I’ve been keeping track of the podcasts I’ve been taking in over these past few days as I’ve been re-organizing my media playlists. Especially since George Floyd was murdered, I have been seeking podcasts and hosts and media figures who are BIPOC. I’m really liking Good Ancestor Podcast with Layla F. Saad. I’ve heard two…
In the middle of the summer in the middle of the pandemic
I have re-done this website yet again because it’s a Sunday and no child is on top of me and I have millions of things to do but I am refusing to do those things. Also I haven’t been here for… some time. And here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, in the…
Catching up / Raising Empowered Daughters / Looking ahead
I’ve been absent. From the blog, anyway. And probably from lots of other stuff that I simply don’t make time for right now. But let’s catch up: I’m pregnant with my third child, due in mid-November. We all are very excited, though frankly in my day-to-day with my five-year-old and my three-year-old, my pregnancy is…
Episode 1 — The Dog in the Moonlight / Dreamboy
The Round House / a story out in October / Chet Faker
Right now, I’m reading a few books, but most notably I’m trying to finish one. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich, has been a great, although slow, read so far. I’d say I’m about 80% through it. A novel, it’s about a 13-year-old Native American boy whose father is a tribal judge and whose mother…
Sandra / Poets & Writers / Ed Harcourt
Of the 50 GB of podcast episodes I currently have in my library, one of my favorites is the first season of Sandra. This podcast is scripted sci-fi. I loved it. The synopsis: “A world where artificial intelligence isn’t so artificial. Helen thought her new job would help her forget her dreary hometown, but working…
I write: Flash fiction and what it’s doing for me
I am writing. I am in a quasi-habit of writing on a somewhat regular basis. I’m in a writers’ group of four fiction writers, and I’m loving that. The feedback is always great, but mostly I’m happy to have a deadline and to have other people expecting something from me. I’m nearly ready to submit…
I read: Brain Rules for Baby and The New Yorker: The Writer’s Voice podcast
Hey. It’s Tuesday. I’m writing this in the car. Rather, I’m writing this in my office. (I am in this car more than any other place, I think.) My kids are snoring in the backseat, and I drug along my computer for this very purpose: To do something while they allowed it. And they’re allowing…
A semi-annual re-launch of the blog (and what I’m reading)
There are so many things I want to do on a daily basis. So many things that I don’t fit them in, and then I write and re-write a list of priorities every so many weeks. Today I woke up at 4:30 so that I can get a few things in before the rest of…
I read: Fates and Furies and Stuff Mom Never Told You
Hi kids. August. Both of my kids have birthdays this month. My mother-in-law turns 80 this month, and my parents have their anniversary this month, too. We have several other family birthdays. We also have lots of international family visiting, and man oh man, it’s busy. I started Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff, a…