Paula Skaggs
paulaskaggs.bsky.social
Paula Skaggs
@paulaskaggs.bsky.social
Writer. Game Creator. Starting center for the 1995 Chicago Bulls.

My first book 📚 - Tiny Pep Talks: Bite-Size Encouragement for Life's Annoying, Stressful, and Flat-Out Lousy Moments - is out now through Quirk Books!
It’s wild to base any of your political beliefs off of the founding fathers, because if James Madison ever saw an iPod Shuffle, he’d never recover.
November 27, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Ever since I was a little kid, I always knew I wanted to hope my emails found you well. 🥰
November 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
It’s our first book’s PUB DAY!!!!!!!!!

“Tiny Pep Talks: Bite-Size Encouragement for Life’s Annoying, Stressful, and Flat-Out Lousy Moments” is officially out.

I’m so excited for this book to be out in the world. I hope you like it!!! AH!

www.quirkbooks.com/book/tiny-pe...
November 19, 2024 at 9:45 PM
This made me gasp so loudly that my husband came running into the living room because he thought there was breaking news.

(There WAS breaking news & it was the fact that our cat Gramma was sitting like this.)
November 19, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Reposted by Paula Skaggs
I recently drove Route 66 and found that MAGA had (sometimes literally) set up camp alongside it. For Rolling Stone, I talked about the warped lens of American nostalgia can be used as an on-ramp for nationalist and authoritarian movements like Trump's. Also I saw a giant cowboy.
My Accidental MAGA Vacation Down Route 66
Ten days driving down 'the Mother Road' revealed a country whose obsession with its own past is at odds with its precarious future.
www.rollingstone.com
November 4, 2024 at 5:41 PM
AHHHHH!!!!! Can’t wait! Would love to see you all there!!
Proving once and for all that I can read at City Lit Books this Thursday with @paulaskaggs.bsky.social and Josh Linden! Tiny Pep Talks is a joy and could NOT COME AT A BETTER TIME FOR #REASONS
November 19, 2024 at 3:56 AM
I left this $4 giant wine glass back at the thrift store this weekend. Did I make a huge mistake??????
November 18, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Wait it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten how to tweet—hold up—
I LIKE/DISLIKE THAT THING THAT EVERYONE ELSE DISLIKES/LIKES, oh thank god we are so back
November 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM