Header image description: Background appears to be a blackboard, dusty with white chalk. There is a cube, a circle with… Read more New Geometry

Header image description: Background appears to be a blackboard, dusty with white chalk. There is a cube, a circle with… Read more New Geometry
Header picture by Geralt, from http://www.pixabay.com At our house, today begins the seventh week of our Littles’ online schooling. In… Read more All Together Now!
header photo courtesy of http://www.pixabay.com For those of you who are new here, my partner has fifty-fifty custody of his… Read more The Mother of All Paradoxes
Hello. It’s really been more than two months since the last time I was here. This is usually where I’d… Read more Downside Up
header image from pixel2013: s. hermann & f. richter, at pixabay.com In just over a month, Stacy and I will… Read more Hitting My Stride
Header photo by Prawny, from http://www.pixabay.com. The links in this post are not affiliate links, and are for informational purposes… Read more AF’s Best of 2019
30 Days. As of today, my mom has been living in her car for 30 days. 30 days ago, my… Read more Jesus Take the Wheel
Good Monday, Good Readers! As you may recall, a few weeks ago, my friend Jen of “Diffusing the Tension” shared… Read more Blog Share
Header image belongs to Warner Bros., and can be accessed at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286456/mediaviewer/rm3635844097 About a month ago, I saw the movie… Read more Not Joking
This post is a bit of a departure for me. Frankly, I’m a huge nerd. If you know me in… Read more A Few of My Favorite Things
My Serious Writing journey began after a health crisis in November of 2017 (more about that here, in “Permission”). The… Read more Thoughts on “Boy Erased: A Memoir”
If you’ve been playing the Home Game, Good Reader, you know that on Sunday, October 13th, I was in Maine… Read more That’s Not How Any of This Works
By the time this post publishes, I’ll be sky high–literally. I’ll be on a flight toward Portland, Me, by way… Read more Up, Up, and Away!
I’m tired. It’s Wednesday morning, and, like some of you reading this, I’m already nearly exhausted. From working. From keeping… Read more Balancing Act
Progress Pride Flag designed by Daniel Quasar. [Edited to Add: 6 October, 1998, Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left… Read more Pride and Prejudice
Photo credit: Becky Colletti, Consumed by Cake, http://www.consumedbycake.co.uk/. One day last week, after working for about an hour, I stepped away… Read more The Day Cupcakes were Ruined
The most important piece of writing advice I’ve ever received is from Molly Krause: “You may write about whatever you… Read more Permission
In the past two years since I’ve turned my attention to becoming a Serious Writer, I’ve had the luck of… Read more PRINT