📺🖖 In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 11, “The Hunted,” there is a whole society of intellectual bros wearing blazers over turtlenecks & claiming something is impossible because they’ve “studied it thoroughly” (though never tried it). Academia vibes, y’all.

Putting Gardens and Streams II on my calendar. I’m only a maybe because, as always, parenting.

🔖📝 The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer ‹ Literary Hub

if you’ve read a book penned by a woman with young children recently, there’s a significant chance it was written while hiding, losing sleep, or using inventive distractions. (Or even all three.)

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The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days katieroseguestpryal.com

🔖Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.

“She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬

I had a client meeting this morning where we made plans for me to do some blogging and podcasting for the client. But it’s also about research. Don’t let anybody tell you your side projects aren’t valuable.

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬

Beginning my third read of Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC. 📚

Sleep Deprivation, Sugar Crash, or Both? The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Gonna create a literary subgenre/internet aesthetic and call it “snark academia.”

I just published another free/pay-what-you-can Notion template. This time it’s a permissions tracker to help you keep track of copyrighted material you need to reuse and its permissions status.

Welcome to September, or as I like to call it, October Part 1. The world is full of terrors. Today I’m going to deal with my to-do list and then think about how I can contribute to making the world better.

Did not realize I was on the Motherscholar Project website so that’s cool!

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.

Whoops, I didn’t mean unicorn and waterfall, I meant swan and rainbow. We also had the tiger one.