I am presently hanging out in the reader’s version of when you are noshy and standing in front of the fridge but absolutely nothing is quite right and you don’t have any idea what you want. I keep picking different things up and putting them back down because nothing is quite hitting the right note […]
Thoughts
Manifesting the Positive in 2016
Welcome to 2016. It really won’t feel like the new year for me until Monday, when I dive into the new/old routine that is daily life. I’ve enjoyed my holiday, gotten some rest and some quiet. Done some reading (knocked out Tawna Fenske’s latest, The Fix Up and Tara Sivec’s Seduction and Snacks, both of which were […]
Ashamed of My Shame
*Image by Carlos Portos Y’all, I kind of hate myself this morning. I need to back up and give context. So one of my evil day jobs is as an online college instructor in psychology. I’ve been doing this for…nine years now? Anyway, from time to time, the university requires that the teachers take a […]
5 Reasons Why SyFy’s Killjoys Is Satisfying My Firefly Fix
So SyFy has a new show out called Killjoys. Check out the trailer: SyFy’s Killjoys is about space bounty hunters, y’all! So, let’s talk about why I love this show. For me, this show feels like it could happen in the same universe as Firefly. The world, the tech–I have no problems imagining […]
Appreciating Silence
I’ve been getting increasingly sporadic about posting. Some of that is that I’ve been blogging for 8 years, and after over 3100 posts, you start to run out of stuff to say that you don’t feel like you’ve said before. Some of it is that I’ve been super busy with the Evil Day Job this […]
5 Reasons I Loved Jupiter Ascending (Even Though The Plot Is A Hot Mess)
I first saw Jupiter Ascending in the theater with my girlfriends (and am I the only one who keeps wanting to call it Jupiter Rising?). Loved it. This is not a popular opinion. There has been a great deal of criticism about the movie, and I’d wanted to watch it again to deconstruct it because I […]
Clutterbust Your Digital Life
Spring is for reducing clutter For me spring has always been about renewal, simplification, and organization. After the long rainy days of winter, I feel a serious need to clear out the clutter in my house (and thereby my mind). It’s much easier to be brutally honest about the stuff that I legitimately use and […]
Character Agency as an Element of Plot (AKA, Remember The Author Is God–Write Wisely)
Okay, it’s not Thursday, but this is an expansion on the Bonus Awesome Thing I linked to yesterday. This is a Storify of the discussion about character agency and how it is an element of PLOT, not character. Give it a gander. [View the story “Agency and Plot” on Storify] This is another one […]
Is 50 Shades This Generation’s Lazy Romance Insult?
I am a romance lover. This is a love affair that goes back twenty years and will burn until the day I die. I love stories of love, of hope, and triumph. So do millions of other readers. And yet we have, since the inception of the genre, been insulted for our reading choices, been […]
Is Power A Finite Comodity, Like Energy? Thoughts on Marvel, Female Superheroes, and Lazy Writing
So first thing this morning, one of my FB acquaintences, Junk Yard Green (who often shares some of the coolest upcycling/recycling/build stuff projects on the internet), posed this question (which I’m shamelessly sharing in full here because I think it’s germane to the discussion and it’s not as easy to share stuff from FB as […]