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The Randomest Tags That Ever Did Random

I was selecting tags for posts earlier this week and it struck me that a) I have some real doosies in there and b) some of them, I have no recollection of creating or reference for what they are tagging. So I decided to pull out a couple of the randomest ones I’d seen, search them, and see what came up.

Enjoy this utterly random round-up of posts from my blog!!!!!

I’m so funny I’m practically an arm bone.
self sacrifice is one thing but sacrificing someone else is clearly superior
you take...

To Dis or En Courage

Just a short musing.

Something happened in my personal life last week that left me feeling – as my husband aptly supplied for me – discouraged. So I was contemplating the word in the shower, and it struck me that the opposite of discourage is encourage and both of them have the root word courage, which is TOTALLY OBVIOUS RIGHT but also on the other hand, I’m not sure I’d concretely connected the ideas before.

When I’m feeling discouraged, I’m feeling dis-couraged. De-couraged. My courage...

Repost: I’ll Never Have Enough Arms To Hold Them All

It’s a reposty kind of week because Time is a Thing which is apparently Limited (and I am not okay with this).

Content warning: Robin Williams’ suicide; the Ferguson riots; animal captivity; the Stolen Generation; school-based trauma. Yep, it’s a light one.

(I’ll Never Have Big Enough Arms To Hold) These Disparate Things

Robin Williams died earlier this week. No big deal, right? People die all the time, as I am forcibly reminded today when crowds of black and cars glistening with the ...

The Chaos Shark

Behold, the 15th has come around again somehow and there is yet another new Inklet in the world! It’s not one of mine, though, it’s Reincarnation by Liana Brooks, a deceptively cute story about what would happen if reincarnation were a) non-optional and also b) retroactive. Oh, and by the way, c) you kind of cheated and retained memories of your most recent past life.

(Shenanigans. What would happen is shenanigans.)

However! Aside from Liana’s delightful story, I also wanted to introduce...

#MadeItMonday: A Poem

It’s too hard to coordinate getting photos into the post this week – covid fatigue, burnout fatigue, parenting fatigue, emotional fatigue – it’s been a rough two weeks. So instead, you get a poem that I wrote last week, which I am definitely counting as ‘making something’.

On Healing: A Letter To Myself With Broader Application

No one ever told me healing hurt this much
or if they did, 
my heart wasn’t ready to understand:

Healing isn’t the gradual and effortless
knitting together of...

On Being Brave

Other much more expert people than I have had much to say on this topic, so I intend to keep this brief. But I just wanted to note that so far, in my experience, being brave has never let me down yet.

Lonely and feeling nervous to reach out? Do it. There are so many connections to people I love and adore that I have in my life now that I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t first been brave.

Uncomfortable with someone pushing your boundaries online? Tell them. It might blow up, you might walk away ...

The Unicorn’s Last Gift

This is the other Age Of Unicorns story I mentioned yesterday, the one with the slightly squishy middle that I wrote in, like, 2016 maybe?? Nevertheless, enjoy

 “I’M SORRY,” THE DOCTOR said softly as we stood in the hallway outside my apartment. “There’s nothing else I can try. Nothing’s working any more. Your only chance is one of them.”

My throat tightened and my fingers fisted at my sides. I nodded. “Thanks,” I said. “For trying.”

He gave a curt nod by way of farewell and headed...

Perfect Destruction

Hello it is Inklet day and I have a new Inklet to introduce you to.

I also have EXTREMELY EXCITED SQUEEING because OMG YOU GUYS THE INKLETS ARE NEARLY DONE. (Did I say that last week? Possibly, I am very consistently excited right now about them being nearly done, but regardless, THIS WEEK THEY ARE EVEN MORE DONE THAN LAST WEEK, YAY.)

*Today’s* Inklet is one that came out back in May. It’s an instalment* in my Age Of Unicorns world, fondly known as the Puricorns. One day, there will be n...

Resistance and Habits and Feeling Uncomfortable and What To Do About All Of It

Getting back into the habit of things is significantly on my mind of late as I try to restart writing after 6 months off. I ended the month with nearly 15,000 words, which is pretty good for a cold start, considering I didn’t really write the first week of August and it’s been as aforementioned 6 months of no writing at all – not to mention the fact that I had covid in there too, and am still having to spend significant portions of each week napping as I sloooooowwwwwllyyyyyyyyyyyyy* recover fro...

#MadeItMonday

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

Another cake (shock), this time a relatively recent one that I m...