Thoughts from the Pick Up Line
It has now officially been a fully week that my son has been in Kindergarten, a week of drop-offs and pick-ups, and during the whole experience I’ve been observing, noticing, and cataloging my thoughts on the…
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Adventures in Kindergarten
Well it’s official, my baby has started Kindergarten, and I have officially experienced my first drop-off/pick-up loop. For years I have learned how to successfully avoid school zone areas because of the traffic, and now I…
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Patience is a Virtue (or Am I Getting Played?)
A couple months ago I did something really out of character and reached out to a former colleague of mine to see if there were any job opportunities at a place where I used to work….
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Three New Covers
In 2025 I set out with the goal of removing any presence of AI from my work (you can read the full story including subsequent updates in my AI Disclosure). Long story short I had used…
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the executive dysfunction is working
Am I burnt out? Is it my ADHD? Is it the autism? Is it perimenopause or just *glances around at ongoing world events that keep getting worse and more expensive* everything? I’ve not written in my…
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On Agoraphobia
Left the house today after I had a pep talk with myself, please clap. The anxiety about the thing is always bigger than the thing. I can therapize myself without a copay with my happy thoughts.
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Let’s Redo The Honeymoon
Ever since I wrote The Honeymoon ten years ago I have struggled to make the perfect book cover to go along with the story. There have been a few varieties, and a few years ago after…
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Humbled by a Six Year Old
Recently we dog-sat for some friends of ours who were taking their kids to an amusement park, and as they were dropping the dog off, their 6-year-old pointed to a spot in my living room reserved…
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Five Favorites for Friday
TGIF! Do people still say that anymore or have I just shown my millennialism? Anyway, it’s Friday and I wanted to put together a list of five things that I love that I think you might…
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This one time in 7th grade
I forget why but this one time in 7th grade I got in trouble in PE class and as punishment I had to copy the text from a sheet of paper by typing into a computer…