Book Review: The Merciful Crow

At Book Con in NYC, I was lucky enough to snag an ARC of the Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen. The book tells the story of Fie, a chief-in-training of the lowly Crow caste, charged with collecting those dead of the Sinner’s Plague. She’s pretty certain of her place and future until her Chief smuggles […]

How I Learned to Stop Giving a Sh*t and Live

I am one well acquainted with epiphanies. I catch them like they’re contagious. Unfortunately, I cure myself of them as fast I catch them most of the time. But a few months ago, an incurable one finally won. It was the middle of the week in March. I’d gotten home from work and I was […]

My First Book Con!

On May 31st, I left the storm bowl of DFW for NYC. Already I knew it was going to be a challenging trip due to my lovely left foot injury. For once, I didn’t injury my ankle (mostly because I was wearing an ankle brace at the time), but managed to break my navicular (a […]

Here I am!

Two and a half years… It goes by a lot faster than you think, or maybe that’s just part of getting older. It’s not an excuse for abandoning blog. No, my excuse is “life happens,” not “time happens.” Although, I suppose that’s more an excuse of semantics than anything. I’ve spent the last few years […]

Creating Light in the Darkness

I’ve had many thoughts and feelings the past few days. I think a lot of people have. Plenty of anxiety and shock and sadness and fear. But then I started to feel something else. Something bright and sharp, like a newly whetted knife as light gleams off it or the leap of a flame as […]

How to Change a Life

About a year ago, I wrote this, which was basically me being all ready to change my life and then actually not doing anything to change it. This precipitated a lot of the crap that happened last fall and the dark night month of the soul that made me realize half-assing my dreams ain’t gonna […]

Silence and Second Chances

I’ve been trying for months to figure out how to resume blogging. There’s this fear that everything I can think of to say has already been said, or else, it’s not important enough to be said. This self-imposed silence is a staple of my existence, or at least, it has been. But I’m trying to […]

The Magic in Appearances

There’s a strange sort of power in appearance. Halloween tends to make me remember that, what with all the literal mask and make-up donning that goes on. It’s the one time of year it is socially acceptable to appear however you wish on the outside, and no one will judge you for it (unless, of […]

Riptides

I’m writing now because I haven’t been writing. Again. There will be a post, eventually, about my trip to Paris, but this is not it. This is not the post you are looking for, not unless you’re looking for something more of a confessional and less of an upbeat update. Somewhere, in the whirlwind of […]

“What are you going to do with that?”

Some people pick their jobs based off passion or a need to prove themselves. I picked mine out of fear. I don’t write often about my day job because, well, it’s not something I love. I like the normal working hours. I like getting paid. I like having the summers off. (No, I’m not a […]