Thank you! ❤️

I found a box of my book THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED: SEX, #DEPRESSION, AND THE CONVERSATIONS WE AREN'T HAVING in storage so I'm having a FLASH SALE! Signed copies are $17 with FREE SHIPPING!

Sadly I can only extend this offer to residents of the continental U.S..

www.redheadbedhead.com/monster/

Did Watching Jason Mantzoukas on Taskmaster Change Which Men I Want to Date? Maybe. Sometimes lessons come from where we least expect them. This one came from a favorite actor's appearance on a British comedy gameshow!

I watched a British comedy gameshow, lost my years-long crush on Jason Mantzoukas, and ended up confronting my habit of falling for men who could best be described as "chaos Muppets".

This is definitely NOT what I thought would get me writing again, but here we are!

The Power of Pleasure: How Joy Sustains Us in Uncertain Times When the world is chaotic it can be tempting to abandon small pleasures. Let's talk about why joy is more important that ever!

I once tried to cope with a frightening political landscape by cutting everything I deemed "frivolous" from my life and it nearly broke me. This time around I committed to not allowing political terror steal my joy and I think that's important for all of us. Let's talk about the power of pleasure!

we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women

My family’s ridiculous cancer history has no genetic cause and the main contributing factor we’ve been able to identify is “NJ before the EPA” so, yeah…

By the way, both women who ran for president were right. They predicted this moment would happen. Says something very disturbing about our country that many still think they’re unrealistic or dramatic, when they were and are, in fact, correct.

Do you feel it?
Do you feel the momentum shift?
The will of the people is strong.
And we all know the only way out is through & the only way through, is together.
Resist.
Persist.
Standup.
Speak out.
Fight.
We can do this.
We WILL do this.
We ARE doing it.
And we will not stop.

"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people."

We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov

That's true. Also, I'm just sitting here crying over Cory Booker so we're probably lucky I didn't say some nonsense like "the real senators are the friends we made along the way"

I have work to do but I can't stop sitting here crying about Cory Booker.

That's my senator.

Though today I think he's everyone's senator.

When Ted Cruz tried to filibuster he read from Dr. Seuss. In contrast, @booker.senate.gov came prepared with BINDERS full of stories of how this administration has harmed the country in the last 2 months. The work his staff did to make this happen is both impressive and unsurprising.

Cory Booker is spitting TRUTH on the Senate floor right now!! He’s been going all night, and if he keeps going, he may just break a record!

Just checked the stream, and he’s up to 91 million likes — that’s INSANE! Exactly the energy we need!!!

Salute, Senator 🫡🇺🇸

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes.

The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

So my birth certificate has my name as JoEllen and my other IDs now have it as Jo Ellen.

I suspect this means I can never vote again.

Time to speak up

This is also a problem in the world of freelancing, where "hyper-productivity" is often praised. Making matters worse is the way book contracts are structured - most of the money isn't given to an author till after delivery of manuscript, so writers feel pressure to deliver as quickly as possible.

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

Writing a Book When You Don't Know How to Write a Book Writing a book is exciting but it can also be HARD! Whether you are struggling with feeling stuck due to writer's block, procrastination, perfectionism, etc or you have no idea how one even goes about...

When I wrote my first book, I was completely on my own and I had no idea what I was doing, and it nearly broke my brain. I’m currently crafting an affordable, accessible, online class to save writers from that exact fate. sign up to find out exactly when it’s available!

SOA are petitioning Sec. of State for Culture, Media & Sport to protect authors & prevent unlicensed AI scraping.
Please sign & share!

www.change.org/p/protect-au...

Last week I submitted an article about the power of finding joy right now. Then one of my employers published an article about the same thing. Now I’m seeing more and more people post about this exact idea.

I think we’re all onto something. Fight, protest, and don’t let the fuckers take our joy.

I’ve been thinking about how I’ve failed to replicate the success I had on Twitter on any other platform and I realized that a big part of it is that after Twitter’s destruction, I feel like I don’t have it in me to try to do that again and that none of it really matters.

What's fun is that nobody's really listening to me here, so I really feel like I can say whatever the hell I want.

With that in mind, yeah, I'm sort of losing my shit and I like pineapple on pizza (it's not my favorite, but I don't mind it)

But also, yes, it's a lot right now.

I'm not sleeping enough, I can barely focus on anything, and I just cannot stop eating. Literally I just want to eat everything in sight. I'm like Miss Pac-Man but without the cool bow.

I'm seeing the psychiatrist on Friday. I'm hoping he has some insight.

Ever since the time someone on Twitter responded to me talking about the pain of the first Mother's Day without my mother by yelling at me about how I wasn't the only person who had ever lost a mother, I hesitate to share these things publicly because, yes, everyone struggles. Many far worse than I.

Now, in addition to that, the country is crumbling, my dog is rapidly aging, my back is threatening return to the spinal surgery place, and my body decided we would jump into the perimenopause fray the very week I turned 46 (nice timing).

Folks, I'm not going to lie, it's a lot.

On 3/24/21 my mom, bothered by lingering back pain and some other weird symptoms, and despite just having a dr appointment where things were "normal" went to the hospital. 6 days later we learned she had pancreatic cancer. 24 days after that she was dead.

This time of year feels a bit "off" for me

Honestly, I'm in NJ, a state that has accessible healthcare, reproductive freedom, trans rights, and an AG who does stuff like sue the bad guys. It could be worse. I just worry that that's all keeping me *feeling* safer than I should feel.

The country is crumbling, my little dog’s mortality is showing, my spine is threatening me with another injury/surgery (right when my insurance might go away!), and one of my books is part of the LibGen/Meta mess.

I’m feeling surprisingly calm and that itself is kind of scaring me.

Yeah, I know… it’s on my list as like “I guess I should deal with this somehow while I also think about what I would have to do if I needed to flee the country” 😂

I miss you ❤️❤️❤️