Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

Book 4 of 2026: THE GENTLE ART OF SWEDISH DEATH CLEANING by Margareta Magnusson. I’d read excerpts of this before, but never the whole thing. It is…adorable? The cutest book I’ve read in ages. And tremendously useful, of course! Makes me miss my grandparents, though.

Book 3 of 2026: THE VILLAGE LIBRARY DEMON-HUNTING SOCIETY by C.M. Waggoner. At first I thought this was going to be a typical cozy mystery—and then it wasn’t typical at all, which I very much appreciated.

I’ve learned a lot from volunteering with hospice patients, but most recently I’ve re-learned that I love Yahtzee! I used to play with my grandparents all the time when I was little, but recently one of the patients taught me to play again. She always wins.

Two of my 2026 reads by TWO of my favorite creatives (@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @rebb003.bsky.social) have arrived!

Thanks for all your support of “My Parents Are Dead: What Now?” Here are some other ways you can promote the book, if you’re so inclined! #deathpositive #books #bookreviews #thankyou

Today! At Carmichael's on Frankfort. Let's go hear @rebb003.bsky.social talk about her new book!

HEY LOUISVILLE MY EVENT AT CARMICHAEL’S IS TOMORROW AT 7PM PLEASE COME SEE ME I LOVE YOU

Obligatory “I finally got into a crossback straddle by myself, I’m the strongest person alive” video #aerialsilks #beginner

Book 2 of 2026: BABEL by @rfkuang.bsky.social. I literally just spent five straight hours finishing this book because it was so good. You must read it. I insist.

Been kind of a weird week because of my book launch but I cannot stress enough how important it is to say: fuck ICE.

Louisville friends and Chicago friends, it would be great to see you this month! 💗

Have you been putting off those POA forms, Louisville? Drop in this month. I’ll help you out!

Got a question about whether you need to wait until your parents are dead to buy this book, and the answer is NO, it’s great for getting a sense of what you need to know before it’s an emergency! Also there’s a chapter on what to bully your parents into doing if they’re not yet dead

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY!! “My Parents Are Dead: What Now? A Panic-Free Guide to the Practicalities of Death” is officially out in the world. Grab it wherever books are sold! #books #deathpositive #outnow #estateplanning

Happiest of pub days, @rebb003.bsky.social ! In the weeks before her death, my mother got such a kick out of Becky’s “so my parents are dead” videos. She thought they were hilarious. She would be so thrilled to see this wonderful book in the world. Full of great info, gallows humor, & grace. ❤️🪦

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO MEEEEEE! Buy my book because I can (unfortunately) guarantee that you will need it someday. And if you have to figure this stuff out, you might as well laugh about it while you learn. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789600...

Hey maybe you wanna tune into this tomorrow because I feel like a kid planning a birthday party and I’m afraid no one will come to my book launch 😂😭

Book 1 of 2026: PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield, narrated by Hannah van der Westhuysen. The post-death bureaucracy horror novel of my dreams! Plus climate change horror! Plus zealotry horror! I loved it. 📚👀

I made you a winter #playlist featuring Rosalía, Doja Cat, Nova Twins, Sasami, Lola Young & more. Canceled Spotify recently & switched to Qobuz, but I still made 2 versions for easier listening. Qobuz: open.qobuz.com/playlist/445... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/70C... #nowplaying

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Volunteering with hospice patients tonight. One 89yo resident told us that we can go through life any way we want, as long as we’re happy. Then she asked us to make her buttered biscuits and bacon at 9pm. What an icon.

You have THREE DAYS LEFT to preorder my book, submit your receipt via the form on my website, and get a free copy of “In the Hole,” a totally normal funeral planning game by yours truly. #deathpositive #books #preorder #ttrpg #funeral #grief

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Good morning. I hate the Monroe Doctrine.

Louisville! Come hang out with me and talk about death this month.

My top 10 books of 2025. Just in case you were wondering. I do, after all, have impeccable taste. 📚👀 @meakoopa.bsky.social @iamjameskennedy.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @marthawells.com @alvaroenrigue.bsky.social @margaret.bsky.social

i am running into a new year

My Stranger Things hot take is that they did the very best they could ending a show that was only meant to be a single season and had since grown unwieldy. I’m glad I watched.

Book 64 of 2025: THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS by Jill Lepore. A former coworker sent me this collection of essays about different stages of life and death, organized in the manner of the centuries-old morality board game “The Mansion of Happiness.” It was good, if only tenuously connected. 📚👀

MY BOOK IS OUT IN ONE WEEK PLEASE PREORDER THANKS

Blessings upon Kenosha Tire for finding a used tire that fits my car so I can drive back to Louisville ✨

I’ve been a AAA member for years and boy did it just pay off.

Just convinced my dad’s Midwestern boomer friends to try sushi. It’s a Christmas miracle. (I doubt I could have ever convinced my dad to try sushi.)

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Book 63 of 2025: CITY OF INCURABLE WOMEN by Maud Casey. Nothing says Christmas like a fictional, experimental retelling of the many women treated for hysteria in 19th century Paris. Right? Holly jolly? 📚👀

On the downside, Baxter Ave Theaters and ValuMarket are closing, meaning I can no longer walk to the movies or grocery store and will now have to drive to give my money to garbage national chains. On the upside, I get to write another angry email to Ben Reno-Weber.

Latest book mail: a fantastic book on parental death by my friend @rebb003.bsky.social and the debut short story collection by one of my favorite contemporary short story writers Senaa Ahmad!

Book 62 of 2025: KILL THE BEAST by Serra Swift. Looking for a good fantasy novel? This one will scratch that itch. We love a revenge story that gets…complicated. 📚👀

The last time a historically bad Chicago sports team unexpectedly won a championship, it knocked us into the timeline where Tr*mp was elected president. Can’t decide whether a Bears Super Bowl win would knock us back into a better timeline, or make things immeasurably worse.

I was talking to 22yo at the brewery who really likes the movie Queen of the Damned. And I said, “I remember when Aaliyah died—it was horrible!” And they replied: “Aaliyah died?” 😂😭

Holy crap chart from Gallup

Book 61 of 2025: THE IMMORTAL CHOIR HOLDS EVERY VOICE by @margaret.bsky.social. I will take as many Danielle Cain stories as Killjoy is graciously willing to write. Let’s go tell ghost stories in the woods. 📚👀

somebody call the decembrists, this one is coming in hot

My book is coming out in JANUARY I am doing LAUNCH EVENTS both ONLINE and IN PERSON! (Louisville on the 14th, Chicago TBA but late January almost certainly.)

Book 60 of 2025: THE BARROW WILL SEND WHAT IT MAY by @margaret.bsky.social. The second in the Danielle Cain series of novellas is putting the romance in necromancer—and then appropriately problematizing that romance. Let’s go fight demons in a bookmobile. 📚👀

When Harry Met Sally is my favorite movie, and I’d also argue it’s the greatest rom-com ever made. RIP Rob Reiner. This sucks.

Reached an important milestone today at 37 years old: I poured myself beer from a keg for the first time 😂