Category Archives: Random Crap

This isn’t a real post…just a collection of stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Purrsy Bysshe Shelley was not pleased with the lack of attention. Clearly. 2. YOU ARE HERE was out of print for a tiny bit because there was a bit of a run on it because people were giving it as aContinue reading “Housekeeping!”

I owe you an apology because I am very behind on writing my wrap-ups of what I’ve read lately but I’m coming out of a depression and my energy is slowly coming back. (If you’re a book club member you’re still getting all the emails and books and stuff on time thank goodness, but ifContinue reading “Have you read these?”

A week ago I was in Washington DC for the National Book Festival and I somehow got asked to be one of the five speakers at the opening ceremony in the actual Library of Congress. I suspected this was a mistake and this seemed even more obvious when I found out that the four otherContinue reading “I spoke at the Library of Congress and I’m pretty sure they asked me as a mistake but I’m so glad they did.”

My eyes have decided to stop working in low-light so I bought this necklace thing that has little flashlights at the end so I could use it for reading and doing art and last night I thought that it would probably also make a really good hands-free dog-walking light because I always walk in theContinue reading “Fire nipples”

So there’s this strange thing that happens to me where when I’m in a depression it literally affects my sight. The deeper I get into a depression the more I get literal tunnel vision, with all of the edges seeming hazy and dark…it’s as if I am looking up through the bottom of a wellContinue reading “Oh, there I am.”

So if you are a very close follower of mine you probably noticed that I disappeared here for over a week, which I don’t think I’ve ever done before. I’d like to say it’s because I was off on an exciting vacation but truthfully I’ve just been dealing with a depression that has been aContinue reading “Sometimes I disappear even to myself”