Notes
🔖📝 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 I had to write for myself & happening upon the stuff that I want to offer to other people.”
“I don’t have the sort of life where I can write every day and that’s fine.”
“…so much of writing is not writing but you have to inhabit that not writing space as a writer and not as a mother or a teacher or the 3,000 other things you are.”
Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in touch.
🔖📚 Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn).
I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily parenting-related as they parent. Good stuff here.
🔖📝 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 whole thing.
“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 in whatever way that brings you joy and doesn’t hurt yourself or someone else—this is your sign.”
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. Maybe next time I’ll find it on my own site instead of having to hope Google helps.
🔖📺 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 unto itself… together, we made bewildering terrain familiar.”
🔖 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 mom. This profile made me love her even more.
“[When I act] I’m taking a holiday from myself.”
🍿 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 nice but no luck. If you like these kind of movies, this one is inoffensive.
🍿 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.
Seeing Scott Thompson as the French (Canadian?) hotel front of house manager in Snowbound for Christmas is a fun surprise. 🍿
Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey 📚
Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in making things steamy, but leaves plenty to the imagination.
📚 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 for me on the shelf beside it. 😍
🔖 Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now.
If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed into micro.blog, & then syndicate to Twitter. Let me know if a tutorial for this would be helpful.
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 available on services I already have.
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 buckles and bends but never breaks
I will remember 2022 as the year I wanted to do everything, actually did some things, and felt like I did nothing.
Now that I’m trained in human subjects research I find myself siding with the Board of Governors in Jekyll & Hyde. 🎭🎵
Still in the prep stages for this month’s writing projects. I created a reversible notebook to hold workbooks for both.
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 and seeing what sticks.
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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 the time. And then she takes it off and her head stays attached to her body.