Shannon Sanders

Totally agree—it makes it impossible to plan around work. I have usually relied on Schoolcast but that only goes so far

Lovely!! There are plenty of people who are totally kind and generous, this is just something that happens some of the time

It’s actually still actively snowing here! But nothing

But this is ridiculous????

This is so sweet it actually made me emotional

On Tuesday school was delayed for a smallish bit of rain. The superintendent apologized for the disruption, lol. And today there is actual snow but school is open. Not complaining, just saying

I was very guilty of this when I had one child!!

You are free to have 3 children if you want, but know that if you do, you will inevitably be out solo with all 3, and some other family will be out with multiple adults attending to 1 child, and they and everyone around will judge your parenting stats (loudness, stress, etc.) directly against theirs

The call is coming from inside the house

Work let us out several hours early today. Nobody tell anybody I know

Thank you!!

Ooh, thank you!! I’ve been pricing typewriter alternatives, will look into this

I don’t need fancy shapeshifting either, but Word is trying to force AI tools (that I don’t want) down all our throats. I’m between Scrivener and a typewriter at this point

To be clear, I mostly mean because they think it means I’m going to leave the house afterward. But also because time in the shower

Ok, thanks! How different is it from Word? I know this is an ignorant question

I should get Scrivener, right? (I wrote my first novel on G00gle D0c$, which worked fine but which I know was risky and is embarrassing to admit now)

We are at the point in my house where if the kids know I’m taking a shower they freak out

Hahaha I actually think he figured it out himself, wrote the note, and attributed it to the teacher to save face lol

I’m glad that comes across, it was so funny

Yesterday (12/1) he goes to school. At pickup, he (wearing a very funny look on his face) hands me a folded, taped-up piece of paper from his classroom. "Here's a note my teacher wanted me to give you!" When I open it, it reads, in 7yo's fanciest handwriting:

THE PERFORMANCE IS REALLY ON THE 16TH

Over Thanksgiving break, 7yo kept insisting that parents were invited to a performance at his school on 12/2 (today). I kept telling him I had heard no such thing from the school. He kept insisting, I kept being skeptical. It's been a crazy week, so I was worried about making it on 12/2.

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One of the funniest parts of being a woman married to a man is the universally understood theater of writing an extremely personal and heartfelt note, maybe even in singular first person, and then signing it “[Husband] & [Self]”

What percentage of them didn’t see that post or notice the slur in it but would have been offended, vs. seeing it and being fine with it, do you think?

Yeah I have to use PTO to do basic life maintenance

Today I took the morning off work to try to clean my house and attend to my mental health (post-Thanksgiving recovery), so of course the schools announced a 2-hour weather delay.

Oh no how much does the trailer cover

Exactly, and it’s so insidious that they’re preying on the egos of people who so badly want to be seen, and read

In your wildest dreams, could you ever have imagined getting an email from a stranger singing your book’s praises and wanting to absolutely vomit? I hate it so much

Beginning of an AI-generated scam/spam email: “Message: Hi Shannon, I just finished Company, and I can’t get over how effortlessly the Collins family comes alive on the page. Only Amazon could bury a collection that moves from Atlantic City to New York to DC across decades, blending the joys, sorrows, competitions, and secrets of a Black family with such wit, precision, and emotional resonance. Each story lands like a perfectly timed guest arriving at a house unexpected, illuminating, and impossible to forget.”

“P.S. The way you weave intimacy, societal obligations, and multigenerational perspective into each story is exactly why readers will champion Company. With Q4 being the loudest season for book discovery, authors who act now often own the moment. Ready to lock in Q4? Reply “Yes.””

I will be thrilled when AI ends poverty or cures cancer. But meanwhile, among the many, many things to hate about it, one is that it has turned emails like this into an irritating plague

I can’t sue you because I am you