LA Bourgeois
@lahousewyfe.bsky.social
What's delighting you right now? Let's share some joy!
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Hope & Holiday Penguins
I’d like to introduce you to Jolly and Icicle, the penguins who live down the hallway.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What's delighting you right now? Let's share some joy!
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In our relationship, my wife is the Rememberer. I am the forgetful Mad Hatter asking “What was that thing I was supposed to do?” and “If I can’t remember it, could it really have been that important?”
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The Rememberer
In our relationship, my wife is the Rememberer. I am the forgetful Mad Hatter asking “What was that thing I was supposed to do?” and “If I can’t remember it, could it really have been that important?”...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In our relationship, my wife is the Rememberer. I am the forgetful Mad Hatter asking “What was that thing I was supposed to do?” and “If I can’t remember it, could it really have been that important?”
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What kind of animal are you?
(+ a quick announcement for paid subscribers)
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(+ a quick announcement for paid subscribers)
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Evidence of Dragons Among Us
Hey everyone!
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November 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What kind of animal are you?
(+ a quick announcement for paid subscribers)
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(+ a quick announcement for paid subscribers)
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What is that floating past the window? Is it a silky scarf dancing through the air? A breath of frosty mist?
Wait! I recognize it now! That’s my caution. I threw it to the wind last weekend when I cast on a new knitting project.
Read on to discover the result….
Wait! I recognize it now! That’s my caution. I threw it to the wind last weekend when I cast on a new knitting project.
Read on to discover the result….
The Dangers of Gauge
What is that floating past the window? Is it a silky scarf dancing through the air? A breath of frosty mist? Wait! I recognize it now! That’s my caution. I threw it to the wind last weekend when I cas...
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
What is that floating past the window? Is it a silky scarf dancing through the air? A breath of frosty mist?
Wait! I recognize it now! That’s my caution. I threw it to the wind last weekend when I cast on a new knitting project.
Read on to discover the result….
Wait! I recognize it now! That’s my caution. I threw it to the wind last weekend when I cast on a new knitting project.
Read on to discover the result….
Click through to discover how Vanessa Lillie’s new book helped me realize that the indigenous folx in this country have a little something to teach us about how to survive the destruction of historic spaces.
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Artifacts Are Belongings
While The Bone Thief is a rollercoaster that pulls readers along on an adventure that features stolen remains, weird rites linked to an exclusive society, and a missing woman’s ghost, I always find my...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Click through to discover how Vanessa Lillie’s new book helped me realize that the indigenous folx in this country have a little something to teach us about how to survive the destruction of historic spaces.
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/artifacts-...
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/artifacts-...
Do you like your writing craft books to be more picture than words? Maybe with fantastic essays from authors like George R.R. Martin and Nnedi Okorafor? Perchance a little spooky?
Then check out the latest Book for Thriving Creatives - Wonderbook
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Then check out the latest Book for Thriving Creatives - Wonderbook
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Engage in a Writing Adventure with Wonderbook by LA Bourgeois · Writer's Fun Zone
Engage in a writing adventure with Wonderbook and discover Jeff VanderMeer’s vibrant, visual guide to creative storytelling.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Do you like your writing craft books to be more picture than words? Maybe with fantastic essays from authors like George R.R. Martin and Nnedi Okorafor? Perchance a little spooky?
Then check out the latest Book for Thriving Creatives - Wonderbook
writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/10...
Then check out the latest Book for Thriving Creatives - Wonderbook
writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/10...
Did you know that people can make their own cat litter? All the details + my experience with SNAP.
Any time I’ve been on SNAP, I’ve worked 40+ hours/week on my own biz + a part-time job + caregiving for my wife, so if you think people on SNAP are lazy, please reconsider or bite my ass. Your choice.
Any time I’ve been on SNAP, I’ve worked 40+ hours/week on my own biz + a part-time job + caregiving for my wife, so if you think people on SNAP are lazy, please reconsider or bite my ass. Your choice.
Who Knew DIY Cat Litter Was a Thing?
And that’s what made it feel ironic that, finally and only because I was at a nadir in my financial life, I began using shredded paper as kitty litter. I could always tell you that I decided to go DIY...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Did you know that people can make their own cat litter? All the details + my experience with SNAP.
Any time I’ve been on SNAP, I’ve worked 40+ hours/week on my own biz + a part-time job + caregiving for my wife, so if you think people on SNAP are lazy, please reconsider or bite my ass. Your choice.
Any time I’ve been on SNAP, I’ve worked 40+ hours/week on my own biz + a part-time job + caregiving for my wife, so if you think people on SNAP are lazy, please reconsider or bite my ass. Your choice.
Looking for some fun reads to get in the mood for Halloween? Join me for magic and spooks!
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Mystical Reads To Celebrate Halloween
Besides purchasing bags of chocolate “just in case a trick-or-treater shows up” and sneaking the occasional candy bar after dinner (and lunch and snack time), my favorite pre-Halloween activity is rea...
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October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Looking for some fun reads to get in the mood for Halloween? Join me for magic and spooks!
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In which journalism claims its role in my life, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost destroys a perfectly good sack of mandarins.
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Putin Ruined My Marmalade
Many mandarin oranges sacrificed themselves as I listened to the US response to the invasion of Ukraine.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In which journalism claims its role in my life, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost destroys a perfectly good sack of mandarins.
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/putin-ruin...
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/putin-ruin...
Do you feel like chaos is swirling right now? Click through and join me for a quick guided relaxation that will help you find stability.
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Climb Down the Tree
A Guided Relaxation to Access Stability Amidst the Chaos
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Do you feel like chaos is swirling right now? Click through and join me for a quick guided relaxation that will help you find stability.
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@bethbarany.bsky.social asked me to be on her podcast, How to Write the Future!
Listen and let me know if I made an entire fool out of myself or not. Or even if I helped in some small way....
Listen and let me know if I made an entire fool out of myself or not. Or even if I helped in some small way....
175. Tricking Yourself into Writing Habits with LA Bourgeois - How To Write The Future
“I am a horrible little goblin like that, and it's just what happens. So I have to trick myself and the ways that I trick myself are to really let myself see what I want to create.” - LA BourgeoisAbou...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@bethbarany.bsky.social asked me to be on her podcast, How to Write the Future!
Listen and let me know if I made an entire fool out of myself or not. Or even if I helped in some small way....
Listen and let me know if I made an entire fool out of myself or not. Or even if I helped in some small way....
Enjoy this delectable morsel after you rejoice in your local No Kings march!
After all, it’s the most delicious way to celebrate the color purple.
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After all, it’s the most delicious way to celebrate the color purple.
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Grape Jam Was Not Enough
During the first Fall that we lived in Ithaca, Gui came home from one of his farmland explorations with a grape pie he purchased at a roadside stand. I had never heard of such a thing and became immed...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Enjoy this delectable morsel after you rejoice in your local No Kings march!
After all, it’s the most delicious way to celebrate the color purple.
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/grape-jam-...
After all, it’s the most delicious way to celebrate the color purple.
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/grape-jam-...
@🏳️⚧️ SAVING THE GWORLS 🏳️⚧️
Would love your support 🏳️⚧️
#RENTAID 👉 Housing for Homeless Black Trans women. 💔 3 in 5 Black Trans Women are homeless.
Lets get them all off the streets.
❤️❤️❤️
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Would love your support 🏳️⚧️
#RENTAID 👉 Housing for Homeless Black Trans women. 💔 3 in 5 Black Trans Women are homeless.
Lets get them all off the streets.
❤️❤️❤️
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NATIONWIDE HOMELESS BLACK TRANS WOMEN FUND- 🏳️⚧️ SAFE HOUSING NYC PDX L.A PHIL
1. Please donate as much as you can - every little help. 2. Your donation helps thousands of Black Trans Women being affected by Homelessness nationwide. 3. Share with friends on all your social media...
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October 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@🏳️⚧️ SAVING THE GWORLS 🏳️⚧️
Would love your support 🏳️⚧️
#RENTAID 👉 Housing for Homeless Black Trans women. 💔 3 in 5 Black Trans Women are homeless.
Lets get them all off the streets.
❤️❤️❤️
fundrazr.com/homelessblac...
Would love your support 🏳️⚧️
#RENTAID 👉 Housing for Homeless Black Trans women. 💔 3 in 5 Black Trans Women are homeless.
Lets get them all off the streets.
❤️❤️❤️
fundrazr.com/homelessblac...
Sourdough experiments turn me into a Nobel Prize-winning scientist in my lab. What better way to distract myself from the inevitable wait after hitting send on a pitch? Especially when the reward is a fresh warm slice of buttered bread!
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lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/the-whole-...
The Whole Wheat Distraction
On Thursdays, I’m posting pieces from my next book, a memoir in essays that covers the period where I leaped off the cliff and ran toward my dream of being an author, consequences be damned!
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October 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Sourdough experiments turn me into a Nobel Prize-winning scientist in my lab. What better way to distract myself from the inevitable wait after hitting send on a pitch? Especially when the reward is a fresh warm slice of buttered bread!
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/the-whole-...
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/the-whole-...
That Guilt Monster is a sneaky little bastard! Here’s a tip to defanging him in a way that works for YOU….
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Defanging the Guilt Monster
The Guilt-Monster is a sneaky little bastard.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
That Guilt Monster is a sneaky little bastard! Here’s a tip to defanging him in a way that works for YOU….
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I got a little spooky for this year’s Coming Out Day post. Enjoy!
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lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/emergence
Emergence
Letting the Monster Out of the Closet for Coming Out Day 2025
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October 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I got a little spooky for this year’s Coming Out Day post. Enjoy!
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/emergence
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/emergence
Guess what?!? My new book, The Lesbian Housewyfe: Bigger, Broader, Delightfuller, is at Malaprops Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC!!!!!!
To all my Asheville area friends, please let your friends know that they can purchase my new book there (in person OR online). Yay for independent bookshops!
To all my Asheville area friends, please let your friends know that they can purchase my new book there (in person OR online). Yay for independent bookshops!
Results for "bigger broader delightfuller"
Results for "bigger broader delightfuller"
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October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Guess what?!? My new book, The Lesbian Housewyfe: Bigger, Broader, Delightfuller, is at Malaprops Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC!!!!!!
To all my Asheville area friends, please let your friends know that they can purchase my new book there (in person OR online). Yay for independent bookshops!
To all my Asheville area friends, please let your friends know that they can purchase my new book there (in person OR online). Yay for independent bookshops!
On Thursdays, I’m going to be posting pieces from my next book, a memoir in essays that covers the period where I leaped off the cliff and ran toward my dream of being an author, consequences be damned!
And damn. Were there ever consequences….
And damn. Were there ever consequences….
What I Need is a Hero
The last time I gave up my dream was the worst one.
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
On Thursdays, I’m going to be posting pieces from my next book, a memoir in essays that covers the period where I leaped off the cliff and ran toward my dream of being an author, consequences be damned!
And damn. Were there ever consequences….
And damn. Were there ever consequences….
Time to play! Join me to “pop your brain” for inspiration with the creativity exercise, “The Most Precious Possession.”
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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Pop Your Brain with a Precious Possession
It’s time to play!
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October 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Time to play! Join me to “pop your brain” for inspiration with the creativity exercise, “The Most Precious Possession.”
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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Hey-hey! Catch me on a special live panel next Tuesday at the Queer Joy Summit! The topic is "Breaking Through: The Power of Queer Joy in the Face of Barriers."
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More Queer Joy News
Guess what!!! I'm speaking on a live panel at next week's Queer Joy Summit!
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October 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hey-hey! Catch me on a special live panel next Tuesday at the Queer Joy Summit! The topic is "Breaking Through: The Power of Queer Joy in the Face of Barriers."
labourgeois.substack.com/p/more-queer...
labourgeois.substack.com/p/more-queer...
I’m so excited to be speaking at the Queer Joy Summit 2025! 🌈
3 days + 20 queer artists, healers, rebels, & dreamers =
A week of laughter, truth-telling, and joy that sticks like glitter!
📅 October 13–15, 2025
💻 Free + online
Come join us for messy, holy, fun healing!
🎟️ Grab your ticket here:
3 days + 20 queer artists, healers, rebels, & dreamers =
A week of laughter, truth-telling, and joy that sticks like glitter!
📅 October 13–15, 2025
💻 Free + online
Come join us for messy, holy, fun healing!
🎟️ Grab your ticket here:
Queer Joy Summit – Joy That Sticks Like Glitter
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October 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m so excited to be speaking at the Queer Joy Summit 2025! 🌈
3 days + 20 queer artists, healers, rebels, & dreamers =
A week of laughter, truth-telling, and joy that sticks like glitter!
📅 October 13–15, 2025
💻 Free + online
Come join us for messy, holy, fun healing!
🎟️ Grab your ticket here:
3 days + 20 queer artists, healers, rebels, & dreamers =
A week of laughter, truth-telling, and joy that sticks like glitter!
📅 October 13–15, 2025
💻 Free + online
Come join us for messy, holy, fun healing!
🎟️ Grab your ticket here:
I think I might be obsessed….but I can’t be a stalker if I’m their pet mom, right? RIGHT?
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Me and Roderick McWigglecuddy
Before we dive into today’s tale of wormy woe, I’m so excited to announce that I’m a speaker at this year’s Queer Joy Summit!
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October 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I think I might be obsessed….but I can’t be a stalker if I’m their pet mom, right? RIGHT?
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/me-and-rod...
lesbianhousewyfe.substack.com/p/me-and-rod...
The government shut down.
The people in charge won't end the shutdown because they are invested in denying healthcare and food to our most vulnerable populations.
We have descended into fascism.
And my brain just said, "Yay! It's Sock-tober!"
Indulge in some joy before leaping back into the fight
The people in charge won't end the shutdown because they are invested in denying healthcare and food to our most vulnerable populations.
We have descended into fascism.
And my brain just said, "Yay! It's Sock-tober!"
Indulge in some joy before leaping back into the fight
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The government shut down.
The people in charge won't end the shutdown because they are invested in denying healthcare and food to our most vulnerable populations.
We have descended into fascism.
And my brain just said, "Yay! It's Sock-tober!"
Indulge in some joy before leaping back into the fight
The people in charge won't end the shutdown because they are invested in denying healthcare and food to our most vulnerable populations.
We have descended into fascism.
And my brain just said, "Yay! It's Sock-tober!"
Indulge in some joy before leaping back into the fight