My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.

And thanks again (ALWAYS) to @finchfrii.bsky.social for allowing me to experiment with this on @kvru.bsky.social We're really doing it!! A local weekly women's sports radio show!!! Follow along here for ALL your Seattle women's sports news in one weekly stop: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

This week, we're celebrating one month of Scratch (!) and surviving last Tuesday's global cortisol spike. In this roundup: books, blogs, literary discourse, video games, poetry, and the moon. Scratch is an entirely reader-supported, worker-owned cooperative. Subscribe and share! www.talkscratch.com

Every time I find myself on the cusp of despair I find that community helps pull me back, because we can pick out the glimmers of truth together. Yesterday I offered poems to the group chat because that felt right. Today I am sharing this because honesty about our circumstances feels right.

In case you need a little sweetness today, let me share some flowers with you. I got my mama and brother out of the house for a little tulip-picking adventure. 🙂

Coincidentally, this week’s Scratch newsletter is a candid discussion about how the four of us are getting by financially as freelance writers. We talk numbers, money, time, motherhood, chronic pain, and relentless exhaustion. www.talkscratch.com/the-group-ch...

In today’s Scratch newsletter, we’re talking $$$ as self-employed writers — income, expenses, debt, care work, insurance, day jobs, exhaustion, and the unquantifiable ways in which we feed our hearts: www.talkscratch.com/the-group-ch...

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

WE MADE IT OUT OF THE GROUP CHAT! Happy that get to talk with my whip-smart friends about how we're all surviving as working writers. 💜

😅 I didn't plan to start my early days on this platform this way, but yesterday I was named a recipient of @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social's 2025 American Mosaic Journalism Prize. I'm thrilled to share this recognition with photojournalist Zaydee Sanchez. More info here: tinyurl.com/28rt8pz2

If there’s one thing I’m going to do in this life it’s recommend books, and today that book is Manjula Martin’s THE LAST FIRE SEASON.