E. A. Fredericks

Is there a pitcher whose magnificent outing Blake Treinen WON'T spoil??

Got too stressed during Schwarber's at bat, went and swapped over my laundry.

I've been at the vet more than I enjoy over the past three months, much sympathy 💛

WILL SMITH!! our fresh prince of Chavez Ravine

KIKÉ!!!

Lordy this game is a nailbiter.

I have exactly one class left to teach before I am on fall break. Whew.

On a dark wicker patio table, a plate eith roasted shishito peppers, a bratwurst in a bun, potato chips, and raspberries. Next to it is a Nintendo switch, behind it are a bottle of beer and an iPad showing the Dodgers/Phillies baseball game

Determined to have one (1) last nice evening on the porch.

‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

Well, dang, this is very exciting to me. 🖋️📚💙

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

I live rather far away AND YET

Can an eldest daughter abdicate her position? Asking for a friend.

I just stocked up on the Trader Joe's Indian spiced veggie burgers for my busy grading season and I like them so much for this reason, that they're chickpea & veggie rather than some pseudo-meat. (Have also served them to my actual vegan friends who were like, "oh, hey, this is really good!")

I had a similar pleasant cash register chat yesterday after my haircut, where the woman taking my payment mentioned she was so excited to go home and read for hours, and then we had a couple nice moments gossiping about books while I paid. Those moments do feel more human, in a lovely way.

I'd eat the egg roll treatment of just about anything from Mexican/TexMex cuisine.

I've only been to two games and they didn't win either 🫣 but I'm hoping hard they make some magic happen on Tuesday.

I feel very spoiled to live a couple hours from Detroit (and I've been kind of guarding my fun money in case they made the postseason). I went to the ALDS Game 4 on impulse last year and it was SUCH fun.

I am trying to ration my consumption of moody UK detectives, because I'm going to need them all in a couple months when I'm in post-surgery doldrums. But it's so hard!

Thinking good thoughts for the Tigers now, though I am too spent for more playoffs baseball tonight.

HOWEVER!! I will see them play in person on Tuesday with friends & I am so, so excited about that.

And hot damn, Roki.

Honestly it's just neat to get to see that kid getting some hero moments after a rough beginning.

Honestly there are so many good teams who have great season narratives in the playoffs. A repeat of last year would be such a boring story compared to some of the other matchups we could get, and I could so get behind those contests.

The Hernandez Heroes strike again

TEOSCAR!!

Even as an ardent Dodgers partisan, I don't want a repeat of last year's contest. Like, my heart yearns for, say, Dodgers/Mariners, aka the West Coast supremacy.

(But respect to the Phillies, your guys are so good. I cannot hate, my heart just wants what it wants.)

OMG, Kiké, you really are Mr October. Damn.

I did also go for a run. That helped too. But the donut and coffee and poetry collection are much prettier.

On a dark wicker patio table, a plate with a donut, a small glass of iced coffee, and a paperback copy of Niall Campbell's The Island in the Sound.

'I am so Happy. I am so Happy. I Loved my Life' said Gerard Manley Hopkins as he died. Forty-four, auraed in sweat his nurse a shadow by the shaking lamp. I read this strange, this hard emphatic, life is good, said at the door of nothingness; how could the nothing not react? Those words, that voice. At once, there was the spreading night-time desert, all million dunes, with each part trembling at the first soft call of thunder, when the rain is just about to fall, like exhaled breath. Oh voice. The Land of Death laid out and washed and brought to something else. Utterly different. Oh words. That pull us to the autumn forest instead, this place of rain, and changes us.

A scruffy little grey terrier with tan and white markings curled up on a black and white blanket on a patio couch, looking drowsy.

This week has overwhelmed me, honestly, and nothing sounded better than taking a few minutes to slow down and read some poetry on the porch this morning. 📚💙

I have been trying to read more nonfiction, and the last book I finished in that vein was A Marriage at Sea, by Sophie Elmhurst, which was honestly really good, especially if you like survival stories, and also even if you usually don't, because the Baileys are also just interesting people. 💡📚💙

Also, so many other great essays in this volume, I'm delighted to be included with them. 💡📚💙

The cover of Anime, Religion, and Theology, edited by David Armstrong and Robert J. de la Noval. The cover image shows seven yellow-orange spheres covered in stars.

A screen capture of part of the table of contents: Part III Body Politics 7 Fully Metal and Fully Human: Transhumanism, Moral Bioenhancement, and Fullmetal Alchemist Benjamin N. Parks 165 8 A Girardian Approach to Sacrifice in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Meghan Bishop 177 9 Disability, Eschatology, and Sword Art Online Aaron Brian Davis 199 Part IV Omnipotence, Nature, Permanence, and Time 10 Enchanted Worlds: Seamus Heaney and Hayao Miyazaki’s Transformative Transcendent Elizabeth Fredericks 221 (THIS ONE IS ME) 11 Shaman King: Shamanism, Ecology, and Death according to Hiroyuki Takei Giorgio Scalici

Oh dang, it's publication day. I'm thrilled to have contributed an essay for Chapter 10 of Anime, Religion and Theology, out today from Bloomsbury Academic! Enchanted Worlds: Seamus Heaney and Hayao Miyazaki’s Transformative Transcendent was a blast to research and write.