My kid’s school is having fall break today so um we have Paramount Plus now. Because it has All the Ninja Turtles.

🔖Read “So Coke-y…So Entitled!”: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jonathan Lethem. 📚🎙️

I did a thing! I wrote a blog post for a client! Yay me! Time for a dance party!

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Here’s the deal with being employed by someone besides myself right now: they have to pay me enough that I can pay other people to do all the things I won’t have energy to do because I’m working for them.

One of the frustrating things about chronic illness is that sometimes you have a good brain day but a bad body day.

Weather report from my kid: the air temperature is warm Luke.

🔖📺 Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Building’s Big Twist.

🔖📺 Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.

I’m planning a historical witchy YA fantasy, it’s historical because it’s set in the 90s, the soundtrack is all Garbage & Letters to Cleo, AMA. (Maybe a little Rasputina.)

🔖 Read Star Trek’s food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. 🖖

Want to read: Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg 📚

Want to read: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan 📚

🔖 Read Amia Srinivasan: “Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas”.

Witch influencer or Indiana Jones villain? You decide.

(Image: A white woman with dark hair wears a black wool Panama hat.)

Attempted a Hashimoto’s/PCOS friendly version of my great-grandmother’s goldenrod eggs: gluten-free bread, ghee, tapioca flour, almond milk. Not bad. Next time I’ll use a gf flour blend bc tapioca alone makes the sauce a bit too gelatinous.

Replaced “Extremely online since 1995” in my bio with “Human cabinet of curiosities,” perhaps the most accurate way I’ve ever described myself.

Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey Kayser 📚🎭

🔖🎭 Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre.

In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, and awarded, Kayser makes me think about who gets to be critics and who can afford to go to shows.

Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book Festival video. 📚📝

🔖 Read What Reading Looks Like When You’re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).

Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel like rogue. (The friend is me.) 📚📺🎲

I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t modeled on how other people talked to me (I was blessed with supportive friends, family, and educators) but rather on how my parents talk to themselves. My kid said “Get it together, M” to himself the other day which I know is something he’s heard me say to myself. I’m trying to speak to myself more kindly for his sake as well as my own.

💬📚 “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY.

🔖 Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic.

Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book events even when it’s safe to hold them in person.

💬📚 “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY