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Nov 19, 2024: Sometimes when people read my zines, they say, “This is so clever! How did you come up with this?” Or another version, “I would never think of making …

Nov 18, 2024: Where do your ideas come from? This post is for WeblogPoMo AMA, a challenge to write AMA-style (“Ask me anything”) blog posts during November. Read about the challenge. I’m …

Nov 17, 2024: It’s officially fall weather, but I drink iced coffee all year round. 😋

Nov 14, 2024: My November newsletter is out!

Nov 13, 2024: Today finally felt like fall in Lancaser, PA. ☺️🍁 Zoom in on this last photo to see ducks napping. 🥹

Nov 10, 2024: 🍿 Somewhere in Time (1980) - Streaming for free on Tubi. It’s a well-made movie with a great cast. I feel like it was probably well-received …

Nov 9, 2024: I made index pages for my slash pages on kalikambo and Mythical Type.

Nov 8, 2024: Online community This post is for WeblogPoMo AMA, a challenge to write AMA-style (“Ask me anything”) blog posts during November. Read about the challenge The question …

Nov 7, 2024: Out is through I’m disappointed in the U.S. election results this week, but I’m not totally surprised that Republicans won the White House, the Senate, and the House …

Nov 3, 2024: My superpower is thinking ahead This is my first post for WeblogPoMo AMA, a challenge to write AMA-style (“Ask me anything”) blog posts during November. Read about the challenge The …

Nov 3, 2024: I’m going to participate in #WeblogPoMoAMA, at least for a few posts this month. Feel free to ask me a question, and I’ll answer in a post …

Oct 30, 2024: I forgot mundane Halloween costumes are a thing in Japan. 😆 The tradition was started in 2014 by a group of adults at Daily Portal Z who kind of …

Oct 28, 2024: Paved Paradise (or, cars ruin everything) I finished reading Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar. 📚 Overall, I liked the book. A lot of it is about how parking space requirements determine where …

Oct 26, 2024: Ice cream truck appearances are circumscribed by unwritten curb-control maps established by custom, negotiated by handshake, and enforced with …

Oct 21, 2024: Email privacy and customer communications I use HEY as my email client. It blocks privacy trackers, so the sender can’t see when I open an email, where I’m located, or what device I use. Those …

Oct 15, 2024: Why I moved my blog off WordPress I had a self-hosted WordPress site for my personal blog from 2015 until last weekend, when I migrated Mythical Type to Micro.blog. The recent drama …

Oct 14, 2024: My October newsletter is out. Urban Legends info, resource round-up, and super brief reviews of what I’ve been watching.

Oct 14, 2024: Spooky season, spooky zine! 🎃 This is “Wandering Through Wonders” by Vlasinda Stormdrain. Copies are available through their shop. I’m excited to read …

Oct 13, 2024: I accidentally found out about discofox and went down a little rabbit hole. 😃 I’m low-key obsessed with how it’s freeform but also there are certain …

Oct 12, 2024: Intelligent but ignorant Lots of writing advice goes along the lines of “write for your reader” or “know your audience.” That’s the guideline for how to frame your writing, …

Oct 12, 2024: Mythical Type (my site for zines and creative projects) has a new home. Now it’s hosted on Micro.blog! I migrated my posts from WordPress, and …

Oct 11, 2024: ‘Lanterns’: Kyle Chandler Set To Star As Hal Jordan In DC Series For HBO 100% yes to this 😃

Oct 11, 2024: Constellation prize When I was in elementary school, we had carnivals twice a year, one in the fall and one in the spring. The carnivals were family fun nights, where we …

Oct 11, 2024: What’s your favorite markdown editor on macOS?

Oct 10, 2024: I like my notebooks messy If you spend any time on Instagram or Reddit looking at people’s notebooks–how they lay out pages, what materials they …

Oct 8, 2024: My new Now page, yay! (Powered by omg.lol)

Oct 8, 2024: New zines I picked up from Antiquated Future. 🙂

Oct 7, 2024: I’m officially on omg.lol and Mastodon. 🙂

Oct 6, 2024: I just signed up for Mastodon because my curiosity outweighs my attempts to spend less time on social media. 🤭 Any recommendations for iOS apps to use …

Oct 6, 2024: I spent a lot of time this weekend saving local copies of blog posts from Mythical Type. Partly because it’s been a while since I saved backup …

Oct 4, 2024: FediDB - Users and software statistics on the Fediverse.

Sep 30, 2024: New month, new log in my bullet journal. I make a page like this every month to list events and appointments. The “CO” column is for “creative …

Sep 29, 2024: On WordPress, I would love something like a “simple view.” Just show me the essential buttons and menus to make a blog post, and hide …

Sep 29, 2024: I made similar posts earlier across WordPress, Tumblr, Pika, Ko-fi, and here on Micro.blog. WordPress felt like the most effort to publish the post. I …

Sep 29, 2024: Contributor zine: Urban Legends “Urban Legends” is a quarter-page zine that collects art and writing about urban legends, myths, and folklore. Eighteen people contributed …

Sep 27, 2024: I made some simple Halloween stickers to tuck into zine orders. 👻 ✨ 🎨 Designed in Canva. Printed on a thermal printer.

Sep 27, 2024: I’m thinking (again) about moving my personal site off of WordPress. I keep going back to, WordPress is more bloated and complicated than what I …

Sep 26, 2024: I organized a contributor zine about urban legends, myths, and folklore. Yesterday I printed out a bunch of copies. Now I’m cutting and folding pages. …

Sep 18, 2024: 🍿 Uglies (streaming on Netflix) - Same genre as Hunger Games and Divergent (and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing). I read the book years …

Sep 17, 2024: Friendly reminder that art doesn’t usually come out the way you want it on the first try…or the third, or the fourth. 🙃 🎨

Sep 15, 2024: Yesterday I led a zine-making station at a public library fundraiser. I had a table full of young zine makers in the afternoon. Hopefully …

Sep 15, 2024: My September newsletter is out. :)

Sep 12, 2024: 📺 Kaos (mini-series streaming on Netflix) I like that this is a modern telling of Greek gods. Cars, concerts, and cell phones, and everyone knows the …

Sep 12, 2024: 🎵 New music from Linkin Park - “The Emptiness Machine” I’ve seen a lot of comments on Instagram with, she’s great! And also comments like, ugh this is …

Sep 5, 2024: I love fall but this is fully unnecessary. 😄

Sep 3, 2024: You should make a /chipotle page so when a friend is picking up Chipotle for you, you can send them a link instead of having to redescribe/retype your …

Sep 2, 2024: Balancing stock and flow This is from a blog post that’s 14 years old, and it’s still relevant today: Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the …

Sep 2, 2024: I made these mini zines earlier this year as freebies to hand out at events. Here’s a freshly folded batch for a public library fundraiser I’m going …

Sep 1, 2024: September page is ready in my bullet journal. I use this page to note appointments and events during the month. The “CO” column is “creative output.” …

Sep 1, 2024: Here’s my About page, all proper-like. ☺️

Aug 31, 2024: 📺 Currently watching Terminator Zero on Netflix. I like that they aren’t rehashing stories from the movies. It’s the same universe with new …

Aug 31, 2024: Millennial lunch 🤭

Aug 31, 2024: 🍿 I watched the movie Predestination last weekend. It’s based on a short story, called “All You Zombies” by Robert A. Heinlein. The movie is confusing …

Aug 30, 2024: 🎵 New music from Dom Fera - “More You Know”

Aug 30, 2024: My first post! Hello micro.blog world! I’m excited to use this space as my digital notebook. 🙂