3 pm. It will be held via Zoom. SILS dissertation defenses are open. Please get …

Mar 12, 2021: Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual for. (I’ve tried all the places but if you find me a …

Mar 12, 2021: I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! 🧵

Mar 12, 2021: I wound a bobbin! 🧵

Mar 11, 2021: Taking a mini-spring break over UNC’s Wellness Days & the weekend, including bailing on Social Media. See y’all Monday!

Mar 9, 2021: No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing supplies. 🧵

Mar 9, 2021: I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent my finished, formatted dissertation to my advisor, who will send it to my committee. All that remains is for me to …

Mar 8, 2021: We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. 🍿

Mar 8, 2021: In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. 😢

Mar 7, 2021: Catching up on MCU. My favorite parts of Daredevil S2 are when Matt Murdock & Frank Castle have quiet conversations about vigilante ethics & …

Mar 6, 2021: Me, justifying my discussion chapter to the committee in my head: It’s only 1/3 of a dissertation so that’s why there’s only 1/3 of an original …

Mar 6, 2021: I may have finished my discussion chapter. I definitely sent it off to my advisor.

Mar 5, 2021: Discussion section: behind the scenes [Alt text: A piece of paper showing a black and white diagram with several shapes on it and text overlaid on the …

Mar 5, 2021: Wrote ~1200 words. Time for a cake break! 🍰 Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! 🍩

Mar 5, 2021: Today’s writing music: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Original Soundtrack SQUARE ENIX MUSIC

Mar 5, 2021: Me, this morning: Sure buddy, I’ll find those missing toys for you! Me, after taking everything out and spreading out because I might as well organize …

Mar 4, 2021: I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I finish my dissertation, of course.

Mar 4, 2021: As long as I defend before the semester is over I’m good. On the off chance my post-defense revisions are so substantial I can’t make the April 21 …

Mar 4, 2021: Today: Day 3 of garbage sleep. Empathetically worried about funding for the PhD cohorts coming up behind me. In so much pain that I actually whimper …

Mar 4, 2021: 🔖 This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to figure out who will make a cameo and, say, analyzing …

Mar 4, 2021: 🔖 This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it lives now, if anywhere.

Mar 4, 2021: Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. Liara T’soni (huge Mass Effect spoilers there).

Mar 3, 2021: You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to tie the end of your dissertation together? That just …

Mar 3, 2021: My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled over another 9 pages from an earlier draft. I …

Mar 3, 2021: Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler 📚

Mar 3, 2021: Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey 📚

Mar 3, 2021: Today in the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet might have the coronavirus but he’s asymptomatic; Pooh, Rabbit, and Eeyore have all been vaccinated. (Kanga, …

Mar 3, 2021: I’ll say this (among other things) for being a part-time stay-at-home mom/part-time scholar: the mom part gives you lots of staring into space time …

Mar 3, 2021: I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley Esqueda said “maybe grief is enough” & it turns out it …

Mar 2, 2021: Is there anything more attractive than an attractive person writing a grant application & looking in the household copy of Creswell & Creswell to help …

Mar 2, 2021: 🔖 These images of comic book heroes redrawn to have average body types are fascinating from a cosplayer’s perspective. The “real” bodies look every …

Mar 2, 2021: 🔖 Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It will surprise no one that the 80s one is my fave. (via …

Mar 1, 2021: I just reviewed my advisor’s notes on the first 6 chapters of my dissertation (Intro, 2 Lit Review, 2 Theory, Methods). When I started I was in a …

Mar 1, 2021: What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of SHIELD 3x15) is that everyone with a PhD in the natural …

Mar 1, 2021: There are a lot of hard moments as a parent. I tend to share moments like this: M. quietly building with Magnatiles while leaning on my leg. We share …

Mar 1, 2021: Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill 📚

Mar 1, 2021: 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 jumped in and started writing without any worries …

Feb 27, 2021: Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems like having 14 informational interviews in a …

Feb 26, 2021: I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly receded but now I’m SO AWAKE. I would normally read a book but I’m …

Feb 26, 2021: Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will you let me know? Mind if I message/email you with …

Feb 26, 2021: I may have added, um, 40 pages (mostly quotes and tables) to my findings chapter in revision…

Feb 25, 2021: Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to the justification writing!” and my body said “Hold on …

Feb 25, 2021: Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the part where I justify my data analysis decisions. …

Feb 24, 2021: Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!

Feb 24, 2021: OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to pull quotes from, then some writing up of my data …

Feb 24, 2021: It’s a good day for lying on a hammock and listening to an audiobook. 📷

Feb 23, 2021: Hello today I think my ideal job would be to read books and then write essays (not straight up reviews) about those books. Sometimes a group of books …

Feb 23, 2021: I’m writing through a migraine right now. I have this one participant interview that’s really detailed and part of me wants to just copy and paste …

Feb 23, 2021: I finished reading Mona Awad’s BUNNY last night. I can’t even write a review of it because I don’t have enough words to convey all the important …

Feb 22, 2021: Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad 📚

Feb 22, 2021: My current writing process: mine one interview for quotes. Read a chapter of BUNNY by Mona Awad. Repeat. 📝 #amwriting 🐰

Feb 22, 2021: Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon 📚

Feb 22, 2021: I should hang this Austin Kleon drawing from p. 165 of KEEP GOING up in my home office. [Description: a human skeleton wearing a black hat & clothes …

Feb 21, 2021: “Art Monsters are not necessary or glamorous and they are not to be condoned, pardoned, or emulated.” - Austin Kleon, Keep Going, p. 124 📚

Feb 19, 2021: Just gonna give up all other pursuits and devote my life to writing Muppet Show friendfic from now on, byeeeee.

Feb 19, 2021: I have so many happy Muppet Show feelings. Every time Fozzie is on screen my brain almost literally superimposes my dad’s image over him. This brings …

Feb 19, 2021: The latest episode of WandaVision has given me a new cosplay goal… 📺

Feb 19, 2021: Give Kathryn Hahn an Emmy. 📺

Feb 19, 2021: 🔖 This is a library that is also a theater. I want to go to there.

Feb 18, 2021: Want to read: Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley 📚

Feb 17, 2021: Sent off my methodology chapter today. It only needed a little revision, mostly moving stuff from it to findings. Started working on findings & it’s …

Feb 17, 2021: Renee Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) sings the theme song for the new Muppet Babies. This makes me very happy.

Feb 16, 2021: I’m actually enjoying messing around on the Internet for a while and some water started leaking out of my eyes. Are these tears of joy?

Feb 16, 2021: Hello! I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent a theory chapter off to my advisor. You should be proud of me. I am.

Feb 16, 2021: 🔖 If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s Dead Channel. The latest issue talks about the erosion of …

Feb 15, 2021: 🔖 Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on “X-Men” in 1999 & I love his writing.

Feb 15, 2021: 🔖 Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m hoping to be able to write a detailed response but for now I’ll …

Feb 15, 2021: “Wellness” day #1: Wrote ~1700 words for my dissertation, outlined the methods section for an article. Maybe time to get a breath of fresh air and do …

Feb 15, 2021: Here are some things I’m not interested in: content marketing lead magnets analytics clickthrough SEO branded partnerships the hustle Here are some …

Feb 14, 2021: 🔖 The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I needed. 🧙‍♀️🧀

Feb 14, 2021: I’m so psyched to read all the articles fan studies scholars are going to write about #DeanCasWedding.

Feb 14, 2021: Doing more lurking/replying than posting rn. I’ve blocked Twitter on my phone. It redirects me to Austin Kleon’s How to Read More post. I do enjoy …

Feb 14, 2021: Want to read: Bookish Broads by Lauren Marino 📚

Feb 13, 2021: Want to read: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman 📚

Feb 11, 2021: I added >1000 words to the theory chapter of my dissertation today. I’ve still a ways to go, but it’s nice to see such progress.

Feb 10, 2021: 🔖 One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital commonplace book: doing it on your own website.

Feb 10, 2021: It was kind of fun to see one of my drama professors from undergrad in M. L. Rio’s acknowledgements for If We Were Villains. Plus two actors I helped …

Feb 10, 2021: Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 📚

Feb 10, 2021: 🔖 This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth Doctor’s scarf sits at the center of a Venn diagram of two …

Feb 10, 2021: 🔖 Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what it means to know someone’s handle. It resonated especially …

Feb 9, 2021: Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and woke up about every 2 hours. I had a pretty good …

Feb 9, 2021: I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release order. Most are skippable, but Zombies Assemble is fun. …

Feb 9, 2021: Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee 📚

Feb 8, 2021: Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get this dissertation revised in time after all.

Feb 8, 2021: 🔖 My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF catalog.

Feb 8, 2021: Writing that theory chapter…

Feb 8, 2021: We went to the NC Museum of Art Park as a family Saturday. It was a really nice change of pace from our usual neighborhood trails & city parks. The …

Feb 6, 2021: In case you’re following along, this morning the impostor syndrome was so bad I could feel it in my chest, but after doing like my advisor & …

Feb 5, 2021: 🔖 Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.

Feb 5, 2021: Okay. Reorganized my work and my thinking and feeling better about my ability to be the kind of scholar I want to be. Phew.

Feb 5, 2021: New plans for this afternoon: Eat. Cry. Get back to work.

Feb 5, 2021: I feel like Charlie in Flowers for Algernon, knowing he used to be smart. I think, “Remember when I was a good scholar and knew how to do things? I …

Feb 5, 2021: Every once in a while early Sesame Street drops in a random Carol Burnett segment and it brings me such joy. 📺

Feb 5, 2021: 🔖 In Back-Talking The Tone Police: Book People Are Not Your Enemy, Tika Vateri says all the things I couldn’t articulate in response to Joanna Mang’s …

Feb 4, 2021: Y’all RiffTrax is doing a Star Trek: Generations watch along tonight and if my kid is asleep in time, I may try to hop on! 🖖

Feb 4, 2021: The pandemic is making my brain not. Dissertating during a pandemic is not easy. Maintaining concentration is a real challenge. Before the pandemic, my chronic illness allowed me about 2 …

Feb 4, 2021: Hello! Today I’m (not) enjoying some musculoskeletal pain. How are things with you?

Feb 3, 2021: Me: reviews dissertation feedback and writes down 5 questions for meeting tomorrow w/advisor & methodologist Still Me: Welp, time for a nap. WELCOME …

Feb 3, 2021: Great question from Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) that it’d help me if you answer: What do I do that others don’t?

Feb 3, 2021: I have so many thoughts about information literacy and they’re so timely. It would be brilliant to write them up as public scholarship but y’all I …

Feb 2, 2021: I’m reading IF WE WERE VILLAINS by M. L. Rio & it does this interesting thing where you know it’s not THE SECRET HISTORY but it a little bit is & just …

Feb 2, 2021: I’m doing a daily tarot pull starting today. Four cards popped out of the deck at me today. The tarot always knows what we need to hear. Daughter & …

Feb 2, 2021: Me: Why is my neck hurting? Child: climbs on my neck Me: Oh.

Feb 1, 2021: Every night I lie in my kid’s bed until he falls asleep and every night I wish someone would pick me up and carry me to my own bed.

Jan 31, 2021: I’ve got that sweet, sweet book hangover where you finish reading and then look around and think, “Where am I? What is this strange ‘real world’? …

Jan 31, 2021: Finished reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 📚

Jan 31, 2021: I’m having to remind myself that the reason a 2 yr ethnographic dissertation I’m reading is more expansive than mine is bc I wrote mine on a …

Jan 29, 2021: GENTLE WRITING ADVICE: You could write some words sometime if you feel like it, but if you’re in more of a taking-a-nap or binge-watching-Star-Trek …

Jan 29, 2021: The model for a dissertation defense in my head is still f2f. When I try to envision my inevitable remote defense my brain just shuts down. Will I …

Jan 29, 2021: 🔖 I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate its conclusion: it would be good to calm down about …

Jan 28, 2021: Just got “Wait, you’re KIBA?” for the first time in several years and it still feels kinda good… I’m not a classy fan.

Jan 28, 2021: Anything that restores you isn’t a waste of time.

Jan 27, 2021: If I have any friends/followers diagnosed with hEDS or HSD who would be willing to talk with me about the diagnostic process & benefits of having a …

Jan 27, 2021: 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 ideas: craft as healing, being a parent and being …

Jan 27, 2021: Hi. I’m Kimberly, and everything you need to know about me can be summed up by the fact that I’m currently bullet journaling while rocking out to The …

Jan 26, 2021: Just over here having an anxiety attack about taking my car to the mechanic for some routine work and state inspection, NBD.

Jan 25, 2021: If somebody could get on replacing Larry in “Pinky & the Brain & Larry” with Bernie, that’d be great.

Jan 25, 2021: It’s here! Yay! #AcademicTarot @CoyoteAndBones

Jan 25, 2021: 🔖 The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brecht’s V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection between the January 6 insurrection and Brecht’s …

Jan 25, 2021: 🔖 What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction‘?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to reconsider genre.

Jan 24, 2021: 🔖 An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To Myself. I’ve been feeling the need to do some fun, …

Jan 24, 2021: Finished reading: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan 📚

Jan 23, 2021: 📺 Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. 🖖

Jan 23, 2021: 🔖 I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair Discrimination

Jan 23, 2021: Want to read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 📚

Jan 23, 2021: Finished reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 📚

Jan 22, 2021: 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 - especially my short little notes. But I’ve been thinking …

Jan 22, 2021: 🔖I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual and psychological depth of tabletop RPGs: How One …

Jan 22, 2021: 🔖This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise And Sleep

Jan 21, 2021: Who has two thumbs and just applied to be a Star Wars librarian for the summer? This Kimberly!

Jan 21, 2021: 🔖 Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my favorites.

Jan 21, 2021: Last “What’s next?” question! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “The world would be a better place if Kimberly…”

Jan 20, 2021: I’ve just finished creating my dissertation revisions matrix. Only 41 comments! Granted, one of those is “Write a new chapter” but still!

Jan 20, 2021: What’s next? Part 2! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “I could see Kimberly…”

Jan 20, 2021: 🔖Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into theater. 🎭

Jan 19, 2021: 🔖 The Deep Sadness of Marvel’s WandaVision: This is the kind of WandaVision thinkpiece I want. 📺

Jan 19, 2021: We are now at the stage of the pandemic/coup/grief process where I decide that I attended a single solitary virtual work meeting, so I deserve a cake. …

Jan 19, 2021: I only just realized that to understand how information literacy has been conceptualized over time, we need to leverage our own information literacy. …

Jan 19, 2021: Getting real vulnerable! Want to help me plan for what’s next? Complete this statement: “Kimberly’s greatest gifts are…”

Jan 19, 2021: Why yes, I am prioritizing #MuppetTwitter today.

Jan 19, 2021: If Buffy Summers were real she’d be 40 years old today.

Jan 19, 2021: Here’s my personal affirmation for the foreseeable future: DO WHAT I CAN, WHEN I CAN.

Jan 18, 2021: Okay TNG friends. I made it through “Skin of Evil.” It’s all uphill from here (except that I really like Tasha Yar). 🖖

Jan 18, 2021: HEY I DID A THING! It was for my assistantship and not my dissertation but still. YAY ME!

Jan 18, 2021: I put in a grocery order so now it’s time to crochet and watch TNG, yeah? I woke up this morning full of the belief that I was ready to do a thing but …

Jan 17, 2021: Novel I’m reading: includes chapter that is just the text of an imaginary academic journal article Me: puts novel down and backs away

Jan 17, 2021: Well my grandmother must have really crossed over, in my own estimation anyway, because I just woke from a nap in which I had my first dream with her …

Jan 17, 2021: 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 I posted about her death, I didn’t mention the …

Jan 17, 2021: 🔖 In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Were…A Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this was very much NOT colorblind casting. I especially …

Jan 15, 2021: 🔖 This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to show up, they make it so scholarship recipients …

Jan 15, 2021: I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not primarily text-based anymore.

Jan 15, 2021: 📺 I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a lot in it to love. Q! The beginning of Data’s …

Jan 14, 2021: I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid says, “I love my cat Blue because she’s soft and she …

Jan 13, 2021: I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.

Jan 11, 2021: This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an architologyist does, he said, “Science.”

Jan 10, 2021: 📺 Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like with a doctorate, it makes more sense for Jessie to …

Jan 8, 2021: 📺 I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & Eloise are the best, my biggest takeaway is that I really need to up …

Jan 7, 2021: My kid is pulling toys out of bins and saying what they are… “Spider-Man’s car, a truck, a balloon” but also “whatever this thing is… Something this …

Jan 5, 2021: I look like I’m dicking around on my phone but really I’m despairing about the future.

Jan 5, 2021: 🔖🍿 The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman movies could better reflect all the best stuff about …

Jan 5, 2021: I’m officially Not Okay: I just created a new WordPress install for a new website I’ve been planning to build…

Jan 5, 2021: How am I only just now realizing that the Holodeck is a very high tech LARP environment?

Jan 5, 2021: Apparently this week I’m going to be awake at night and sleep in the afternoon. Cool cool cool.

Jan 4, 2021: I might also read more Dawn of X and play Two Dots.

Jan 4, 2021: Hello. I want to want to do things but I do not want to do things, so I will be alternating between watching The Crown and Derry Girls until I do want …

Jan 4, 2021: I really did not spend this holiday “break” how I expected to, and now all I can do is scroll Twitter and think about how I don’t care right now about …

Jan 4, 2021: Which stage of grief is the not-sleeping-because-you-are-contemplating-your-own-denial one? My grandmother always seemed immortal to me in a way no …

Jan 3, 2021: Probably gonna cry thanks to the crushing weight of (gesturing at the world) all this, and I’m playing on easy mode.

Jan 3, 2021: 🍿 Watched Wonder Woman 1984. Was it flawless? No. Did the fact that it was a Wonder Woman movie and had a cute kid in it gain it enormous good will …

Jan 2, 2021: My grandmother Nita died this morning. She loved us all so much and always welcomed us to her home, which is the closest thing to a childhood home …

Jan 1, 2021: 🔖 Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be overwhelming. This blog post offers some helpful advice.

Jan 1, 2021: Currently reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 📚

Jan 1, 2021: Want to read: The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch 📚

Jan 1, 2021: Want to read: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman 📚

Dec 31, 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 Bring It On fanfic I could be reading?

Dec 31, 2020: 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 year ago. When I look at all the stuff I got done …

Dec 31, 2020: 🔖 Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.

Dec 31, 2020: 🔖 Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the cycle of the pandemic year, but also the cycle of …

Dec 31, 2020: Here are my goals for 2021: Learn about pain management & find pain management that works for me. Read for pleasure & talk about what I’m reading. …

Dec 31, 2020: Want to read: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt 📚

Dec 30, 2020: 📚 Friends, there are at least two modern retellings of Jane Eyre coming out this year: The Wife Upstairs and Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost.

Dec 29, 2020: 🔖 Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.

Dec 29, 2020: 🔖 The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, Whitney R. Robinson explains the intersection of exposure, …

Dec 29, 2020: 🔖 The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article hit me, but it hit me hard.

Dec 29, 2020: Time to crowdsource a tagline! I’m going to start calling myself a Consulting Scholar-Librarian, with the tagline “Like Sherlock Holmes with ____.” …

Dec 28, 2020: More dark academia books! The Lessons, Naomi Alderman The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis Possession, A. S. Byatt The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides The …

Dec 28, 2020: Me to W: You know how you sometimes for fun you give people advice on research design in a Fan Studies Discord server? W: I have not had that …

Dec 28, 2020: Want to read: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas 📚

Dec 28, 2020: Want to read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth 📚

Dec 28, 2020: I bought myself a Theracane and it’s not arriving until Thursday. I’m really looking forward to having it and also sad that I might still have this …

Dec 27, 2020: Currently reading: The Iliad by Homer; Caroline Alexander (translator) 📚

Dec 27, 2020: 🗯️ Read Lore Olympus episodes 1 - 10. Gorgeous art, fun characterization, planning to keep going.

Dec 27, 2020: 🎮 Currently playing Hades on Nintendo Switch. Been coveting this for a while, so when W. suggested getting it today, I squeed. Love the art & vibe so …

Dec 27, 2020: I’m still obsessed with Dark Academia. Here are some books I’ve read or will read that have dark academia vibes. Currently Reading The Historian, …

Dec 27, 2020: Currently reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 📚

Dec 26, 2020: Living with chronic illness is really hard and I don’t like it.

Dec 26, 2020: 🔖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 sciencealert.comArchiving... sciencealert.com …

Dec 26, 2020: 🔖 How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market This piece by Sarah Lonsdale describes the kind of literary friendship I fantasize about having. Who wants to be my literary bff? How Literary Female …

Dec 25, 2020: Also, I don’t know who in the SNL writers’ room is a mom, but solidarity, friend.

Dec 25, 2020: To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids’ joy offsets your exhaustion today. To everyone else, I hope your Friday …

Dec 24, 2020: I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic addresses the aspects of representation in …

Dec 24, 2020: Netflix: 22 minutes left in Jingle Jangle! Me: 😭🥺💗💞💗🥺😭

Dec 24, 2020: Jingle Jangle: has huge climactic sequence with positive resolution Netflix time bar: shows 36 minutes and 16 seconds left Me (understanding story …

Dec 23, 2020: Today has been the kind of day where you lie down on the floor after wrapping the Christmas presents and hope someone will come pick you up.

Dec 23, 2020: One song into Jingle Jangle and I’m aching for more R&B musicals - originals, not juke box shows. 🍿

Dec 23, 2020: The results of this Spotify-evaluating AI are hilarious. Enya + The Lonely Island are peak Kimberly music. We DO stan Daniel Tiger in this house. And …

Dec 22, 2020: My child: “I learned a valuable lesson today.” W: “What’s that, buddy?” M: “I learned that the guy I thought was Iceman was Beast, and the guy I …

Dec 22, 2020: Rachel Reichenbach’s Why your Instagram Engagement Kinda Sucks Right Now explains so much. I mostly use Ig to connect with friends & I’m so glad I …

Dec 21, 2020: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 2 📚

Dec 21, 2020: My Reading Year 2020 It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which has nothing to do with any gift-giving related holidays and everything to do with end-of-year media …

Dec 21, 2020: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 1 📚

Dec 20, 2020: Finished reading: Powers of X # 1 - 6 📚

Dec 20, 2020: Finished reading: House of X # 1 - 6 📚

Dec 19, 2020: Current status: https://partlynn.tumblr.com/post/186963632813/artpigeons-tragicallybeautifultiger

Dec 18, 2020: Elizabeth Minkel’s The Year of Loving Things Again, published in December 2017, resonates still. I myself have been reconnecting with Star Wars - …

Dec 18, 2020: I don’t want to spoil The Mandalorian finale much, so I’ll just say that technology used in its production seemed to be used more successfully here …

Dec 18, 2020: 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 through the new year. So I’m going to write some …

Dec 17, 2020: Sufganiyot! Easy jelly donut recipe from The Nosher.

Dec 17, 2020: I have been having this problem all week where I sit down and then I need to eat but eating would require getting back up and I just don’t want to, so …

Dec 16, 2020: At Literary Mama, Victoria Livingstone writes about how the tasks of motherhood that “cannot be commodified or marketed” help us learn how to let go …

Dec 15, 2020: Crocheting while watching Clone Wars is very pleasant.

Dec 15, 2020: I’m experimenting with using Notion for weekly and daily planning. I put my most important tasks for the week at the top of my weekly planning page. …

Dec 14, 2020: Got myself a Hanukkah present from Everyday Magic & it arrived today. Rededication body butter & sweet sufganiyot bath bomb by Crystal Bar Soap for …

Dec 14, 2020: Okay but what if a manatee had a narwhal tusk.

Dec 13, 2020: 🔖 Laurie Penny’s WIRED piece about falling in love over Zoom is one of the most hopeful things I’ve read in a long time. It makes me really happy.

Dec 13, 2020: 🔖 This NPR piece about keeping warm and embracing wintry outdoor adventures is exactly the kind of thing a Florida baby like me needs. I want to enjoy …

Dec 11, 2020: Just a little light reading from sister.is on the first day of my break from my dissertation.

Dec 11, 2020: Baby’s first latkes. (I am the baby in question, and it’s my first time making them, not eating them.) It turns out potatoes fried in oil are …

Dec 11, 2020: The dissertation revision nightmares have started, so, that’s cool.

Dec 10, 2020: So what I learned from Disney Investors Day is that Muppets Now is probably the last Muppets content we’ll be getting for a while.

Dec 10, 2020: 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 decided to do a total page and word count for the …

Dec 10, 2020: That feeling when you decide to cut a big chunk of your outline out of your dissertation intro chapter because it’s unnecessary, you’re done, and …

Dec 9, 2020: Want to read: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel 📚

Dec 9, 2020: I really enjoyed reading this piece about Star Wars stormtrooper strategy & tactics, which is super unlike me. 📺🍿 🔖In ‘The Mandalorian,’ Stormtroopers …

Dec 8, 2020: This is just to say I have eaten the kisses that looked like Santa hats and which I said I was saving for our child Forgive me they were chocolate and …

Dec 8, 2020: Instead of the usual fullscreen symbol, the PBS Kids website video player has a circle with the word “BIG” inside it, and if I’ve ever seen brilliant …

Dec 7, 2020: Household division of labor: W - cooks, cleans, does yardwork, generates 80% of household income, parents hardcore Me - installs software, snuggles M …

Dec 7, 2020: I’m really hung up on how nothing is neutral and every decision, intentionally or not, is value-laden and communicates values. Thanks, academia!

Dec 7, 2020: If you’re into it, Star Wars is pretty much the ultimate in comfort media, so I’m going to overlook all your hot takes about lines being cheesy …

Dec 7, 2020: 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 campus. Before I even entered elementary school, …

Dec 6, 2020: You know when you are writing and then ideas start flowing and words come out of you expressing those ideas and it isn’t like pulling teeth or …

Dec 6, 2020: I am so close to done with my discussion chapter with almost 3 hours of childcare left to go! Time to grab some food and then finish this chapter up.

Dec 6, 2020: Finished reading: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚

Dec 4, 2020: When you’re pretty much secular, but descended from 2 faith traditions and mostly just really like fire. And don’t have your act together enough to …

Dec 4, 2020: I'm Jew-ish, but not Jewish. I know Hanukkah is not a major religious holiday. But my connection with Jewish heritage and culture has never really been religiously driven. I am, …

Dec 3, 2020: 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 recently decided that I probably won’t apply for …

Dec 3, 2020: I’m just gonna buy 8 matching purple sweatsuits and say I’m cosplaying as Kate Bishop every day.

Dec 3, 2020: Pretending that signing up for texts from Zooey Deschanel’s community.com number is the same as being friends with her.

Dec 2, 2020: Updated my now page!

Dec 2, 2020: 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 - more that I need, than I want - I would title it, …

Dec 2, 2020: Check me out with my #wipwednesday. This is the beginning of the Habitat Cardigan. Lion Brand Heartland in Great Smoky Mountains. 🏞️ ♥️🧶

Dec 1, 2020: This is how my year sounded on @Spotify. Get your 2020 Wrapped now #2020Wrapped open.spotify.com/wrapped/s…

Dec 1, 2020: 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 is going to be pressing publish every day in …

Nov 30, 2020: Reading Chani Nicholas’s *You Were Born for This" and only tearing up a little at the intense accuracy of her description & reflection questions for …

Nov 30, 2020: You, a reasonable person: Don’t you have a dissertation to finish? Me, a Kimberly: Okay but I’m SO FAR BEHIND on Star Wars lore.

Nov 30, 2020: Okay okay but hear me out: what if you ALSO watched the OLD Animaniacs on Hulu?

Nov 30, 2020: What’s a weird skill you have that you will possibly never use again? I’m REALLY good at knowing exactly when to black out the lights for maximum …

Nov 30, 2020: I wrote a page in my Discussion/Conclusions chapter! YAY ME! (Turns out trying to move discussions into findings just led to me trying to write more …

Nov 30, 2020: Present Kimberly is over here agonizing about the discussion piece of her dissertation. Meanwhile, Past Kimberly (from September) already figured out …

Nov 29, 2020: Holidays are lovely but I have to give myself time to recover after them. (The thing about having all your family local and beautiful weather means …

Nov 28, 2020: My kid just explained to me an imaginary informational text he has that explains why Grinches don’t like Christmas. Thanks, Magic Treehouse!

Nov 26, 2020: I’m 20 minutes into Happiest Season and it is every bit as cute as I thought it would be, though I’m distracted sometimes by the difference in size …

Nov 26, 2020: Oh right. Knitting stresses me out. Better for re-learning when I have the bandwidth for something newish and am looking to grow than for when I’m …

Nov 26, 2020: I think it’s time for me to re-learn to knit. I find myself craving the kinds of textures that are easier to achieve with knitting than with crochet. …

Nov 26, 2020: I have only dabbled in Horse Girlery, but I’m delighted by Polygon’s Horse Girl Canon. It’s missing Piers Anthony’s Mode series, though.

Nov 25, 2020: It’s happening.

Nov 25, 2020: I’m super thankful for my fellow doc students, who today have dropped off a laser printer and Candy Cane Joe Joe’s. There are some really generous …

Nov 25, 2020: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs of my youth. But let me tell you, there’s a pun in Ep 11 …

Nov 25, 2020: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs of my youth. But let me tell you, there’s a pun in Ep 11 …

Nov 25, 2020: My advisor just said “Let’s enjoy our time off!” which is code for “Stop working and go eat pie,” right?

Nov 24, 2020: Worn down to a nub from moming. Retreating to bed. Definitely going to sleep, NOT to watch The Mandalorian.

Nov 24, 2020: My kid just told me I’m “very proper” because I want him to “put on all the clothes.”

Nov 23, 2020: Me: Okay, I’m going to finish reading Frankenstein. W: Didn’t you finish reading that last night? Me: Did I? Oh I did!

Nov 23, 2020: I'm having trouble with my dissertation discussion. My goal for November’s #AcWriMo was to write the discussion chapter for my dissertation. After finishing that chapter, all that would be left would be …

Nov 22, 2020: Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 📚

Nov 22, 2020: My household will be celebrating the Yule Book Flood this year. I can’t afford to buy everyone in the world books, but if you ask me between now and …

Nov 21, 2020: Bare tree branches against a clear blue sky remind me of lace.

Nov 20, 2020: On some level, THE MANDALORIAN really is just about parenting a young child. “Don’t eat that.” “I told you not to eat that!” “Where are you?” “Where …

Nov 20, 2020: Want to read: Ruinsong by Julia Ember 📚

Nov 20, 2020: Just got an email inviting me to join a network of patient influencers because I’m active in the healthcare space and it feels really weird.

Nov 20, 2020: I’m happy to have new Animaniacs and I’m also happy to have old Animaniacs.

Nov 20, 2020: My kid woke me up at the wrong moment in my sleep cycle and I’m pretty sure I’m going to be groggy and cranky all day because of it.

Nov 19, 2020: When writing is both scholarly and beautiful, that’s a sweet spot.

Nov 18, 2020: WHERE DID NOVEMBER GO?

Nov 18, 2020: Just cleaned the 15+ yrs of storage gunk (not too bad really) off my sewing machine. EXCITEMENT!

Nov 18, 2020: Say what you will about screen time, when my kid and I binge-watch remote library storytimes he gets exposed to new books and I get extra snuggles.

Nov 17, 2020: No YOU’RE spending too much time looking at vintage tartan and/or velvet blazers on Etsy.

Nov 17, 2020: But before I go I’m just going to say that listening to my genius husband present about pedagogy is… um… pleasant.

Nov 17, 2020: Today, because we’re on migraine day 3, I’m looking for scientific evidence that when I have a migraine my cognition is, in fact, impaired. This study …

Nov 17, 2020: Welcome to Kimberly’s Migraine Day 3, brought to you by Lowered Estrogen and Serotonin!

Nov 17, 2020: You ever watch a rom-com & forget the characters don’t know they’re in a rom-com? Things are looking their darkest and I’m like, “Bro, this is just a …

Nov 16, 2020: Y’all I am so scared about this current COVID surge. I haven’t had a real strong COVID anxiety spiral in a few weeks but I feel one building now.

Nov 16, 2020: Tonight my kid requested a bedtime story about @emilyvgordon & @kumailn’s cat, Bagel, and asked me to sing the Kim Possible theme for his lullaby, so …

Nov 16, 2020: Y’all, the Rockapella Holiday album is… different than I expected.

Nov 16, 2020: I coded an interview with a migraine. Aren’t you impressed?

Nov 15, 2020: This thread terrifies me. It's looking like we've turned the corner at my house, so I'm going to tell you a story about love and a pandemic. It starts …

Nov 15, 2020: Okay spoiler for Dash & Lily I guess but I have so much empathy for all the worried adults in her life and watching the end I was just like “Oh but …

Nov 15, 2020: I just finished episode 2 of Dash & Lily (which, just like the book, I love) and spent WAY too much of it focused on figuring out how to recreate her …

Nov 14, 2020: Our family has been exploring our playgroundless city parks. Today we went to Sandy Creek Park, which has a couple of trails and gorgeous wetlands.

Nov 14, 2020: Want to read: a tumblr book by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch, editors, doi:10.3998/mpub.11537055 📚

Nov 13, 2020: Put Bert & Ernie Sing-Along on while my kid was in the bath this morning and we’re listening again now. It’s brought me joy all day.

Nov 13, 2020: Added details to my discussion chapter outline, input new code system into data analysis software, time to eat trail mix and watch a 2020 holiday …

Nov 13, 2020: It’s possible I am putting way too much thought into this discussion chapter.

Nov 13, 2020: 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 PhD. From where I sit, things are not better or …

Nov 13, 2020: Listen. If you want to get a jump on the winter holidays now with decorations and baking, I say go ahead. Cheer is sorely lacking and I see no reason …

Nov 12, 2020: Brain fog has returned but I got the kid to sit next to me instead of on me and squeezed in 5+ pages of Abigail DeKosnik’s ROGUE ARCHIVES. Yay me!

Nov 12, 2020: Kimberly problems: when your brain fog lifts enough for you to read scholarship but you can’t go get your book stand because your kid is sitting on …

Nov 12, 2020: What do you think are my areas of expertise?

Nov 11, 2020: The burnout is real. From September 8 to October 2, I attended a virtual dissertation writing boot camp. I have childcare each day from 1 pm to 6 pm. I have standing …

Nov 11, 2020: The more I go nowhere and do nothing, the more money I spend on books… Which is why I’ll probably be taking advantage of the Duke University Press …

Nov 11, 2020: All 3 Roger Rabbit shorts are on Disney+, this is not a drill.

Nov 10, 2020: Everything hurts but it’s too hot to wear my “everything hurts” sweatshirt: the Kimberly Hirsh story

Nov 10, 2020: Current status: counting “figuring out which book will tell me how to write my discussion chapter” as my dissertation activity for the day. (It’s …

Nov 10, 2020: Bunnies and fishes at For Garden’s Sake.

Nov 10, 2020: Put on my podcast for M, who likes to listen to “the Mommy Podcast” and he said, “We should do a podcast with me and my guests, you and Daddy.” Please …

Nov 10, 2020: 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 & show notes forthcoming.

Nov 9, 2020: I’m reasonably well-rested today and yet my brain still just… won’t.

Nov 9, 2020: 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 out of practice I couldn’t remember its full …

Nov 8, 2020: 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 okay. (My dad does not like me to call him this, …

Nov 7, 2020: Let’s keep working to make the unpocalypse happen.

Nov 6, 2020: W. is reading The Magic Treehouse to M. Morgan le Fay: Most people call me an enchantress, but I’m also a librarian. Me: SAME!

Nov 6, 2020: I’ve updated my bullet journal & I think that’s my work for today. I’m giving myself the weekend to restore myself & then really get into it on …

Nov 6, 2020: What if moving forward we took the energy people say we should spend on courting voters in whatever category they say is making it hard and instead …

Nov 5, 2020: Y’all getting any work done today, or no? I did one thing for my assistantship and made the barest bones outline for my discussion chapter and now I’m …

Nov 4, 2020: The comedic possibilities are inherent.

Nov 4, 2020: I feel great affinity for the Mandalorian, because, like him, I am usually accompanied on my adventures by an adorable child with giant eyes.

Nov 4, 2020: My plan for coping for… oh, the rest of my life… is to read books and make stuff. Want to join me? Right now I’m reading Frankenstein 📚 and making the …

Nov 3, 2020: Finished reading: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon 📚

Nov 2, 2020: Finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior 📚

Nov 2, 2020: You know what isn’t great for my mental well-being as a student? Taking a required 45 minute online training course about student mental well-being.

Nov 1, 2020: Logging off Twitter tonight and don’t expect to be back for a while… Will still autopost from my website, though.

Oct 30, 2020: Blown away by Flow’s ability to get a piece on Cottagecore out while it’s still a thing. Looking forward to reading it!

Oct 30, 2020: Hey guess what, just submitted a THIRD chapter to my advisor! Worth noting that all of these have been close to finished for a while so it’s not like …

Oct 29, 2020: Do you feel like you need a nap even after the most energizing of video calls? How do y’all who have 9-Zoom days or whatever deal? Do you just drink a …

Oct 28, 2020: Hello I am Kimberly and I have now sent 2 completed chapter drafts to my advisor and expect to send the 3rd by the end of the week so I should …

Oct 28, 2020: I joined some Discord servers related to my research interests and now my phone feels like the spring of 2000 in the best way, there are smart and …

Oct 28, 2020: 📚💬 “I’m a 21st-century American woman; I don’t have enough faith to covet anything but freedom… My career has been a series of reactions to terrible …

Oct 28, 2020: Feeling cute on a high-pain day. Not going to take it for granted.

Oct 27, 2020: I just uploaded my #FSNNA20 poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information Literacy Practices of Cosplayers” [PDF] to my website. …

Oct 27, 2020: One challenge with my research interests related to academic publishing is that a lot of them are focused on futuring. I’m interested in how platforms …

Oct 27, 2020: Co-star gets me. [Image reads “Your heart is a book.”]

Oct 26, 2020: 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 am not letting cranky me do anything that …

Oct 25, 2020: Been trying to figure out who to cosplay for my dissertation defense. Needs to be professional, comfortable, light makeup, no wig, preferably works …

Oct 25, 2020: I finished drafting a dissertation chapter (I’ve had 4 almost finished chapters for a couple weeks) and I’m hungry so please come feed me because I …

Oct 25, 2020: See this is why we read in the original language if we can: Caesar says the Rhine bends toward Ursa Major, while the translation says “this land has …

Oct 25, 2020: If you’ve been away from Latin for 10+ years but want to return to reading it as a hobby, Caesar’s De Bello Gallico is as gentle a re-introduction as …

Oct 24, 2020: Things my kid said tonight: “Mommy, you’ll never be a doctor.” 💔 “I’m going to imagine having a moth for a brother.” 💗

Oct 23, 2020: Finished reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 📚

Oct 23, 2020: I think… I think I just don’t enjoy consuming Actual Play content and maybe that’s okay?

Oct 22, 2020: Okay seriously is anyone keeping any of their shit together right now?

Oct 22, 2020: 📽️ I just finished watching REBECCA on Netflix and it’s… fine. But it’s not gothic. Glen Weldon’s review sums it up pretty well.

Oct 21, 2020: Heeeey, just over here psyching myself up to revisit Chapter 11 - Trustworthiness - in Lincoln & Guba’s (1985) Naturalistic Inquiry. How’s your day?

Oct 21, 2020: Conversation with friends: Tweens - Who’s cute Teen - Who’s dating 20s - Good food 30s - Home repairs

Oct 20, 2020: I read this piece & I need a cold shower. Gonna be intense when I finally read CARMILLA. Carmilla Is Better Than Dracula, And Here’s Why - Electric …

Oct 19, 2020: Over at University of Venus, Mary Churchill asks about The Day After: What will you do on November 4? I am planning absolutely nothing for that day. I …

Oct 19, 2020: 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 invigorating. I feel energized coming out of it. I am …

Oct 17, 2020: Want to read: Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research by Jane Tinkler and Patrick Dunleavy 📚

Oct 17, 2020: Want to read: Raising the Resistance A Mother’s Guide to Practical Activism by Farrah Alexander 📚

Oct 16, 2020: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Witch I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. Here’s episode 2 of my Buffy podcast, Things of Bronze. This is episode 2, “Witch.” Or is it …

Oct 16, 2020: M & I have been watching Netflix’s Bookmarks today. Grace Byers’s I AM ENOUGH is so beautiful and joyful. He asked to watch Lupita Nyong’o’s SULWE …

Oct 13, 2020: If #FSNNA20 were a meatspace conference and I was there, I would not be berating myself for not dissertating right now. But here we are…

Oct 13, 2020: Just added a note to include as a limitation in my dissertation that my methods don’t capture things like fans learning which fan spaces are safe, …

Oct 12, 2020: Dreamed this morning I was at my co-working space w/Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) & he would not stop talking about Batman. I was like “This is fascinating …

Oct 12, 2020: Portrait of an awesome life partnership: you get the kid down to sleep and then chat in the #FSNNA20 Discord while your partner watches Annotated …

Oct 12, 2020: Pleased as can be to be hanging out @ #FSNNA20 this week. You can find me in Discord primarily hanging out in #15-hirsh where you’ll find my poster, …

Oct 12, 2020: Is anybody out there managing to be even mediocre at both parenting & working right now? Because I seem to have to choose to be okay at one and bad at …

Oct 11, 2020: Current dissertation status: 4 chapters begun but with holes to fill, 116 pages. 1 chapter completely unwritten.

Oct 10, 2020: 📚 Reading Sarah Kendzior’s (@sarahkendzior) book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT & had to take a crying break after the intro bc “I have nostalgia for the …

Oct 9, 2020: I definitely just handed The Teacher from the Black Lagoon to my kid thinking it was Miss Nelson Is Missing, which is how you know my teen librarian …

Oct 7, 2020: 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 linked post wrote it as her kid was turning 4, since …

Oct 5, 2020: I did a dissertation bootcamp last week and honestly I feel like I need a break. We spent some time Friday talking about how to maintain momentum but …

Oct 3, 2020: Today I learned that my kid’s teacher plays tabletop RPGs. ♥️ (I did not ask her if I could get in on her game.)

Oct 2, 2020: 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 Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast called Things of …

Oct 2, 2020: My not-quite-4yo just told me that the famous quote from The New Colossus begins “Give me all your money.” I said, “Oh buddy, it doesn’t, but it …

Oct 2, 2020: Listening to M. & W. play that they are the kids from The Magic Treehouse and have wished their way into the Hundred Acre Wood. 😍

Oct 1, 2020: Welcome to October, y’all.

Sep 30, 2020: In recent weeks I have watched all of Sherlock, finished tonight. It was fun, then it wasn’t fun, and then it was really upsetting and made me feel …

Sep 30, 2020: I’m presenting my virtual poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information Literacy Practices of Cosplayers,” at #FSNNA in a couple …

Sep 29, 2020: Hello. I am tired and sweaty. Dissertation boot camp is pretty serious. ♥️

Sep 29, 2020: Today is a screaming 3yo day. I love my child and I find his screaming stressful.

Sep 28, 2020: Hello, it’s coffee and chocolate o’clock.

Sep 28, 2020: Dissertation boot camp week: conserving spoons in the morning so I can write hard in the afternoon. Allowing my kid to binge-watch Number blocks but …

Sep 27, 2020: Finished reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker 📚

Sep 26, 2020: Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored. -Bram Stoker, Dracula

Sep 26, 2020: Fascinating: Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait via Dan Cohen I’ve been fascinated by self-portraits ever since I saw Degas’s …

Sep 25, 2020: I’m kind of loving my messy, curly, 38% Ashkenazi hair today. (Image heavily filtered, of course.)

Sep 25, 2020: I’m worried about Kimberly. Kimberly is tired & overwhelmed. Kimberly has lots of tools to help her but she’s kind of tired of people reminding her to …

Sep 24, 2020: Me: Meh, I guess I should dress professionally for this remote group career coaching session. throws cardigan over video game t-shirt Eh. Close …

Sep 24, 2020: My kid is watching @JimTheLibrarian’s Dinosaur Storytime. Kid said, “Maybe I’ll meet him sometime!” I said, “Maybe. That would be nice.” So I guess we …

Sep 23, 2020: HELLO I DON’T WANT TO STAY MOTIVATED AND ON TRACK. I WANT TO WALLOW AND READ GOTHIC NOVELS.

Sep 22, 2020: Want to read: Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen 📚

Sep 21, 2020: I ordered a used copy of a paperback that was published in 1969. It was listed as being in good condition, with no specific defects noted. It arrived …

Sep 21, 2020: 📚 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 indefinite period of time, regardless of their quality. …

Sep 19, 2020: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested. -Austin Kleon, SHOW YOUR WORK, p. 131

Sep 18, 2020: Finished reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 📚

Sep 18, 2020: I saw the news about Justice Ginsburg while my husband was reading bedtime stories to my son. I felt hollow. The characters in the book ate peanut …

Sep 17, 2020: Want to read: She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh 📚

Sep 17, 2020: Want to read: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom 📚

Sep 17, 2020: I don’t feel like writing an informative blog post today. It feels like a day for writing something more personal. You’re exhausted, right? We’re all …

Sep 16, 2020: W: I would encourage you to have lunch. Me: I will, but right now I’m writing. (Y’ALL. I wrote NEW words for my dissertation today, words that were …

Sep 16, 2020: Please do not ask me how many times my son and I have watched the Courtney 1986 music video from American Girl because I have lost count.

Sep 15, 2020: Me to M & W: These days, besides you guys, books are my best friends. W: These days?

Sep 14, 2020: 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 coach giving her this visualization exercise: She …

Sep 12, 2020: I have named my aesthetic and it is witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia.

Sep 11, 2020: Three flavors of learning I’ve flirted on and off with #100DaysOfCode over the past few years, and always quit when I get to Javascript (which may never change, really), but I …

Sep 10, 2020: Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) has created an amazing reading list for grad students and PhDs exploring careers or job hunting. #altac #postac #WithAPhD

Sep 10, 2020: 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) writes about why he blogs. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about …

Sep 10, 2020: New profile pic. I think we all knew that a headshot where I look like I dgaf would give way to one where I’m clearly a marshmallow before too long.

Sep 10, 2020: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚

Sep 9, 2020: 🔖Lee Skallerup Bessette sums up so much: Just because its hard, doesn’t mean it’s good and when everything is hard and you have issues with executive …

Sep 9, 2020: 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 pitch-perfect gothic novel and also super gross. After …

Sep 9, 2020: My first PSL of the season. I waited until Bean Traders had them.

Sep 8, 2020: I was already clued in to post-ac/alt-ac possibilities before beginning my PhD. For some reason, seeing the rapid proliferation of post-ac advice this …

Sep 8, 2020: 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 wasn’t quite sure what had me stuck before. I …

Sep 8, 2020: Me, browsing Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) website after reading about her in Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s (@krgpryal) book, THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC: …

Sep 7, 2020: I’m out on timelines and feeds for a while, folks. Taking some time to be really intentional about my input.

Sep 7, 2020: 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 building my whole life, and because of this I …

Sep 6, 2020: Finished reading: MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚

Sep 6, 2020: 📽️ Just finished watching DEAD POETS SOCIETY for the first time in years and now I’m having an existential crisis because I don’t want my eulogy or …

Sep 5, 2020: My three-almost-four-year-old just said, “When I’m lonesome, my fear grows.”

Sep 4, 2020: World, we had a Pandemic Parenting morning and even though the sources of stress were resolved by 9:30 am, I’m still worn down by it here at 6:07 pm.

Sep 2, 2020: Got a ring light, tripod, and bluetooth shutter so of course I had to have a little photo booth fun.

Sep 2, 2020: 📓 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 “research assistant.” This seemed like an appropriate …

Sep 1, 2020: Sometimes you and a friend come up with a hilarious idea and then a year later your friend executes it. #shiptember2020

Sep 1, 2020: Had to use the Wayhome Tarot for Lindsay Mack’s Coming Home to Ourselves spread, if course. I, um, had to draw a few extra cards for clarification.

Sep 1, 2020: I’m still/again grieving the dissertation I planned and will not get to carry out. Maybe I will do the missing pieces later. Maybe not. For now, all I …

Aug 31, 2020: Becky Albertalli wrote this moving essay about her shifting understanding of her sexuality. The longer I live, the more I think we all gain a more …

Aug 31, 2020: 🔖📚 From Petra Mayer at NPR: Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers Well, that’s a help in choosing which books to share with my …

Aug 31, 2020: 🔖📚 From Megan Mabee at Book Riot: How The Hunger Games Prequel Helped Me Realize I’ve Changed I can relate to Mabee’s realization that being a mother …

Aug 30, 2020: 📚 I’m reading MEXICAN GOTHIC and it’s wonderful but every description of the house gets me sidetracked thinking about all the Gothic novels I haven’t …

Aug 30, 2020: 📽️ I am watching BLACK PANTHER for the first time. The fact that every single Wakandan is awesome is not a surprise, but it is a delight. I was like, …

Aug 28, 2020: I could use less productivity advice or inspiration and more permission to just be.

Aug 28, 2020: I fell on the basement stairs yesterday and mildly sprained my right ankle. I sprained the left one falling on different stairs in January. I’m having …

Aug 28, 2020: Pocketed to read later: People of color who craft are done being overlooked as customers and designers. “That’s the thing about navigating a white …

Aug 28, 2020: 🎵 Do you think if I listen to Bauhaus for the rest of the day, that will magically make it be October?

Aug 28, 2020: My new glasses are the glasses of a woman who has no patience with BS.

Aug 27, 2020: Welp. My whole household hates my new glasses.

Aug 27, 2020: 💻 If you’re wondering what the heck this IndieWeb thing is that I’ve been going on about for 3+ years, Ana Rodrigues has written a great article about …

Aug 27, 2020: My new glasses are a little over-the-top, but then, so am I.

Aug 27, 2020: Was just reading the Carolina Friends School Lower School page and saw they use “Ago!” “Ame!” as their attention signal and got a little teary. …

Aug 27, 2020: 📓 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 help us learn what makerspace leaders in the UNC …

Aug 27, 2020: 📺 M. and I are watching MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC and I am reminded of the extent to which I am Twilight Sparkle, who owns a reference book …

Aug 27, 2020: I just read “sheltering in place” as “shattering in peace” so now you know how I’m doing today.

Aug 26, 2020: Still planning to post at kimberlyhirsh.com and auto-crosspost to Twitter and Tumblr, but not scrolling or checking notifications for a few days. See …

Aug 25, 2020: 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 nothing to do with her family memories or childhood …

Aug 24, 2020: 📚 I’ve got about 100 pages left in #LEGENDBORN & won’t write a full review til I’ve finished but I think the headline will be BLACK GIRL MAGIC + DARK …

Aug 24, 2020: Reply to Another day in Hellsville: It is a lot. Having caregiving responsibilities adds another level of difficulty to dealing with the pandemic. I’m …

Aug 23, 2020: Current professional goals: 1. Be a qualitative researcher. (I am now, but I think I would like to continue after I graduate.) 2. Talk with people …

Aug 23, 2020: How did it take me until just now to consciously verbalize the fact that THE SECRET GARDEN is a Gothic novel? In my heart I always knew, and it was a …

Aug 21, 2020: The internet has been full of productivity-in-a-pandemic advice for months and I’m over it. I tell myself: Do what you can, when you can, and let the …

Aug 20, 2020: I have become super enamored of the #darkacademia aesthetic, but being in actual academia, this is what I thought it meant at first. (Thanks …

Aug 20, 2020: Teen, new adult, and undergrad librarians, let me introduce you to your new best friend: the Aesthetics Wiki. This thing is a goldmine for programming …

Aug 20, 2020: 📚 17/31 THE ONE WHERE I RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD by Daniel Crocker. Excerpt from “C is for Cookie”: “You don’t have to talk when you’ve got/a fig newton in …

Aug 19, 2020: Hi. I don’t feel like it today, and it’s okay if you don’t feel like it either. Whatever it is.

Aug 18, 2020: 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 while I was in the shower, and then rubbed it …

Aug 18, 2020: We share our hot takes in order that we may refine them: Makerspaces should consider sewing equipment equally valid when compared with digital …

Aug 18, 2020: I did more #motherscholar-ing this morning, saying things like “I would do a visual analysis of photos of the makerspaces” and also “No honey, Maggie …

Aug 18, 2020: A refinement of my earlier hot take: a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch should be considered basic equipment for a makerspace; if you have the …

Aug 18, 2020: Hot take: A serger should be assumed basic equipment in every makerspace. 🧵

Aug 18, 2020: Switching all my wallpapers to this “Keep going. You’re doing great.” wallpaper by Esmé Weijun Wang. Thought other people might need it, too.

Aug 17, 2020: In case you need some very trivial but good news today: After a LOT of work, it seems like maybe finally I’ve got my ARC of Tracy Deonn’s (@tracydeonn …

Aug 17, 2020: Anybody know of somebody doing research on makerspaces specifically located in schools of education? NCSU, UNCG & UNCP each have one and I’m curious …

Aug 17, 2020: Hear me out: A first-year experience librarian [PDF], but for grad students.

Aug 17, 2020: Help me #TeamLowBar, I set my low bar too high!

Aug 17, 2020: Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin 📚🧵🧶

Aug 16, 2020: 📚 16/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS by Blake Hackler. Excerpt from “On The Other Side”: “Can you carry danger/in a backpack? Smoke/the …

Aug 16, 2020: I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing classes on Blueprint/Once-and-Future-Craftsy, so GET …

Aug 15, 2020: I think my aesthetic is that I’m the librarian at the boarding school all the dark academia kids wish they went to. Replace the blazers with cardigans …

Aug 15, 2020: 📚 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from “Alma”: “Gorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, engorged by trees..” ♥️ Another beautiful …

Aug 15, 2020: Here’s the truth about life, kids: not one of us has it figured out. Every person who looks like they have it together actually is a mess in at least …

Aug 15, 2020: 📚 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new rubies/of wild cinnamon leaves, and/the jewelbox of jungle flowers/are this …

Aug 15, 2020: 📚 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: “I never knew love until I became a mother./I was gentle …

Aug 14, 2020: My glasses broke. No advice needed: there’s no easy fix. I ordered 2 pair so that when this happens again, I don’t have to wait for a backup.

Aug 14, 2020: Did some very strong #motherscholar-ing this morning, simultaneously joining a meeting on branding for the Equity in the Making project & helping my …

Aug 13, 2020: I used to keep this circlet in my office for days when I needed a boost. It might become my dissertating circlet. (Also: #yesfilter, so many filters.) …

Aug 13, 2020: I have all my best ideas around 3 AM.

Aug 12, 2020: 📚 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: “the boy will be stiff if & only stiff/if the girl is light as a feather & not bored.” …

Aug 12, 2020: Because I am both a qualitative researcher and a web developer, when I see people talk about “coding,” I’m never sure at first if they’re creating …

Aug 12, 2020: Time to take Count Rugen’s advice. via GIPHY

Aug 12, 2020: How Daddy types vs how Mommy types, according to my very observant child.

Aug 12, 2020: 🔖 Here’s a study that combines my loves for qualitative coding, comedy, and tween media: More than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of Humor …

Aug 11, 2020: 📚 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: “The hearse. The hearsay./The hypothesis of your body:/a …

Aug 11, 2020: Help I took a Zoom meeting in bed and now I don’t want to get up.

Aug 11, 2020: 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 our Equity in the Making team. The scope document …

Aug 11, 2020: My kid is really getting into hygge.

Aug 10, 2020: 📚 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge

Aug 10, 2020: 🔖2015 Kimberly would be SO EXCITED about this article: ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ Using Improvisation to Hone Library Employees’ Customer Service …

Aug 10, 2020: 📓 It’s the first day of class! I’ve been done with coursework since the end of 2017, but I still feel that school year rhythm. My goals for the 20-21 …

Aug 10, 2020: 🔖From Pat Thomson, the ’later on’ PhD …what the professional usually wants from their PhD are systematic ways into core scholarly practices in …

Aug 9, 2020: 📚 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge

Aug 9, 2020: Me: So I was watching “Big Business.” W: What’s “Big Business”? Me: 😲

Aug 9, 2020: My favorite thing about live-tweeting The Emperor’s New Groove today was researching Peruvian textiles. Might be time to dig into textiles history …

Aug 9, 2020: Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry 📚

Aug 9, 2020: 📽️ Late to the party but here I go. #20YearsOfGroove https://twitter.com/MicahHirsh/status/1292182003308273665 Oh man this Riverdance reference is …

Aug 8, 2020: 📚 8/31 CHICKENHAWKS & GOLDILOCKS by Grey Vild. Excerpt from “A prayer no one wants to”: “But you smiled when you traced my name in your inventory & I …

Aug 8, 2020: 🔖 Katie Yee’s Very Good Writing Advice from New Girl’s Nick Miller is the most delightful thing I’ve read this week, and makes me want to re-watch New …

Aug 7, 2020: 📚 7/31 SPACE BABY: EPISODES I - III by Nicole Oquendo. Excerpt from “I.vi.”: “You have read about the cats of a far planet, how the tamers/will poke …

Aug 7, 2020: Here’s how I cope with dissertation-related anxiety: make a plan. Send advisor doomy email about plan & schedule meeting. Get work done. Feel burst of …

Aug 7, 2020: A bookcase that converts to a coffin feels very on-brand for me.

Aug 6, 2020: 📚 6/31 WOLF DAUGHTER by Amy Watkins. Excerpt from “sixteen”: “It was my voice she wanted,/as I wanted her hair under my chin,/her changing self held …

Aug 6, 2020: 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 said. “No, I never have.” “Oh. That’s how I feel …

Aug 5, 2020: 📚 5/31 [RE]CONSTRUCTION OF THE NECROMANCER by Hannah V. Warren. Excerpt from “Forgetting More Than I Thought I Did”: “I want to be flesh & warm & …

Aug 5, 2020: Just over here with my kid binge-watching Mr. Jim’s Story Time (@JimTheLibrarian on Twitter). How’s your day going? If it’s not going well, may I …

Aug 5, 2020: Got it down to 15 categories! #SocSciComm #InfoLit #FanLIS

Aug 5, 2020: Me, today: Drinking coffee and getting work done. LIKE A BADASS.

Aug 5, 2020: Got it down to 17 categories. I don’t think I can do much better than that. When you’re stuck, go analog. #SocSciComm #InfoLit #FanLIS

Aug 5, 2020: I interviewed 10 cosplayers; together they used over 60 different terms to describe the resources they go to when they need cosplay-related …

Aug 4, 2020: 📚 4/31 TO THE BONE by Angela Narciso Torres. Excerpt from “Self-portrait as Water”: “most forgiving of/substances, I resolve/to live like you—to …

Aug 4, 2020: No YOU’RE considering pivoting after graduation to a career that focuses on supporting mothers in academia.

Aug 4, 2020: 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 Cruelty, Parul Sehgal offers more titles to add to the …

Aug 3, 2020: Currently reading: ‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher: A Pragmatic Look at Precarious Work by Nerida Spina, Jess Harris, Simon Bailey, Mhorag Goff 📚 …

Aug 3, 2020: Finished reading: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing 📚

Aug 3, 2020: 📚 3/31 ELECTRIC ARCHES by Eve L. Ewing. Excerpt from “to the notebook kid”: “it’s that flows and flows and flows/and lines like that rip-roaring/bits …

Aug 3, 2020: Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working …

Aug 3, 2020: Pocketing this Book Riot post on rad poetry from the Women’s Suffrage Movement for later in #TheSealeyChallenge.

Aug 3, 2020: Are you in academia or alt-ac? Talk to me about your current productivity or lack thereof, the grace you’re giving yourself right now, whether you’re …

Aug 3, 2020: 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 and a half and only read it fully for the first …

Aug 3, 2020: Feeling bummed because I know the savviest angle on my research is misinformation and disinformation but for my mental health I have to make them …

Aug 2, 2020: Finished reading: Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen 📚

Aug 2, 2020: 📚 2/31 NOT HERE by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Excerpt from “Heavy”: “There are days when I give up on my body/but not the world.” #TheSealeyChallenge

Aug 2, 2020: From Hillary Frank: The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers Despite receiving multiple rejections from radio station editors, journalist and author Hillary Frank kept her podcast about parenting, “The Longest …

Aug 2, 2020: Me: Napster is clearly the best P2P file sharing app. W: Mmmm… Me: What? What’s better than Napster? W: Having money as an adult.

Aug 2, 2020: Finished reading: Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora 📚

Aug 1, 2020: 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 becoming a mother) and identity crises. What did I …

Aug 1, 2020: 📚 1/31 UNACCOMPANIED by Javier Zamora. Excerpt from “Then, It Was So”: “…Cariño,/it was so quiet when I started/counting the days/I wasn’t woken by …

Aug 1, 2020: 🔖 From The Oatmeal: Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned about Creativity This is so good. If he makes it into a book, I’ll probably buy it and …

Jul 31, 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 Riot piece, Will You Join The Sealey Challenge? …

Jul 31, 2020: Welcome to Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers Yesterday, I talked about my project, Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers and how I would be incorporating it here into my personal site …

Jul 31, 2020: Me: Whoa, Muppets Now crashed Disney+! Internet: No, Kimberly. Beyoncé did it. Me: squinting Or was it The Muppets? Internet: No. It was not.

Jul 30, 2020: 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 article, “Why Do I Have to Choose Between Being a …

Jul 30, 2020: Given that my estrogen & progesterone are at their lowest & that today is today, this was an extra bad day to look at my social media feeds. I try to …

Jul 29, 2020: Want to read: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚

Jul 29, 2020: Want to read: The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich 📚

Jul 29, 2020: Just added new content to my reading page 📚: updated 2020 reading goals, a 2-books-read:1-book-bought ratio plan, plans for a “My Week in Reading” …

Jul 28, 2020: 📺 I recently binged Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, about an ambitious Latina middle schooler who one day becomes president. You should try it …

Jul 27, 2020: Made myself a half-caf with Fast Forward and Slow Motion from Counter Culture and oh my goodness it is so good. (With liquid stevia and oat-almond-pea …

Jul 26, 2020: Finished reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss 📚

Jul 24, 2020: TFW you’re coding an interview transcript & say to your past self, “PLEASE have asked this follow up question” and you keep reading & your past self …

Jul 23, 2020: First Med Deli gluten free chocolate cake in about 4 years. NOM NOM NOM.

Jul 23, 2020: How do people do things? Do I seem to do things? I feel like I do no things. I feel like my life is just sitting with my kid & eking out a tiny bit of …

Jul 23, 2020: 🔖 5 Productivity Practices That Helped Me Finish My Dissertation Thought I would feel attacked by this post, then I read it and it said “If I was …

Jul 22, 2020: W. and I have now been married longer than we were together before we were married. He continues to make me laugh. He is a delightful spouse and …

Jul 22, 2020: 🔖 The Allure of the Nap Dress, the Look of Gussied-Up Oblivion I don’t have a clothing budget these days, but if I did, you can bet I’d be scouring …

Jul 21, 2020: 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 time. ‘Making it’ as a contract researcher : a …

Jul 21, 2020: Advanced Literature Review Tips By far, my most visited blog post ever is my Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow and honestly, I return to it myself fairly often. I sent it to …

Jul 21, 2020: Creative Time as Meditation Time What if we considered our creative time to be meditation time? Repetitive crafts like knitting, crochet, and cross-stitch can have that effect. (The …

Jul 20, 2020: 🔖 Kelly J. Baker’s essay, “You Were Ambitious,” struck me to the core. Cross-posted to: Twitter

Jul 20, 2020: Lithub takes a fun dive into all the books people read or reference in Clueless. 📚

Jul 20, 2020: Sometimes, one little thing can take a lot out of me. Today, the plumber came to my house around 8:30 and was here until almost 10. He did a great …

Jul 20, 2020: If you ever wonder how my brain works, simply recall that I’ve been writing with hypertext since 1995, and read this kottke.org post from 1998 about …

Jul 19, 2020: 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 remember - one that felt aligned with my life purpose - …

Jul 17, 2020: 💬📚 “The Spy Girls are what happens when you record an episode of Charlie’s Angels over a VHS copy of Clueless while reading a Delia’s catalog and …

Jul 17, 2020: 📺 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 obsessive like many of my peers. They were one of …

Jul 16, 2020: 🔖📺 Alex Brannan’s article, “It Could Be About Anything”: Middleditch & Schwartz and the Viability of Televised Improv Comedy is an interesting read. …

Jul 15, 2020: So happy to have this Silvia Moreno-Garcia reading pathway from Book Riot, because I’ve been coveting Mexican Gothic something fierce and all of these …

Jul 15, 2020: I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be working as a research assistant with Dr. Maggie Melo on her NSF Career Award project, ““Equity in the Making: …

Jul 14, 2020: 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 year. I’m pretty satisfied that those describe who I …

Jul 13, 2020: Want to read: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry 📚

Jul 13, 2020: RSVP yes to A Domain of One’s Own Meetup | July 23, 2020

Jul 13, 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 consider it a season, my friend Dr. Alison Buck …

Jul 12, 2020: Want to read: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans 📚

Jul 12, 2020: Pretty proud of my first Scratch project. It looks like a little thing, but if you click “See inside,” you’ll see that it’s more complex than it might …

Jul 11, 2020: 📺 “Parents are just older weirdos, doing the best they can. Just like the rest of us.” Netflix’s Babysitters Club series makes me feel seen on so many …

Jul 10, 2020: 🔖 Adrienne So’s Wired piece, ”‘Crisis Schooling’ and the New Rhythms of Pandemic Parenting," makes me feel okay about how extremely unstructured and …

Jul 10, 2020: Just received the Call for Proposals for the Fan Studies Network North America virtual conference & now working on an idea for a poster (probably …

Jul 10, 2020: Page of Cups and Knight of Cups: the two sides of my soul. (Cards are from the Moonchild Tarot by Danielle Noel.)

Jul 10, 2020: Want to read: BIG FRIENDSHIP How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman 📚

Jul 10, 2020: Want to read: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green 📚

Jul 9, 2020: TFW you have to go back to the literature and carefully review it to figure out the next step for your data analysis.

Jul 9, 2020: My Favorite People with Weird Internet Careers I started reading Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, this morning. I first became familiar with her work when I listened to her on an episode of …

Jul 8, 2020: I just added a Reading page to my site. It lists every book I’ve read since March 2007. Over time, I’m planning to add links to posts about the books. …

Jul 8, 2020: Want to read: Want by Lynn Steger Strong 📚

Jul 7, 2020: 🔖 📚 I found myself wanting to read so many of the books on Book Riot’s Best Books of 2020 So Far list that I decided it makes more sense to bookmark …

Jul 7, 2020: 📝 📚 “…we have little hope of producing excellent writing unless we write a great deal… If we want lots of practice and experience, we can’t limit our …

Jul 7, 2020: 📝📚 I’ve started doing The Artist’s Way. Yesterday I read the chapter for Week 1 (which, now that I’m doing CS50x, I really want to rename Week 0). …

Jul 6, 2020: 📚 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 perspective on this book will likewise be more about its …

Jul 6, 2020: I’ll be 39 in a little over a week, so I decided it was time to just lean into becoming my mother. 📚

Jul 5, 2020: Finished reading: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 📚

Jul 4, 2020: From NPR: A Competition To Finish Louisa May Alcott’s Story - I mean why have a competition when you could just hire Mary Robinette Kowal? 📚

Jul 4, 2020: What to an American Is the Fourth of July? Power comes before freedom, not the other way around. - Awesome piece by Ibram X. Kendi about how …

Jul 3, 2020: Oh yeah THAT’S why I always stop listening after “Cabinet Battle #2.” 😭

Jul 3, 2020: I’m watching Hamilton & of course it’s amazing but I’m especially blown away by how much more nuanced Daveed Diggs’s French accent & Jonathan Groff’s …

Jul 3, 2020: Started CS50x and programming with Scratch last night and definitely decided to build a robot to be my best friend.

Jul 3, 2020: Want to read: The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuil 📚

Jul 2, 2020: I just realized that part of watching Hamilton will involve watching “It’s Quiet Uptown” and now I’m thinking maybe my first watch SHOULDN’T be alone? …

Jul 1, 2020: School and Life goals for 2020 Q3 Here are my goals for 2020 Q3: School goals Complete my dissertation data collection. Write two chapters of my dissertation: Ch. 2 Information Horizon …

Jul 1, 2020: I drew The Tower for my daily tarot pull. There’s a person on the left falling off the tower. There’s a person on the right diving off the tower. I’m …

Jul 1, 2020: Getting back into 100 Days of #bluemind with a Blue Mind Company sticker on my second notebook for 2020.

Jun 30, 2020: Want to read: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚

Jun 30, 2020: 📚 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 Pieces. I read it very quickly, over the course of …

Jun 30, 2020: Want to read: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow 📚

Jun 30, 2020: Want to read: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall 📚

Jun 29, 2020: 📚 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) over the past week or so. I found it riveting; it …

Jun 29, 2020: 📚 Finished reading The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) Another one I enjoyed and hope to write more about soon.

Jun 28, 2020: 📚 Just finished reading The Power by Naomi Alderman. It’s so good and I want to write about it in light of some articles I read recently about the end …

Jun 28, 2020: 📚 Want to read: Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Data Science in Education Using R By Ryan A. Estrellado, Emily A. Freer, …

Jun 26, 2020: 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 that I totally do), but 2020 has gone differently …

Jun 25, 2020: Hi friend. I’m taking a break from most social media right now. It can be valuable for a lot of reasons, but I need a little time away. Usually I’m …

Jun 23, 2020: Oh oh oh, so THIS is what it feels like to care about something besides keeping your child and yourself alive. 💓💗💖 (I’m referring here to my …

Jun 22, 2020: I’m excited to read this IFLA special issue on information literacy, and also keenly aware that I will probably need to work some of these studies …

Jun 19, 2020: 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 that I highlighted and made a note on. Goins, …

Jun 19, 2020: When I express frustration about squeezing work in around childcare, I am NOT complaining about beautiful moments like this.

Jun 18, 2020: Why won’t my brain? It just won’t.

Jun 18, 2020: 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 much about it, but my brain just won’t get it all …

Jun 17, 2020: 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 organizational meeting there. On our second full day in the …

Jun 17, 2020: High pain day. Hard to do any of my favorite things - just trying to get groceries ordered and then will probably read about post-ac life or the …

Jun 16, 2020: 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 study: -work #altac jobs -do placements …

Jun 15, 2020: 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 process didn’t go as I’d originally imagined it …

Jun 15, 2020: Sharp & sparkly. I’m very happy to channel Mother of Swords @ this stage in the dissertation process. Drew her alongside 4 of Swords today so feeling …

Jun 12, 2020: Just finished correcting my interview transcripts and loading them into my data analysis software. Data Collection for Phase 1 of my dissertation is …

Jun 11, 2020: Me, in an interview w/ a cosplayer who, like myself, is a cosplayer d’un certain âge: I never figured out Snapchat. I was like, I guess I’m just too …

Jun 11, 2020: Third time The Chariot has come up in the past two weeks. From the Wayhome Tarot by Bakara Wintner and Autumn Whitehurst.

Jun 10, 2020: 📚 I just finished reading Alexandra Rowland’s (@_alexrowland on Twitter) A Choir of Lies and I’m not a little weepy, feeling seen & thinking about …

Jun 8, 2020: More AI transcription fun: Ways my software transcribes Nightcrawler. nightbot. Nicole. Nikon. micro. an Ico. microwave. my cooler.

Jun 8, 2020: Since last Monday, I’ve been beginning my work day with a Tarot pull. Today brought me the Daughter of Cups alongside the chariot. This is the patron …

Jun 4, 2020: 🖤♥️🧡💛💚💙💜 She-Ra 💜💙💚💛🧡♥️🖤

Jun 4, 2020: Taking some time to share stories of and resources about Black joy. This CNN story about Black Birders Week explains all those awesome Black birder …

Jun 3, 2020: Every day is a good day to listen to a bunch of songs focused on Black joy, curated by Sidney Madden (@Sid_Madden on Twitter) for NPR.

Jun 2, 2020: 🔖 Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest? And other commonly asked questions by white and/or privileged people, answered …

Jun 2, 2020: Project READY is a series of free, online professional development modules for youth-serving library professionals & others interested in improving …

Jun 2, 2020: More anti-racism resources.

Jun 1, 2020: Another valuable resource: Anti-Racism Resources: Books, Conversations and People Leading The Charge

Jun 1, 2020: Bit of levity to break up the awfulness: the way my transcription software tries to transcribe “Mjolnir” (Thor’s hammer): meal near. me on there. me …

May 31, 2020: Been quiet for the past couple of days because anything I have to say feels inane right now. This will probably continue for a bit longer.

May 29, 2020: 🔖 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice is immensely valuable, because it gives you concrete actions to take in the face of our …

May 29, 2020: 🔖 Read recently: The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic Cosplay Is a Business and It Is Suffering Why it’s so hard to read a …

May 28, 2020: 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 traveled to Charleston with my husband and then …

May 28, 2020: Pretty proud of my new About page. You should probably go read it.

May 28, 2020: New bio: “space mermaid sparkle goth” and new profile photo: (If you, too, are obsessed with manatees and need to dress like one, a quick search for …

May 28, 2020: 100 Days of #bluemind Day 3: Sat on the front porch and watched and listened to the rain. Tried to capture the rain sound on video but it didn’t turn …

May 27, 2020: 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 time, and keeping a list of them in Notion: Most …

May 26, 2020: 👦 My child has decreed that henceforth this character shall be known as R2 Bleep Bloop. You’re welcome.

May 26, 2020: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 2: Took a drive along the North Durham Country Byway, crossing over Lake Michie and the Flat River.

May 26, 2020: 🧶Got bored making a sweater that just uses the same stitches over and over, so added Sophie’s Universe to the mix. Very happy with this decision.

May 26, 2020: Had a great call with my school’s career services coordinator where she urged me not to let worrying about jobs become a distraction from finishing my …

May 25, 2020: Today is the first day of the 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. I got my #bluemind on today by gazing up at the clouds from my hammock.

May 24, 2020: Deep cleaning 3 essential oil diffusers at once, as you do.

May 23, 2020: I just realized that to figure out what professional options I want to consider in the future, I essentially need to do an informational interview …

May 23, 2020: I don’t think of librarianship as a CALLING, but I do consider it a disposition. For example, I just texted 2 friends to tell them about an amazing …

May 22, 2020: Finished reading: The Addams Family: An Evilution by Charles Addams and Kevin Miserocchi 📚

May 22, 2020: Happy World Goth Day! I’m GothEnough and if you want to be, so are you! If you are Not-a-Goth or not goth, you can still celebrate. 📚

May 21, 2020: 🔖 Read ‘A joyful thing’: the man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years. I have a bad habit of idealizing other people’s marriages. This …

May 21, 2020: North Carolina is moving from Stay-at-Home to Safer-at-Home & I’m anxious about it. My swim club is opening on 6/1 & I want to go swimming but I’m …

May 20, 2020: I just can’t brain this week, so I’m going to liveblog some career assessment results! First up, the Holland Code. I took the assessment at Truity. …

May 20, 2020: 🔖 Stuff I read yesterday: One of Oscar Wilde’s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore. Growing Without Schooling Science confirms it: …

May 19, 2020: Want to read: Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright 📚

May 18, 2020: 🔖 Read today: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Reading Time During the Pandemic - I can’t tell whether some of these suggestions are jokes, but they all make …

May 18, 2020: 🎮 I finished playing Final Fantasy VII Remake yesterday. I had fun with the game and I adore Tifa, Aerith, and Jessie, more than I did when I …

May 18, 2020: Lest I think I’m doing nothing during this social isolation time, in addition to raising my kid & dissertating, I’m also planning a consulting …

May 18, 2020: I’m struggling to dissertate today. My main task for the next little bit is just to correct AI transcriptions of my interviews. It’s not immensely …

May 18, 2020: Thinking of changing my website’s title (but not my domain) from “Kimberly Hirsh” to “Kimberly Hirsh is a lot.”

May 18, 2020: 🔖🎵🎭📚 Read 8 Musicals that You Might Not Know Were Based on Books by Emily Neuberger. I’ve been grieving the fact that public performances likely won’t …

May 18, 2020: 🔖📝 Read How to Write 1000 Poems in a 1000 Days by Nick Asbury. More why to than how to, this is a moving read and a great argument for making art in …

May 16, 2020: 👦 My kid just told me that Iron Lychee is a whole bunch of Iron Mans [sic] inside one giant Iron Man.

May 15, 2020: The best part of conducting my dissertation interviews via Zoom is I get to see my participants’ cats.

May 15, 2020: 📚 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 use collections; I inevitably end up ignoring …

May 15, 2020: 👦 Me: One of the things a librarian can do is suggest a book you might like to read next. M: But we don’t have a librarian! Me: I’m a librarian. Daddy …

May 14, 2020: The neighbors closest to the back of my property seem to be partying late into the night every weeknight, talking loudly and playing music at an …

May 13, 2020: Feels like I’m really closing in on an accurate self-representation with my latest bio addition: Badass Library Scientist.

May 12, 2020: Bonus bio addition: “Let’s talk about Buffy. 👱‍♀️🧛‍♂️”

May 12, 2020: Low energy + high pain = reading about ghosts while lying on a hammock. 👻📚

May 12, 2020: Today’s bio addition: Gothic mermaid scholar-librarian net girl 💀

May 12, 2020: I just don’t feel like blogging today. I’m not miserable or anything, just every time I start to write or think about writing, I know that I won’t get …

May 11, 2020: 📚 finished reading The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White This is a re-read; I read The Elements of Style when I was Managing …

May 10, 2020: I spent the me-time my family generously gave me today mostly on brushing up my web development skills. It’s really beautiful coming back to myself in …

May 9, 2020: We got a new hammock with stand for our deck, big enough for our whole household to fit in at once (for now), and it is truly the finest thing to lie …

May 8, 2020: Settling In My son is registered to start at a Quaker school in August. I don’t know what that will end up looking like, but one practice that they (and Quaker …

May 7, 2020: 📚 Just found my copies of Making Sense of Qualitative Data (Coffey & Atkinson) and Writing the New Ethnography (Goodall). I’ve been looking for them …

May 7, 2020: If I get one more listserv email advising me to use this time productively, I will be even more annoyed than I have been by all such emails thus far.

May 6, 2020: 🔖 From Austin Kleon: Not Everything Will Be Okay But Some Things Will I share Kleon’s frustration with platitudes like “We’ve gotten through worse, …

May 6, 2020: 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 my possibility of being funded for next year) and …

May 5, 2020: Taking a break from scrolling micro.blog and Twitter for a while. Still checking mentions occasionally. ♥️

May 5, 2020: 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 good job of organizing them. I am steeped deep in …

May 4, 2020: 🎵🎭📚 You know that feeling when you’re irritated that you have to feed your family instead of just reading Stephen Sondheim’s annotation of his lyrics …

May 4, 2020: Lately, my blogging has been all flow, no stock. That’s certainly not what I hoped for when I set out to blog more often. I do think this is a result …

May 2, 2020: Oh hey, just over here pondering what LIS even means and whether information practice should be treated as its own subfield distinct from (inclusive …

Apr 30, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: completed CSS Flexbox at freeCodeCamp. Previously on #100DaysOfCode: 4/26, Completed applied accessibility at …

Apr 30, 2020: I have bangs for the first time in 30 years and it’s Tifa’s fault. 🎮

Apr 28, 2020: Dusk is bunny time in my yard and it is THE BEST.

Apr 28, 2020: I have this problem where I want to buy all the Hot Topic shortalls because I’m pretty sure it’s still 1997.

Apr 28, 2020: My AI transcription software knows the names of Pokemon and it’s going to make my research so much easier. (Seriously, world, go looking for …

Apr 27, 2020: I was a good mom this morning, so I’m going to be an okay academic this afternoon.

Apr 25, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: continued the Applied Accessibility challenges at freeCodeCamp.

Apr 24, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: finished freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design, started Applied Accessibility.

Apr 24, 2020: Just spent almost 2 hours correcting an AI transcript of a 47 minute interview. This is about 1/3 of the time it would have taken me to transcribe it …

Apr 24, 2020: Today’s bio update: replaced “Mom & Scholar-Librarian” with “Mom. Learner. Infomancer. Editrix. Webhead.”

Apr 23, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: started freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design challenges. Too headachey/tired to reflect much now, but happy with my …

Apr 22, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode Progress: I completed all of the Basic CSS challenges at freeCodeCamp. I’ve started compiling a list of organizations for women …

Apr 22, 2020: A (self)diagnosis For the past couple of years, I’ve felt like I was having a Hashimoto’s thyroiditis flare. But aside from a small dip in my thyroid hormones which was …

Apr 21, 2020: #100DaysOfCode Round 1, 1/100 Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: I completed all of the “Basic HTML and HTML5” challenges at freeCodeCamp. I also read/watched the following: How I …

Apr 21, 2020: Having another go at #100DaysofCode, because nobody ever said, “I sure wish my employee didn’t know how to code.”

Apr 21, 2020: Took my kid for a drive this morning, just to do something different and because we were cleaning out my car and he asked. There was this one stretch …

Apr 20, 2020: “We want the human relationship with nature to be based on abundance, a relationship that encourages us to participate in the resilience, the …

Apr 20, 2020: My kid insists that Darkwing Duck’s sidekick is named Lunchpack, and it’s adorable.

Apr 19, 2020: Today we went for a family walk and from a distance we saw a neighbor family walking their pig, and it was the best thing that has happened in a …

Apr 18, 2020: Me: Hm, this is a lot of pain from this flare, whatever its origin. I think I’ll just watch Star Trek: The Next Generation until I feel better.

Apr 18, 2020: It’s a high pain day but my brain is less foggy than it has been in a while. Mens sana in corpore morbido. Looking for advice on how to cope with a …

Apr 18, 2020: 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. (I know. I know. Okay?) The paper needs major …

Apr 17, 2020: This is an… interesting… time to be researching cosplay.

Apr 17, 2020: Kim Werker, one of my favorite people I’ve never met, is offering her course Crochet for Challenging Times for $10. Crochet is the most soothing thing …

Apr 17, 2020: Going to re-learn knitting so that I can make all the things from Doomsday Knits, including the pattern that is a Dollhouse reference.

Apr 17, 2020: 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 interests. The role of libraries in learning. …

Apr 16, 2020: 📚 Finished reading: Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) by Jeff …

Apr 16, 2020: 📚 Abandoning Blue Mind for now, but I definitely want to come back to it.

Apr 15, 2020: I’m struggling to write a blog post today or even a short note. My mood is low due to extreme uncertainty in both the wider world and my own specific …

Apr 14, 2020: Today in My Son, the 3 Year Old Fic Author: a crossover in which Spider-Man and the Ninja Turtle Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.

Apr 14, 2020: 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 Academic Writers Be More Productive. It’s a very …

Apr 14, 2020: Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. I’m a learner who writes.

Apr 13, 2020: 📺 So is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a jukebox-musical version of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?

Apr 13, 2020: I’m sure there are grad students for whom a list of ways to stay productive right now might be useful, but I am not one of them.

Apr 13, 2020: I just DMed 6 cosplayers on Instagram to invite them to participate in my study. 5 were in person acquaintances, 1 was recommended by a friend. Feels …

Apr 12, 2020: Sometimes, as an exercise to give me insight into what I should be focusing on, where I should put my attention, whenever I’m choosing an activity …

Apr 11, 2020: 🎮 I think Tifa is my fave now? I always liked her, but now I like her best?

Apr 11, 2020: 🎮 It’s happening.

Apr 11, 2020: 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 this; grad school and parenting a young child don’t …

Apr 10, 2020: 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 years, but basically because a sketch teacher was …

Apr 10, 2020: Facebook Live museum tours on my calendar today, The Dark Crystal exhibit at the Center for Puppetry Arts and Tim Burton at the Neon Museum.

Apr 10, 2020: Because it’s seasonally appropriate, today we’re listening to Christo Graham’s Muppet Christ Superstar.

Apr 10, 2020: Guess I have to not Internet until after our copy of FF7R gets here… See y’all later, probably with lots of thoughts on books I’m reading to take my …

Apr 9, 2020: 📺 My wishlist for Picard Season 2: Geordi More Spot II

Apr 8, 2020: Feeling like hiding today, but I worked on recruiting for my dissertation and put my CV on kimberlyhirsh.com. Also tried avocado-based chocolate “ice …

Apr 7, 2020: I definitely have some sensory processing problems & they’ve gotten worse since isolating. I have to hide when my kid gets loud & chatty after dinner …

Apr 6, 2020: Changing my research design I submitted proposed changes to my research design to my committee today. I had to make these changes in light of COVID-19 eliminating the possibility …

Apr 5, 2020: I’m reading Lori Morimoto’s (@acafanmom on Twitter) book, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies and it’s so good. Highly recommend, look for a + review …

Apr 4, 2020: Something about watching Picard gives me the same feeling as reading a novel and I love it. 📺🖖

Apr 4, 2020: Want to read: Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil 📚

Apr 3, 2020: Weekly Update: 04/03/20 First, some cute things my kid said. He was talking about flushing the toilet and said that the contents go to the “water landfill.” Also, I don’t …

Apr 3, 2020: 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 construct a solid home inside yourself so that you stop …

Apr 2, 2020: Everybody get the Marco Polo app and let’s have asynchronous video chats.

Apr 2, 2020: My three-year-old is over here writing fix-it fic for The Velveteen Rabbit. 📚

Apr 2, 2020: I know this isn’t what actually happened, but I like to imagine that I summoned into being the latest issue of Josh Radnor’s Museletter. I had a dream …

Apr 2, 2020: I fell into a new COVID-19 spiral today. This went beyond anxiety and felt closer to depression. The world started to take on that bell jar feeling. …

Apr 1, 2020: 📚 The library is closed, limiting my book borrowing options, but the gym is also closed, freeing up some book buying funds, so…

Apr 1, 2020: It’s nice to see that Alexandra Rowland has written a book for/about me. 📚

Apr 1, 2020: I’m having a down day. Not helping is this (extremely informative but also depressing) piece from The Atlantic, The Four Possible Timelines for Life …

Apr 1, 2020: More gold from McSweeney’s: Self-Isolation or Graduate School?

Apr 1, 2020: McSweeney’s Frog and Toad are self-quarantined friends by Jennie Egerdie is my favorite art to come out of COVID-19 so far.

Mar 31, 2020: The Punky Brewster episode “The Perils of Punky” aired in 1985. In it, Punky’s dog is turned into a skeleton. It gave me nightmares about my own dog …

Mar 31, 2020: 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 for scholars, researchers, and academics. For a …

Mar 30, 2020: Steal Like an Artist for Scholars Austin Kleon is one of the creative people who have had the greatest influence on my thinking about art, life, and parenthood. I actually had a bit of …

Mar 29, 2020: I feel like when you’re young & you realize you’re weird you can choose one of two protective mechanisms. You can be too cool for everything or not …

Mar 29, 2020: 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 2001 - 2004. Some people might consider this late, …

Mar 28, 2020: I’m obsessed with the 1997.chat app and sad about my empty buddy list. You can find me at Kiba Rika.

Mar 27, 2020: 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 distancing for us. We order our groceries via …

Mar 27, 2020: My son and I have been listening to the Frog and Toad audiobook collection, read by the author, Arnold Lobel, a lot in the past several weeks. It’s so …

Mar 27, 2020: I put on the Labyrinth soundtrack & said to W, “This music is so good.” He said, “I’m not sure if it’s good because of nostalgia or quality.” I said, …

Mar 26, 2020: Long before the coronavirus moved from animals to humans, I had set myself a goal of recognizing the abundance that is already in my life, and taking …

Mar 26, 2020: 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 looking at a catalog - maybe a toy catalog or a catalog …

Mar 25, 2020: My city’s mayor issued a Stay-at-Home order today. I’m grateful that the two people I’m staying at home with are so lovely.

Mar 24, 2020: 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 fandom and 2. I got into them when I was the same …

Mar 24, 2020: Spread the word: my blog host, micro.blog, is offering teachers free hosting for the next six months.

Mar 24, 2020: 🎵 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 anecdote: one time after one of my improv student …

Mar 23, 2020: Baby Piggy is me: “Everyone knows the most important thing about being a rock star is LOOKING like a rock star!”

Mar 22, 2020: My sister’s friend Connor shared this hilarious Les Mis parody dedicated to teachers with us.

Mar 22, 2020: 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 …

Mar 21, 2020: Our family's social distancing schedule I wanted to share our family’s current weekday schedule, mostly to help other people feel okay about theirs. This isn’t what every day looks like, but …

Mar 19, 2020: From my last note, which said only “It me,” you may be wondering “What she?” I was trying to include this image. It. It me.

Mar 19, 2020: It me.

Mar 19, 2020: Life has been extra intense from March 6 until now. I missed a dissertation fellowship application that was due 3/15 (only $3K but that would fund …

Mar 19, 2020: 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, I set my armor of humor aside and sat with the …

Mar 17, 2020: When my kid’s preschool announced that they would be closing, I had plans to blog daily about my experiences in the middle of this widespread social …

Mar 17, 2020: M. asked “How old is Darth Vader?” I calculated using this timeline & told M., “41, the same age as your daddy.” M. said, “That’s a big, big number …

Mar 17, 2020: Social distancing day 4, no preschool day 2: M is enjoying these miniature water beads from FunatHomewithKids.com.

Mar 16, 2020: My kid just showed me his Winnie the Pooh in a Santa outfit stuffy and said, “So this is Santa… OR IS IT?” and I’m so proud.

Mar 13, 2020: Whitney (@whitneyellenb) & I are going to post about the video games we play while stuck at home using #quarantinegaming. She’s playing Xenosaga Part …

Mar 13, 2020: Let’s all give ourselves permission to be thoroughly mediocre parents for the next few weeks.

Mar 13, 2020: I’m totally accepting keypals/epals to help stave off social isolation during social distancing. Drop me a line at hello [at] kimberlyhirsh [dot] com. …

Mar 13, 2020: 🔖 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 they’ll help you, too? 13 things to keep kids …

Mar 13, 2020: Local schools are closing, including my Montessori/co-working space, so I’m now a stay-at-home mom until March 30. Cool, cool, cool. (I begrudge no …

Mar 12, 2020: No YOU want to buy every Leia item in the new Jen Bartels collection, twice, so you can keep one of each and give one to your mom.

Mar 11, 2020: Also, I love being on podcasts, so if you need a guest for yours, hit me up.

Mar 11, 2020: I guested on a podcast for the first time in almost 5 years! And I only talked about BtVS a little! Check it out: Micro Monday, Episode 80

Mar 11, 2020: Current wishlist: Everything BtVS on Hot Topic

Mar 11, 2020: 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 have made the process even more stressful. I hear & …

Mar 11, 2020: Hi, I’m Kimberly, and today I’m wearing yoga pants with combat boots.

Mar 9, 2020: Rather than an elbow bump, I’m planning to replace handshakes and high fives with a forearm bash. www.youtube.com/watch

Mar 9, 2020: Reintroducing Genetrix, curating stories about creative mothers Last January, I launched Genetrix, a newsletter to curate stories of creative mothers. After sending two issues, I started to get overwhelmed by the …

Mar 7, 2020: 🎙️ Listened to Mighty Creative, episodes: Prologue: The Podcast Is Back 101 - Prerequisite Procrastination 102 - Derivative Crafts & Remixing

Mar 7, 2020: 📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 23, “Skin of Evil.”

Mar 7, 2020: 🧶 Finally finished crocheting these dragon scale fingerless gloves. They’re a birthday gift for my sister. Her birthday is January 18… 😬

Mar 7, 2020: 📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 episodes 1 & 2, “Encounter at Farpoint.” As a kid, family viewing of TNG was one of my favorite …

Mar 6, 2020: Y’all, my brother’s latest cartoon is hilarious. Lots of fun visual gags. Watch at least twice. youtu.be/PViDjXlpj…

Mar 5, 2020: 🎵 Another Dragonforce recommendation: “Symphony of the Night”. (If you think you know what it is, you’re 100% correct.)

Mar 5, 2020: 🎵 Decided to listen to Power Metal while working today. There’s a lot wrong with the world, but Dragonforce’s cover of “My Heart Will Go On” is 100% …

Mar 5, 2020: Want to read: Fibershed : growing a movement of farmers, fashion activists, and makers for a new textile economy 📚

Mar 3, 2020: Here’s your (somewhat) regularly scheduled voting selfie!

Mar 3, 2020: 03/02/20 Process Memo I spent some time this morning installing encryption software so that I can encrypt the data files I will be backing up onto an external hard drive. I …

Mar 3, 2020: Having a low spoons day today, so I’m working through a bunch of fiddly, errand-type to-do list stuff rather than getting knee-deep in data …

Mar 2, 2020: 🔖 Read: Fake News and Instagram 7 Ways to Survive a Flare When You’re Chronically Ill 16 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress and Anxiety 11 Journaling Tips …

Mar 2, 2020: 🎮 Played Monument Valley 2. I loved it but it went so fast!

Mar 2, 2020: 📚 Want to Read: How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard

Mar 2, 2020: 02/28/2020 Process Memo: Beginning sustained, systematic observation I began my sustained, systematic observation today by gathering my initial resources for this phase. First, on my Dissertation Trello board in my …

Mar 1, 2020: Just skimmed Parenting Doesn’t Matter, the main premise of which is that according to science, your parenting is unlikely to be the thing that messes …

Feb 28, 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 many different ways to do it, I thought I would …

Feb 27, 2020: 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 problem with qualitative research: you don’t …

Feb 26, 2020: 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 advice for writing your dissertation proposal: buy or …

Feb 26, 2020: Just lost a really long post about my dissertation proposal and proposal defense because, like a fool, I didn’t save the draft and because I’m …

Feb 25, 2020: So my dissertation study was determined exempt from further review so I guess I have to actually, you know, collect data now. (Still planning to spend …

Feb 25, 2020: 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 micro.blog now. It has really made a difference in my …

Feb 24, 2020: 📚 Want to read: Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD

Feb 24, 2020: 📚 Want to read: Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World by Roman Krznaric Found this on the Wikipedia page for Memento mori. Drawn to the …

Feb 24, 2020: Pisces New Moon spread.

Feb 23, 2020: 📚 Set aside for now with plans to pick back up later: Total Immersion Swim Ultra-efficient Freestyle eBay for Dummies Paperback Crush Reinventing You

Feb 23, 2020: 📚 Currently reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum, M.D., M.P.H.

Feb 23, 2020: 📺 Watched Brooklyn 99: Season 6 - episode 18, “Suicide Squad” Season 7 episodes - 1, “Manhunter” 2, “Captain Kim” 3, “Pimemento” 4, “The Jimmy Jab …

Feb 23, 2020: 📽️ Watched Notting Hill. As cute as it was when it was released. We were all so much younger in 1999, weren’t we? Hugh Bonneville is extra young here, …

Feb 22, 2020: 🎥 Watched Home Again.

Feb 22, 2020: 📚 Currently reading: Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier by Terry Laughlin and John Delves

Feb 22, 2020: 📚 Currently reading: Swim Ultra-efficient Freestyle by Terry Laughlin 🏊🐬

Feb 20, 2020: Help me identify my strengths & make plans for what’s next! This is a 4-question sentence-completion survey. If you know me at all, I’d love to get …

Feb 20, 2020: Want to read: Going Alt-Ac by Kathryn E. Linder, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas J. Tobin 📚

Feb 20, 2020: This is pretty much two weeks’ worth of online reading. 🔖 Read: The Plan of Attack Burned Out Already? Self-Care for High Achieving Intuitive People …

Feb 19, 2020: 📽️ Watched Spider-Man: Homecoming. Oh my goodness did I enjoy this one. Spidey has been my second favorite superhero since I started reading comics …

Feb 18, 2020: I have, um, really different feelings about Jean-Luc Picard on ST:TNG rewatch than I did from 1987 - 1994.

Feb 18, 2020: 📚 So, The Starless Sea. This is going to be fairly stream-of-consciousness and more about my experiences and reactions and less about the book itself. …

Feb 18, 2020: This is what going Full Kimberly looks like.

Feb 18, 2020: Currently reading His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. 📚

Feb 17, 2020: Finished reading The Starless Sea (affiliate link). So much to say about this book but too tired to say it now. Planning to write a full post …

Feb 17, 2020: 📽️ Watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I remember when this came out hearing friends debate about the extent to which it was a rehash of the first …

Feb 17, 2020: 📚 Read House of X #1. I’m excited about this book and the Dawn of X relaunch event. It’s nice to have a clear starting place to get back into X-Men …

Feb 15, 2020: Currently reading: eBay for Dummies by Marsha Collier 📚

Feb 14, 2020: I just audibly gasped because Splash is on Disney+.

Feb 13, 2020: Had a dream that my committee required a year to read my dissertation between submission and defense but nobody told me until I had submitted, and …

Feb 12, 2020: Every time I go to Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston, SC, USA I’m delighted by this sign they place on the shelf with the Chronicles of Narnia.

Feb 12, 2020: Raging because I don’t understand how OneDrive is supposed to work and thus lost more than half of the work I did yesterday.

Feb 12, 2020: Mom dreams: this morning, I dreamed I had to save Michelangelo, who was trapped in a collapsed Roman sewer, and reunite him with the other Ninja …

Feb 11, 2020: My kid paints these giant abstract paintings; I call him my little Rothko. I cut hearts out from 2 paintings for him to give to his friends as …

Feb 10, 2020: I stepped outside for an unexpected emergency medical shopping expedition this morning and the moon greeted me, and I immediately felt as if …

Feb 10, 2020: Took my favorite person to my favorite spot in Charleston yesterday, but forgot to post the picture until just now.

Feb 9, 2020: 🎮 Played Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores (again not for the first time).

Feb 8, 2020: Little and big reading together.

Feb 8, 2020: 🔖 Read: What We Link to When We Link to Books The art of rejection The art of mending The Origins Of The Kermit Sipping Tea Meme How to Be …

Feb 8, 2020: 🎮 Played Monument Valley (not for the first time). As beautiful and satisfying as ever.

Feb 8, 2020: 🔖 Read: 3 Supplements I Give My Kids to Boost Their Immune Systems at Preschool and Daycare by Jennifer Anderson 4 Most Filling Easy Dips to Add to …

Feb 7, 2020: Metadata mermaid doodle. It me!

Feb 7, 2020: I’m vaguely appalled at the mobile-unfriendliness of the official websites of a couple of knowledge organization/management organizations. Feels like …

Feb 6, 2020: 🔖 Read Ask an Astrologer: How can I create more success and flow for in my career according to the stars?

Feb 6, 2020: Made some Paleo-ish Chocolate frosted chocolate donuts.

Feb 5, 2020: 🔖 Read How to build wealth slowly Paul Jarvis

Feb 5, 2020: 📽️ Watched Doctor Strange. I don’t have strong feelings about this one. The visuals were super cool and made me want to play more Monument Valley.

Feb 5, 2020: Pieces for my first ever Kitty Pryde cosplay started arriving today!

Feb 5, 2020: 🎧 Listened to Beetlejuice (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Best part - Delia: Crystals speak to me. Lydia: What are they saying? Delia: Buy more …

Feb 5, 2020: Me: These hanging jewelry organizer pockets are so big. I should put multiple pairs of earrings in each one. But how do I decide which pairs to put …

Feb 5, 2020: “Practice loving yourself with the same exhilaration of a new crush.” Co-star has given me this advice twice recently and I think it’s really sound. …

Feb 4, 2020: 🔖 Read: “Welcome back blogging?” by CJ Chilvers ”The life model of blogging" by Colin Walker

Feb 4, 2020: Spotted this little mushroom nestled in the grass outside the co-working space/Montessori School.

Feb 4, 2020: Currently reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss 📚

Feb 4, 2020: 📺 Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episode 7, “Duel of the Droids.”

Feb 4, 2020: 📚 Read Uncanny X-Men #131.

Feb 3, 2020: This is what one doctoral candidate looks like.

Feb 2, 2020: It’s Proposal Defense Eve, when Impostor Syndrome comes out to frolic!

Feb 1, 2020: 📺 Watched Ranma 1/2, season 1, episode 1.

Feb 1, 2020: 📺 Watched Sailor Moon, Season 1, episodes 1 & 2.

Feb 1, 2020: 📺 Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episodes: 1 “Ambush” 2 “Rising Malevolence” 3 “Shadow of Malevolence” 4 “Destroy Malevolence” 5 …

Feb 1, 2020: Imbolc Tarot Spread by Lindsay Mack Cards are The Moonchild Tarot. What seeds did I plant at the winter solstice? 7 of Pentacles What am I preparing …

Feb 1, 2020: Want to read: Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson 📚

Jan 31, 2020: Switching my kid’s carseat from rear-facing to front-facing is a much bigger milestone than I thought it would be.

Jan 30, 2020: 🔖 Read: Are Docs Comfortable? 10 Reasons to Wear Dr. Martens Boots by RosaMorelli How to Break in a Pair of Doc Martens Shoes by Rachel Vega

Jan 29, 2020: 🔖 Read: How I Tricked Myself Into Reading More Books by Patrick Allan 14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit by Leo Babauta Document and …

Jan 29, 2020: I was trying to figure out how to scrape data from YouTube for my dissertation & then I remembered I have MaxQDA which will do it for me & now I’m …

Jan 29, 2020: Want to read: The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin 📚

Jan 29, 2020: 🔖 Read: Motherhood and Spirituality: A New Kind of Enlightenment by Astra Niedrea What Is Hygge? Everything You Need To Know About The Danish …

Jan 28, 2020: Want to read: The Once and Future Geek by Mari Mancusi 📚

Jan 28, 2020: Want to read: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia 📚

Jan 28, 2020: Look, I’m never not going to have a crush on Wil Wheaton, okay? (This message brought to you by his GoodReads review of John Scalzi’s The Collapsing …

Jan 28, 2020: Want to read: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi 📚

Jan 28, 2020: Want to read: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty 📚

Jan 28, 2020: 🎵 Listened to The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists. I “picked this up,” to the extent that one can digitally do such a thing via a streaming …

Jan 28, 2020: Want to read: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel 📚

Jan 27, 2020: 🎲 Played Illimat yesterday. Gorgeous and fun. I want to play it all the time now. Also, it’s got me digging deeper into the Decemberists’ oeuvre.

Jan 27, 2020: 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 set of many smaller questions. Why did I apply to a …

Jan 26, 2020: Revelation that should have been obvious to me before now: all of life is laundry & dishes & housecleaning, doing the same stuff over and over, …

Jan 26, 2020: 🔖 Read: A Checklist for Your Very First Altar by Amy Wall How to Soften Acrylic Yarn & Save Your Project! by Shehla Ahmed ‘The Mandalorian’ Broke This …

Jan 25, 2020: 🔖 Read: When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide by Asher Elbein Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized …

Jan 25, 2020: M just now: Here you go, Daddy, I have some secret battle plans for you from Princess Leia. Me: ⚰️💀🥀

Jan 25, 2020: The scene of tonight’s New Moon tarot reading, my first with the Wayhome Tarot. I love all of my decks, but this is the most intuitive by far. This …

Jan 24, 2020: Co-Star pulls no punches.

Jan 24, 2020: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is (90s gothic) noblebright while Angel is (pretty widely accepted as) hopepunk. Discuss?

Jan 24, 2020: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The criticisms of this are really interesting. I definitely would have been unimpressed with it as a theatrical …

Jan 23, 2020: W: Do you dare to eat a peach? Me: I would sit on its throne.

Jan 23, 2020: One of my plans for 2020 is that if something is easy & helpful (as opposed to harmful), I do it. To wit, today is the 1st day of smoothies for …

Jan 23, 2020: I’ve re-started The Starless Sea once, decided to re-start again but didn’t, once, and am now in the process of deciding whether to actually re-start …

Jan 22, 2020: 🔖 Read If Your Wellness Isn’t Intersectional Then You’re Not “Well.” You’re Racist. by Michelle Pellizon First, hard agree. Second, I really …

Jan 22, 2020: 💻 Completed MDN’s What’s in the head? Metadata in HTML, HTML text fundamentals, and Test your skills: HTML text basics.

Jan 21, 2020: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Getting started with HTML

Jan 21, 2020: 🔖 Read: How the Web works by Mozilla Developer Network HTML by Mozilla Developer Network Introduction to HTML by Mozilla Developer Network Taking …

Jan 21, 2020: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Publishing your website.

Jan 21, 2020: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Javascript basics.

Jan 21, 2020: Doing a big Tumblr unfollow, too. Messages and asks are open, though.

Jan 21, 2020: Doing a big Twitter unfollow over the next few days (probably of literally everyone), then will add folks back as I miss them, or add them to lists. …

Jan 21, 2020: Reclaiming my Spotify recommendations My kid has taken over my Spotify recommendations. My Discover Weekly this week includes: Rainbow Connection - from The Muppet Movie the theme song …

Jan 21, 2020: 📚 Read Uncanny X-Men #130.

Jan 21, 2020: Currently reading: Reinventing You by Dorie Clark 📚

Jan 21, 2020: 🔖 Read: Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic? by Sarah Jeong Hide and seek by Austin Kleon Read old books by Austin Kleon …

Jan 20, 2020: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Unlike everyone else, this is my least favorite of the prequels. There’s a lot of beautiful …

Jan 20, 2020: Want to read: How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs 📚

Jan 20, 2020: Want to read: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs 📚

Jan 20, 2020: 🔖 Read What’s wrong with sitting down in the shower? by Tom Meltzer Since I sprained my ankle but don’t want to invest in a shower chair, I …

Jan 20, 2020: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s: What will your website look like? Dealing with files HTML basics CSS basics

Jan 19, 2020: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. This one is about exactly like I remember it. It was my favorite of the prequel trilogy …

Jan 19, 2020: 🍿 This is the best thread I’ve read in forever, and it’s so heartening to see somebody come fresh to The Princess Bride and love it as much as I’ve …

Jan 18, 2020: 📚 Read Uncanny X-Men #129.

Jan 18, 2020: 💻 Watched: Getting started with Visual Studio Code How the Internet works in 5 minutes

Jan 18, 2020: 🔖 Read: The old internet by Rebecca Toh How and why to keep a commonplace book by Ryan Holiday What is a commonplace book and why you need one by Aly …

Jan 18, 2020: Finished reading: How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick 📚

Jan 17, 2020: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. This isn’t as bad as I remembered. It’s still full of appalling spacified racial stereotypes and …

Jan 17, 2020: If I could give you a piece of advice today, it would be not to try carrying four ninja turtle figures in one hand, a big folding Radio Flyer wagon in …

Jan 16, 2020: 💻 Completed the remaining 8 challenges in the Basic CSS portion of freecodecamp’s Responsive Web Design certification (again).

Jan 16, 2020: 📚 Read X-Men: First Class Vol. 1, #s 1 - 3.

Jan 15, 2020: 🔖 Read: 3 ways to make Spotify’s killer feature even smarter by Xiomara Blanco These five tricks will make your Spotify Discover Weekly playlists bang …

Jan 15, 2020: 💻 Completed the first 36 (of 44) challenges in Basic CSS for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web Design Certification (again).

Jan 15, 2020: Finished reading: X-Men: Season One by Dennis Hopeless and Jamie McKelvie 📚

Jan 15, 2020: Me, after finding out Chris Claremont will be at Oak City Comicon:

Jan 15, 2020: A (somewhat dry) musical autobiography: Addendum 🎵📽 I realized as I was describing yesterday’s musical autobiography (which is different than an autobiographical musical) to W. that I had left out …

Jan 14, 2020: Just found out Chris Claremont is coming to Oak City Comicon & I’m over here having a tiny silent freakout. Kitty Pryde is my favorite superhero & I …

Jan 14, 2020: 🔖 Read: Blogging the PhD journey by Kay Oddone Join the #100DaysOfCode by Alexander Kallaway The Original Star Wars IX Script Has Allegedly Leaked. …

Jan 14, 2020: 💻 Completed Basic HTML and HTML5 for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web Design certification. (Again. I’ve already earned the certification but definitely …

Jan 14, 2020: Want to read: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 📚

Jan 14, 2020: I only have to get through the next 40 minutes, then I can hand M. off to my m-i-l and lie down. (That 4 am wake up is no joke.) Right now he’s …

Jan 14, 2020: 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 blog about and I’ve committed myself to blogging …

Jan 13, 2020: 📚 Read Ultimate Spider-Man #4.

Jan 13, 2020: 📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episode 8, “A Jewish Girl Walks into the Apollo…”

Jan 13, 2020: 🔖 Read: Content, bloat, privacy, archives by @petermolnar Owning my reading log by Tom MacWright A New Reading Post-type for Bookmarking and Reading …

Jan 13, 2020: 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 thoughts they’re stirring up in me. For a couple …

Jan 12, 2020: 📚 Read Ultimate Spider-Man #2, #3.

Jan 12, 2020: 🔖 Read Bloggers are not reporters and Journalists: We are not you by Dave Winter via Frank McPherson’s response.

Jan 12, 2020: 💻 Watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | ‘Turtles Take Time (and Space 🌎)’ by Brandon Auman

Jan 11, 2020: 📚 Read: We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses by James Dean & Kim Dean PJ Masks Save the School! by …

Jan 11, 2020: 🔖 Read The Bassist in Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is Inspired By the Revolutionary Real-Life Musician Carol Kaye by Lauren Kranc

Jan 11, 2020: 📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episodes: 4 “Hands!” 5 “It’s Comedy or Cabbage” 6 “Kind of Bleu” 7 “Marvelous Radio” I loved how they …

Jan 11, 2020: 🔖 Read Thoughts on linkblogs, bookmarks, reads, likes, favorites, follows, and related links by Chris Aldrich

Jan 11, 2020: Here’s what I look for in my Star Wars content: Fun Optimism about what a few dedicated people can accomplish working together I guess somebody should …

Jan 10, 2020: 🔖 Read An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet by Aaron Parecki

Jan 10, 2020: 🔖 Read Titling it “The Problem That Has No Name” seemed a bit heavy handed by Drew Zandonella In the latest issue of her newsletter, Drew Zandonella …

Jan 9, 2020: 🔖 Read Carbon monoxide emergency is Durham’s Katrina, McDougald Terrace residents tell city. CW: Infant death Many families have been displaced from …

Jan 9, 2020: 📚 Want to read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield 📚

Jan 8, 2020: 📽️ Watched The Empire Strikes Back

Jan 8, 2020: Updated my Now page! Just updated my Now page with the following information: I’m living happily in Durham, North Carolina with my husband, W, and our three-year-old son, …

Jan 7, 2020: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 8: Redemption”

Jan 7, 2020: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 7: The Reckoning”

Jan 7, 2020: Made a less-paleo, less-vegan version of beaming baker’s 2 ingredient 5 minute homemade fudge, adding sea salt so it’s technically 3 ingredients. …

Jan 7, 2020: M (3 yo): grabs toy phone, gets in toy car, waits for me to answer phone Me: Hello? M: Hi, it’s me. Me: Hi, how are you? M: I’m going to see the …

Jan 7, 2020: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 6: The Prisoner”

Jan 7, 2020: 📚 Want to read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

Jan 7, 2020: I just realized that the frequency with which I suggest purchases for my local library makes me essentially a volunteer collections development …

Jan 7, 2020: 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 sometimes neurotypical people are unfathomable, …

Jan 7, 2020: 📚 Finished reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 📚

Jan 7, 2020: 📚 Read Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK! by Clay Morton & Gail Morton

Jan 6, 2020: 📚 Want to read One Person/Multiple Careers by Marci Alboher 📚

Jan 6, 2020: 📚 Want to read Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher

Jan 6, 2020: 📷 Leaning into the middle-aged librarian stereotype with a glasses chain, though apparently they were trendy in 2019 and are expected to continue to …

Jan 6, 2020: 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 little bit about the process. There’s a help page …

Jan 5, 2020: Watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time in years & I’d forgotten what a delight Yoda is. So muppety, delightful goofy old mentor, so not …

Jan 5, 2020: Between supplements & prescriptions, I swallow 24 pills every day, take 2 tinctures, 1 chewable/dissolving lozenge, 2 powders, & 1 nasal spray. This …

Jan 5, 2020: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger”

Jan 4, 2020: Escaped “The Green Room” at Tic Toc Escapes. 🔒

Jan 4, 2020: 🔖 Read 100 things that made my year (2019) Austin Kleon captures so many beautiful small moments here. I find myself inspired to keep a daily log like …

Jan 2, 2020: 📖 Currently reading How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick 📚

Jan 2, 2020: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 4: Sanctuary”

Jan 1, 2020: 📷 Soul Expansion Spread by Lindsay Mack of Wild Soul Healing. 2020 is an Emperor year: structure and organization. Cards from the Moonchild Tarot by …

Jan 1, 2020: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Wasn’t sure how I would like it, given the responses I’d seen. I decided going into it that I would have …

Dec 29, 2019: 📖 Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚

Dec 29, 2019: 💬 Replied to None of the kids wanted toys for Christmas this year, they just wanted cash. Understandable, but cash as a gift, while practical, always …

Dec 28, 2019: 📔 Hi there! I’m considering migrating my WordPress site to micro.blog, and am playing with the post interface today.

Dec 20, 2019: 📔 I know I just took a hiatus because of comps, but now I’m taking another one for the holidays. See y’all January 6!

Dec 18, 2019: 📖 Read Frozen II (Midwest Film Journal) by Aly Caviness I was going to write a whole blog post about Frozen II and why I like it better than Frozen …

Dec 18, 2019: 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 up to this year? This year I: keynoted …

Dec 17, 2019: 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. Previously, on Dissertating in the Open: Inspiration strikes …

Dec 10, 2019: Hey guess what I passed my comps. Taking a post-comps hiatus. See y’all Monday.

Dec 9, 2019: It’s remarkable how chill I am about my comps oral exam tomorrow. I guess I’m just… ready.

Dec 6, 2019: This little comb-bound packet represents a year’s worth of work.

Dec 5, 2019: Today I finished my dissertation proposal and sent it to my committee. I sent them the literature review for my comprehensive qualifying exam at the …

Dec 5, 2019: NOW I’ve finished my dissertation proposal, and even sent it to my committee ahead of my comps. Candidacy, here I come!

Dec 4, 2019: 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 calculation people with chronic illness (whether …

Dec 4, 2019: How did I not know that it’s not just me, but rather the entire Internet, that refers to Carrie Fisher as “space mom”? Miss you space mom. Love you …

Dec 3, 2019: NPR’s Book Concierge is live and Tumblr’s Fandom Year-in-Review is out. It is truly the most wonderful time of the year.

Dec 2, 2019: Connecting doesn't have to be hard. Grad school and parenthood are both immensely isolating experiences. So when you combine them, you tend to be… immensely isolated. I feel very lonely …

Nov 27, 2019: This morning, when W. and M. were sleeping in, I could have chosen to do one of many different things, whether I wanted to spend that time …

Nov 26, 2019: I… think I’m almost done with my dissertation proposal?

Nov 26, 2019: I went thrifting yesterday by myself for the first time since having M. Thrifting used to be a source of great fun. When I was in high school, I …

Nov 25, 2019: This weekend was a good weekend. On Saturday, we had a harvest meal at the Montessori/co-working space. We brought grapes. They seemed to be a big …

Nov 19, 2019: 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 Hilarious World of Depression. She said that one of …

Nov 15, 2019: I wish I could tell little 13/14 year old me, back in 1995, that she actually DOES like a genre of popular music, it’s just R&B, and it’s not her …

Nov 15, 2019: Anybody got tips on automating Instagram data collection (specifically images, post text, comments) for qual analysis for someone with no Python …

Nov 14, 2019: My kid’s preferred type of narrative conflict is Bear vs. Self.

Nov 4, 2019: #goals: Welcome to #AcWriMo/#DissProWriMo! This blog post contains affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase, I may receive a commission (at no extra cost to you). Thank you for …

Oct 31, 2019: I hereby declare November to be #DissProWriMo. Writing your dissertation proposal? Me too! Let’s connect! #AcWriMo #AcWri #phdchat

Oct 28, 2019: Current hobby: lying in bed and re-watching Downton Abbey.

Oct 26, 2019: Remember conversation? I was out at dinner with my family a couple days ago and four adults were sitting at the next table over, conversing about movies and books and …

Oct 24, 2019: Just sent my completed comps package off to my advisor with plans to send it to my committee next week.

Oct 11, 2019: Just finished writing the first draft of my last chapter of my comps package!

Oct 10, 2019: The world is like “Why are comedians depressed and anxious?” and “Why are academics depressed and anxious?” and “Why are moms depressed and anxious?” …

Oct 8, 2019: TFW your birthing day float therapy self-care appointment gets cancelled & you spend your babysitting time waiting on a very late handyman.

Oct 8, 2019: Obligatory voting selfie!

Oct 4, 2019: Today my doctor pointed out that after gestating a child for 9 months and nursing him for 33 months, I should give my hormones longer than 3 months to …

Oct 4, 2019: Threw off my anxiety just long enough to ask my doctor for anxiety meds. (Reader, she prescribed them.)

Oct 4, 2019: On my commute this morning I was pondering further whether I’m a Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Since we know the Sorting Hat takes wishes into account, I …

Oct 3, 2019: Wizarding World app just sorted me into Slytherin, just as Pottermore did many years ago, so I guess maybe it’s time to accept that it, and not …

Oct 2, 2019: 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 Annette M. Markham and Nancy K. Baym point out in …

Sep 27, 2019: Art by Paperhand artists.

Sep 26, 2019: Current life goals: 1. Finish this gd comps chapter 2. Catch up on @_alexrowland’s & @MaryRobinette’s novels. (Sff authors with knowledge of …

Sep 26, 2019: I love this. My friend Alana & I used to hear some Eisley lyrics as “rose-and-mermaid-entwined shrubbery” and it felt so magical. The real lyrics are …

Sep 25, 2019: Coping when I'm not okay I’ve been feeling moderately not okay lately. Nothing truly devastating, but a sense of doom. A sense of never being able to finish anything, of …

Sep 23, 2019: On theoretical and methodological literature reviews My blog post, A Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow, is probably the most viewed thing on my website. It’s a great overview, especially for …

Sep 19, 2019: I haven’t listened, only skimmed the transcript, but @flourish & @elizabethminkel point out that public humanities & social sciences are behind …

Sep 17, 2019: Two dissertation-related things I’ve been working on simultaneously: my final chapter of comps, which I’m writing about affinity space …

Sep 14, 2019: At last, my leaning into the librarian stereotype is paying off!

Sep 12, 2019: Whoever is going around SILS convincing people who’ve never met me that I’m awesome, thanks.

Sep 12, 2019: The scholarly endeavor is an inherently creative endeavor. And I’m going to explore the relationship between creativity and scholarship more on my …

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Sep 4, 2019: The kid just told me he wants his third birthday party to have a Buffy theme, so I guess I’ve achieved all my parenting goals?

Aug 30, 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 all the messages away in my Gmail archives and am …

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Aug 29, 2019: A conversation with @marijel_melo confirmed a suspicion I had that to a non-cosplayer, saying you were a “closet cosplayer” sounded like you were …

Aug 28, 2019: So, um, I have a not-remotely-secret cosplay alias now… Luna Wednesday ? Cosplayer lunawednesdaycosplay.com

Aug 28, 2019: A chronic illness comedy! Where do I send my spec script? ❤️️ @emilyvgordon & @Sarah_Hyland

Aug 26, 2019: Fell down a @tiktok_us cosplay hole thanks to @BrichibiTweets sharing this Ursula video from @MidnightPursona & may never return. IT’S RESEARCH, …

Aug 16, 2019: On digital hiatus through August 26th. See y’all later!

Aug 14, 2019: Is metascholarship a thing? Like, a field of study? Sometimes (often) I find myself more interested in research design and writing processes than in, …

Aug 14, 2019: I can cook all manner of foods, fashion clothing from yarn or fabric and thread, build furniture, and make props, but I can’t for the life of me make …

Aug 14, 2019: I need a t-shirt that says 50% Jo/50% Meg.

Aug 14, 2019: I ran across Dr. Naomi Civins’s dissertation while citation chaining works about connective ethnography, via Google Scholar. I read the title and …

Aug 13, 2019: Jargon in Academia I’m having a little brainstorm over here about my frustration with jargon in academia and the way disciplines borrow from each other and then deposit …

Aug 13, 2019: Hormones have got my brain going “Understanding cyberethnographic redefinitions of traditional ethnographic methodological concerns? NOT TODAY, …

Aug 13, 2019: My kid loves to know who’s singing the music we’re listening to so this morning when he asked who sings “Everything Is Awesome!” I told him …

Aug 9, 2019: Kid at library (playing at train table): It’s Utopia! It’s disaster! Librarian: But utopia is a good thing! Kid: No it’s not! It’s evil! Me: is …

Aug 8, 2019: Memo: Affinity Spaces Gee introduced the concept of affinity spaces in his book Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling (2004). Affinity spaces …

Aug 8, 2019: The longer I live, the more I begin to believe that My Actual People are only a very small subset of any apparent group of My People.

Aug 5, 2019: 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 me to sort of a revelation. [First, an aside: Emily …

Aug 2, 2019: Skimming the headlines for The Ringer’s ‘99 Music Week really brings home for me the fact that I spent most of 1999 listening to movie and Broadway …

Aug 2, 2019: I just sent off the comps chapter that refused to be finished to my committee. It’s been 9 weeks since I sent them the last chapter. It is less than 6 …

Aug 1, 2019: It’s that thing where you’re almost done with a chapter of your comps lit review and you realize your conclusion will involve creating a whole new …

Jul 30, 2019: I’m crowdsourcing a superhero-themed playlist for my son, heavily Marvel/Avengers-slanted (esp. Age of Ultron era). So far: Iron Man - Cardigans cover …

Jul 30, 2019: I’ve been using “fanfiction” instead of “fan fiction” when writing my comps and sincerely hope nobody tries to come at me on this.

Jul 30, 2019: 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…

Jul 30, 2019: 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 of those hours to late arrival (mine), getting …

Jul 29, 2019: No YOU’RE developing a Super Why TRPG ruleset in your head because your almost-3-year-old is getting into collaborative storytelling.

Jul 28, 2019: 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 Oregon Trail generation, I came of age alongside the …

Jul 25, 2019: I want the cut where @julieklausner plays Pumbaa.

Jul 24, 2019: I always miss theater. Let’s put on a show.

Jul 23, 2019: 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 audio tyrant during our commutes. Now, so that I …

Jul 20, 2019: A little light summer weekend reading.

Jul 18, 2019: TFW when you’re reading Gee’s list of teaching features of video games and you just want to go home and play video games.

Jul 16, 2019: M’s teacher: I was talking to [other teacher] about crystals and M. said, “My mama has crystals!” and I said, “Yeah, that makes sense.” (Hi, I’m …

Jul 16, 2019: 🔖 Gee, J. (2005). Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: From the age of mythology to today’s schools. In D. Barton & K. Tusting (Eds.), Beyond …

Jul 15, 2019: Who will I be this year? My friend Little Willow doesn’t make New Year’s Resolutions in January. She makes them on her birthday, which is not in January. I like to set …

Jul 14, 2019: 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 about? I want to blog more and to use the time when I …

Jul 14, 2019: Chicken Tikka Masala Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala with Cauliflower and Peas - Skinnytaste I've created a lightened up, dairy-free Chicken Tikka …

Jul 12, 2019: Hi! I’m an IndieWeb mother. My son will be 3 in October. Nice to meet you!

Jul 12, 2019: 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 learned over the past four years about what’s …

Jul 11, 2019: ✔️ Jellies ✔️ Lace-trim leggings ✔️ Hawkins AV Club shirt ✔️ One dangly earring, one stud ✔️ High side-ponytail ✔️ Velvet scrunchie Ready for Stranger …

Jul 3, 2019: It seems like the authors of Affinity Online (https://nyupress.org/9781479852758/) deliberately chose to use the phrase “online affinity networks” as …

Jul 2, 2019: “It will surprise you not one bit,” I said to my friends some months ago after an escape room and lunch, “that the only reason I got into Tarot is …

Jul 2, 2019: Key summer goth accessories: parasol handfan cooling scarf sunglasses sunscreen scent of cloves & absinthe

Jul 2, 2019: The end of this keynote gets at exactly what I was talking about in my last post. When we own our own data, We can look back at who we were who we …

Jul 2, 2019: 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 it was a train of thought worth stopping, so here …

Jun 27, 2019: True fact: 100% of my group cosplay ideas are aimed at getting @tceles_b_hsup in a long wig + bish af.

Jun 27, 2019: To distract me from my current “The world is a garbage fire” emotional spiral, here’s a bunch of labels I’m okay with, woo-woo or otherwise. Type A- …

Jun 26, 2019: 📚 Gee, J. P. (2004). Situated Language and Learning : A Critique of Traditional Schooling. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. Gee introduces the …

Jun 22, 2019: Me, to my colleagues: I could really use a tote bag for the flight home. Y’all think I’ll be able to find a tote bag at this librarian conference? …

Jun 17, 2019: Project READY is live! Still blogging infrequently and mostly absent from social media, but this is a huge piece of work. I hope to write up some reflections on what I …

May 29, 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 only 1 day. But there are some things that I want …

May 20, 2019: Austin Kleon talks about daily blogging as being related to the ideas of stock and flow, and I think that really gets at what you’re talking about …

May 10, 2019: On hiatus A little over a year ago, I told a friend: Started blogging in my bullet journal, realized this is just journaling... And that’s where I’ll be …

May 8, 2019: TTFN I’m taking a digital hiatus of sorts starting Friday, 5/10/2019. I haven’t decided how locked down kimberlyhirsh.com will be. At the very least, …

May 3, 2019: 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 post on this soon. Way back in 2001 or 2002, I …

May 2, 2019: Current wishlist: everything at this shop, which bills itself as “Goth Mom Central,” but most especially the Strange and Unusual hat, which I …

Apr 30, 2019: It’s not noon yet and I’ve had a phone meeting and talked with my insurance agent, so probably I deserve a delicious sandwich and also your …

Apr 25, 2019: Because I was a child when it started, I just started watching 90210 for the first time and I’m baffled that AO3 only has ONE Brandon Walsh/Dylan …

Apr 24, 2019: Memo: Connected Learning, Libraries, and Change The elements of connected learning (interests, relationships, opportunities, sponsorship of youth interests, shared practices, shared purpose, …

Apr 22, 2019: Reading notes forthcoming.

Apr 22, 2019: 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 triggers: changes in barometric pressure, eating …

Apr 19, 2019: I found this article because I wanted to read romance novels again. I decided to check out the Romance Writers of America website. I noted several …

Apr 16, 2019: Memo: Defining Connected Learning Connected Learning can be conceived of in three ways: as a type of learning experience that occurs spontaneously, as an empirically-derived model or …

Apr 13, 2019: I’ve been solo parenting for almost a week and we’re currently at Defcon Watching “How Far I’ll Go” DisneyMusicVEVO over & over. Single parents, I …

Apr 11, 2019: 📚 Ito, M., Martin, C., Pfister, R. C., Rafalow, M. H., Salen, K., & Wortman, A. (2019). Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel …

Apr 11, 2019: Bender, S., & Peppler, K. (2019). Connected learning ecologies as an emerging opportunity through Cosplay. Comunicar, 27(58), 31–40. Bender and …

Apr 11, 2019: Martin, Crystle A. “Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities: Navigating the Sea of Information of an Online Affinity Space.” The …

Apr 11, 2019: Itō, M., Baumer, S., Bittanti, M., Boyd, D., Cody, R., Stephenson, B. H., … Tripp, L. (2009). Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids …

Apr 11, 2019: This morning I told my son, “Mommy used to be a teacher. Did you know that?” He said, “No. But now you’re a parent!” (I didn’t tell him that some …

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Apr 9, 2019: 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 an important piece of art for me. And there are …

Apr 9, 2019: Me: I just want an in-depth explanation of how the Connected Learning model is different than it was in 2013 that gives me more details than the CL …

Apr 8, 2019: Reading notes forthcoming.

Apr 7, 2019: Writing comedy from the heart It feels like there have been a thousand times Rachel Bloom has said something in an interview and I felt like shouting, “YES THIS!” but this is a new …

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Apr 4, 2019: I know when I'm being submentioned. Chris, I'm glad to hear that my read posts are both heartwarming and providing useful data. I think they reveal as …

Apr 3, 2019: I read this book twice last year and just re-read it again in anticipation of Austin Kleon’s latest book, Keep Going. I definitely just carried it …

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Apr 3, 2019: 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 if I remember to. Let’s dig in and check out how …

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Apr 2, 2019: Kumasi, K. (2014). Connected learning: Linking academics, popular culture, and digital literacy in a Young Urban Scholars Book Club. Teacher …

Apr 2, 2019: Kow, Y. M., Young, T., & Tekinbaş, K. S. (2014). Crafting the metagame: Connected learning in the Starcraft II community. Digital Media and Learning …

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Apr 1, 2019: Found myself thinking, “I want to play a map game but like a handholdy one, not Breath of the Wild, what was that AV Club article that mentioned a …

Apr 1, 2019: 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. They might be of interest to you, too. First, I’m …

Apr 1, 2019: Bilandzic, M. (2013). Connected learning in the library as a product of hacking, making, social diversity and messiness. Interactive Learning …

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Mar 30, 2019: Yes. Disability/chronic illness + parenting means spoons (ie energy) that I used to be able to budget for myself now belongs to the kid, so I get …

Mar 30, 2019: If you want to check out the video or notes for my keynote presentation at today’s IndieWebCamp New Haven, you can find them here! I talked about …

Mar 30, 2019: My favorite website since isbelalugosidead.com. (Which is now lapsed? @willrad I might have to buy it.)

Mar 29, 2019: Larson, K., Ito, M., Brown, E., Hawkins, M., Pinkard, N., & Sebring, P. (2013). Safe Space and Shared Interests: YOUmedia Chicago as a Laboratory for …

Mar 29, 2019: Ito, M., & Martin, C. (Fall 2013). Connected Learning and the Future of Libraries. Young Adult Library Services, 12(1), 29–32. Ito and Martin provide …

Mar 29, 2019: Ito, M., Gutiérrez, K., Livingstone, S., Penuel, B., Rhodes, J., Salen, K., … Craig Watkins, S. (2013). Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and …

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Mar 29, 2019: Uninformed take: Metroid is a metaphor for early parenthood.

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Mar 26, 2019: These books are magical, but like all our faves, they’ve got some problems. See American Indians in Children’s Literature for the specifics of some …

Mar 26, 2019: Kaitlyn Tiffany interviews Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Highlights and marginalia: “The villain here is …

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Mar 21, 2019: Google Books exports highlights and marginalia to a Google Doc titled Notes from “Book Title.” The document includes the highlighted text or the note …

Mar 20, 2019: 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 only has a title box and a response properties …

Mar 18, 2019: I’m giving the keynote at IndieWebCamp New Haven on March 30. You can attend remotely! In fact, that’s what I’m doing.

Mar 18, 2019: I can’t wait to see what I come up with, either! I’ve been trying to track down other keynotes via the IndieWeb YouTube channel to see what kind of …

Mar 18, 2019: Attending remotely, as I’m able given I have a toddler. And, oh yeah, keynoting!

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Mar 15, 2019: Testing some IndieWeb functionality and this tweet seemed worth sharing…

Mar 15, 2019: Neutral good, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

Mar 15, 2019: I started implementing separate RSS feeds for different types of content a while back but just set them up to appear in the content search in readers …

Mar 14, 2019: 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 little about the process. If you’ll recall, my …

Mar 1, 2019: Having a paper accepted with revisions on the first submission is reason to celebrate, yeah? Reviewer 2’s (and 3’s, I’m the scholarly equivalent of a …

Mar 1, 2019: Me, writing my comps about cosplay: I’m almost out of space and I haven’t even mentioned Butler on performance or Bakhtin’s carnivalesque! Also me: …

Feb 18, 2019: Unexpectedly shattered I’ve been working on editing the fourth episode of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast, Things of Bronze, and in that episode I talk about how being a …

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Feb 12, 2019: I attended my first dissertation defense yesterday. I came home and told W. that we’ll be doing theater warm-ups before mine.

Feb 11, 2019: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell I just finished reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. And now I want to be best friends with her, because she gets me. This book means so much to me. I …

Feb 9, 2019: I organized my closet and now I’m too tired to cook dinner. This is peak Kimberly.

Feb 6, 2019: Trying on a new epithet: librariacafan.

Feb 6, 2019: Still drafting the first chapter, but it has a cover and a summary… The Watchers Council had made certain promises. First, that Rupert Giles would …

Feb 6, 2019: Miserable human beings who you wouldn’t want to spend a second with in real life are capable of making something great that is beautiful or useful to …

Feb 6, 2019: Making a note to myself to come back to this Austin Kleon blog post and write about it in relationship to connected parenting.

Feb 5, 2019: I’ve fallen down an internet rabbit hole! My current work = reading about cosplay. Cosplay is part of fandom, and I feel disconnected from fandom so I …

Jan 23, 2019: Why Do I Have to Choose Between Being a Writer and Being a Mother? We need narratives about women artists that don?t position family and craft as …

Jan 16, 2019: 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. It has been the dominant pop culture text in my …

Jan 16, 2019: I could learn to repair drywall and fix sinking bathroom tile but for now I’m just going to believe handypeople are magic.

Jan 15, 2019: Just submitted my first draft of my first chapter of my comps lit review to my committee for feedback, so it’s probably time for another high five.

Jan 14, 2019: Stop optimizing. Start nourishing. A week ago, my friend shared the video for Lizzo’s song “Juice.” I commented, “I want to feel as cute as she is.” I started watching Dietland last …

Jan 10, 2019: You can tell I’m approaching middle age because I think of my car as my new car and I just got an email from CarMax saying I bought it 5 years ago …

Jan 10, 2019: On Millennial burnout Some notes on Millennial burnout. This started as a Twitter thread because I needed a frictionless place to write my initial ideas, and apparently I …

Jan 10, 2019: I found this Man Repeller post via the Holisticism newsletter. (One of my favorite reads every week.) It captures one of the important ideas I’ve been …

Jan 9, 2019: Submitted a solo-authored manuscript today, so in true millennial fashion, I feel like I deserve many high fives.

Jan 9, 2019: 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 my word of the year because I wanted to capture my …

Dec 30, 2018: I’m lucky: they gave me a canonical #spidersona, trying to figure out how to make a better world for her kid while dealing with the daily tasks of …

Dec 30, 2018: Have now escaped 100% of @bullcityescape's rooms. And we'll be back when they make new ones!

Dec 29, 2018: I’m here for improv in libraries AND I recommend checking out FairPlayMN’s documents on levels of intimacy & boundary check-ins as part of your …

Dec 28, 2018: Writing music and reading music are different music. My writing music is video game or film scores. My reading music is chill beats, piano, quiet …

Dec 21, 2018: I need to be reading & writing about information literacy as a sociocultural/sociotechnical practice, but I think swiss cheese Mom-brain is …

Dec 14, 2018: Today I listened to Lindsay Mack’s amazing first episode of the new version of her podcast, in which she discusses birth, death, and thresholds with …

Dec 12, 2018: What Kimberly Wrote, 12/12/2018 I wrote 2 pages about new models of information literacy in affinity spaces today, or about 968 words. I’m trying a new thing with my writing. Usually …

Dec 10, 2018: Toward a personal brand I find myself admiring people who seem together. They are well-coiffed. Their clothes are carefully styled. They welcome you into their homes and …

Dec 7, 2018: Friends with Secrets Three friends with different backgrounds participated in online text therapy sessions from January to April 2018. Friends With …

Dec 7, 2018: Me, to W— this morning: I don’t know if you can cast every musical with the characters from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. Him: Challenge accepted!

Dec 7, 2018: 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.) Everyone on it is so cool and down-to-earth and does …

Dec 4, 2018: I had a great first meeting with my doctoral committee today and am in that rare antsy can’t-wait-to-get-to-work mood, but I have to wait because my …

Dec 3, 2018: Dissertating in the Open: Designing a Comprehensive Literature Review I think every doctoral program is different in what they expect from students for qualifying comprehensive examinations, but in my program, there are …

Nov 30, 2018: Yesterday I received my first order from Whisper Sisters, purveyors of fine perfume oils. I found out about it from Gothic Charm School. I ordered a …

Nov 27, 2018: Adulting achievements After yesterday’s musings on adulting, I found myself looking for various resources that indicate what some components of adulting are. I found my way …

Nov 26, 2018: How Netflix?s She-Ra found a specific sound for its kick-ass princess The reboot?s soundtrack was considered before animating began, says composer …

Nov 26, 2018: Herding Cats: A Simple Method for Working with the Disorder of Our Lives : zen habits zenhabits.net I had a feeling this morning that I needed to …

Nov 26, 2018: On adulting  I'm Turning 30. Do I Need Adulting Lessons? There's a whole cottage industry devoted to teaching Millennials basic life skills. Are young adults that …

Nov 16, 2018: #100DaysOfCode 2/100 Completed @freeCodeCamp Applied Accessibility, Responsive Web Design Principles, CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, and Build a Tribute Page …

Nov 16, 2018: 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 on in my PhD program, I decided that I wanted to be …

Nov 15, 2018: #100DaysOfCode 1/100 Completed @freeCodeCamp Basic HTML & HTML5, Basic CSS, & Applied Visual Design. Got excited about things that are more widely …

Nov 15, 2018: #100DaysofCode I’m publicly committing to the 100DaysOfCode Challenge starting today! #100DaysOfCode I did my first coding in BASIC as a reader of 3-2-1 Contact …

Nov 7, 2018: Aquariums (American English plural) always feel like transcendent and magical spaces to me.

Nov 6, 2018: If MAGIC is aligning ENERGY with INTENTION in order to bring about CHANGE, VOTING is a MAGICAL ACT. Thank you for voting, for using your power to make …

Nov 5, 2018: 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 or covered point shoes in makeup to match their …

Nov 1, 2018: #AcWriMo: A declaration Hi friends. Here I’m declaring my intent to participate in #AcWriMo. Here are my goals: Revise and submit an article I've been working on for a long …

Oct 24, 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 everything you thought you wanted to do and how to …

Oct 22, 2018: Hi yes @sfosternyc is 100% my pretend Broadway BFF.

Oct 16, 2018: Me: I think I’m going to embrace my age. I’m thinking of reading Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mercedes Lackey. W: Are you a middle aged woman in the …

Oct 16, 2018: Hi there. I’m just over here working on my comps (makerspaces, gaming, fandom, theory, methods) and thinking applying @CrystleM’s dissertation work to …

Oct 15, 2018: On living a fragmented life Saturday night, W. and I went to the tour of Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy. If you like Final Fantasy, and it’s coming somewhere near you, …

Oct 12, 2018: 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 titles of every article ever published in Young …

Oct 5, 2018: My brother made this awesome animated short. It’s probably my favorite of all his work. You can find him on Twitter @MicahHirsh.

Oct 5, 2018: [caption id=“attachment_6254” align=“aligncenter” width=“840”] On Monday, we go to work. But right now, it’s kigurumi-and-video-games …

Sep 30, 2018: This image by The Latest Kate is my ideal self.

Sep 29, 2018: So many people I know and love probably need this card right now. (Let’s be honest; I’m one of them.) If you need it, here it is. If you want a …

Sep 28, 2018: [caption id=“attachment_6238” align=“aligncenter” width=“840”] My choice of craft reveals a lot about my emotional state. Cross-stitch = rage. Crochet …

Sep 27, 2018: Little known facts about The Incredible Hulk, according to my almost-two-year-old: He plays soccer. He has a yellow parasol. He can turn into a hawk. …

Sep 26, 2018: You know you’re from Durham when your toddler distinguishes food trucks from all other trucks. #portlandofthepiedmont #bullcity

Sep 24, 2018: Fundamental parenting truth: the night before you plan to commit to eating healthier is the night your child will not sleep. (This message brought to …

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Sep 21, 2018: 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 back on Pokemon Go. Here’s my code if you want …

Sep 18, 2018: Another day, another rejection. #shareyourrejections

Sep 6, 2018: The top of my dresser has been a mess for weeks. Took less than 15 minutes to get it in shape while the kid was napping.

Sep 6, 2018: Dear LIS researchers of the early oughts, Second Life is not a game. Please stop clogging up my literature search results. Thanks!

Sep 2, 2018: All you really need to know about me to understand me is that my high school years were bookended by Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You. 

Aug 24, 2018: Disappearing from most of the Interwebs until after Labor Day. See y’all later! (Deleting Twitter, Instagram, & Fb Messenger from my phone.)

Aug 20, 2018: Submitted a paper to a conference before I’d run the study. One reviewer suggested the study shouldn’t be run at all. Another said it was an …

Aug 19, 2018: I constantly have to remind myself that of the 6 semesters of my doctoral program, only 1 happened before I was almost & then actually somebody’s mom, …

Aug 17, 2018: Newly dedicated magic corner. I just took a little time to clear out and clean my corner desk, which was never getting used for work anyway, and dedicate it to all my magic stuff. …

Aug 16, 2018: 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 about my IndieWeb progress. In my early days, I …

Aug 16, 2018: Hey, Twitter. If you’re one of my followers who doesn’t know me IRL but would actually recognize my name and seek me out if we were at a conference or …

Aug 12, 2018: Unfollowing Everybody I'm probably going to unfollow everybody from Twitter on Monday. Please don't take it personally. I'll then be adding my closest people back, and …

Aug 10, 2018: 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 in a production of Brigadoon together. I played his …

Aug 10, 2018: @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 on there.

Aug 10, 2018: @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… cupcake-goth.dreamwidth.org/tag/avon+satan…

Aug 10, 2018: 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 shared with @allisunrae here on Twitter.

Aug 10, 2018: 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, books, food smells but not floral smells, ghosts, …

Aug 10, 2018: 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 aesthetic now.

Aug 10, 2018: @MagpieLibrarian I genuinely thought this was deliberate. @MagpieLibrarian I genuinely thought this was deliberate.

Aug 10, 2018: 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.

Aug 9, 2018: 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!

Aug 9, 2018: 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.

Aug 9, 2018: 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 the Pie Maker…

Aug 9, 2018: 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 for a lit review? Topic is TRPGs in library teen …

Aug 8, 2018: 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.

Aug 8, 2018: This is Damask Bowie, reporting for NPR News. twitter.com/jennievander/s… This is Damask Bowie, reporting for NPR News.

Aug 8, 2018: @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 synthesize instead of summarize AND provide a …

Aug 7, 2018: 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 snack.

Aug 7, 2018: 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 ahead and do the things that person will do.

Aug 6, 2018: First newsletter issue goes out today The first issue of my newsletter goes out today. Thoughts on peak nostalgia and assurances that you are wonderful will be included. …

Aug 4, 2018: 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 preparing for comprehensive exams but hasn’t fully …

Aug 3, 2018: 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 like she was speaking very directly to me. Several …

Aug 3, 2018: 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 great work in CL that you know about?

Aug 3, 2018: Impatient for #CLS2018 proceedings after seeing all these great tweets. Impatient for #CLS2018 proceedings after seeing all these great tweets.

Aug 2, 2018: My life = productive morning + watch The Great British Baking Show the rest of the day.

Jul 31, 2018: Lori Morimoto on Twitter Thread. This is one of the reasons I haven’t spent my time in school worrying about doing everything right. If doing things right doesn’t get me the …

Jul 31, 2018: edu522 Librarians and teachers looking to squeeze three more weeks of PD into their summer might want to check out Greg McVerry’s #EDU522: “three weeks to …

Jul 30, 2018: Woman About the Internet Drew Zandonella-Stannard perfectly captures the reality of early parenthood in the latest issue of her newsletter.

Jul 30, 2018: 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 faves soon. But for now, think about these …

Jul 30, 2018: 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 of you. khirsh.us/b/1Rs

Jul 26, 2018: It’s that thing of when other people are working on your area of research interest but they haven’t published their stuff yet so you can’t include it …

Jul 26, 2018: 🔖📚 No Romance Required 30 Books About Girl – Boy Friendships Me: “Okay but everyone wants to marry Dickon so they must mean the friendship between …

Jul 26, 2018: Me to my advisor today: Okay but what if my dissertation is about makerspaces AND gaming AND fandom? Her: Yes Me: This is only mostly a sneaky way to …

Jul 25, 2018: Hoopla Cookbooks Just browsed the cooking section of the Durham County Library Hoopla Collection and I’m blown away by how comprehensive it is. I want to cook all the …

Jul 24, 2018: What Kimberly Wrote, 7/24/2018 I wrote 279 words about definitions of “makerspace” today. Tomorrow: reviewing all 26ish pages I’ve written so far and making a plan for the …

Jul 24, 2018: 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 when I figure out what I mean by that.

Jul 23, 2018: Hey writers. What are your day jobs? Hey writers. What are your day jobs?

Jul 23, 2018: 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 that fatigue is my primary symptom for both of …

Jul 22, 2018: 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 changed it. Le… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Jul 22, 2018: Spider-Woman Reading the Hopeless/Rodriguez run of Spider-Woman and feeling super seen. Sorry for weird colors- I use a blue light filter app and it affects my …

Jul 22, 2018: Happy anniversary, Will! When you have been together for almost 20 years and you’re both librarians. Happy anniversary, Will!

Jul 21, 2018: Writing Motivation Me: ugh writing this comps lit review is such a slog Also Me: I should probably put together an annotated bibliography of everything that’s been …

Jul 18, 2018: Internet like it's 2001 Me, February 2001 I’ve owned my own personal domain since 2001, though it’s a different domain name now than it was then. For the past year or so …

Jul 18, 2018: What Kimberly Wrote, 7/18/2018 My makerspaces lit review is just over 25 pages, with two sections left to write: definitions and conclusion. After I get those done, I’ll take a …

Jul 18, 2018: I Robot, You Jane True story, the “I Robot, You Jane” episode of Things of Bronze is the episode I’m most excited about recording. That episode of Buffy captures so …

Jul 17, 2018: Your Website Hey friend! Do you have a website and/or blog? I want to visit it! Tell me about it, please.

Jul 17, 2018: Instant Pot Bought an Instant Pot at the urging of fellow co-working parents and I don’t know how long it’s been since I was this excited about a purchase.

Jul 14, 2018: 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 I’m Benjamin Buttoning. (Making that reference …

Jul 14, 2018: Roxane Gay It feels perfect to come across this on my 37th birthday.

Jul 12, 2018: A good night Tonight I went to Goth night at a Tarot-themed bar/lounge. I ate delicious Indian food from the restaurant next door. I got a spot-on, meaningful …

Jul 12, 2018: 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 and polycystic ovary syndrome. (I also have …

Jul 12, 2018: 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 months old. This is going to be so much easier when I …

Jul 11, 2018: Headcanon At age 22 months, M. is generating Curious George/Pigeon crossovers, so yeah, definitely my kid.

Jul 9, 2018: 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 synthetic notes rather than new writing. That feels a …

Jul 1, 2018: 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 of intensity ranging from “thinking about maybe …

Jun 29, 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 treating grad school like a side hustle? It does! …

Jun 29, 2018: #FSN2018 Falling down the #FSN2018 rabbit hole and it’s keeping me going right now.

Jun 27, 2018: Too much/not enough Isn’t it odd how it’s possible to feel simultaneously that you are too much and not enough?

Jun 27, 2018: 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 about 6.5 pages written. Also, I’m finding that I …

Jun 27, 2018: Patronus Fuel

Jun 24, 2018: At Lafayette Cemetery No 1

Jun 23, 2018: A Goth in New Orleans, Day 1 [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“2592”] Embrace your cliches.[/caption] [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“3000”] Our hotel has an amazing …

Jun 21, 2018: I married well. Just had a very serious conversation with my husband about our future as immortals and what type of vampire I should get to sire me while I’m in New …

Jun 21, 2018: 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 I’m going to love it there.

Jun 14, 2018: Birthday Party Kiiiiind of want to host/play in an improv comedy jam for my birthday on July 14.

Jun 13, 2018: Toddler Parent Responsibilities In the interest of helping myself recognize what things I do as the parent of a toddler, I’m making a list. I’m just thinking through a typical day …

Jun 12, 2018: 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 I took my first improv class a little over four …

Jun 12, 2018: Instead of asking “what is my one true calling in life?”, ask “what are the many things I would like to experience before I die?” Yes. This.

Jun 11, 2018: 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 of intensity ranging from “thinking about maybe …

Jun 11, 2018: What Kimberly Wrote, 06/11/18 Finished converting my concept map to an outline. Tomorrow: WRITING!

Jun 11, 2018: A visitor This friend was sitting on my front porch welcome mat when I left for the chiropractor this morning. I was running a bit late but I had to take a …

Jun 10, 2018: A blog post about everything. This might get a little stream-of-consciousness. Consider yourself warned. I went to a play today. It was Wakey Wakey, the last performance of the …

Jun 4, 2018: What Kimberly Wrote, 6/4/2018 Today I added 11 studies to my concept map for my makerspaces literature review. Tomorrow: finishing my outline. And then, I write. I will write a bad …

Jun 4, 2018: Make a Note I’ve gotten into the habit of saving links in Feedly or Pocket with every intention of writing a blog post about them later. Inevitably, when I return …

Jun 1, 2018: 2018 So Far I was listening to Lindsay Mack’s Tarot for the Wild Soul monthly medicine podcast for June, and she suggested that this is a great time for review …

May 25, 2018: Anne McCaffrey I don’t know, do y’all feel like Anne McCaffrey liked dragons?

May 25, 2018: 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 graduation and when I watch or read others, I like to …

May 24, 2018: #edcampcode Who’s going to #edcampcode in Raleigh on June 20? @nathan_stevens?

May 23, 2018: 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 I’m a little less than half done.

May 23, 2018: They weren’t kidding about Reviewer 2.

May 22, 2018:

May 20, 2018: 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 the coffee shop near my house. Get you a partner …

May 19, 2018: 📺 She-Ra and Girl Culture When I learned Noelle Stevenson was showrunning a She-Ra reboot, I was psyched. I haven’t read Lumberjanes or Nimona yet, but her Avengers fan art and …

May 17, 2018: What Kimberly Wrote, May 17, 2018 Today I have reviewed and written a synthetic note for one journal article. I also wrote my earlier blog post. (I did some other stuff, too. But it …

May 17, 2018: 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 realize that yes, I’ve actually done stuff. First …

May 16, 2018: From Wil Wheaton: I love reading about other creative people’s processes, especially writers, so this look inside Wil Wheaton’s head as he revises his first novel is my …

May 15, 2018: Crocheted Bobbles Finally taking on Kim Werker’s Craftsy class, Next Steps in Crochet. Here is my little swatch with a row of bobble stitches.

May 14, 2018: #libfive I love the amazing work that the students at Mount Vernon Middle School are doing to educate school librarians on how they can make their libraries …

May 14, 2018: 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 disagree with Edwards in a few places, mostly due to …

May 13, 2018: 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 like I did: claiming “me-time” by buying flowers …

May 11, 2018: 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 you?” Learning is my favorite thing, and I wanted …

May 10, 2018: Podcast Movement 28 Day Podcast Challenge I’m participating in a 28 Day podcast challenge with Podcast Movement through the end of this month. I’ve already had several Things of Bronze guests …

May 10, 2018: Reply to Greg McVerry With respect to standardized markup around online courses, are you familiar with lrmi.dublincore.org ? I don’t think it’s exactly what you are looking …

May 9, 2018: 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 mining was very successful when it recommended this to …

May 8, 2018: Obligatory Voting Selfie, 5/8/18 Primary

May 6, 2018: 🔖🎭🎵 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 since Beetlejuice. I saw it with W. It came out …

May 5, 2018: This is what a happy birthday looks like.

May 5, 2018: 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 had inspired me to do my part to fix the internet. …

May 4, 2018: #MomLife Text Adventure You have 40 minutes before your childcare ends. Do you: A) ? take a shower B) ? take a nap C) ? take a bath and ? read D)? put away clean laundry E) …

May 2, 2018: The 57 Bus Reading this book in the car while the toddler naps. I started this book on Monday. It’s a very engaging read. It uses second person effectively to …

May 1, 2018: 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 neglected true self-care most of my life. In the …

Apr 29, 2018: Rupert Giles, Actual School Librarian Probably going to write a series of fics in which Giles just has to do normal school librarian stuff.

Apr 29, 2018: Epawnine and Clawsette Thanks to Saturday Night Live’s Lobster Les Mis, Clawsette and Epawnine are now in the running for future cat names. (Meowrius is also a possibility.) …

Apr 28, 2018: The Joy and Sorrow of Rereading Holt’s "How Children Learn" How Children Learn by John Holt Marked to-read 04/28/18.

Apr 28, 2018: 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 teal one. $12

Apr 27, 2018: 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 the subject, but for now I’m just going to make …

Apr 27, 2018: Want to read: The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids by Alexandra Lange 📚

Apr 27, 2018: How to repay us I love this so much.

Apr 26, 2018: 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 of intensity ranging from “thinking about maybe …

Apr 25, 2018: Galatea Kent What, you DON’T have a bunch of Harry Potter role-playing names just lying around?

Apr 25, 2018: Same except add mom responsibilities and oh yeah I’ve already failed oops.

Apr 25, 2018: 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 blogging economy. I have been watching hobby blogs …

Apr 23, 2018: 🎧 Listened to Janelle James Discovers She’s a Comedian and Not a Gardener. It feels ironic that the Janelle James episode of The Hilarious World of …

Apr 23, 2018: 🔖 Songs By Librarians For Librarians: NYPL Sings I love this! I have long dreamed of being a children’s entertainer and I love the idea of librarians …

Apr 22, 2018: 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 IndieWeb stuff. When it’s dull, I work on my podcast. …

Apr 22, 2018: Silicon Valley S5E3 Was watching Silicon Valley S5E3 and Richard started waxing poetic about redecentralizing the internet and users owning their data and I got all ?.

Apr 21, 2018: 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 pick your battles is a particular favorite). For …

Apr 20, 2018: Haenyeo: Women Divers of Korea Haenyeo: Women Divers of Korea - Marked to-read on 04/20/2018. Found via Broadly via Laura Olin.

Apr 20, 2018: Define yourself in 4 films. #Filmstruck4 Splash (1984), Labyrinth (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Beaches (1988) Tagged by @allieacts. Tagging @tceles_B_hsup, @ailuruscosmos, @Folio_Ninja, …

Apr 20, 2018: .@tceles_B_hsup retweeting this feels really personal.

Apr 19, 2018: Mars and Her Children, Mars and Her Children - Marked to-read 4/19/18. Found via Laura Olin.

Apr 18, 2018: 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 offices for their Movers & Shakers meeting. As the …

Apr 17, 2018: 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 bookmarks.

Apr 17, 2018: 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 2001?” because the Internet of 2001 is definitely the …

Apr 17, 2018: This has been my desktop wallpaper all semester. (@raulpacheco @CalmingManatee)

Apr 16, 2018: Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering This is a beautiful piece about trees, forests, libraries, reading, writing, distance, and connection. I found it thanks to Austin Kleon. I will …

Apr 15, 2018: Fostering Family Learning with Video Games Families at Play - Marked to-read on 04/15/2018. Found via Connected Learning Alliance.

Apr 15, 2018: Library: An Unquiet History Library: An Unquiet History - Marked to-read on 04/15/18.

Apr 15, 2018: 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.

Apr 15, 2018: 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.

Apr 15, 2018: Walking: A Reading List In his newsletter last week and this week, Austin Kleon has recommended several reads about walking. Given my reminder yesterday about the value of a …

Apr 14, 2018: 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 thing about Twitter. As with Facebook, I’m not …

Apr 14, 2018: 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 to write and opened with “I believe…” Everything …

Apr 13, 2018: Farewell to Facebook, Kind Of I won’t be posting directly to my Facebook timeline anymore. In keeping with my move to embrace the IndieWeb, any posts I make to Facebook will be …

Apr 12, 2018: 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 media, Silicon Valley’s entry into education, …

Apr 10, 2018: 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 and I kind of want to live there. Beautiful coral …

Apr 9, 2018: 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 all the types of things you might find on social …

Apr 9, 2018: Time with the best of friends is always too short.

Apr 9, 2018: International TableTop Day

Apr 9, 2018: Maker Faire Burlington 2018 (Official)

Apr 9, 2018: The 7th Annual Festival of Legends: Dragons

Apr 6, 2018: Community and creativity in mundane retail spaces Austin Kleon’s meditations on retail spaces for community building and creativity have me thinking about how libraries can learn from these …

Apr 3, 2018: 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.

Apr 3, 2018: Hey spring! Hey spring!

Apr 2, 2018: All my clearest thinking happens between 11 pm and 1 am these days.

Apr 2, 2018: Chorus member from #JesusChristSuperstarLive is a legit Halloween costume choice, right?

Apr 1, 2018: Me, to the toddler at lullaby time: And now, something seasonal. sings “Gethsemane” @tceles_B_hsup: I thought you were gonna go with “Everything’s …

Apr 1, 2018: Finally giving The Future of Library Services for and with Teens the close read it deserves & feeling energized.

Mar 29, 2018: Current success metric: did I do literally any work today, at all?

Mar 28, 2018: Today my kid got giddy over the fact that “boot” and “book” begin the same way. Is wordplay a hallmark of the preoperational stage? #piagetftw

Mar 26, 2018: 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 for about a year. Only this weekend did I really …

Mar 26, 2018: 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! #mermaidlife #seawitchvibes

Mar 24, 2018: My toddler keeps saying “At me! At me!”

Mar 23, 2018: 🔖🎮 Read Hitting the Restart Button: Mass Effect Andromeda (The Learned Fangirl) by Kristin.

Mar 23, 2018: 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).

Mar 23, 2018: 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. Prep. This includes scheduling guests, watching the …

Mar 19, 2018: I took my kid for a walk so obviously glitter. I took my kid for a walk so obviously glitter.

Mar 19, 2018: First smoothie of the year: chocolate almond (but I added a teaspoon of instant coffee because grad student/toddler mom.)

Mar 18, 2018: 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. None of them resonated with me. My first deck, the …

Mar 15, 2018: Starting a podcast: Resources, part 1 Yesterday I mixed and mastered the first episode of my upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast, Things of Bronze. This is a great example of a …

Mar 14, 2018: 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 prepare for my qualifying examination for more …

Mar 10, 2018: 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.

Mar 10, 2018: 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. thingsofbronze.com #buffyslays20

Mar 8, 2018: #Repost @bymariandrew (@get_repost) … Caption from me, Kimberly: I have polycystic ovary syndrome and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. On high pain days, I …

Mar 7, 2018: New glasses.

Mar 6, 2018: ME: OMG this book is great, why haven’t more people cited it? checks publication date sees “2017” OHHHH…. (Seriously, though: Sarah R. Davies is the …

Mar 4, 2018: 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 that I can tell you that somebody else wrote a …

Mar 3, 2018: 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 industry and a person who has spent a fair amount of …

Mar 3, 2018: Test

Mar 1, 2018: I asked my friend to run a play-by-Slack, X-Files flavored game of Monster of the Week, and THIS happened...

Feb 24, 2018: Be Your Own Toddler, Part Two This is an extension of this earlier note. A common piece of advice for people with intrusive negative self-talk is to think about how you would …

Feb 23, 2018: TFW you’re sitting in the waiting room at the optometrist reading about podcasting but wish you were at home editing your podcast.

Feb 22, 2018: It's okay to not be okay. In my earliest days as a mother, I often found myself perusing the diagnostic criteria for post-partum depression. “I’m not as bad as all that,” I …

Feb 18, 2018: Auction haul: Buffy crew jacket, Sunnydale High Library playset. [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 18, 2018: Theatre geek tourism: Sam French. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 18, 2018: Geek tourism: Meltdown Comics. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 17, 2018: My first rosé! #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 17, 2018: Sunrise over the City of Angels. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 16, 2018: Roadside sculpture near Hollywood & Highland. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 16, 2018: View from my brunch seat in El Segundo. #bronze20 [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 15, 2018: A better picture of my little @everyday__magic crystal haul. [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 14, 2018: Bought these crystals at @everyday__magic but forgot to ask what they are. But they're pretty and @bakaraw said she's obsessed with my toddler (who …

Feb 14, 2018: What I got W for Valentine's Day. Really leaning into our Giles/Jenny Calendar dynamic. [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 12, 2018: Be your own toddler.

Feb 11, 2018: It begins... #thingsofbronze #buffy #btvs #podcast [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 11, 2018: How Facebook Is Killing Comedy I happened across this piece in Austin Kleon’s newsletter. It beautifully expresses a sentiment that I’ve heard from many of us who were around when …

Feb 11, 2018: Starting #lettermo with a bang. I'll reveal the contents of this package once I'm sure it's reached its destination. Not everyone will be getting …

Feb 10, 2018: It feels like providence that this ran across my Instagram feed the morning after I decided to lean into the sea witchiness I've unconsciously been …

Feb 10, 2018: Today's #lettermo release: the first of my Buffy stationery goes out into the world with an Evil Queen stamp! I'll show you *which* Buffy note card …

Feb 10, 2018: Sleepy mama mermaid #seawitchvibes. [gallery size=full columns=1]

Feb 10, 2018: Now that I know it's been received and opened, here are the contents of that mysterious package from #lettermo Day 1! Three Amiibos (part of an SNES …

Feb 10, 2018: Today's #lettermo is an Emm Roy postcard, but I forgot to take a picture before dropping it in the mailbox. I won't tell you what it said, but it had …

Feb 10, 2018: I have been keeping up with #lettermo, even though I haven't been documenting it. This is the first of my Buffy stationery to go out. It went out on …

Feb 10, 2018: Flat surface space is at a premium with a toddler running around, but I turned my dresser top into an altar focused on being the kind of mother I want …

Feb 10, 2018: Fairy lights under the snow last night. This image is rife with symbolism, right down to the protective mesh that keeps our parkour acrobat dance-baby …

Feb 10, 2018: #bestiethoughts

Feb 10, 2018: Today’s #dailytarot draw: Judgment. Card from the Tarot of Pagan Cats. Text from #wtfistarot by @bakaraw. This cat has a beautiful home and all the …

Feb 10, 2018: Gearing up for #lettermo / #incowrimo.

Feb 10, 2018: My toddler napped in the car outside the Montessori/co-working space for an hour and a half; meanwhile, I reviewed 3 articles for my comps lit review. …

Feb 9, 2018: It says something about how I engage with culture that two days after a new show’s release I expect to be able to track down full-fledged fan …

Feb 8, 2018: 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.

Feb 6, 2018: On-brand: wearing a black babydoll dress & black leggings with lace trim, dancing to Bauhaus like South Park goth kids, to amuse my toddler.

Feb 1, 2018: Shannon Crawford Barniskis | School of Information Studies I’m harboring a serious scholar crush on Shannon Crawford Barniskis right now. Her work connects theory and practice beautifully. Her concept of …

Feb 1, 2018: Velvet Chain TFW you need to dig out your CD binder so you can take the official Buffy soundtrack that's been in your car's CD player for two and a half years out …

Feb 1, 2018: This twenty-year-old bit from Wanda Sykes has taken on new meaning since I became a parent (she said posting from her bed at 3:30 am because why …

Jan 6, 2018: My 2018 Reading Challenge My reading challenge for 2018 has two components: Always be trying to read one more book than I have already read this year. Read whatever feels good …

Jan 1, 2018: I really like the idea “Begin as you mean to continue.” Today I lazed about in bed with W & our baby M, migrated to a new #bulletjournal, brunched …

Dec 29, 2017: Work in progress: TMNT, pattern by @weelittlestitches. Created a whole account just for stitching at @stitches_get_stuff_done.

Dec 27, 2017: We’re at the beach until NYE. The first thing I did after our unbelievably peaceful three hour drive was pop M’s new galoshes on him and take him to …

Dec 25, 2017: Now that it’s been gifted, I can share my latest #xstitch. Text designed by @hirralee. Skyline inspired by an image I found via Google Image Search …

Dec 23, 2017: Fueling up for holiday dinner prep: egg and cheese minicroissant sandwiches, peppermint mocha.

Dec 19, 2017: Historical Women Taking Care of Business Today in crazy on-brand for Kimberly, this NY Times Watching list of shows and movies featuring historical women getting it done.

Dec 17, 2017: I have pulled the two of wands twice this week. From #wtfistarot by @bakaraw “In this card, we may feel energized by another person, and it can speak …

Dec 16, 2017: 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, and I will love my body as much as I love my mind …

Dec 14, 2017: 🔖🎮 Read The Nintendo Switch Gave Me Back My Video Games by Mark Serrels (Kotaku AU) Yes, this. When my son was a tiny thing, I could strap him into …

Dec 13, 2017: The question I ask the cards for my #dailytarot draw is, "What energy am I living in today?" In the wake of the Alabama special election, the 6 of …

Dec 12, 2017: In praise of academic spouses Moira Hansen has written a beautiful piece here about academic spouses. As I was reading it, I nearly teared up thinking of the amazing ways W. has …

Dec 12, 2017: Harry Potter mobile RPG lets you become your own wizard for the first time Yes please.

Dec 12, 2017: 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.

Dec 12, 2017: 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 of ABC’s new musical special. Source: Kristen Bell …

Dec 10, 2017: K: I miss The Kitty. Maybe I’ll look at pictures of him. W: That will make you happy. K: Can you imagine the era before photography? You would only …

Dec 8, 2017: Just finished stitching The Princess Bride by @weelittlestitches while listening to the Pop Culture Happy Hour episode for the Princess Bride’s 30th …

Dec 8, 2017: Coursework Complete: What Now? Hi. I’m Kimberly, and I just submitted my last coursework assignment ever (unless I take more after I advance to candidacy, which, let’s face it, is a …

Dec 8, 2017: #2017bestnine

Dec 3, 2017: Honestly, The Harry Potter Alliance’s list of values basically sums up my values.

Dec 1, 2017: 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 conference programs, finding potential colleagues …

Nov 30, 2017: Yesterday’s #dailytarot pull: the two of wands, Tarot of Pagan Cats. I pulled this yesterday & re-read the description from #wtfistarot & @bakaraw: …

Nov 29, 2017: Brainstorming @thehpalliance ideas thanks to an assist from the UNC SILS Coalition of Youth Librarians… (including @everyday__magic somehow? IDK)

Nov 28, 2017: Tea, snacks, tablet, mermaid blanket. Time to engage the literature.

Nov 25, 2017: #dailytarot single card pull: The Knight of Chalices (Son of Cups),Tarot of Pagan Cats. It seems right that for my first pull, I pulled the card that …

Nov 22, 2017: “In the Fool, we say yes to the universe; in the Magician, the universe says yes back to us.” Thinking w gratitude on the times I was the Fool & of …

Nov 22, 2017: Self-care: reading #wtfistarot at the chiropractor during my therapy. I have been looking for something that is the opposite of grad school, and this …

Nov 20, 2017: Leonie’s parenting advice. So needed! #myshiningyear

Nov 15, 2017: 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 World” at the American Association of School …

Nov 15, 2017: Homemade peppermint mocha, Larabars, #bulletjournal, Trello. Peak mom+grad student.

Nov 14, 2017: 5 WAYS TO DISRUPT THE WELLNESS INDUSTRY This is a great blog post on how to engage in a traditionally exploitative space without feeling gross, i.e., how to transform the space within your …

Nov 9, 2017: No really though

Nov 8, 2017: Probably I should give myself credit for every. single. thing. I do in addition to raising a toddler.

Nov 3, 2017: Just watched the #BroadwayOnPBS Great Performances She Loves Me with Jane Krakowski & Zachary Levi and it reminded me why Broadway is my favorite …

Oct 24, 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 science professionals to learn about the social …

Oct 19, 2017: The longer I watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend the more I’m sure I’m Darryl.

Oct 19, 2017: 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 of research interest and how most of my hobbies …

Oct 18, 2017: Since people always want to add a c to Hirsh, I’m considering adding a 2nd domain name to kimberlyhirsh.com. Any suggestions?

Oct 18, 2017: Current Desktop

Oct 18, 2017: 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 series where I write about scholarship that I’ve …

Oct 18, 2017: On not doing great Sometimes I’m not doing great. Sometimes I’m struggling. In these times, though, I’m usually doing okay. I need sometimes to express that I’m not …

Oct 18, 2017: 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 the next few days. Let me know if you want to join …

Sep 8, 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 about a week and a half. Here I am at the …

Aug 30, 2017: My Upcoming Paper Topic #12weekarticle #AcWri Hello, The Entire Internet, my writing partner. How’s your writing going? Today’s assignment from Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks is to get …

Aug 29, 2017: 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. We’ll see. Anyway. She’s got a part about …

Aug 29, 2017: 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 two journal articles for publication. I’ve …

May 28, 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 not the right tool and still spend too much time …

May 12, 2017: Recommend a blog for me to try reading, please.

Mar 22, 2017: “I wish I’d worked instead of lying on a hammock in the sunshine with the baby and the cat,” said no one ever.

Mar 19, 2017: 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 constantly be disrupted. But I, like many of us I suspect, …

Mar 19, 2017: Just testing status format in WordPress. Nothing to see here…

Mar 19, 2017: 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 Garbage newsletter: https://t.co/GtVOPhhXjQ — blorp …

Feb 3, 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 us are only recently becoming aware of how scary …

Sep 26, 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 called “The Perfection Paradox,” about letting go of …

Sep 21, 2016: 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 irony, but I’ve never really been into that. Often …

Jul 8, 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 stride with it. I take so many notes for graduate …

May 26, 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 Librarians, as a poster session at ALA 2016 in Orlando, …

Apr 18, 2016: Effortless Clarity I experienced a rare moment of effortless clarity in improv practice yesterday. I’m on DSI’s hip-hop improv team Versus, and yesterday we were …

Mar 17, 2016: Advanced Improv Notes: Referential Humor This winter, I took the Advanced Harold class at DSI Comedy Theater. DSI uses forums for class discussion, but being The Hermione Granger of Improv, I …

Feb 24, 2016: Advanced Improv Notes: Consequences I just finished taking the Advanced Harold class at DSI Comedy Theater. DSI uses forums for class discussion, but being The Hermione Granger of …

Nov 13, 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 - come visit!). So please know that, while I think …

Nov 11, 2015: Improv will not fix you... …because you’re not broken. YOU ARE WHOLE AND YOU ARE ENOUGH. ******* I’ve been having a challenging few weeks. I suffer from clinical depression and …

Nov 2, 2015: Three tips for dealing with an improv slump Modified from a note I published on Facebook… First, YOUR TASTE GROWS FASTER THAN YOUR SKILL. (There’s a great Ira Glass quote on this here: …

Oct 5, 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, AND they were my last shows for the next few weeks …

Sep 30, 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 performance itself. Now, obviously, that’s key to the …

Sep 21, 2015: Don’t run away from it. Sometimes, you get a note in practice that on the surface looks like it applies really specifically to that practice, but after a little while you …

Sep 14, 2015: More on generosity in improv Last week, I had two opportunities to play with improvisers less experienced than myself. (Like most comedians, I have a hybrid …

Sep 4, 2015: Improv and generosity I’ve only been doing improv for a little while, but I sure do think about it a lot. And something I’ve been thinking about with respect to improv in …

Jul 29, 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 improvnonsense Best Of, but I keep getting distracted by …

Jun 23, 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 whole. I love your stunning illustrations. I love …

Jun 4, 2015: Booking Through Thursday: Graduation | lectitans Booking Through Thursday: Graduation | lectitansI’m keeping my book blog separate from my tumblr, so people who only care about book stuff don’t have …

Jun 1, 2015: 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 have limited energy, check those out. In the past, …

May 20, 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 autoimmune triggers. I’m using a protocol from the …

May 13, 2015: Mass Effect 3! SPOILERS FOR CITADEL DLC CONTENT BELOW. I started playing the Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3 yesterday. I finished the “Identity Theft” mission and …

May 3, 2015: At improv practice... R: Are you doing the bar mitzvah show? B: Yeah… Boys becoming men… Everybody: Men becoming wolves… Me (on the inside): Yes! I have found my people!

Apr 29, 2015: Renaissance Spoonie I have a LOT of interests, and at various times I have kept up with not only the interest itself, but also the community surrounding the interest. I …

Apr 21, 2015: 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 up how the past couple of weeks have gone, to …

Apr 8, 2015: 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 known each other for about 25 years. When I heard …

Mar 4, 2015: Mass Effect! While having the most fun playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, I remembered that, oh yeah, I like video games. So I’m working my way through Metacritic’s …

Feb 9, 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 thyroid controls basically, you know, every bodily …

Dec 1, 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 grown. I just want to emphasize that he was an …

Nov 20, 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, and taking improv. I’m on the board of 2 arts …

Sep 25, 2014: Booking through Thursday: Shakespeare Okay, show of hands … who has read Shakespeare OUTSIDE of school required reading? Do you watch the plays? How about movies? Do you love him? Think …

Aug 4, 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 you. Here goes! Maker Faire NC. I went to Maker …

Jun 23, 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 probably the most fun way you could envision …

May 23, 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 stuff, and had some earlier lessons reinforced. Here’s …

May 16, 2014: 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 January to April. I’ve done improv in the past, as …

Apr 3, 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 most Saturday afternoons sitting around a table …

Feb 21, 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 familiar with the concept of affinity spaces. Briefly, …

Jan 28, 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 on my desk and hissed at me, “The play you were …

Dec 6, 2013: Review: Pull Down the Night Pull Down the Night by Nathan Kotecki. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. 2013. Reviewed from ARC from the publisher. Buy it from IndieBound or …

Nov 19, 2013: The Quantified Self and Student Learning [caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“224”] Image from Bytemarks on Flickr[/caption] Lately I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about the …

Sep 3, 2013: Missed Collaboration Opportunities: Health/PE I think as a school librarian, there are some collaborations that come really easily, like language arts and social studies, while there are others …

Jun 29, 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 see what popped up. I found a stunning array of …

Jun 28, 2013: 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. I myself have been thinking a lot about swimming …

May 24, 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 has him. We confuse people because we regularly …

Dec 7, 2012: Common Core Text Exemplars A post from a friend on Facebook that linked to a blatantly incorrect article about new reading requirements in the Common Core prompted me to create …

Nov 21, 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 the Association of Educational Publishers and …

Oct 2, 2012: Review: The Suburban Strange The Suburban Strange by Nathan Kotecki. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. 2012. Reviewed from ARC from the author. Buy it from IndieBound or …

Oct 1, 2012: 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 read it so long ago that my memory about it isn’t …

Jun 20, 2012: Making Time In her first #TeachersWrite minilesson, Kate Messner talks about making time to write. This has consistently been a problem for me. I am undisciplined …

Jun 19, 2012: Summer Enrichment: #TeachersWrite and #levelupbc Like so many folks in the education industry, I recently embarked upon my summer vacation. I was that kid who couldn’t wait to sign up for the library …

Apr 25, 2012: Book Review: Social Media for Social Good In Social Media for Social Good, former social media consultant Heather Mansfield, principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, provides a guidebook for …

Mar 12, 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 not 100% sure of that.) Sometime last spring, my …

Feb 8, 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 challenges, it is important to take into account the …

Oct 2, 2011: Merging blogs Since I’m now working as a middle school librarian, I feel like what I read is inextricably tied to how I work. Because of that, I’ve imported all the …

Jul 15, 2011: Summer Blog Blast Tour Recap Here’s a complete list of this week’s interviews: Monday: Tara Altebrando at Chasing Ray Shirley Vernick at Bildungsroman Jack Ferraiolo at The Happy …

Jul 14, 2011: 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 who wants nothing more than to be normal. When …

Jul 12, 2011: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 2 The fun continues: Sean Beaudoin at Chasing Ray Neesha Meminger at The Happy Nappy Bookseller Rachel Karns at Bildungsroman

Jul 11, 2011: 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?) smorgasbord of interviews with authors and illustrators. …

Jul 11, 2011: Twitter and PLNs PLN Challenge #3 is all about using Twitter to build your PLN. I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of years now, and it has been the focal point of my …

Jun 21, 2011: PLN: Looking Forward and Back The PLN Challenge continues! The Teacher Challenge blog asked us to answer two questions: 1. What do you hope to learn more about with respect to your …

Jun 16, 2011: 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 and/or grow your personal learning network. Fresh out …

May 11, 2011: Master's Paper Published Online I have recently published my Master’s Paper here in my portfolio. This paper won the Dean’s Achievement Award for Best Master’s Paper. I will soon …

Feb 28, 2011: Guest Post: Tim Lebbon  Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon’s new historical action novel, The Secret Journeys of Jack London: THE WILD, hits stores today. The authors and …

Feb 28, 2011: 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 with the authors over at Bildungsroman. The Secret …

Feb 23, 2011: 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 have teamed up to create THE SECRET JOURNEYS OF …

Jan 28, 2011: Publication: Resolving the Quiet Crisis My column in the January 2011 issue of School Library Monthly, entitled “Resolving the Quiet Crisis: Reading Apprenticeships in Middle and High …

Jan 28, 2011: New Resource: Unit Plan I have recently added a unit plan as an example of the type of instructional planning services I offer.

Jan 28, 2011: New Resource: Monthly Report I created this monthly report for the school library media center where I completed my field experience: Riverside High School Media Center Monthly …

Jan 28, 2011: Two Video Resources: Screencast and Book Trailer Here are two video resources I created during my field experience:

Jan 28, 2011: Two More Stories Here are two more videos of me telling stories in my storytelling class. The volume in both is very quiet, so you’ll need to turn it up on your …

Jan 28, 2011: Hello and welcome! Welcome to my new home, here at my own domain. LiveJournal was just not doing what I needed it to do anymore, and thus we have the new lectitans. If …

Jan 17, 2011: Books read in 2010  1. Angel: After the Fall, Volume 1, Brian Lynch 2. The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin 3. Hooked on Murder, Betty Hechtman 4. That Was Then, This …

Jan 11, 2011: 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 of her book, Mare’s War. Check it out!

Nov 12, 2010: Alt History/Steampunk Cover Design Contest Have you ever found that the cover of a book grossly misrepresented its contents, and that this misrepresentation seemed to keep the book from finding …

Nov 8, 2010: 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 more professional perspective than many of my …

Nov 4, 2010: New Resource: Storytelling I’m currently enrolled in a storytelling class. This is a video of my first attempt at storytelling. As I learn more, I intend to offer storytelling …

Oct 10, 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 experience school. Click each image to see more. …

Sep 4, 2010: Book Review: Tales of the Cryptids This review was written for my children’s literature class, so it addresses some concerns from a more professional perspective than many of my earlier …

Aug 24, 2010: Book Review: Stan Lee This review was written for my children's literature class, so it addresses some concerns from a more professional perspective than many of my earlier …

Aug 2, 2010: New Resource: Kerry Madden Author Exhibit I’ve updated the Education and Library Services page to include a link to a virtual author exhibit which I recently created about Kerry Madden. Kerry …

Jul 2, 2010: Book Review: Black Cat This is another of the evaluations I wrote for my children’s literature class. Myers, C. (1999). Black cat. New York: Scholastic Press. Christopher …

Jul 1, 2010: Book Review: Going North For my children’s literature class, we write evaluations of the books we read. I thought I’d share mine here. These will illustrate some …

Jun 18, 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 I’m an elementary school media specialist in the …

Jun 17, 2010: 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.  I'd love to know if you're going to be there. And …

Jun 9, 2010: Backwards design, inquiry learning, and Pokemon: Introduction Soon after I wrote Pokemon for the 21st Century Learner, JP at 8bitlibrary.com continued the Pokemon series he began in Pokemon 101 with the posts …

Jun 9, 2010: 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 it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and …

Jun 9, 2010: 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 the most important part below. The internet is made …

Jun 6, 2010: 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 longing for a break from myself (I was sick for a …

Jun 4, 2010: My 48 hours postponed, probably. My sister and husband are living with a broken air conditioner right now, and with temperatures poised to be in the 90s and up, and the inside of …

Jun 3, 2010: 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 read depends on my mood. I generally gravitate …

Jun 2, 2010: 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 summer for me.  Now that I'm back in academia instead …

May 19, 2010: 📚 Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 3 Michael Trinklein @ Chasing RayNick Burd @ Fuse Number 8 Tom Siddell @WonderlandSarah Darer Littman @ A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea CozyJessica Leader …

May 18, 2010: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 2 Mary Jane Beaufrand @ The Ya, Ya, YasRita Williams-Garcia @ Fuse Number 8Jennifer Hubbard @ Writing & RuminatingCharise Mericle Harper @ Shelf …

May 17, 2010: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 1 The Summer Blog Blast Tour is back and it kicks off today! Browse around for interviews with the following authors: Kate Milford @ Chasing Ray Mac …

Apr 12, 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 rhythm where I'm ready to return to the kidlitosphere. …

Feb 15, 2010: Resource Review: GameFAQs GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com) is a fully-searchable online archive of video and computer game information. It is owned by the GameSpot network …

Jan 29, 2010: Pokemon for the 21st-Century Learner In his excellent post, Pokemon 101 for Teachers & Librarians, JP of 8bitlibrary.com answers the question, “What does Pokemon have to do with …

Jan 28, 2010: 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 actually physically stressed out by the …

Jan 14, 2010: 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 - 2 comments Jan 12 - 0 comments Jan 13 - 0 …

Jan 8, 2010: 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 the show for today's Poetry Friday post.  These are …

Jan 8, 2010: 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 entered for prizes. I just want to up my participation …

Jan 4, 2010: 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 no more than one nonfiction, one fiction, and one …

Jan 2, 2010: 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 a bit, but I have been keeping up my “Books Read” …

Dec 29, 2009: Library Services Page Added I have recently finished my first semester of library school. Some of my assignments demonstrate the work I can do in the field. I have compiled these …

Nov 21, 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 Twilight in December of 2007, when it was just on the …

Nov 17, 2009: 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 are yesterday’s interviews. Many thanks to …

Nov 1, 2009: NaNoWriMo Day 1 (cross-posted from my personal LiveJournal - originally posted there at 12:39 am) I’m already past my quota for the DAY. What, you don’t write 1700 …

Oct 25, 2009: NaNoWriMo Consider yourself warned.  This reading journal is about to become a writing journal! Here’s my MAGNA CARTA I (see No Plot? No Problem! for details) - …

Oct 23, 2009: 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 the posts linked from MotherReader’s Round-up. As …

Oct 1, 2009: 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 it, mainly because I trust her. But also because …

Sep 30, 2009: The September Carnival of Children's Literature The September Carnival of Children’s Literature is online now. Please go take a look!

Sep 29, 2009: 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 YA series, and its author, Thomas Randall. …

Sep 25, 2009: 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 made it up is pulling my foot so it’ll fit that …

Sep 20, 2009: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #133 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: …7-Imp’s 7 Kicks is our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) …

Sep 19, 2009: Weekend Wonderings Remember these? I’ve been doing more of that blog navel-gazing that we all do from time to time. I decided to examine the archives for my first couple …

Sep 18, 2009: 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 honor of that, I present you with: Rain by Edward …

Sep 16, 2009: BBAW: My Shortlist Remember how I was going to participate in Book Blogger Appreciation Week? That was before I got all caught up in board meetings, readings, projects, …

Sep 13, 2009: Book Blogger Appreciation Week Hi there! We’re about to enter into a busy busy week - a board meeting, evening class, a paper due, and meetings with a project group - but it’s also …

Sep 4, 2009: Library School Update Hello there! I started my school library media coordinator program on August 25th and life has been a whirlwind ever since. I’ll soon have reviews of …

Aug 24, 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 years, because that’s pretty much what my life is …

Aug 20, 2009: The Swan Kingdom by Zoe Marriott After Princess Alexandra’s mother is killed, her father marries a woman who charms the kingdom. Alexandra and her brothers, however, believe that this …

Aug 12, 2009: 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 original OSWT:SEA announcement: For those of you not …

Aug 10, 2009: 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 it for a while only to come back to it later) is …

Aug 5, 2009: 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 from her stepmother and her confusion about her …

Aug 3, 2009: 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 about people of color throughout the month of August. …

Aug 2, 2009: Books for Boys, Books About Girls In this column at School Library Journal, school librarian Diantha McBride says: I’m afraid this won’t be popular, but I need more books for boys—as …

Aug 2, 2009: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #126 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks is our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on …

Jul 31, 2009: Poetry Friday: Richard III I’m currently working on a production called I Hate Shakespeare. It runs through quite a few of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, and then some of the …

Jul 20, 2009: 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 mother tells her that Leah Greene is dead, she can't …

Jul 17, 2009: 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 are professional musicians, weekdays work better …

Jul 15, 2009: Where do the Kidlit conversations happen? For my purposes, the term "kidlit" includes young adult literature as well. For many reasons, I’m looking to become more active in the kidlit …

Jul 14, 2009: 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 that I think you might find especially interesting. …

Jul 12, 2009: 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 boxes of books in my attic, and the few shelves I …

Jun 23, 2009: Reading List! I just received an email from my advisor/YA Lit professor with a list for what we’ll be reading this semester. It’s at least a few books a week (so …

Jun 21, 2009: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #120 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: “Welcome to our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally …

Jun 15, 2009: Get Books @ Your Library The Collaborative Summer Library Program is at it again, with different programs for children (pre-K through Grade 5), young adults (Grades 6 - 12), …

Jun 8, 2009: #48hbc Summary I didn’t keep track of any blogging or networking time, because I did so little of it. Next year. Total Time Spent Reading: 9 hrs 14 min Total Pages: …

Jun 7, 2009: #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 from Stop Pretending, which had me sniffling a …

Jun 7, 2009: #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 weeks. I’m at the point now where I’m not loving the …

Jun 7, 2009: #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 this book. It surprised me in many ways. I’d never …

Jun 7, 2009: #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 at my sister’s house, and sleeping. And a little …

Jun 6, 2009: #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? Non-48HBC activities have included sleeping, eating, …

Jun 5, 2009: 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 and continuing until 8:15 pm local time Sunday. I …

May 31, 2009: Seven on Sunday From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, our 7 Kicks posts are our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on …

May 24, 2009: 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 book related things. I love comic books as a medium, …

May 23, 2009: SBBT: Friday I was sick yesterday and so I did not post this. Here it is, a day late. Today’s Schedule Jenny Davidson at Chasing Ray Rebecca Stead at Fuse #8 Ryan …

May 21, 2009: SBBT Thursday Today’s SBBT Schedule Siobhan Vivian at Miss Erin Alma Alexander at Finding Wonderland Laurel Snyder at Shaken & Stirred Cindy Pon at The YA YA YAs …

May 20, 2009: SBBT: Jo Knowles Jo Knowles is a writer of many dimensions. She does freelance work, a large part of which is for educational use, teaches at Simmons College, and …

May 19, 2009: 📚 A Shakespearean Summer Author Lisa Mantchev is sponsoring a Shakespeare challenge, which is Liv of Liv’s Book Reviews is hosting. Read three Shakespeare plays between June …

May 19, 2009: 📚 SBBT: Amber Benson I met Amber Benson once. It was in February 2001, at a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Posting Board Party. She was talking to a friend of mine, and thinking …

May 18, 2009: 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 Colleen of Chasing Ray to showcase authors and expose …

May 12, 2009: 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 to Rabbit Hill - the 1945 Newbery Medal winner. …

May 9, 2009: 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 skirt back in sixth grade, people in her town have …

May 5, 2009: 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 2007 but didn’t participate last year, but I’m back …

May 1, 2009: Poetry Friday: Aeneid I.23 - 33 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Id metuens, veterisque memor Saturnia belli, prima quod ad Troiam pro caris gesserat Argis— necdum etiam causae irarum …

Apr 27, 2009: Monday Musing I don’t know if this will become a regular feature, but here’s a quick thought I’m having today: What happens when the quirky best friend becomes the …

Apr 24, 2009: Poetry Friday: Aeneid I.19 - 22 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Progeniem sed enim Troiano a sanguine duci audierat, Tyrias olim quae verteret arces; 20 hinc populum late regem …

Apr 23, 2009: 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 going on in the Kidlitosphere. The News Blog at KC …

Apr 19, 2009: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #111 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, these Sunday posts are our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on …

Apr 17, 2009: Poetry Friday: Aeneid I.12 - 18 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Karthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe ostia, dives opum studiisque …

Apr 16, 2009: Poking Around Kidlitosphere Central In case you haven’t seen it yet, Kidlitosphere Central is a hub of activity/resources for the society of bloggers in children’s and young adult …

Apr 13, 2009: 7 Resources for Literacy Activists As my mind turns to my new career as a school media coordinator, I find myself even more committed to promoting literacy than I have been as a reader, …

Apr 1, 2009: The exciting news... I’ve waited to share this with the internet at large until I told my colleagues at work. But I’ve done that, so now I can tell you: I’ve been accepted …

Mar 5, 2009: Booking Through Thursday From Booking Through Thursday: What is the best book you’ve never read? This is hard for me to decide. The Time Traveler’s Wife immediately came to …

Mar 3, 2009: 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 other people out there might have for Giving Up. …

Mar 2, 2009: 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 text. The book is divided into three parts: …

Mar 1, 2009: 7 Kicks #104 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: As a reminder, these Sunday posts are our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on …

Feb 26, 2009: A Manifesto of Sorts I do a lot of blog reading, in topics including blogging, craft, educational technology, fashion, video games, children’s and young adult literature, …

Feb 5, 2009: Just One More Book Marriage/Life Meme Over at Just One More Book, Andrea and Mark are celebrating their wedding anniversary with a meme. Here’s the question: Which children’s book best …

Jan 19, 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 of that and I still wanted to get in on the party. …

Jan 3, 2009: 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 Willow for a custom reading list. But this time, …

Jan 2, 2009: 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. What are the Cybils? They are the Children’s and …

Dec 31, 2008: Books Read in 2008  1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Dec 28, 2008: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Dec 4, 2008: Booking Through Thursday 1. Do you have a favorite author? Yes, Piers Anthony. 2. Have you read everything he or she has written? Goodness no! He is immensely prolific. 3. Did …

Dec 1, 2008: 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 fine thing to do. (I myself have made a pledge to …

Nov 30, 2008: Welcome! Welcome to my new home on the web. Please take a look around!

Nov 27, 2008: Booking Through Thursday From Booking Through Thursday: So–just for today–how about sharing 7 things that you’re thankful for? I have so many things to be thankful for! Here …

Nov 26, 2008: 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 started my NaNo on Nov 2, and I have yet to break …

Nov 23, 2008: 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #90 From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: “As a reminder, our 7 Kicks posts are the weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on …

Nov 22, 2008: Name Your Character Based on Her Personality via Lifehacker: What a Lovely Name is a new website that lets you select multiple tags for personality traits associated with a name, as well as a …

Nov 21, 2008: Movies and Reading Habits Looking at my list of books read and unreviewed, I find both The Golden Compass and Twilight. I think it’s of interest that each of these is the first …

Nov 21, 2008: Winter Blog Blast Tour From slayground - Today’s WBBT schedule: Mayra Lazara Dole at Chasing Ray Francis O’Roark Dowell at Fuse #8 J. Patrick Lewis at Writing and Ruminating …

Nov 20, 2008: Thanks, slayground! Today’s WBBT interviews: Martin Millar at Chasing Ray John Green at Writing and Ruminating Beth Kephart at HipWriterMama Emily Ecton at Bildungsroman …

Nov 19, 2008: Today's WBBT Schedule Thanks as always to slayground for the code! Today's WBBT schedule: Ellen Klages at Fuse #8 Emily Jenkins at Writing and Ruminating Ally Carter at …

Nov 19, 2008: WBBT, Day Two In case you missed them, here are yesterday’s interviews - thanks again to slayground for the code! Tuesday’s WBBT schedule: Ellen Datlow at Chasing …

Nov 17, 2008: 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 today’s interviews here: Read all of today’s WBBT …

Oct 29, 2008: NaNoWriMo Hi there, friends! Once again, I have registered to participate in National Novel Writing Month. (If you want to be buddies, you can find me under the …

Oct 19, 2008: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Oct 13, 2008: Happy Teen Read Week! For more information contact: Sara Easterly, Publicist for readergirlz Sara Easterly & Friends sara@saraeasterly.com 206-632-8588 READERGIRLZ PRESENTS …

Oct 12, 2008: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Oct 3, 2008: Cybils Nominations Open October 1st: How Can You Participate?  Nominations for the third annual Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards (the Cybils) will be open Wednesday, October 1st through …

Sep 19, 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, "The Bait" by John Donne. Come live with me, and …

Sep 18, 2008: 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 important and suspenseful plot point, so I will give you …

Sep 13, 2008: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Aug 29, 2008: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Aug 14, 2008: 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 into in a couple of books that upsets me. It’s odd …

Aug 14, 2008: The Best Thing on the Internet Readergirlz Videos! So exciting, because now I can see slayground in video on my computer, and it’s almost like being there with her! (I like to …

Aug 12, 2008: 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 readers you know to do likewise! …

Aug 12, 2008: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco Indigara, Tanith Lee The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot Jessie’s …

Jul 26, 2008: The Return of Weekend Wonderings I'm not sure where I came across this link - probably in the Publisher's Weekly newsletter. Slate.com asks "...do you really want the Hulk teaching …

Jul 25, 2008: Poetry Friday: Never Never Land by Betty Comden and Adolph Green I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. It's not on any chart, You must find it with your …

Jul 22, 2008: I missed something big. So apparently on my birthday, a little over a week ago, the Kidlitosphere exploded with people having identity crises and struggling to keep up with …

Jul 22, 2008: 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 play, then recovering from the play with more …

Jun 26, 2008: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Jun 26, 2008: New Blog: Library Pendragon I'm plugging it everywhere today: my friend Joanna's new blog, Library Pendragon.  Joanna is a media specialist (which always reads to my mind as …

Jun 21, 2008: 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. 2. This quiz result makes me very happy: Your …

Jun 13, 2008: Poetry Friday The associations our brain makes are funny things.  I went looking for a poem about sisters, because I love mine.  Instead I found The Mermaid in the …

Jun 13, 2008: 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 tease out just one from the other, if you do both. …

Jun 12, 2008: Summer Reading Round-Up Update: This post is about reading programs for summer 2008.  If it's helpful, you might also enjoy my post about summer reading in 2009. The school …

Jun 11, 2008: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Jun 9, 2008: Monday Misdirection As I haven't collected any links this week, I don't have much for you today. First: J. K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement My favorite thing …

Jun 6, 2008: An informal survey This question is for school and youth services librarians. How much and in what ways do you get to interact with students/kids? If you aren't a …

Jun 4, 2008: Stigma and Censorship Go read Lee Wind’s post about his experience attempting to donate GLBTQ books to a junior high library, and then come back. I’ll wait. Lee’s post got …

Jun 2, 2008: Guys Lit Wire Guys Lit Wire is live! Here's a blurb from the site: Guys Lit Wire exists solely to bring literary news and reviews to the attention of teenage boys …

May 24, 2008: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

May 24, 2008: 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 capture my imagination at different times. And …

May 24, 2008: Summer Blog Blast Tour Recap Monday, May 19th Adam Rex at Fuse #8 David Almond at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast R.L. LaFevers at Finding Wonderland Dave Schwartz at …

May 20, 2008: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Monday's Interviews Adam Rex at Fuse #8 David Almond at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast R.L. LaFevers at Finding Wonderland Dave Schwartz at Shaken & Stirred …

May 17, 2008: 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 time around, but I’ll be posting links here …

Apr 2, 2008: NaPoWriMo #2 Vergil’s Aeneid, Book I, Lines 8 - 11 LATIN (from The Latin Library): Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, quidve dolens, regina deum tot …

Apr 1, 2008: NaPoWriMo #1 April is National Poetry Month, and during this time many bloggers celebrate NaPoWriMo: National Poetry Writing Month. I, however, will be doing …

Mar 18, 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, modern books about the ancient world - especially …

Mar 18, 2008: The Lightning Thief I just finished reading The Lightning Thief. I won’t be reviewing it here, as I’m saving it for my new project in media res (more to come on that …

Mar 14, 2008: 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 only on the 15th in March, May, July and October. …

Mar 11, 2008: Fascinating Insight If you haven’t been watching it, you should check out the LiveJournal community . This is a community for writers of urban fantasy/horror. Recently …

Mar 9, 2008: 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 it works out. 1. On Sunday, I got out of rehearsal …

Mar 5, 2008: Books Read in 2008 Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Mar 2, 2008: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #52 Seven good things this week: At last week’s music rehearsal for my current production, I was ready to put down my score and sing from memory. This …

Feb 29, 2008: Whee! My first published book review is up at this month's The Edge of the Forest.

Feb 29, 2008: “FLY WITH US. READ WITH K US Airways and Reading Is Fundamental Put Children’s Books on Planes; Launch “Read with Kids Challenge.” TEMPE, Ariz., — Feb. 29, 2008—US Airways …

Feb 29, 2008: The Next Step to Reinstate RIF's Funding FROM CAROL H. RASCO, President and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental Please ACT NOW capwiz.com/rif/go/de… and help RIF build support for our funding by …

Feb 29, 2008: 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 comb my hair; And still as I comb’d I would sing …

Feb 28, 2008: Which Science Fiction Author Are You? I am:Robert A. HeinleinBeginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer …

Feb 28, 2008: Food for Thought  National Women’s History Month starts on Saturday; this week’s Booking Through Thursday question asks who your favorite female lead character is; …

Feb 28, 2008: GuysLitWire From Colleen at Chasing Ray: Just to update you on the idea that several of us have been bouncing around for a web site recommending books to teenage …

Feb 28, 2008: New in Paperback for February 2008 Just making a list for myself based on the list published by LOCUS. Faerie Wars, Herbie Brennan Un Lun Dun, China Mieville

Feb 26, 2008: Book Scans Looking for vintage book covers?  Go to Book Scans! "The goal of the Bookscans Project is to provide a visual catalog of ALL vintage American …

Feb 25, 2008: 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 like the reader tries a little too hard to …

Feb 24, 2008: The Return of Weekend Wonderings Here on Sunday night I revive my Weekend Wonderings. (I meant to do this yesterday morning but I was away from my computer.) Over at Tea Cozy, Liz B. …

Feb 21, 2008: Booking Through Thursday  All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or …

Feb 20, 2008: Testing... LiveJournal is now blocked at work. While I wasn’t generally using it, it is my preferred feed aggregator and I would every once in a while check it …

Feb 19, 2008: 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 where all the things that happen in The World are …

Feb 19, 2008: Miscellaneous Reading-Related Thoughts 1. I officially have the patience for novels again.  Yay! 2. I got to go to Kerry Madden's release party for Jessie's Mountain.  It was awesome to …

Feb 19, 2008: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco 3. Indigara, Tanith Lee 4. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 5. …

Feb 11, 2008: LA!  I’m coming to LA for a few days this weekend and officially have no plans. Any kidlitters in the area want to get together? I’m staying at the Orchid …

Feb 10, 2008: This Week's Library List To Check Out: Valiant, Holly Black Ironside, Holly Black The Ferryman, Christopher Golden Sold, Patricia McCormick The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak How I …

Feb 10, 2008: 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 Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or …

Feb 9, 2008: Books Read in 2008 1. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston 2. Craft, Inc., Meg Mateo Ilasco

Feb 9, 2008: Reading Is Fundamental As a public school teacher, I am distinctly aware of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and its various incarnations, including Goals 2000 and …

Feb 9, 2008: Hi there! Hello, litosphere. Remember me? As mentioned in my last post, I haven’t had the attention span for fiction of late. And I picked up Vale of the Vole …

Jan 30, 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 reading non-fiction.  I recently finished Craft, Inc. …

Dec 29, 2007: Celebrate the Author Challenge Over at Becky’s Book Reviews, Becky is hosting the Celebrate the Author Challenge. The basic idea is that each month of 2008, you read a book by an …

Dec 21, 2007: Poetry Friday: Twas a Florida Christmas I found this through a quick googling: There weren’t any chimneys, but that caused no gloom, for Santa came in through the Florida room. He stopped at …

Dec 21, 2007: 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 can do to make them become reality. One project …

Dec 19, 2007: Random Ramblings In a numbered list, no less! 1. My reading goal for the year was 30 books. I’ve already surpassed that, if audio books count, and am at 34 right now. …

Dec 12, 2007: Bad Day Books I’m having a bad day. What do you like to read when you’re having a bad day? 

Dec 7, 2007: 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 Damn Yankees. I thought in honor of the festivities …

Dec 6, 2007: Hello again! It’s been more than a couple of weeks since I last posted. I’ve been in a non-litty headspace. But after a conversation with the boyf today about what …

Nov 18, 2007: Meme and musings   I'd be interested to know what their methodology is for that.  It's appropriate, though, as I spend most of my time attempting to communicate with …

Nov 16, 2007: Poetry Friday: Original Thanksgiving Haiku I’ve seen a lot of folks posting Thanksgiving poems today, which makes sense as it is the last Friday before Thanksgiving. So I am going to post my …

Nov 12, 2007: Focusing the Blog This is going to be a stream-of-consciousness entry. Consider yourself warned. In the past few weeks, a few of the kidlit bloggers have been …

Nov 12, 2007: 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 is an online auction that benefits Dana-Farber …

Nov 9, 2007: Winter Blog Blast Tour: Dia Calhoun Author Dia Calhoun took the time to answer some questions for the Winter Blog Blast Tour. All of your books have plots that seem intensely personal: …

Nov 7, 2007: Winter Blog Blast Tour Today is Colleen’s birthday! Happy birthday, Colleen! Here are today’s interviews: Lisa Ann Sandell at Interactive Reader Christopher Barzak at …

Nov 6, 2007: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day 2 Here is today's Winter Blog Blast Tour schedule: Lisa Ann Sandell at Chasing Ray Perry Moore at Interactive Reader Christopher Barzak at Shaken & …

Nov 5, 2007: Winter Blog Blast Tour Here is today's Winter Blog Blast Tour schedule: Perry Moore at The Ya Ya Yas Nick Abadzis at Chasing Ray Carrie Jones at Hip Writer Mama Phyllis Root …

Nov 5, 2007: Winter Blog Blast Tour: Kerry Madden Back this summer when we did Recommendations from Under the Radar, I wrote about Kerry Madden's Maggie Valley trilogy. Kerry was kind enough to answer …

Nov 4, 2007: 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 is an online auction that benefits Dana-Farber …

Oct 29, 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 any children's book blogs for the past few weeks, …

Oct 28, 2007: NaNoWriMo As November approaches, I’d like to remind you that I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo and chronicling the event at …

Oct 22, 2007: Robert's Snow This Week Monday, October 22 Rose Mary Berlinat Charlotte’s Library  Christopher Demarestat Writing and Ruminating David Macaulayat Here in the Bonny Glen Mark …

Oct 21, 2007: Blogging for the Cure: The Week in Review Monday, October 15 Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit Michelle Chang at The Longstockings Kevin Hawkes at Cynthia Lord's Journal Barbara Lehman at The …

Oct 19, 2007: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow Monday, October 15 Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit Michelle Chang at The Longstockings Kevin Hawkes at Cynthia Lord's Journal Barbara Lehman at The …

Oct 18, 2007: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow Monday, October 15 Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit Michelle Chang at The Longstockings Kevin Hawkes at Cynthia Lord's Journal Barbara Lehman at The …

Oct 17, 2007: Blogging for the Cure: Robert's Snow Monday, October 15  Randy Cecil at ChatRabbitMichelle Chang at The LongstockingsKevin Hawkes at Cynthia Lord's JournalBarbara Lehman at The Excelsior …

Oct 17, 2007: Blogging for the Cure: Brie Spangler Today I’m highlighting illustrator Brie Spangler’s snowflake for Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure. Brie’s snowflake is called “Blue-Haired Lady.” I …

Oct 16, 2007: Blogging for the Cure, Day Two We're still blogging about snowflakes available in the Robert's Snow auction! Here are this week's posts: Monday, October 15  Randy Cecil at …

Oct 15, 2007: 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 better than I ever will: It’s time, everyone! It’s …

Oct 9, 2007: An Explanation of Sorts Upon seeing that two books I was sent review copies of months ago and haven't touched except to put on my TBR shelf are being released today, I began …

Oct 6, 2007: Theatre blog! I've started a new theatre journal: mimula http://mimula.livejournal.com

Oct 4, 2007: Bradbury Season: Cinderella Skeleton I'm not in the habit of writing about picture books, but there are some that still strike my fancy, in addition to the old favorites that hold a place …

Oct 2, 2007: 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). During this week, you’re encouraged to buy a friend …

Oct 1, 2007: Monday Misdirection For today's Monday Misdirection, I shall simply point you in the direction of my first October Project Post.  You can find it here: …

Sep 30, 2007: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #30 Each Sunday at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, jules and eisha ask us to talk about good stuff that happened in our week. Here’s mine! 1. …

Sep 27, 2007: The October Project In anticipation of NaNoWriMo, I’ve decided to set up a bit of a challenge for myself. Here’s the deal: Every day for the entire month of October, I …

Sep 27, 2007: Theatre Thursday: Hamlet, William Shakespeare Welcome to Theatre Thursday! Because plays are books too, I will be featuring each Thursday a play I’ve read that I think you should read. After all, …

Sep 25, 2007: Booking Through... Tuesday? Because I’m overly fond of alliteration, I’ve decided that in order to be able to make Thursday “Theatre Thursday,” I will be answering the Booking …

Sep 24, 2007: Theme Days As I mentioned in my earlier post, I'm hoping to institute a theme for just about every day of the week here at lectitans .  Let me show you what the …

Sep 24, 2007: Monday Misdirection I’m trying to develop a theme for each day on my blog here, because that way I won’t agonize over what to write and instead end up writing nothing. If …

Sep 13, 2007: Robert's Snow  If you would, please go to Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast and read how you can help out with “Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure” blogging …

Sep 10, 2007: Anticipating NaNoWriMo As I gear up for this year's NaNoWriMo, I'm making reading lists.  I've never won NaNoWriMo.  I always run out of steam.  I don't want that to happen …

Sep 7, 2007: Poetry Friday In case you didn't hear, Madeleine L'Engle has died.  I felt a quick pang of pain at this, and have found some poetry of hers to share with you. …

Sep 6, 2007: Booking Through Thursday  Each week at Booking Through Thursday, Deb asks a book-related question.  Here's this week's question: Are you a Goldilocks kind of reader? Do you …

Sep 4, 2007: 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 especially impartial or matter-of-fact in my …

Aug 31, 2007: Friday's Radar Recommendations  A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy : The Vietnam books by Ellen Emerson White, Big A, little a : to The Deep by Helen Dunmore, Bildungsroman : the May …

Aug 31, 2007: 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 bearable. In Kerry Madden's Maggie Valley Trilogy, …

Aug 31, 2007: Thursday's Radar Recommendations In case you missed them, here they are! A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy :Friends for Life and Life Without Friends, companion books continuing with …

Aug 30, 2007: 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 first date with my boyfriend, because our love of …

Aug 30, 2007: Wednesday's Radar Recommendations A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: The President's Daughter series by Ellen Emerson White Big A, little a: The Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore Jen …

Aug 29, 2007: 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 instead, I will simply state that it was recommended to …

Aug 29, 2007: 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 yesterday's recommendations from under the radar: A …

Aug 27, 2007: 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 school. I love gifted education in Leon County, …

Aug 26, 2007: 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, which is why I’m participating this week in a …

Aug 21, 2007: 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 brain power is absorbed by that. What’s left from …

Aug 19, 2007: 7-Imp's 7 Kicks #24 Each Sunday the ladies of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast ask us to list seven good things from the week.  (To see their longer explanation, …

Aug 17, 2007: Poetry Friday I've been thinking a lot about feminism of late, and so today I chose a poem that relates to the subject. From On the Equality of the Sexes Part I by …

Aug 15, 2007: Best Read with Vegemite Today we're going down under with the Summer Blog Blast Tour group!  It's the first installment of our One Shot World Tour, where we talk about books …

Aug 10, 2007: Poetry Friday I’m currently stage managing a production of the musical Rags, which is about Jewish immigrants coming to America in the early 1900s. At the beginning …

Aug 6, 2007: Wicked Cool Overlooked Books In May, Colleen of Chasing Ray started a monthly litblog event: on the first Monday of the month, bloggers write about a book that they think is great …

Jul 26, 2007: Make Lemonade LaVaughn is only 14, but she knows more than anything else in her life that she’s going to go to college. Her mother has said so, and when her mother …

Jul 16, 2007: 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, with a rather short entry, but I want to …

Jul 14, 2007: Book Quiz You're The Poisonwood Bible! by Barbara Kingsolver Deeply rooted in a religious background, you have since become both isolated and schizophrenic. …

Jul 6, 2007: Poetry Friday I'm leaving tomorrow for a week-long vacation in Florida.  The state of Florida is my favorite place in the world.  The moment you drive across the …

Jul 4, 2007: Harmless This is the story of what really happened. This is the truth. When Emma moved to Orsonville back in the third grade, Anna introduced herself. They …

Jun 29, 2007: Poetry Friday In honor of my cat-related article up at Associated Content, I’m posting a cat poem today. Had Tiberius Been a Cat Cruel, but composed and bland, …

Jun 29, 2007: Associated Content Associated Content has published my article Unique Websites for Cat Lovers.

Jun 26, 2007: expecto patronum! When my students ask me, "What can you DO with a Classics major?" I answer: "Well, you pretty much have two options.  You can either become a Latin …

Jun 26, 2007: Literary Gifts Barbara Johansen's ALA roundup mentioned a museum visit that sent me in search of one of my favorite DC museums, The National Museum of Women in the …

Jun 24, 2007: Harry Potter Screenings THIS THURSDAY If you’re in Dallas, Portland, Sacramento, Raleigh/Durham, Minneapolis/St Paul, Pittsburgh, Atlanta or Orlando .. you can get into a sneak preview of …

Jun 24, 2007: A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life Simone’s family is perfect. Her father is a political cartoonist, her mother is an ACLU attorney, her brother is a high school freshman with great …

Jun 23, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 7 The Summer Blog Blast Tour concludes with Justina Chen Headley at Finding Wonderland. Colleen Mondor, grand organizer of the tour, reflects on its …

Jun 22, 2007: 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 Shaken & Stirred Dana Reinhardt at Bildungsroman …

Jun 22, 2007: Poetry Friday Revelations in the Key of K by Mary Karr I came awake in kindergarten, under the letter K chalked neat on a field-green placard leaned on the …

Jun 21, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day Five Today’s Interviews Eddie Campbell at Chasing Ray Sara Zarr at Writing and Ruminating Brent Hartinger at Interactive Reader Justine Larbalestier at Big …

Jun 21, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Kazu Kibuishi The Summer Blog Blast Tour continues here at lectitans with Kazu Kibuishi.   Kazu is the creator of the online comics "Copper" and "Clive & Cabbage," …

Jun 20, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day Four Today's Interviews Mitali Perkins at Hip Writer Mama Svetlana Chmakova at Finding Wonderland Dana Reinhardt at Interactive Reader Laura Ruby at A …

Jun 19, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day 3 [NOTE: This entry is backdated because I was away from the computer on June 19.] Today’s Interviews Laura Ruby at Miss Erin Bennett Madison at Shaken …

Jun 18, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day Two Today’s Interviews: Tom & Dorothy Hoobler at Chasing Ray Mitali Perkins at Big A, Little a Sara Zarr at Interactive Reader Justina Chen Headley at Hip …

Jun 18, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Dana Reinhardt The Summer Blog Blast Tour begins here at lectitans with Dana Reinhardt. Dana is the author of two novels for young adults: A Brief Chapter in My …

Jun 17, 2007: Summer Blog Blast Tour, Day One The Summer Blog Blast Tour is underway! The tour lasts from today through next Saturday. Each day I’ll be posting a round-up of the interviews. …

Jun 15, 2007: 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 posting poems about school. I found a whole …

Jun 14, 2007: Thinking Blogger Award Back in May, Kelly at Big A, little a tagged me with the Thinking Blogger Award. Thanks, Kelly! The award originated at the thinking blog. Here are …

Jun 14, 2007: 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 with “I love to read,” I’m joining Colleen Mondor’s …

Jun 14, 2007: Women Writers and Male Readers Colleen at Chasing Ray pointed me to an interesting article entitled “Still not an equal partnership” at The Times Online. The gist of the article is …

Jun 13, 2007: Pirate Reading Challenge Oh my goodness, it’s 1:30 pm. When did this happen? Yes, folks, Summer Vacation has begun. (This is why we suffer the difficulties of working in …

Jun 12, 2007: Arrrrr! Welcome, me hearties! I be Captain Anne Scarlett, also known as Mermaid Jane, and this be my ship, Melusine. I’d like ya to be joinin’ me in the …

Jun 11, 2007: Hoist the colours! THE BASIC RULES: 1. The challenge begins June 12, 2007 and lasts until September 19, 2007. There be significance to these dates: durin' the week o' …

Jun 11, 2007: 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 Dancing on the Edge, Han Nolan 244 Pages 3.25 Hrs …

Jun 10, 2007: Weekend Wonderings This week's question is rather light, and ties into my recent reading of Wildwood Dancing and The Various, and my less recent reading of Tithe and …

Jun 10, 2007: 7-Imp's 7-Kicks #14 Over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Eisha and Jules invite folks to post seven good things that happened to them in the past week. I’m …

Jun 10, 2007: 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 stay with her Uncle Brian.  There, Midge finds an …

Jun 9, 2007: Non-Challenge Post I interrupt my challenge posts to bring you this tidbit. Several months ago, I filled out a form at UNC's School of Information and Library Science …

Jun 9, 2007: 48 Hr Book Challenge #3: Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier Wildwood Dancing is a fairytale lover’s dream: familiar tales, retold and mixed with folklore, creating a new and entrancing story. In this …

Jun 8, 2007: 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 sat down and read for a spell. While The Coming …

Jun 8, 2007: 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. Miracle’s father, Dane, was a prodigy and published …

Jun 8, 2007: 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 today to 9:30 am Sunday. There will be a few …

Jun 8, 2007: Poetry Friday More pirate poetry for you today. Today I have Sea Fever, by John Masefield. I first encountered this poem on a gorgeous Captain Jack Sparrow …

Jun 7, 2007: 48 Hour Book Challenge Starts Tomorrow I'll be participating in Mother Reader's 48 Hour Book Challenge starting tomorrow.  I'll begin at whatever time I happen to wake up or after I finish …

Jun 5, 2007: Listmaking Now that I'm reading lots of kidlit blogs, I find myself needing to make lists, all the time.   I find books that I need to read because they relate …

Jun 3, 2007: Weekend Wonderings This week, I've been thinking a lot about gender and societal expectations.  It started with Vivian's post, "Girl Power, At What Price?" at …

Jun 3, 2007: Pet Peeve: Misuse of Words On Thursday, TadMack at Finding Wonderland issued a few Most Egregious Misuse awards. She focused on punctuation errors. I myself hate finding extra …

Jun 2, 2007: Exciting Blog Discovery! A Fuse #8 Production is an awesome blog. I’ve known this for a while. Just today, I read a recnt post of Betsy’s that pointed me to my new favorite …

Jun 1, 2007: Poetry Friday In honor of Script Frenzy, I’m posting some soliloquies from my favorite scriptwriter - Wm Shakespeare. He was a Taurus, you know. First, from Hamlet …

Jun 1, 2007: Script Frenzy Has Begun! Script Frenzy is in full swing. Can I knock out 667 words before midnight tonight? I think I can. That's something like three and a half pages. I'm …

May 28, 2007: Weedflower As the only Japanese girl in her class, Sumiko knew what being lonely felt like. Still, she was usually satisfied to work on her uncle’s flower farm …

May 27, 2007: Hello there, plus, Weekend Wonderings Hi there, remember me? I’ve been neglectful of this here reading blog. I’ve been ill and overworked, mostly, and so I have been reading more and …

May 25, 2007: Poetry Friday Anyone who knows me well can tell you I have a pirate problem.  On my last day of student teaching, there were pirate festivities.  For Talk Like a …

May 18, 2007: Poetry Friday More Emily Dickinson! Because I could not stop for Death (712)     by Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – …

May 17, 2007: Remembering Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Alexander died today. People know him best for his Chronicles of Prydain. They fueled my imagination when I was a child, and I did love them. …

May 17, 2007: Out of the Madhouse …yesterday my life’s like, “Uh oh, pop quiz.” Today it’s “rain of toads.” Thus spoke Xander Harris in part two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s pilot …

May 15, 2007: I'm a nergeerk. Your Score: Outcast Genius95 % Nerd, 73% Geek, 52% DorkFor The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek …

May 14, 2007: Script Frenzy Contact: Tavia Stewart 510-628-0327 Tavia@ScriptFrenzy.org FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH . . . SCRIPT FRENZY IS BORN! …

May 12, 2007: Weekend Wonderings In June, I’ll be participating in the Summer Blog Blast Tour, organized by Colleen Mondor of Chasing Ray. As I do my research on my assigned authors …

May 11, 2007: Poetry Friday Gelett Burgess. 1866– 36. The Purple Cow (Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who’s Quite Remarkable, at Least.) I NEVER saw a Purple Cow; I never hope to …

May 6, 2007: 📚 Weekend Wonderings This week’s question is brought to you by yesterday’s Free Comic Book Day, my pleasure in watching “Spiderman 3,” and my boyfriend’s birthday weekend. …

May 4, 2007: Books to Read: My Area of Expertise My Area of Expertise: The Ancient Mediterranean. The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan The Titan's Curse, Rick Riordan …

May 4, 2007: Free Comic Book Day Tomorrow At the beginning of the school year, the school newspaper sent a kid around to interview all the new teachers.  He had lots of questions, boring ones …

May 4, 2007: Poetry Friday Still more Catullus.  Latin text from The Latin Library; translation/adaptation mine. V. to Lesbia Let us live my Lesbia, and let us love, and let us …

May 2, 2007: Meme: First Book A meme of my very own! What’s the first book you remember reading? Give us the title, author, date of publication, and your age when you read it. Look …

May 1, 2007: Reading the Classics: Peter Pan Here’s a new feature for lectitans: Reading the Classics. I’ll be reading classic books and posting my thoughts on them, links of interest, etc. The …

Apr 28, 2007: Weekend Wondering There has been much debate recently about blog reviews and their trustworthiness. Becky has an excellent summary of the whole affair over at Becky’s …

Apr 27, 2007: Poetry Friday More Catullus. Latin text from The Latin Library; translation/adaptation mine. III. The Tears of Lesbia’s Sparrow [yes, again] Mourn, o Venuses and …

Apr 26, 2007: Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale When Kaye was a little girl, she had faerie friends. When she and her glam-rock mom moved, the faeries disappeared. As Kaye grew older, she began to …

Apr 25, 2007: A Visit to the Past In honor of the 10th anniversary of the original airing of “Welcome to the Hellmouth” and “The Harvest,” back on March 10, 2007 I checked out a couple …

Apr 23, 2007: 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, even if you’d like to. June 8 is one such day for …

Apr 23, 2007: Author Interview: Sonja Foust In Sonja Foust's debut short story, _Love in Shadow_, a tomboyish fairy named Shadow realizes she loves her boss, Lon. Five years ago, Lon's wife was …

Apr 23, 2007: Book Review: LOVE IN SHADOW 📚 Shadow is a fairy, formerly a highway robber. Lon is her boss, who runs a cargo transport business. Five years ago, a band of fairies jumped down from …

Apr 22, 2007: Book Meme I got this from slayground. Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? I like all three, but I like mass market best, because they fit in …

Apr 21, 2007: Weekend Wonderings I haven't been able to write a good introduction to this week's question, so I will skip straight to the question itself: How much can we know about …

Apr 20, 2007: Poetry Friday, Part Two The readergirlz pick this month, On Pointe, is a verse novel, so today I’ll be sharing a few excerpts, as well as my review of the book, in honor of …

Apr 20, 2007: Poetry Friday, Part One More Catullus.  Latin text from The Latin Library; translation/adaptation mine. II. The Tears of Lesbia’s Sparrow Sparrow, my girlfriend’s pet, with …

Apr 19, 2007: 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 book sale. That was insane. I did come out of it …

Apr 18, 2007: 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 sour. It’s a story about redemption. Thomas …

Apr 16, 2007: The Last Dragon When you have too much sadness, the magic drowns in it, like people in water. If you think things hard enough, they become true. But if you have …

Apr 15, 2007: Millicent Min, Girl Genius Millicent Min has an impressive resume. She started elementary school at age three, has over seven television appearances to her name, and is the …

Apr 15, 2007: Weekend Wonderings Yesterday, my family friend Sarah (tribalkittykat) and I went to the North Carolina Renaissance Faire. Sarah was the prettiest peasant anyone has ever …

Apr 13, 2007: Library School While I intend to continue teaching for a while, I am researching library schools now. So if you have recommendations, do make them! I’m looking for a …

Apr 13, 2007: Poetry Friday I’m a Latin teacher, so it’s only fitting that I post Latin poems. From now on, you can expect from me for poetry Friday a Latin poem, and my English …

Apr 11, 2007: 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 look. There was a stock picture in the new design …

Apr 9, 2007: The Thrill of an Amazon Box There are few things quite as thrilling as getting a package from Amazon. Amazon usually means media for me, and I love media. Especially books. …

Apr 7, 2007: Weekend Wonderings Here’s a new feature: each weekend here at lectitans, I will post a question and invite other bloggers to answer it, here or in their own blogs. I’ll …

Apr 7, 2007: Reading Goals Over at A Year of Reading, Franki asks us to share our own reading goals.  Here are mine! 1. Read 36 books this year.  Last year, my goal was 26 - a …

Apr 6, 2007: A To Do List Here on vacation, I don't devote quite the same energy to reading and writing blogs that I do at home, but I am still around.  Here's a list of …

Apr 6, 2007: Poetry Friday From “The Mermaid” by Alfred Lord Tennyson: I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the whole of the day; With a comb of pearl I would comb …

Apr 3, 2007: In honor of National Poetry Month I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled; Not prone to overstated gushing praise Nor yet to seething rants and anger, filled With overstretched …

Apr 2, 2007: Library List! Here’s what I hope to pick up on my next trip to the library: The Silver Child, Cliff McNish - because its sequel was a Cybils nominee Kristy’s Great …

Apr 2, 2007: Booklist 2007, and assorted notes  Read in 2007: 1. Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), Justina Chen Headley 2. The Royal Diaries - Elizabeth I: The Red Rose of the House of …

Apr 1, 2007: 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 browsing the gift shop I came upon Elizabeth I, Red …

Mar 31, 2007: MySpace Account If you were a friend on my old MySpace account and got a new request from me, think nothing of it but do please add me again. Sorry for the …

Mar 31, 2007: readergirlz April Issue The April issue of readergirlz is now online. This month’s book is On Pointe (Affiliate Link) by Lorie Ann Grover, a verse novel about a ballet dancer …

Mar 31, 2007: Book Meme Over at Jen Robinson's Book Page I found this meme: Where do you do most of your reading? Your favorite spot? I do most of my reading while in motion. …

Mar 30, 2007: Poetry Friday From Emily Dickinson: I ’M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to …

Mar 28, 2007: Bookhands This may be the longest I’ve gone between posts since back when I started this blog. I’m going to address a few topics all at once. Thing One: I’ve a …

Mar 24, 2007: 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 I gush about how exciting it is to be tagged for …

Mar 23, 2007: Poetry Friday Gus: The Theatre Cat by T. S. Eliot (an excerpt… for the full poem, go here) “I have played,” so he says, “every possible part, And I used to know …

Mar 21, 2007: 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 same day as the new Ninja Turtles movie comes out. …

Mar 19, 2007: Booklist 2007 Update  Read in 2007: Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), Justina Chen Headley The Royal Diaries - Elizabeth I: The Red Rose of the House of Tudor, …

Mar 19, 2007: On Reviewing One of the reasons I decided to join the kidlitosphere was the fact that it is so full of conversation-starters. Today I had far too many tabs opened …

Mar 18, 2007: 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 ladies with the tall blue hair.

Mar 16, 2007: Poetry Friday A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne AS virtuous men pass mildlyaway, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do …

Mar 12, 2007: 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 have several tabs open in my browser for the rare …

Mar 11, 2007: Writing Blogs This is the second part of a two-part response to Bookseller Chick’s excellent post Writer as Blogger, Blogger as Writer. For the first part, see my …

Mar 10, 2007: Reading Blogs This is the first part of a two-part response to Bookseller Chick’s excellent post, Writer as Blogger, Blogger as Writer. For the second part, see my …

Mar 10, 2007: Library Report et al. I’ve started writing the response to Writer as Blogger, Blogger as Writer. I’ve decided to make it a point to go to the library weekly. And each week, …

Mar 9, 2007: Poetry Friday For my inaugural Poetry Friday post, I am using one of my favorite poems. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all …

Mar 7, 2007: Promises, Promises I feel like a jerk. I am not posting the lengthy post I promised just yet. But here’s a preview of things to come: the response to Bookseller Chick’s …

Mar 6, 2007: 2007 Booklist Update Read in 2007: Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), Justina Chen Headley The Royal Diaries - Elizabeth I: The Red Rose of the House of Tudor, …

Mar 6, 2007: Two Reading-Related Announcements The lovely blackholly aka Holly Black, one of the co-authors of the Spiderwick Chronicles, solicited help creating Latin for her book Care and …

Mar 6, 2007: Coming soon... Later - today, I hope - I will be writing a response to Bookseller Chick’s Writer as Blogger, Blogger as Writer post. I will talk about why I started …

Mar 5, 2007: 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 it is my sincere hope that I can read more of and …

Mar 4, 2007: Synchronicity Truth: I’ve been blogging for years. I don’t even know how many. Six maybe? Truth: I have had an LJ for over 5 years. Truth: I don’t spread the URLs …

Mar 4, 2007: Miss Erin's Character Meme This Character Meme was created by Miss Erin. Character you’d most like to have over for tea? Elinor Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility. I think …

Mar 3, 2007: Goals and Booklist My goal for last year was a book every two weeks, coming to about two a month. I ended up topping that, reading 30 books in the year. Harry Potter and …

Mar 3, 2007: 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 Lisa Yee’s Millicent Min, Girl Genius. Sadly, the …

Mar 3, 2007: 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 year of full-time teaching. My house is a mess! I …

Mar 3, 2007: 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 want to read, and have to look it up based on …

Mar 2, 2007: readergirlz pick #1 and miscellaneous ramblings Today I dropped by the library and picked up the readergirlz pick for this month, Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies). I’m only a few pages …

Mar 1, 2007: Welcome! Inspired by readergirlz, I’ve started this reading journal. … FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INSPIRING TODAY'S GIRLS TO BE TOMORROW'S HISTORY YOUNG ADULT …