Lo 🔖

It felt so good to swing thru my lower body first and get Cole's deft, gentle spot on my shoulders

Somehow banners still elude me

Crunch & scatter

Mama Goose, I will always love you! Enjoy your new home!

Oh life! I'm hanging on! Moments pile upon each other, meaningless each by each, together resplendent and ephemeral. 🍁 Yesterday I pushed up into a bridge for the first time in 100 years, painted it, had a sweet call with my babe, then said goodbye to this foster cat who taught me what love could be

Change is possible for everyone, cats and people!! I'm hoping our very boundaried, noli me tangere permanent adult cat will be able to gracefully adapt to us keeping one of these kittens... they have so far only grumbled at each other through a door... 🤞

Nursing kittens 🥺

I'm so in love with the mama cat, but L is allergic to her and we always knew it would just be a summer fling 💓

Witnessing cat family dynamics up close makes me see how much their emotions/relationships are completely not like humans' - yet my human projections are the inescapable framework I bring to living with them. 🤷 Splitting up this family feels so morally wrong, even though I know it's right for them!

5-week-old kitten nicknamed "Shy-a-lie" by my kids for their skittering aversion to humans

Cuddle education

Caught mid-wink

Fostering kittens is a fascinating way to experience linear time - this terrified handful of fluff transformed into an confident, elegant teenager in just a few weeks. 🩶

conversely, the novel which should
have been a short story is maddening in a special way

As a writer/editor as well as theater maker, I have gotten to experience the larva-to-butterfly cycle of creative production from many vantage points. Whether it's 📖 or 🤸‍♀️, an outside eye who will lovingly but objectively encounter your work-in-progress is the highest gift.

I'm setting off emoji fireworks 🎇🎆🎇 to celebrate an encouraging short-story rejection (with actionable feedback!) from a magazine I'd love to appear in 🎆🎇🎆

Recent #sketchbook pages! Thank you to the babies, bicycles, and vintage telephones of the world for stretching my 🖌️🎨

I am having the exact right amount of fun making zines for my friend's show - this weekend! - combining my illustrator, circus artist, and paper-folding self 🥰🤸‍♀️✂️

I loved this, thank you for sharing!

I loved this, thank you for sharing!

Magical/genetic mutants as metaphor for sexual deviance was big at the turn of the century, from the X-Men movies trickling down to lightly avant-garde short stories

Reading this as a young person who had not had sex, and knew what I wanted but not what forms it would take, was such a 🔥🎯🧭 experience. Rereading it 25 years later on the other side of my own burn fingerprint swoons is a 🎯💌📬 experience. So sweet to hold hands this way with my 14yo self

Revisiting Aimee Bender's book of stories The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, which imprinted me deeply in 2000.

Allegorical, weird, sexy, like Barthelme for teen girls which at that point I was! 💅🔥 "The Healer" is so short & perfect, read the whole thing: www.scribd.com/doc/13733072...

locker room mirror selfie featuring my favorite 🌧️ earrings joined by ⛈️, etc stitching on my jumper

No one is stopping you from simply #embroidering random ⛈️🌸☀️🫧 on your work clothes (important caveat: must be a technical services library employee, whimsical art teacher, etc)

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dang wish I could time travel for Philly tix! ty for the new album it's amazing

Ironic that the LLM ingested incalculable amounts of natural language - books, articles, forum posts - and is offering me their summary, but won't let me access the juice it fed on. 🌊🔏 As a writer I'm an LLM too. It construes me as both client and competitor.

And honestly for that purpose (yes, lizards have hips!) Google's AI summary is useful. But often I want from Google searches is less factual information and more "do people naturally use language this way?" and unfortunately the AI-ification of #search is TERRIBLE for that.

grocery store rotisserie chicken laded vs laden what does edema feel like can a smell be oily do some animals have hair on claws bird foot parts of a seashell horn shape snail young deer antler called do alligators look like they smile do lizards have hips air just before a storm barometric pressure are there any 6 legged animals not insects pelican mouth open eddy vs whirlpool

children's slime what is it types of preschool montessori do eyelids relax in sleep swamped by a wave squall vs gust of wind midnight blue what is dyslexia like smutty romance novel title example synonyms for reconciliation artemis fowl reading level phd how to punctuate does broach verb need an indirect object search for truth inquiry probe examination tomato smells like starchy fruits

I love saving a list of the Google searches I make while writing a short story - this one's theme is "can someone come here and explain animals to me" #amwriting #sff 🦌🦅🐊🐚

All Fours keeps making me giggle because I am also writing stories about unhappy midlife heterosexual suburban marriage rn (mine just has a generous helping of magic realism). Miranda July, I bounced off you in my 20s, but we are finally the right age for a zipper merge

I wish for a survey of how many sentences in this novel begin with conjunctions cuz it's gotta be at least 25%

It's been a good month for repetitive tasks accompanied by audiobook! Of course Miranda July is a skilled performer who makes her own novel even more enjoyable. By contrast I gotta confess both the prose and narration of "Bury Our Bones" feel stuck on a "my first adult novel" setting 🎭📈

Sashiko embroidery and repairs to purple cotton tote bag with GAMES GAMES GAMES printed on it. I have no idea how this particular tote bag came into my life but it typically holds my painting supplies so it's a comfort object that accompanies me everywhere 🧸🎨

Closeup of alternating stitches

Back view of alternating stitches

My BFF has been practicing her own 🪡, more precise and traditional. She mended and decorated my beloved GAMES GAMES GAMES art supplies tote bag for me, I'm so in love with the results! (Washed before she got it, all stains are permanent!)

Wearing my newly embroidered jumper!

Red jumper with freehand/unplanned abstract sashiko-inspired design in many colors 🥰

"So there's this..." meme edited to include "new fiber art practice"

Freehand #sashiko -ish embroidery is my new crafting obsession! Several long conference calls in the past week were sweetened by repetitive running stitches. Many crossovers with watercolor - from subtle color blends to iterative lines creating meaning. 🖌️🪡

Critical Response — Z Puppets Rosenschnoz

so true!! I love having a process like Liz Lerman's Critical Response zpuppets.org/critical-res...

Watercolor I made of one of my sweet students learning "cuddle"!

"Citation" lol

I made a digital collection of my circus trapeze lesson plans for a #libraryschool assignment. Feeling pleased as PUNCH to have completed this in a way that was personally interesting and even a tiny bit useful for me 😎🤸‍♀️ trapeze.omeka.net

Thank you for being curious! I was curious how specific a shade that would seem to a reader - I was trying to describe a nail color 💅 that gets called "neon" another time. 💛

• how many sessions does tattoo removal take • volley verb swedish pop art example • freestanding liquor cart • whisky versus whiskey • banana yellow • side shave haircut • nerves asleep feel like • tingle synonym • traditional american tattoo symbols • is drinking a shot from someone else's mouth something people do and enjoy [LOL--Ed.] • bird species names affectionate

• reconcilingly conciliatorily synonym • different kinds of vocal harmony • jewel set in crown museum • self-injecting epipen how to use • do snakes crawl • main coon sheds like • word for fair body hair on upper arms • names of butterflies • agate rock value • antique dresser with mirror • inkspot inksplotch inksplash • derailed synonym

I've been on a swift and delightful tear of writing short stories this summer, what a pleasure to have that bottle uncorked! 🍾

Google searches I made while writing my last story - a short and sexy horror tale about why you must resist texting your ex. #amwriting

Sometimes this is the dyanmic of a LDR mostly conducted via voice notes

I was powerfully affected by Narnia as a kid, and read more of CS Lewis's works for adults trying to scrape my way the deeper meaning of its mythology: Aslan is a Jesus analog, etc. Sweet to see my kid fold into awe alongside the child characters - all feeling, no reason needed. 💟 Also, lol:

Reading aloud to my baby the exact physical copy of the Chronicles of Narnia I had in elementary school - my mom wrote my name in the front in pin-neat cursive - is a stone skipped across time I treasure beyond belief. 🪨🦁🏰

Ugh for sure that social media platforms realized that users are more profitable when they're outraged ➡️ large-scale monetizing negative attention tricking down to the smallest "content creators," which is what we are now instead of humans having interactions

It's so good!!

mm if I may, imho it's an ecological tragedy that the dominant form of joke-making on Twitter/bluesky become "I said something abrasive and annoying on purpose, and you believed it was sincere!" when 10 years ago this was a unique space for short-form wit and language play 😤