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 store was too small for me.

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.

Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

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 your blog/website, host your podcast (audio or video), replace Instapaper/Pocket, and replace GoodReads.

🔖 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 Relationship With Twitter is a good introduction.

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 IndieWeb. Let me know if you’d be interested in a talk about how to get set up.

Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare 📚

Review soon. On the All About Romance sensuality levels scale, this is Hot approaching Burning. Explicit descriptions & cheerfully racy banter.

Super fun, recommend if you like that heat level.

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. “DAGINS” is written from the bottom right corner up, each letter stacked on the previous one.

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 Tams-Whitmark, you don’t get scripts. Only sides.

You can take the librarian out of the library, but I’m wearing a cardigan over another cardigan.

Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno 📚

Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno 📚

🔖 Read Review: A riveting biographer — and mother — works to solve ‘the mind-baby problem’.

It’s out! The latest issue of Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative mothers!

🔖 Read Cranking.

🔖 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 article is about a year and a half old now but it points in a direction of collective solutions.

🔖 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 since I learned about the Steven Hotdog essay I have loved this descriptor. Jess Zimmerman is one of my favorite writers.

Me, to myself: I can’t be everyone at once.
Me: OR CAN I?

Today I’m reviving my newsletter Genetrix, curating stories of creative mothers. The upcoming issue includes links to 15 articles & 1 artist website. You can subscribe at this link .

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 year and a week. More reflection later on what that year has been like, maybe.

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.

Why Is My Child Still Awake? The Kimberly Hirsh Story

🔖 Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible.

I love pieces like this. Getting a book holder changed my reading life.

So I’m delighted by the premise of Is It Cake? but it really feels like a parody reality show from 30 Rock.

🔖 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 it’s definitely an area I could get into.