Derry Public Library really knocked it out of the park with #DerryAuthorFest!

Super excited to be attending Derry Public Library’s #Author Fest today with some of my fellow writing group members.

It’s the middle of the night, and I’m suddenly desperate to tell one of my childhood best friends that she partially inspired some characters in my YA novel. We aren’t close anymore, and she lives many states away, but someday I hope she sees how important she was to me … in black and white.

I’m all about that green, and I don’t mean money (though money would be cool, too).

I just read an article about women advocating for women to lose the right to vote, and to ultimately embrace submitting to their husbands … what in the ever-loving brainwashing is this?! Get me out of this timeline 😭

I know some people don’t like living close to a rail line, but I find the call of a train comforting given I’ve heard one sound off each night in all the places I’ve felt at home.

I am living for this 66-degree evening on my porch, listening to peepers and ducks. Being outside makes it feel less like the whole world is in crisis.

His mouth was everywhere at once, covering her in slow kisses, bringing her breath out in bursts like the first vernal blooms. #SenseWrds Prompt 209

This week (and now weekend) has been all about fevers, but still, there’s something special about seeing something you planted grow.

Le bebe has #FluB (she calls it flooby), but she also has fly nails 💅

A Suess-ian take on #Ghibli.

Tonight I’m making decor for my daughter’s 4th birthday party. Sometimes I draw things … #SpiritedAway

Her face is hidden enough for me to socially celebrate Meebs’ 4th birthday 🎉 I can’t believe this lovely lady is mine.

It’s pouring outside now, but I started seeding for our container garden a few days ago 🌱

These two (drawn by @brentonbarnes.bsky.social) look to have gotten into something too adult. Hope they come down soon 😅

Making soot sprites and puffball monsters is not something I prepared for before becoming a mom, but here we are …

I mayyyyy have started writing two new books instead of finishing the one that is basically drafted. What can I say? I guess I’ve been naughty 😭 Off to go read now.

At the request of my daughter (post #reading “A Sweet New Year for Ren” by Michelle Sterling), we made pineapple cakes today. We didn’t have the right molds, but they were still delicious!

Low-budget, but highly impressive entertainment tip: Make quick pickles and put them in vintage glassware.

Discovering that my body was made in the style of The Marvelous Madame Mim in my late 30s been surprisingly less devastating than I expected 😆

I’m a weak person, waiting for someone to bend toward me, reinforcing my imperfections, strengthening my resolve to survive. Survival feels deafening. #SenseWrds Prompt 197

I’ve always billed myself as agnostic, but it’s really hard to believe in anything right now.

That’s my girl.

Found my 90s #PollyPockets, and Meebs hasn’t stopped playing with them since I handed them over.

I need someone to hover around, reminding me that I don’t need takeout. I can cook just about anything, and it’s cheaper, too!

Snow is like Mother Nature’s filibuster. You had an agenda? Stop right there! It’s time to arctic chill out and dig out instead of continuing with your initial plan.

After all these years, I still never miss an opportunity to objectify @brentonbarnes.bsky.social 😉 🍑

If mornings are for coffee and contemplation, winters must be for carbs and crying.

I’m breaking my toxic winter depression pattern by trying a cold weather walk before work. Do I like it? No. Am I doing it? I guess.

One of the producers from #LoveIsBlind really needs to tell the contestants that, “ I love that,” is the new, “ummmmm.” It’s not working out.

Want to make me happy in an ultimate way? Throw me this party.

There’s this haunting print of #PlumIsland I inherited from my grandmother, and every time I walk past it I think, this is why we make #art, even when robots try to wrest it from us. Someone, somewhere is haunted by our work, and that’s enough.

I love this man. “Needful Things” is my favorite, and completely underrated, but he’s just brilliant full-stop. Plus good taste! Wow.

#Fallout S2 is fabulous 💥

Another cold winter morning, walking to ballet 🩰

It took entirely too long to take #dinner tonight, so we ate at 8:30 pm, but at least it was tasty.

Cozy panther 🐈‍⬛

Cold mornings are for having custom jewelry made for you by a toddler and watching Atlantis.

Rest in talent, bébé 💔

This season of #Bridgerton is super #EverAfter-y, so I’m definitely invested now.

I have many thoughts after seeing “Hard Boiled” last night, but the overarching theme I’m left with is I will never be ok sacrificing a strong plot for style.

The #massage was torture. His fingers? Made of steel, like knitting needles driving into muscles. The oil? Old person lavender musk—not lavender alone—mostly musk. I knew it was bad because I had an open dialogue going in my head. “Where did he go to school?” “Have others paid for this?” #vss365

Hiiiiiii, it’s freaking cold and people are actively being struck down, seemingly with wild abandon. None of this is okay.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Tom Chitty. #NewYorkerCartoons

Feeling super Albert right now. “I was adorable once, young and full of hope. And now look at me! I'm this short, fat, insecure, middle-aged THING!” #TheBirdcage

You know what I’m still not prepared for as a #writer? Having a new character start speaking to me that I don’t particularly like. This evening during dinner, Elaina came into being and honestly, she’s not my fav.

Do you ever lower the back of your head and ears under the bath water just to listen to the hum of the fan differently? I do. It’s sort of like a #meditation. I get some of my best ideas while submerged.

While I luxuriate in a scalding bath, little soap ghosts stretch, lamenting their fates, fading to nothing.

B*tch, peas 🫛

Instead of “alright, alright, alright,” I’m “whatever, whatever, whatever.”