Play tag, solve everything
I propose that we all go out and play tag because it’s going to solve multiple problems, because it’s going to be fun, and because it’s logical to have fun.
Full length blog posts, as opposed to microblogging.
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.
Eight problems afflicting hippies
There is a particular set of irritations that happen to people with a predilection for healthy food, a giant love of nature, and a tendency to approach their health with a minimalist, prevention-first mindset. In …
Three chords, one hit wonders, and other disagreements
Thoughts on music from a recovering pretentious snob: three chords are enough, one hit wonders usually aren’t, and musical taste as a romantic deal-breaker.
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.
A typeface of forgotten keys
When I was a toddler, my parents gave me some keys to play with, and I made them into a typeface. That part happened 30 years later.
Are you sure you don’t want any?
It’s not about the cake. It’s not about the calories or sugar, or even the wheat. It’s about you questioning my decision, which is among the most inconsequential decisions I will make in my life.
Who are you? Answer in three typefaces.
Instead of a design that says, “Hey, this is someone’s personal blog. Maybe they don’t totally realize this is online and anyone can read it?” I would like a design that says, “This is the website of a speculative fiction author and freelancer, and you can read what they have to say about some stuff.”
Fortune Cookie Throw Down: Episode One and Only?
I decide that my fortune cookie fortunes must prove their worth through combat. Fortunes about intuition, gravity, figurative sleep, and curiosity battle it out!
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.