👆and late enough Monday morning so if you wake up regretting the way you phrased something, you fix it. if you don’t care, it just goes out

yes please. this includes pushing for raises for library workers.

There’s so much to be worried about. Keeping myself and my fam going, and the big hot mess that is our society.

So I’m very grateful to have reached the edges of don’t care/don’t fuss the small things. And enjoy things as they come, even if it seems small or silly.

dark hanging basket against a light wall. bok choy tatsoi growing over the side of the container in starburst patterns. some stems missing leaves where the gardener has been snacking

bok choy tatsoi doing well 😍

i’m really proud of this essay and am going to keep reposting it ad nauseum! (as if there’s any need to ad more nauseum - THANK YOU I’M HERE ALL WEEK!)

a bowl of instant ramen with carrot and ham chunks over corn kernels. container greens peek around the edge-book choy, broccoli leaf, green onion

worked so hard this helping a researcher with their evidence synthesis. it’s off to a good start!

and it’s such a good day for ramen 🍜

(also, excuse the timing of this food post, have absolutely been donating to local food pantries)

This year I started submitting.

I just got my first rejection. It’s good one!

-it was fast, polite, and I can submit something else in future
-I’m learning how to submit
-I’m just jazzed about being in the show, man

tooth scraping, tests, and scheduling medical anything aren’t faves, but you got this.

from the Audrey Lorde project: alp.org/breaking-iso...

with special appreciation today for the writers at Teen Vogue: www.teenvogue.com/story/the-ra...

Split Lip exists because of our all-consuming, kind-of-embarrassing love for storytelling (in all its forms). BTW: we're currently open for free submissions! ✨ buff.ly/ooRuxPx

last night I drank, submitted poems to literary magazines, and played Warcraft 3 with my fam. felt like a good approach to the extra hour from the time change.

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Bill Nighy 🤩

Just started listening to his podcast Ill-Advised www.ill-advisedbybillnighy.com

highly recommend

The weekend is here, which means it's a good time to submit to some lit mags. 👀 Read up on our archives and see if we'd be a good home for your work! ✨ buff.ly/3o7ia2L

visit the Cactus Cafe! give a hearty handshake to Chris Lueck and his barhands, you won't regret it :)

I‘m so hooked. Which outlet gives updates like this? “Still faster than the New Yorker even with a massive chest wound”
😂

oh hm, amplifying something pointed out by another person-some of the older books reflect those times and certain ways of thinking

Pinkwater! 📚❣️

many +1s for Roald Dahl! Matilda was also a big fave in my home. Holes (Louis Sachar) was fun.

I used to read A Secret Garden, The Little Princess, and Chronicles of Narnia.
Also Lloyd Alexander (the Book of Three) & Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising) but I was a little older then.

taco bell bag on a wooden table in front of a chair. this photo is edited, natch. feel free to reuse & adapt. cc by sa

what’s in the mystery bag? an acceptance? or “not this time, buckaroo”

whatever the response, my favorite social media account has already helped me understand that I too can be a Literary Writer

so can you, if you want

wanting an alt for the creative. the timing stinks but 🫤