First blurbs are coming in for my first book (out in October) and my brain and heart can’t quite absorb this info.

Greetings from the Upper Midwest where it feels like -32 outside.

A very merry Solstice to you and yours from me and mine. ♥️

Lots of really exciting news happening around these parts!! This blew my mind!! I was checking email to see if my daughter’s pediatrician had called in news meds for her strep and I got this email instead!

My first Pushcart nomination!! Didn’t not make my night! :)

Fact about me: my number one self-soothing/ADHD productivity hack is to never not have a Ken Burns doc playing (just the audio) in a back tab. I realized this about fourteen years ago, and I have not diverged from this path.

Just finished the last ep of Disclaimer and OH MY ENTIRE GOD. 🤯😱 what a phenomenal and phenomenally complex story, PERFECTLY executed on every level. WOW.

This is my dog’s favorite thing. All three of his humans in one room. The coziest and squishiest lap (mine) to be draped upon.

My little half-hound dog was very much Team Eponine while I played piano last night. 😂

Confession: tonight it took me fifteen minutes to decide what kind of pre-made mayonnaise based salad I wanted to buy at the grocery store (because I wanted all of them, even the ham salad). I opted for this:

Meanwhile, this was mostly it for Kelly representation:

The Christian car dealership in our town has made me realize that the easiest way to make God sound like a super creep is to preface all first-person Bible verses with “God says.”

Before there was Regina George…

I’ve been thinking a lot about my positioning in history and geography. Because I feel these are facts many people who look like me are killing themselves to avoid reckoning with, I thought I’d offer (fwiw) a tiny sampling of my timeline. Not to burden, but to honor reality. The past isn’t past.