A lot of the people around me are bleeding right now. This new Trump-Pence administration our collective short-sightedness and apathy has created in the United States is already leading to a maelstrom of troubling consequences. I get Washington Post pop-ups Read more…
If you read my periodic emails, you’ll know that I am so so super far behind on my work in progress, Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain. I have a pretty good excuse, but I’ll spare you Read more…
This is a brief excerpt from the novel I’m working on, Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain. (By the way, I’m going to give the novel away for free to everyone on my mailing list, so if Read more…
Thank you, KStew. I’d just like to say that, briefly. Queer women the world round sort of cocked their heads like curious RCA dogs when they found out you were dating a girl. I’m not sure if I can endorse Read more…
The word of the days, boys and girls (but probably mostly girls, if anyone at all — hello out there? * crickets echo in an empty room *) is insouciant. I discovered it reading an article in The New Yorker Read more…
This is this thing I wrote back in early December. I have no idea what I’m going to do with it, if anything. It sounds like the beginning of a story, and although I would like to tell you that Read more…
I’m so darn lazy that I’m pulling this out of an email I wrote rather than taking the time to write an original blog post. It’s about Orange is the New Black. The good news is that, hey, at least it’s short: Read more…
Over the Christmas holidays, I traveled to my ancestral home of rural Missouri. And when I say rural, I mean really, really rural. I mean the roads are all still dirt, just like they have been for as long as Read more…
I’ve always liked stories about the apocalypse and what comes after it. I mean, I think I read Alas, Babylon when I was still in elementary school or junior high; I read A Canticle for Leibowitz maybe in high school. Read more…
My best friend in college and I used to have a habit of listening to the same song/s over and over and over again. For a long while, it was “Beaucoup Fish” by Underworld; at another point, it was “Only Read more…