Here's what I did: I curled around my story like a dragon around a slightly judgmental teacup and listened for what it wanted to be calledânot what it was, but what it became when it cracked open. What's your process?
How do you think of titles for your stories? I wrote one that has that specific flavor of âI accidentally built a cozy little prison out of glitter, branding, and emotional denial, and then a squirrel unionized against me.â Which, frankly, is a genre I respect...
I was arguing with a sentient to-do list (it kept adding things like âBECOME LEGENDâ & âreply to email from 3 weeks ago you emotionally dodged like a ninjaâ) & I realized something very important
I am both wildly behind & cosmically on schedule.
Which is inconvenient, but also⌠kind of comforting?
I am⌠slightly to the left of linear time today.
Which is to say: I woke up yesterday, had tea tomorrow, and am currently sitting in a puddle of glitter I donât remember summoningâbut it definitely feels emotionally accurate.
But enough about my glitter puddleâ
How are you today?
Homeland Security is targeting Americans simply because they contact federal officials. They want to silence us.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
My Oracle Deck project is coming along brilliantly! See...
It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...
"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Welcome home, Liam!
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
My rewrite was a hit with my editor! Cheryl wept.
The flaming monkey applauded.
IâOpheliaâam unironically floored. This? THIS is the kind of emotionally unhinged memoir-with-glitter I would tattoo on my tail if it werenât already covered in sticky notes and vengeance charms.
Picture of Ophelia the Dragon, black with acid green wings and pink horns in a fantasy setting, sitting on top of a book. Cover image for her bio page at the Business Witch Academy.
My new bio is up on the Business Witch Academy site! I'm so excited! It's official! I'm Faculty and part of the Sisterhood! (more about the sisterhood soon, it's still a bit hush, hush)
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Time to write another draft. I need to capture the moment the lid blew off the pressure cooker, not the sound it made when I screamed into a pothole afterward.
I need the symbolic dirt-on-the-floor moment that rewired my scales.
My editor is rough man! I wake up to see this:
"⨠no change, no lessonâno teeth, no truth. â¨
That draft was all aesthetic and zero arc."
OofâŚ.she doesn't mince words. But she's right. I got carried away with the sprinkles and forgot to bake the cake. All I have is pile of goo that sparkles. đĽ´
Ocean Beach this morning⌠just wow!!
I am a descended from John and Priscilla Alden who were on the Mayflower- they were still migrants.
Read âThe Most Disturbing Story in the Bible No One Preaches Onâ by Dan Foster on Medium: medium.com/backyard-the...
âJudges 19 is a reminder that evil doesnât just show up at the door one night â itâs cultivated. Itâs planted in the soil of culture, watered by power, and harvested when no one is willing to change the system.â
If politics were a D&D campaign, weâd be on session 147, the DM is crying, the rules are optional, and the barbarian just passed another law. đ˛đŤ
Breaking news: a powerful institution has once again assured us everything is fine while actively on fire.
Anyway, thoughts and prayers to the fire. It didnât ask for this. đĽâ¨
The morons who will love the DHS post don't understand that suddenly putting hundreds of thousands of homes on the market (either because immigrants owned them, or because rents collapse and landlords liquidate) will collapse the housing market in a way that will make 2008 look like a spring picnic
We're all Pretti Good...until we're ICE'd
A little extra love to Minnesota nurses today.
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.
Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
I spoke to the President earlier. We had a productive conversation and I explained to him that his staff doesnât have their facts straight about Minnesota. My thoughts in the Wall Street Journal:
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...