Just recorded a conference session. I’m really happy about the accessibility remote conferences provide but everything feels so formal. It’s like I can’t rely on charisma and humor to carry 90% of the presentation.

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 self-conception as a writer. Look out for a lot of small essay books coming from me in the near future.

🔖💬 Parents Are Not Okay:

Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.

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 Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930. (If you order through this link, I may receive a commission.)

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 writing, or actually doing it.

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood 🔖📚💬

🔖📚 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 itself the kind of thing I want to write.

Want to read: How to Write Qualitative Research by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower 📚

Want to read: Thinking Inside the Box Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel 📚

Finished reading: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 📚

My taste in fantasy art is less Lisa Frank and more Frank Frazetta.