It rained in Kihei yesterday, for most of the afternoon. Apparently Kihei usually only sees ten inches of rain a year and half the quota […]
Losing Sleep For The Right Reasons
I lost sleep last night. But for one of the best reasons: staying up too late finishing a book. It reminds me of my best […]
Everything Is Figureoutable
This is the kind of mantra I need right now. I wasn’t familiar with Marie Forleo before listening to her book Everything Is Figureoutable (tagline: […]
168 Books: 2019 Year in Review
I ended 2019 logging 168 books on Goodreads. 88 were physical books; 80 were audiobooks. The split between fiction and non-fiction was roughly the same, […]
Writing Update: Comp Titles
One of my beta readers, Katie (who is an incredible editor), was kind enough to give me comp titles with her initial editorial letter for […]
Critiquing
It’s been a long time since I’ve written editorial letters, but I’ve done two today! One for someone from my queer critique group who’s story […]
Reading with Kindergarteners
I met two kindergarteners yesterday for my first day of volunteering with Education Connection at a local elementary school. I’ll be spending a little time […]
Goals vs. Systems
I started reading Atomic Habits by James Clear yesterday — a recommendation from my friend Ashley and another one of those habit books that I […]
Ryan Holiday
A few years ago my boss recommended a book when I was looking for a mindset resource for a coworker: The Daily Stoic by Ryan […]
Texas Book Festival & Rainbow Rowell
My author events have increased exponentially this month from my normal null to the Texas Teen Book Festival and Leigh Bardugo in the last couple […]