Alex Luppens-Dale
@alexwrites.net
Writer and internal communicator. Opinions are my own.
Me at the office sip and paint: It doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect, it’s art!
Me to any of my first drafts: This is terrible and I should quit forever.
Me to any of my first drafts: This is terrible and I should quit forever.
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Me at the office sip and paint: It doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect, it’s art!
Me to any of my first drafts: This is terrible and I should quit forever.
Me to any of my first drafts: This is terrible and I should quit forever.
Today is our Friends of the Library jewelry sale so of course I awoke from a stress dream in which someone handed me gallon bag of miscellaneous costume jewelry to price.
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Today is our Friends of the Library jewelry sale so of course I awoke from a stress dream in which someone handed me gallon bag of miscellaneous costume jewelry to price.
I just donated to Ms. Alexis's project! Let’s get the kids some manga. www.donorschoose.org/project/all-...
All Ninety Two Volumes of One Piece!, a project from Ms. Alexis
Help me give my students all ninety-two volumes of their favorite manga series: One Piece! The number of times I've been asked for One Piece by my middle schoolers is more or less infinite. I&#...
www.donorschoose.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I just donated to Ms. Alexis's project! Let’s get the kids some manga. www.donorschoose.org/project/all-...
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love to have maternal health information doled out by a man who hates women, mothers, and children
September 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
love to have maternal health information doled out by a man who hates women, mothers, and children
We have a new crossing guard who keeps asking if I’m going to the middle school. This is a height thing rather than a youth thing, I am not delusional, but I keep wanting to say “ADULT” whenever I see him to sort of head him off.
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We have a new crossing guard who keeps asking if I’m going to the middle school. This is a height thing rather than a youth thing, I am not delusional, but I keep wanting to say “ADULT” whenever I see him to sort of head him off.
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It's not a career. It's not a calling. It's a terminal hobby. You will die doing this. Become a writer.
August 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
It's not a career. It's not a calling. It's a terminal hobby. You will die doing this. Become a writer.
For some reason I thought we’d have more time between the start of the new daycare class and the cough I’ll have to listen to for the next 3-4 months.
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
For some reason I thought we’d have more time between the start of the new daycare class and the cough I’ll have to listen to for the next 3-4 months.
Do you like SWEATING FROM YOUR FACE? May I recommend PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION?
July 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Do you like SWEATING FROM YOUR FACE? May I recommend PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION?
There are many pieces of knowledge I’ve gained since I became a parent that I wish I hadn’t. How greasy a toddler’s straw cup can get over the course of a meal is certainly one of those things.
July 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
There are many pieces of knowledge I’ve gained since I became a parent that I wish I hadn’t. How greasy a toddler’s straw cup can get over the course of a meal is certainly one of those things.
I’m reading Demon Copperhead without having reread David Copperfield and I’m genuinely impressed by the way the name “Steerforth” came back to me all the way from 2009. Good job, brain. Wish you could remember what we did with my black cardigan, though…
July 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I’m reading Demon Copperhead without having reread David Copperfield and I’m genuinely impressed by the way the name “Steerforth” came back to me all the way from 2009. Good job, brain. Wish you could remember what we did with my black cardigan, though…
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I think this is the lesson. Take what you need from the material. Just don't give them money. THEY WILL BE FINE. THEY HAVE SO MUCH MONEY. In one case, enough money to do villain selfies on a yacht, drinking and smoking a cigar, telling the poors to suck it.
in the past (before their many harmful actions fully came to light) if you found comfort in work of NG or JKR, I don't judge that. Now, if you watch their shows, buy their work, buy merch, put a single additional dollar in their pocket or add to their power or influence in any way, that I do judge.
July 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I think this is the lesson. Take what you need from the material. Just don't give them money. THEY WILL BE FINE. THEY HAVE SO MUCH MONEY. In one case, enough money to do villain selfies on a yacht, drinking and smoking a cigar, telling the poors to suck it.
I had a dream that I had to write a 15 page paper comparing Les Misérables and Sunrise on the Reaping by Friday. So no matter what else happens, at least that’s not true.
June 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I had a dream that I had to write a 15 page paper comparing Les Misérables and Sunrise on the Reaping by Friday. So no matter what else happens, at least that’s not true.
Things I found in my mom’s fake Louis Vuitton duffel bag: a yellow Bic lighter, a brochure for Newport, Rhode Island (2011), and a single slipper.
June 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Things I found in my mom’s fake Louis Vuitton duffel bag: a yellow Bic lighter, a brochure for Newport, Rhode Island (2011), and a single slipper.
Husband’s snoring + persistent dreams of (dead) mom = “why is Vikii buzzing?”
June 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Husband’s snoring + persistent dreams of (dead) mom = “why is Vikii buzzing?”
My kid is currently drawing on paper my parents bought me because I definitely did not get into card-making the way I must have thought I would back in 1997.
June 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My kid is currently drawing on paper my parents bought me because I definitely did not get into card-making the way I must have thought I would back in 1997.
I’m just saying that while joining the Friends of the Library didn’t -exactly- help me meet people in the same stage of life as me, it does feel really nice to be part of something that is doing good work in These Times. Also, please follow us on Instagram at @friendsofthelibraryfairlawn.
June 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I’m just saying that while joining the Friends of the Library didn’t -exactly- help me meet people in the same stage of life as me, it does feel really nice to be part of something that is doing good work in These Times. Also, please follow us on Instagram at @friendsofthelibraryfairlawn.
Just another relaxing book for relaxation time. Very chill. #constantreader #nowreading
June 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just another relaxing book for relaxation time. Very chill. #constantreader #nowreading
I used to make fun of my mom’s collection of Annalee dolls and now I’m realizing that my children will someday need to reckon with the spoils of my blind box era.
June 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I used to make fun of my mom’s collection of Annalee dolls and now I’m realizing that my children will someday need to reckon with the spoils of my blind box era.
“It’s a beautiful day to be alive.” - my four-year-old at entirely too early in the morning. I’m going to try to bring that energy to today.
June 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“It’s a beautiful day to be alive.” - my four-year-old at entirely too early in the morning. I’m going to try to bring that energy to today.
Heading to work looking like I teach middle school art instead of… whatever it is I do.
May 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Heading to work looking like I teach middle school art instead of… whatever it is I do.
I have somehow never forgotten that my first grade teacher’s birthday is the day before mine. Anyway, I hope Miss Aysun is having a great day today.
April 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I have somehow never forgotten that my first grade teacher’s birthday is the day before mine. Anyway, I hope Miss Aysun is having a great day today.
When you’re going through some stuff but you hear the siren song of the mystery box. No regrets.
February 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
When you’re going through some stuff but you hear the siren song of the mystery box. No regrets.
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
Every time I download a piece of fan fiction onto my Kindle I think about how jealous my 12-year-old self would be. Will I read it? Debatable. But it’s there to keep me close to her.
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Every time I download a piece of fan fiction onto my Kindle I think about how jealous my 12-year-old self would be. Will I read it? Debatable. But it’s there to keep me close to her.
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if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.
January 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.