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Shenanigans: Black Friday Edition

Hello friends! I’m in the thick of National Novel Writing Month, furiously making words and editing words and otherwise attempting to wrangle words like…

Nov 24 •

September 2023

Shenanigans XII: Busy Busy Busy

Hello, friends! Normally I try to put these newsletters out at a reasonable hour, so people can read them with a morning coffee and pastelito, or as a…

Sep 29 •

August 2023

Shenanigans XI: Screaming Internally

Hello, friends! Happy PSL season to all who celebrate, and happy Friday to everyone else. I’m going to do my best to keep this short and sweet, because…

Aug 25 •

July 2023

Shenanigans X: Recovery

Hello, friends! It’s been a while, for various reasons. Work picked up like a sirocco, and then my years-long streak of not catching Covid was cruelly…

Jul 6 •

April 2023

Shenanigans: A Brief Interlude

Hello friends! A more robust update will be forthcoming, but I am up to my forehead wrinkles in deadlines and house things and other miscellaneous…

Apr 20 •

March 2023

Shenanigans IX: the March of time

Hello, friends! As March begins, I’m looking forward to my kids making approximately twenty bazillion jokes about marching. I’ll probably make a few of…

Mar 1 •

February 2023

Shenanigans VIII: A Skewered Heart

Hello, friends! We find ourselves once again in February, which according to Margaret Atwood is the “month of despair, / with a skewered heart in the…

Feb 1 •

November 2022

Shenanigans VII: Shake It Up

Hello all and sundry! It's been a while. The earth turns and tumbles through space. Seasons pass. The bright pumpkins of Halloween give way to the…

Nov 28, 2022 •

June 2022

Shenanigans VI: Shilling in the Name

Greetings, friends! This missive will be short and sweet, or maybe short and tart? Little but fierce? News! Do you live in the US and want your very own…

Jun 23, 2022 •

March 2022

Shenanigans V: Simmering

Greetings, friends! If your life is anything like mine, you’ve been extremely busy for a long time with basically no breaks. But perhaps this means that…

Mar 19, 2022 •

July 2021

Shenanigans IV: Indistinguishable From Magic

Greetings, friends! It’s been a while since I’ve sent out a newsletter, I know. I have this strange internal debate that occurs whenever I think I have…

Jul 12, 2021 •

December 2020

Shenanigans III: Post-NaNo Blues

Greetings, friends! It’s December, which means I’m once again recovering from National Novel Writing Month, an event in which participants around the…

Dec 7, 2020 •

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