“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.” -Steven Pressfield, THE WAR OF ART AKA Mandatory Reading for EVERYBODY. If… Read More
Last week was spring break, dudes! Spring break at the McLanes! (Or, as it is known in the world of stay-at-home-moms, MANDATORY OVERTIME.) Not that I don’t love hanging with my kid. I… Read More
This post was brought to you by too much coffee. Also my WordPress Dashboard has lost it’s dang mind, so I’m sorry if the photos are ridic because I can’t even preview.) There… Read More
*George Saunders is married and so am I so I don’t really want to marry him so much as eat his brains and absorb the fatty genius within. But not until he writes… Read More
Daily Science Fiction is going to be publishing my story “The Small Print”. If you already have a subscription to DSF, you will get to see the story in your mailbox on this… Read More
All families have their own catchphrases and in-jokes. In my house growing up, it was Not Cool to be late to anything, ever, so we had Stop Farting Around. Always preceded by the… Read More
DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A LINGUIST. I ONCE WAS A CHILD WHO READ THE DICTIONARY FOR FUN. I GREW UP INTO A WOMAN OBSESSED WITH ASSONANCE AND CONSONANCE*, DENOTATIONS AND CONNOTATIONS. THESE ARE… Read More
I do not know where to start. These words are the first I’ve written in weeks. First it came for my husband. Then it took my son. I fashioned Gatling guns that spat… Read More
(So this post is related to a topic idea S.C. had, and since it just happened to me a few hours ago I’m gonna go ahead and steal his thunder a tiny lil… Read More
