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.
Trapper Keeper is back but I’m holding out for the re-release of the unicorn in front of a waterfall.