Convincing you to read my (collection of interrelated novellas) by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!

Here's how "Sodom & Gomorrah on a Saturday Night" begins:

I guess as headline writing mentors go, there could be worse ones than @nytpitchbot.bsky.social...

It has taken me the better part of a whole year to read this book all the way through, but it feels somehow, deeply ironically fitting to come to the end & find this observation at the very moment of the attempt to undermine the #Smithsonian.

#blackhistory #Americanhistory

Saw a YouTube video abt regrowing bok choy from kitchen scraps; decided to try it w Romaine. The apparent roots are teeny tiny and the leaves sure look happy so maybe? #gardening #growingvegetables

Me: "I don't wanna start any big new projects with only a few hours when I don't know when I can finish." #gardening

Also me:

This should be apparent to anyone disturbed by the attention on abolishing no-fault divorces. It's a multi-front offensive (pun intended).

Anyway, one of my store bought onions started sprouting, but was looking bedraggled until I planted it in soil, made it cozy with a good thick layer of leaf mulch, and gave it a good soak in the rain. Hopefully will have yellow onions in spring! #gardening

This year #Christmas is tight again, as it is for so many of us, but I'm extraordinarily blessed with a couple of great kids who gifted me not only the SUP-yak I asked for, but also accessories like this cooler to go w it, a surprise new raccoon stuffie, & herb seeds for next year's garden 🥰

It would be so easy to just go across the parking lot for a cup and a table where I could work. I could even justify the $6+, even if I can't write it off. But I'm choosing to stay in this small lobby to wait on car service. #respectthepicketline

I haven't written much over the last 4 months, and I think on a level deeper than I could name, this observation of Alan Watts' is why: writing has been a way for me to avoid and "make sense of" life rather than participate in all its chaos. #writinglife

I'm getting into crime scene photography. Obvious signs of a struggle between the feathers and the overturned food bowl. The office cats are mysteriously absent. #whodunnit 🙀

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.

My leg that she's resting on is really wanting to move and let the other one be the resting place, but I'm overriding it. She's too comfy to disturb. #dogsofbluesky