If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.

-Austin Kleon, SHOW YOUR WORK, p. 131

Finished reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 📚

I saw the news about Justice Ginsburg while my husband was reading bedtime stories to my son. I felt hollow. The characters in the book ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, so my son asked for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as a bedtime snack. I went to get him one, and added three plantain chips and three gummy bears to the plate as surprise treats. I felt so cheered by this simple act, and my son was so delighted by the snack. This is it, I thought. I’m so scared and so disheartened, but when I keep this, parenting, in front of me, I feel better.

Want to read: She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh 📚

Want to read: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom 📚

I don’t feel like writing an informative blog post today. It feels like a day for writing something more personal.

You’re exhausted, right? We’re all exhausted.

I don’t know what to do besides keep going.

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 not copied and pasted from my proposal or comps!)

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.

Me to M & W: These days, besides you guys, books are my best friends.
W: These days?

I have named my aesthetic and it is witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia.