“Tomorrow Is a Difficult Proposition” available to read at Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
An immortal cosmic being falls in love with a mortal ship’s captain and loses her in the vastness of time and space.
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Gears of an intelligent universe
Synchronicity is when the universe gives you pears. Character names and coincidence.
OCD and the enchiladas of uncertainty
My experience as a writer and human living in the often-illogical landscape of obsessive compulsive disorder.
What I Wish School Had Taught Me about Operating as a Human Being
More than a decade and a half has passed since I graduated high school, and I still find myself rehashing all the areas that my formal education failed me. Sometimes these realizations come in the …
The Judgmental Advice Column: Friends and Movie References
If someone hasn’t seen a movie that you like, it says everything about them as a person. The Judgmental Advice Column tackles friends who don’t get movie and TV references.
That’s a Kris Problem: when others refuse to use my gender-neutral name
What do you do when others refuse to use your chosen name the instant someone who ranks higher in the patriarchy shows up with the same name?
The Mom Box
I now exist in the narrow construct of The Mom Box, where my entire identity is filtered through a set of assumptions about mothers and motherhood, and it’s surprising that I eat food and have opinions.
The Little Passive Mermaid Lady: Why Ariel is Actually Terrible
In Part Two, The Little Mermaid’s Ariel relinquishes her badassery and delivers on the promise of feminist nightmare I had been expecting.
The Little Badass Mermaid Anthropologist: Why Ariel is Actually Awesome
One thing I wasn’t expecting from The Little Mermaid? To find the title character herself even remotely interesting, let alone a beacon of competence and badassery in the midst of a literal ocean of incompetent and evil associates.
Income tax, vigilantes, and other things I didn’t know about Prohibition
I assumed that renting a six-hour documentary when I have a toddler was a ridiculous act of optimism. Surely, in these tiring times, my partner and I would lack the mental energy to watch a …
Depression is a hole
Depression is a hole, and it sucks you down again and again, but there are ways out.