Katherine Argent

Guess who Apple is sticking on your phone as Siri’s AI?

Spoiler alert: leaving your phone off is not just for old people now.

^ under my (former) married name. 😉

You’re welcome! I’ve been blogging for 23 years and watched it all change. It’s so frustrating but what can we do?

The Winter 2025 edition of The Missouri Review is fantastic. The theme is “strange bedfellows” and it delivers.

I don’t know if anyone’s warned you, but with Google going all-in on AI Overviews after wiping out small sites with the “helpful content updates,” all the old-school SEO advice is wrong. Following it can harm your visibility. So be careful where you research it.

Wrote my way into a new WIP and, my, what a lovely day this is turning out to be.

#WIP #AmWriting

I deleted my Goodreads account today after importing to Story Graph. Having joined GR in ‘11, even before Amazon bought it, that was a big step for me. (It’ll take a while to tag/sort it all.)

It’s a small step in the grand scheme, but why support billionaires more than we’re forced to?

“Nothing is a mistake if you play with it.” Love that.

My dog would like to visit you! 😂

I would like to do that, too, but my dog is a morning person.

Cover if the winter 2025 edition of The Missouri Review. It is a drawing by Yelena Bryksenkova of two women sharing a room divided by tape, each with their own distinct yet incompatible style. The caption reads “Strange Bedfellows.”

A double page journal spread featuring a night sky. One page contains the story’s title “Multitudes” and the author’s name, Rachel Lastra. The other page contains the opening paragraphs to the story.

An angry teen, an overworked single mom, and a woman from outer space. Strange bedfellows indeed for Rachel Lastra’s splendid short story, “Multitudes” — and yet she makes them work splendidly.

Read here: missourireview.com/article/mult...

“It is the story that makes the difference. It is the story that hid my humanity from me, the story the mammoth hunters told about bashing, thrusting, raping, killing, about the Hero.”

It’s a short essay but worth the read if you can find it!

“I am an aging, angry woman laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off. However I don't, nor does anybody else, consider myself heroic for doing so. It's just one of those damned things you have to do in order to be able to go on gathering wild oats and telling stories.” -ULG

Reading Ursula Le Guin’a essay, “The Carrier Bag of Fiction”:

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Sure was a different era back then.

Fantastic piece of writing to start your day!

This is a fantastic piece, Betty!

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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!

Every Epstein file drop emphasizes that the America they’re trying to bring back is one in which men get away with brutality against girls, and the Mar-a-Lago women who torture their faces and bodies in pursuit of their lost youth are willfully blind in more ways than one.

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image.

(I know. I know. But I love this GIF)

Every now and then I like to read his journals, too. Then I get in a funk because even his journal entries are small masterpieces.

Halt! This is a book checkpoint. 📚

Last: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Current: Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Next: The Short Stories of John Cheever

#Booksky

The part which we’re not discussing: how the DOJ keeps deeming these witnesses who reported being raped and sexually trafficked as “non credible” because years later they had — wait for it — mental health issues.

Pam Bondi is the poster girl for doubling up on contraception.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

I certainly hope anyone meeting those qualifications would know better than to apply.

The flag for “I have something to communicate” is going on my office door!

I’m between #WIP right now and it’s wretched.

On the other hand, my apartment’s clean, the plants are thriving, and my dog is so tired of walking she’s hiding in bed.

Cool. Could you take steps to fix the CLS issues so the feed stops jumping all over the screen after posting a skeet?

Why do they never show female ICE agents? Are there any?

If not, that says something doesn’t it?