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And then everything changed. #Scotland

If you’ve been reading here you know that I’ve been dealing with a rather severe depression for more than a year. A few months ago I had 36 transcranial magnetic stimulation sessions to try to snap out of the anxiety and depression that were making me a prisoner in my own head. And it worked.Continue reading “And then everything changed. #Scotland”

Honestly I might be better mistranslated.

Furiously Happy continues to find an audience in China and that means that I get tagged in a lot of weird things that possible don’t translate well. Mostly they’re reviews but when I use google translate it’s wonderfully entertaining: Makes you wish she was your super super good friend. – Entertainment Weekly She will letContinue reading “Honestly I might be better mistranslated.”

Dead Happy World’s Brightest Leopard Depression Sufferer

Yesterday I shared the bizarre news that Furiously Happy is a bestseller in China and then I asked if anyone could translate the billboards and posters advertising Furiously Happy and it was glorious. PS. It feels only fair that the English part of the Chinese poster has a typo. Now I want this poster. ItContinue reading “Dead Happy World’s Brightest Leopard Depression Sufferer”

What did I even write?

Apparently Furiously Happy is in Turkish now because I just got a copy of a Turkish psychology article about it, but I don’t read Turkish so I put part of it into Google translate and it gave me this: I’m not sure if this is an insult or just a poorly translated way of sayingContinue reading “What did I even write?”

Where’s Rory? He’s fucking everywhere. (I mean, not literally. Ew.)

An update: A few days ago I wrote a post about how awesome it would be if Rory the raccoon traveled all over the world to see the places most of us might never see and you said, “YES, LET’S MAKE THIS HAPPEN. SEND ME A RORY. NO -FUCK IT. I CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU. I’LLContinue reading “Where’s Rory? He’s fucking everywhere. (I mean, not literally. Ew.)”

Where’s Rory? (UPDATED)

So. Next month my new book comes out and if you read here often enough you’re already familiar with Rory, the gloriously ecstatic and somewhat terrifying taxidermied road-kill raccoon who graces the cover. When you read the book you’ll learn all about Rory, and also more about how my anxiety disorder makes it hard to leave theContinue reading “Where’s Rory? (UPDATED)”