Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays! Today in many areas of the world, it’s Christmas, which is one of my favorite holidays. Growing up, Christmas was complicated in much the same way that Thanksgiving was. We were poor and for a good chunk of my Read More…
It’s My Birthday!
Happy Solstice! Happy Shortest Day of the Year! And yes, it’s my birthday! Growing up in poverty, I can count on one hand the number of actual birthday parties I had, some of which were shared with other December babies Read More…
This is not your typical Thanksgiving post!
This is not your typical Thanksgiving post! Nope, it’s not. Why? Because everybody I know with a website or a blog does one, and honestly, there are only so many folks you can read going on about what they’re thankful Read More…
The Beginning of the End?
It looks like GeekGirlCon will be my last event this year after an announcement this morning cancelling Anglicon 2018. I don’t know if this is the beginning of the end for the con, but the announcement gave me a serious case of Read More…
Hilton Honors Horror
The first weekend of June, I had the displeasure of staying at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Spokane, WA. I was vending at the Lilac City Comicon at the Spokane Convention Center and chose to stay at the convention Read More…
“You’re All Dead”
“You’re all dead.” In my twelve years of teaching, I was in more lockdown drills than fire drills and more lockdowns than school fires, yet nothing prepares you for the sight of a man with a gun walking into your Read More…
Ursula
It was 1989, and I was twelve. I can still smell the dust that coated that corner of the classroom–the corner that served as the reading nook, a corner few (other than me) ventured into voluntarily. Yet that corner was a Read More…
What I’m…Updates
It’s way past that time again! Time for the What I’m…Updates! What I’m Reading: It has to do with a certain Amazonian… What I’m Watching: Besides roaming through the Upside Down, I’ve been checking out a LOT of Marvel stuff as well Read More…
The Beauty That Keeps Us Going
There’s an amazing Doctor Who episode involving Vincent Van Gogh that is my absolute favorite. It’s also a great reminder of the beauty that keeps us going in times like these. I will disagree though with the curator about how Read More…
#MeToo
I spent all of yesterday at the Galaxaar Pop Culture Marketplace vending as Books & Chains, so it wasn’t until I arrived home in the evening that I logged into social media to see the #MeToo posts by so many of Read More…
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