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 costume as “Frankenstein’s monster.” (We’ll get to calling it the Creature eventually.)

I have input days and output days. Today is an input day: learning about UX and user research.

I just moved my next follow up doctor’s appointment up two months to the week after next because I’m still so tired all the time and not convinced my increased thyroid supplements are helping enough. Celebrating my birthing day (kid’s birthday) by taking care of myself.

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 read.

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Portrait of the Mother as an Artist – Guernica guernicamag.com

Read: www.guernicamag.com

To think of the mother as artist does not necessitate a conflict, nor does it require a choice between passive domestic surrender or total domestic rejection, although for a long time the world demanded that it did. Such frames only reinforce hierarchies, limit her to merely a fragment when, of course, she is com posed of many pieces.

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Craft — a designation used to subjugate many art-making practices that have been the domain of women: needlepoint, pottery, quilt making. With their connections to the home, these mediums have been historically dismissed, supposedly lacking the rigor and intellectual complexity of high art.

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“I have drawn my children and painted them endlessly and I cannot distinguish them from my soul…"

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she sometimes wonders why an artist must inhabit turmoil or drama to be taken seriously.

Watching the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Offspring” as a parent adds a whole new perspective to the experience.

Have y’all read THE DARK TIDE by Alicia Jasinka? because I started it tonight and it is gorgeous. 📚🌊🧙‍♀️

Whoopi Goldberg has done a lot of great work in her career, but I think I’ll always feel that Guinan has been her greatest role. 🖖📺

Finished reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 📚

So far in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 3x13, “Deja Q,” is my favorite. Having Data be Q’s tutor in humanity is brilliant. And the way John de Lancie says “Red alert!” when he first shows up is chef kiss perfect. 📺🖖