Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany 📚
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
Want to get in touch? You can reach me by email.
Recent posts
🔖 Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for anyone with chronic illness or many other disabilities. As I’m in the middle of some kind of flare due to stress, I’m going to operate in Safe Mode.
Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter 📚
New (well, ~40 year old) takes on old fairytales. Gorgeous language.
Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment..
He quotes Rumi:
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
This is now my overarching goal.
Goodnight, everybody.
Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too.
“I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my writing practice.” Morgan Parker
Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub 📚
Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time Tomorrow is going on my TBR because I could use a 1996 time travel novel.
I am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.
I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know that. It’s not you, it’s that I’m a grump at present.