Don't threaten me with a good time.

You're stuck in the last movie you watched...

I had to speak to a rep at my insurance company today about my prescriptions. She asked which ones. When I said Estradiol and Progesterone, she said, "Oh yes, my best friend and my other best friend." I love we women of a certain age and our brutal truth-telling.

If you see this, post a character that starts with a W

Happy Valentine's day!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS

If I could get Hollywood to grant me one wish, it would be to stop putting Ben Kingsley in ridiculous, gross wigs.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “If I wanted to be wealthy and famous, I wouldn't have become a –––.”

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "I may as well throw this outline I spent weeks on in the trash at this point."

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “I had to replace this verb because it was being used intransitively when it is actually transitive.”

I'm sorry… what was that now?

When Mamdani is done with politics, he needs to become the new host for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

Okay but hear me out: A winter book club, and we all bring soup.

Imagine what our lives would be like if people felt as free and empowered to be as loud about their love as they are about their hate.

One good thing about managing your dad's phone while he's in a medical crisis is being able to access his email and unsubscribe him from all the right-wing hate mail he gets.

Morning routine until I give my dog the leftover soymilk from my granola: dog looks at me, I look at dog, dog looks at bowl, I look at bowl, dog looks at me, I look at dog, dog looks at bowl, I look at bowl, dog looks at me, I look at dog, dog looks at bowl, I look at bowl, dog looks at me, I look

I love King books as much as the next person, but I have to say Insomnia is at least 400 pages too long. I really just want it to be over already and there are still 200 more pages.

We took dinner to friends' last night. While prepping stuff in the kitchen, I started humming random notes, as I do. It was when my friend started humming along w me, both of us totally un-self-conscious w no need to bring it up, that I realized I'd found my people. I ❤️ random moments of connection.

I need to figure out my uniform situation

Look I’m not sure I can handle a world war and a civil war at the same time can we just pick one please

I was really embarrassed to ask an author to sign my ratty paperback, and he wrote how nice it was to see a copy that had obviously been reread multiple times.

Sorry… I scanned the Doritos six times on accident

Holy shit, I just figured out this plot twist for the climax of my novel, and for a writer, this feels luck suddenly being bitten by a radioactive spider and being able to fly! #writerslife

Please never give up on your dream that one day, you will finally have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

As a writer, my main problem is letting my writing time get procrastinated to death with exploring and designing new tattoos. Anyone else? You know who you are. ;) #writerslife

Writers—lots of great insight into what the book industry needs, wants, and hates for this year: www.vulture.com/article/book...

I have to confess that after reading His & Hers by Alice Feeney—which was bonkers good!—I found the first episode of the new series pretty lackluster.

Are other writers in the same boat I am and hate the pressure to use social media to "boost" ourselves? We're not alone in that. janefriedman.com/the-struggle...

The Beast In Me on Netflix was quite enjoyable. I especially liked its portrayal of the darker side of authordom, incl. how self-absorbed some of us tend to get, or tend to know we're capable of getting & somehow override. We aren't *all* loveable & squeezable like Tolkien & Martin. Hot take, right?

Feel what you will about the Stranger Things series, the fact remains that the Duffer Brothers had some serious OPINIONS about fathers and fatherhood. Not subtle at all.

I've had it with these mutherfuckin snakes (trump administration) on this mutherfuckin plane (earth).

When I need instant anxiety mitigation because of *waves at everything*, my first move is to put on a Kruder and Dorfmeister Pandora station. For someone like me who doesn't really love jazz, there's something surprisingly mystical about jazz fused with electronica. Pure healing vibes.

Nancy in a bandolier is my mood moving into 2026.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

We have reached the point in the afternoon when I'm required to bow to the pressure of allowing my chunky cat her throne, aka, my lap. It makes it very difficult to work, but I'm a sucker for the feeling that I am Worthy.

Anaconda. Perfection. No notes.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

“Woke” is just being aware of these structures of power and authority and knowing that they are there to justify the abuse of others. The “war on woke” is those the restoration of these structures for the purposes of abusing others.

A valuable lesson I'm taking into 2026 is that subscribing to too many newsletters means I never get to spend any time reading any of them, only skimming. So I've culled them to just a couple, those I truly enjoy and that bring me peace or wisdom. Rebecca Solnit's Meditations in an Emergency is one.

The morning after a holiday always poses the same question: do I want cereal for dinner… or leftover pie?

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

I made vegan shepherd's pie for Christmas dinner and may never need to come up an exciting new dish again. So good!

This is incredibly well put.

Happy Jack Black's Anaconda release day!

I am not a toy. I'm a ten-thousand-movies-and-spinoffs franchise commitment. Please think twice before buying me for someone for Christmas.

Reading while tired may cause one to read the phrase "tomb raiding" as "Tom braiding," which if nothing else will wake one up with a giant question mark.

I'm going to start calling the internet the Deluge of Darkness.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Sindarin Youth

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Palantirs for Fear

A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Red Hot Chili Pippins