Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

It's National Coffee Day and I am celebrating by having another cup of coffee, staring at my crazy workload, and crying a bit

Some pretty mushrooms from a walk yesterday

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

I can tell how stressed I am by how tight my shoulders and traps are. Today I can’t move my head without crying yaaaaay

I honestly don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this Quantico meeting. I’m a fiction writer and I know exactly what I’d do with a novel that starts out with all of my country’s highest ranked and most experienced military officers in one place..

I feel very safe

three people this morning have greeted me as "kathy" i have been working here for a year and a half 😆

JESUS i finally just listened to Hadestown end-to-end for the very first time after i realized i'll probably never see it (which is how i usually start with musicals) and JESUS CHRIST i got so hopeful that MAYBE THIS TIME and JESUS CHRIST

me: i'm not neurodivergent. i would have been diagnosed YEARS ago me: *countless doom boxes* me: *lining things up to feel better at work* me: *doesn't understand this social situation despite having been in it 29384934 times* me: I JUST PUT MY KEYS DOWN GDDMIT me: am i an alien?? me: oo a new hobby

Psst... pass it on. A sheyd has been framed for murder and the only one who can help is a detective armed with supersoaker full of Manischewitz... and maybe you. 37 hours left to go. Let's rally in a literary way against the demons of D.C. www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

It's almost like public servants of the law don't ALWAYS break the law to enrich themselves! They can't believe someone wouldn't do that!

Inside you are two wolves

Every single time I think I'm not a willing participant in the American machine I do something like buying expensive magnetic nail polish to make myself feel better Anyway, at least my nails will look good next week

I know their contracts probably say otherwise, and nobody wants to work for free, but Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert should be on TikTok right now mouthing off.

We shouldn't even need to know what ACIP is or what it does. We certainly shouldn't need to worry about who's on it or what's happening at the meeting going on right now as I'm typing this.

There’s an old hippie peacenik on the local college radio station who has a drive time show. Recently, he’s been sharing scary right wing speeches regarding The Thing. I thought it was ironic, but I’m not entirely sure it is now that I’ve been listening for the week. We are cooked, as the kids say.

Sometimes my job requires me to appear to steal houseplants from the big boss It’s the little things

Wait, what?

TBH I feel like that one lady they interviewed in a Kiev coffeeshop the day before the invasion, sucking down her second mocha latte and hoping for the best I hope she’s ok. I think about her a lot.

My kid tonight: “Uuughhhh! When you think you’re done…. and you’re not done… that is a PROBLEM”

Spotify has been on the Internet this week

IT'S ALWAYS ONE OF YOURS, YOU NARD

current WIP has gone entirely off the rails, but we expected this. delightful.

last night I dreamed I was being chased by yellowjackets, and this morning I was chased all the way from the parking lot to the door by seven angry yellowjackets. I am gonna wrap myself in bubble wrap

"that's not funny, no one should lose their lives to gun violence" so true! that's what we've been saying all along. I'm so glad you agree

This is a catchy song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Jd...

I've finally broken Spotify. It's labeled a playlist full of deep house as "traditional fiddle wednesday morning."

What are the connections you see, that no one else does? What weird insights do you have, based on who you are? THAT is where your next big storytelling breakthrough is waiting. This week, I go into greater detail on HOW to make that happen. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/your-big-sto...

just give me back my 3.5mm headphone jack, ok

I have never, never, ever, once had to talk to my father like this or make a request like this to him.

Most of us are not going to be able to live off our writing. Most of us are going to have to keep our dayjob and write in the margins, which are especially margin-y if you have kids and you like your kids and want to spend time with them. So why would you waste time writing what you don't like?

This.

If you have to be a IP licensing income stream (and let's be honest here, we do) you need to be your OWN damn IP licensing income stream I've been thinking of making a game out of the ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY world and I can do that because I own those rights Keep as many rights as you can

One of my lifong writer dreams was to get into Analog. But I’d rather toss it to the wayside than give up moral rights to my own damn work.

one extra scoop of instant coffee later and I can see God

turned on the radio this morning to "bullet with butterfly wings" followed by weezer's "good life." swear to God these are songs about being perimenopausal or something

motivation has lasted for three days straight. something is wrong with me. off to do more work! wheeee

I got up at 4 this morning and felt incredibly motivated and got a lot done. The motivation lasted until 11:07 and now I'm inhaling my kashi nut mix & making coffee praying for it to come back please oh please oh please

Out today!!

It’s midnight! That means Witch You Would is OUT NOW AHHH! Sorry I’m going to be insufferable for a minute. Also, please come to the party!

Space opera standalones for everybody! A little bit of hope, a little bit of sports, a whole lot of competence, and even more queer shenanigans. They said write your own if you don't see yourself in what you read. So I did. Come join the #NeoG, hopeful spacepunk for difficult times. kbwagers.com

Post-Covid symptoms still affect me. I had to nap on a picnic table today at a playground while spouse watched the kiddo. I literally could not have gone on. What did I do to merit that? Errands.

What on Earth do you do if you want a writing career but you also want to watch your child grow up

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

wait, this is REAL?

Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about this. www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...

There’s a story written about this. (And a song.) It’s called The Veldt.

This is why there are few modern-day references in Star Trek. It’s all gone.