Random Crap – Page 2 – The Bloggess

I needed that. Maybe you do too.

So I’m at Nowhere signing books, which looks like me in the back room with boxes of books and a stack of personalizations that sometimes read “Surprise me!” (which 75% of the time leads to me implicating you in a fascinating crime that will confound your grandchildren when they come across it one day) andContinue reading “I needed that. Maybe you do too.”

Older, not wiser

Tomorrow is my birthday and (because I am born in that dead period between Christmas and New Years) I can say that I am 47 today, and in a week I’ll be able to say “I will be 50 next year.” This was always a nice sort of trick that worked well in my favorContinue reading “Older, not wiser”

We’ve never had matching pajamas in our lives so this is what we do instead.

Happy holidays from our family to yours. Probably going to get pee in my shoes. Totally worth it.

Step into my office. You deserve this.

Usually I reserve my rundown of instagram videos that I thought you should see until a Friday but this week is Xmas and that means that this whole week counts as a Friday so step into my office so for a few minutes of adorableness and joy. Also, we just finished a whole week ofContinue reading “Step into my office. You deserve this.”

The 12th (12th?!) annual James Garfield Miracle.

Hello and welcome to year 12 of the James Garfield Miracle! What is the James Garfield Miracle, you ask? You must be new here. Welcome! 12 years ago I walked into an estate sale and fell in love with an ancient taxidermied boars head that seemed so damn happy to see me. I did notContinue reading “The 12th (12th?!) annual James Garfield Miracle.”

Lost in translation. (AND CELEBRATION!)

I’m always very excited with a new translation of one of my books comes out, mostly because it gives me a chance to use google-translate to try (and fail) to determine what what the cover says. I just got the Polish version of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and it did not disappoint: And nowContinue reading “Lost in translation. (AND CELEBRATION!)”