Author Archives: thebloggess

Sorry I’ve been MIA. I sort of fell off the world but I’m back today with actual energy and slightly less depression. YAY FOR LESS DEPRESSION! Just dropping a few notes here to catch up on life, the universe and everything. Some of you have asked if I’m making the audiobook for HOW TO BEContinue reading “February catch-up.”

How To Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay got a starred review from Library Journal! (Starred reviews are rare as hen’s teeth and denote a “book of distinction” and I’ve only gotten a few in my life so I am literally am sitting here with the biggest dumb smile on my face and thought IContinue reading “Some happy book news and library love.”

I wasn’t going to write anything today because I’m in a depression and that makes my head into mush, but then I looked at a comment on my last post that was utterly infuriating and I started to highlight it and scream about how terrible people can be and then I stopped and took aContinue reading “Sometimes it’s hard, but it’s worth it.”

Y’ALL. I just heard from my doctor and the stomach biopsies they did last week came back showing no additional cancer! WHOOP! He’s so optimistic about my prognosis that instead of doing to biopsies every 4 months I don’t have to do another one until the end of the year, which means that I don’tContinue reading “NO NEW CANCER”

UPDATED: OMG, y’all. This whole post is supposed to be numbered as a list but the numbers didn’t work properly so I made sure to note that in the numbered sections but then when I published it I actually don’t see any of the numbers at all and it just looks like regular paragraphs andContinue reading “Happy book things are nice.”

Look, this isn’t a real post. It’s just me sharing a story that might help you if you’ve been in my same predicament. When I was little my great grandmother (on my mom’s side) used to make the most incredible peach cobbler but she absolutely refused to share the recipe with anyone because the womenContinue reading “The Peach Cobbler that went missing for 40 years.”