Melissa Burkart

Pssst, help me reach queer book clubs about Hearth Witch!

YouTube video by Storied The Hidden Linguistic Messages in Brand Names! | Otherwords

I hope more people will watch Otherwords videos, they're fascinating and fun. Dr. Erica Brozovsky does a great job breaking down linguistic concepts. And these are PBS related, so give them your eyeballs and help keep them funded.

youtu.be/427FlYZvLeI

My poor wife has had to get up early the last couple of days and has lost track of which day it is. Show her - and Beth - some love by reading this fantastic story.

My husband the music snob scrolling through Star Wars music remixes for a birthday at theatre tech tonight 🤣

Atmospherics onstage will make flashlights look like lightsabers in the haze (as requested a year ago. He made notes)

Still don’t know how he didn’t choke on that bagel spit take…

😂😂😂

I grew up impoverished and relying on food donations for our family to survive. I mean that quite literally, too. So, please, give if you can to your local food banks and help feed the hungry during the ongoing crisis (and beyond).

I did not expect where this thread ended but I am so here for it 💜

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Now I get to start reading again for a grant award I'm helping with. Back into the slush I go...

One of my favorite things: finding 2 magazines that a story might fit (yay), with limited submission windows closing soon (boo), and they accept simultaneous subs (YAY!!!!)

#WriteSky

I’m so sorry—that’s even worse! My 8 year old is pretty autonomous at this point. Even if she doesn’t sleep through the night, she no longer wakes us, so there is hope!

When the 4 year old doesn’t sleep well, no one sleeps well

#ParentSky

Nothing says “conditional love” like the fear that saying the wrong thing will have that person cutting you out of their life

November events!

If only the nearest one weren’t a 25 minute drive in the wrong direction 😂

…I am not made for 5 am…

…they have fucking ADS?!?! Wtaf

Hey… something hecking amazing happened to me and my traditional debut series today…

After more than 7 years, I’m working again? Still doing the stay-at-home parent thing but now I’m also subbing at the kids’ school

Well, I had to figure out what I wanted the kids to call me

My 4 y/o’s suggestion:

Mrs. Silly Peanut

🤦🏻‍♀️

Donate to Secure Housing for Disabled Household, organized by Champagne Girten Like so many of us, my household is in turmoil these days. Hi, I'm Champagne… Champagne Girten needs your support for Secure Housing for Disabled Household

Mutual aid alert! My amazing girlfriend needs help!

A lot of really bad propaganda accounts you can quickly block, most of them run by the same Nazi asswipes who were outed this week for their love of Hitler and desire to bring back gas chambers. Subscribe and let them scream into an endless void.

Birthday party for my oldest later this afternoon. 4 layer apple cider cake currently assembled with vanilla bean whipped cream between the layers, waiting for the butter to soften for the brown sugar butter cream

I must love this kid or something

#ParentSky

Mary Ann’s Misadventures in Underland - Trollbreath Magazine Mary Ann’s Misadventures in Underland

Free Fiction Friday!!

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Gretchen Tessmer takes us to familiar territory with a brand new POV

I am so sad they’re closing permanently in December 😭😭😭

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

They are not allowed to cancel your flight. I forbid it!

Happy Sunday. Replace your outrage with good works. That is all.

I’m away with my now-8-y/o for a birthday weekend trip and I get a photo of the 4 y/o on his balance bike. Wearing his sister’s unicorn helmet (“Mommy lets me wear it!” No, kid. No, I do not. But at least he’s wearing one?). And platypus socks. And ducky Crocs

This child is a whole vibe 🤣

…I’m not sure I’d do that for my kids…

FUCKING GENIUS

Agreed! And thank you!

Telling my husband about a conversation with our almost-8-y/o about glaciers and no, she’s never seen one before

Me: Yeah, Maine doesn’t have those anymore
Him: No, we have their poop-stones

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣