the mental mulch pile
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Books & Bricks
A new post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
Small Press Saturday: NeWest Press
A new post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
Spark Unnecessary
A new post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
The Symphony of the Book
A new post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
Introducing the Butterflies and Aliens Library
My friend Stacey Kondla and I have finally decided to do a thing! We are delighted to announce the launch of the Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities, a new website and blog through which we hope to spread some of our love of all things bookish!
We’re excited to start the new year with something new. Let us know what you think!
realization
I am inspired every morning by the realization of…
but I have pie
I was reminded in so many ways today why I work so hard to learn and to be better…
On nuance
I have been pondering the idea that so many of our current challenges involve people's struggle with the actual complexity of life…
Parenting life goal
So I had words pop into my head this morning…
10 out of 10
So tonight’s dinner recipe called for…
How 20-Year Marriages End
I am, admittedly, a contradictory mix of unabashedly open and inscrutably private…
Is it me or is it the world?
I realize it can be a very fine line between what's happening and your perception of what's happening…
In a word… a follow up
A different way to ask the question, or maybe it's a different question entirely…
In a word
A lot of introspection happening for me lately, but it seems to me that so much of our cultural struggle right now comes down to identity and self-worth…
Taking a day
So yesterday I totally just took a day…
Advice for working from home
Some free unsolicited advice for people new to working from home…
Fighting for the light
Ooof. January was a hard hard month…
A rather comfortable tension
“This power of belief over evidence is the result of two factors: cognitive dissonance and the backfire effect”…
A day can make a world of difference. Two can change the world.
A day can make a world of difference. Two can change the world…
Trying to find my way back
This has been a hard hard week. And, honestly, I am not okay…