and you, too, if you’re willing to put up with it — It’s too easy to work all the time Way too easy — it’s so available, everywhere I go there are reminders of work Things to grade, things to clean, things to fix But how can I change that? Focus on things you like What do you like about anything you’re…

an improvised story There was this leaf once. She was on a tree. No, this is not the story of The Giving Tree. The leaf waved at everyone all day long but nobody noticed her waving. …

Disclaimer: I’m trying to write fiction but the planet is yelling at me in the middle of the night to wake up and stop the destruction of Mother Earth I fell asleep last night thinking about global warming and then woke up from a bad dream about it, too. Awesome woohoooo yayuhhhhh! In the dream, I was looking at my phone and there were like a quadrillion text messages all saying the same thing: ‘RELOCATE RELOCATE RELOCATE RELOCATE.’

&) i don’t like numbered lists or alphabetized lists but i do like lists sometimes so i’m going to make up a random list of symbols and stuff to make this list 8) when did people start feeling a need to put hard stuff like oatmeal in soap? i want…

a dialogue that is TOTALLY fictional — ‘Now’ me talking to ‘Old’ me: when and why did you stop reading books… like fiction? Old me: what are you talking about? I was always reading. What are YOU reading? Nothing but blogs or non-fictiony self-help crap, right? Now: no, that’s not true. I read all kinds of stuff…

a little black paint goes a long way — The paintbrush had feelings. It didn’t understand how or why it had feelings but it did. Actually it wasn’t an ‘it.’ ‘It’ was a ‘she/they/it but to keep things simple for other paintbrushes and humans, she/they/it just went by ‘it.’ Occasionally ‘her.’ Sorry, no. That’s too confusing. …

a daydream of sorts here is my ideal world… as if anyone cares, but i’ll share it anyway. i have a farm. there are lots of animals. i live on a commune with people living in various buildings. it’s a hippie commune minus the conspiracy theorists. i have a very…