My birthday was yesterday! Anyone else have a February birthday? Any other fellow Aquarians? I had a great celebration with gifts from my family, tacos and drinks with my brother, SIL, and niece, and then a day of record and used bookstore browsing. I did get the one record I was especially looking for! I would say it was one
Category: Semi-Charmed Life
Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a good week so far! I’m blogging about something more serious today, but I won’t go into any awful details. This week, Vulture ran a long story about the author Neil Gaiman’s abuse of women. If I’m understanding things clearly, it adds to information already shared in a podcast last summer. I’m not going
For the past several years, I’ve chosen a word of the year…and it has not always worked out! The year I chose “Fun,” for example, hoping to focus on fun activities, was one of the least fun years of my adult life. I’m happy to say that I have learned absolutely nothing from my disappointments. After all, on a few
For my romcom novel that came out last month, I tried a lot of author marketing… I made TikToks and Instagram posts and reels, trying out different angles and tactics. (I also tweeted, but I’ve since left Twitter/X for Bluesky, because Twitter/X stopped letting you block mean people and had way too much yelling.) I got into my hometown paper
My romcom / fantasy romance novel, Her Knight at the Museum, is now out in the world… But if you get my newsletter or follow me on social media, you already knew that! I’ll share one of my favorite moments from the book below, and then I’ll talk about the release week! “Readers looking for a fresh and fun take
Look for the Moment Today I’m sharing some of the very best life advice I have, period, and I think you should listen up! Granted, I am not an especially wise person. I am flaky and flighty, and at this point, it’s reasonable to assume I’m not going to change. But I still think this is good. “We do not
A couple of years ago, people started talking about nostalgia for the “Tumblr 2014 aesthetic.” Many millennials, in particular, were feeling nostalgic for the music, fashion, and overall mood of 2014, particularly as expressed on the social media website, Tumblr. There’s nothing unusual about nostalgia, of course. Many of us look back with fondness at various eras of our