It’s Leap Day today, that bonus day we get every four years, and the first one for me where I celebrate a bittersweet anniversary. The […]
Urban Roots
Yesterday morning I spent three hours on a small organic farm in East Austin. Urban Roots is a nonprofit whose mission is to use food […]
Save the Date: Movies on my calendar for 2020
After a slow January and February, the movie season is finally picking up again. I saw A Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Birds […]
No Precious Feelings
A new hire on my team has a wonderful phase she uses: “I’m not precious about my work.” She’s a content writer and wanted to […]
Writing Update: Two Halves
My brain feels full of writing again. One half is in the query world. I shared my query letter with a couple of people and […]
Frustration is not a sign that you’re not learning
Frustration is not a sign that you’re not leaning, but ease is. David Epstein I’m currently listening to Range by David Epstein. It’s all about […]
Queer Movies
I started to write a post about my favorite queer movies — with the important caveat that I have not seen the film spectrum of […]
Not Casual
My entertainment (tv and books) tends to go in cycles from casual consumption to flat out obsessions where I’m timing my minutes to see how […]
Reasons
Let’s count them in the morning One, five, a thousand and nine Reasons The fan is too loud The skin is too dry When I […]
No Excuses
I couldn’t fall asleep last night and getting up to my 5 am alarm would mean less than six hours of sleep. When the alarm […]