MM and the Midsized Fandom
Let’s start with stating that this is all my personal opinion. M’kay? I recently attended my first writing conference. It was put on by the Romance Writers of New Zealand and it was absolutely lovely. Everyone was nice and supportive and there were lots of great speakers. I knew going into it that I would […]
The One Where I Admit to Never Having Seen an Episode of Friends before Yesterday
Yesterday I watched an episode of Friends all the way through. This is something worth mentioning because despite being on air for a solid decade I never saw it. I wasn’t actively avoiding it. I have nothing against the show or the actors on it. I’ve seen bits and pieces of it. I’ve just never […]
Warning: This Blog Post Has Not Been Spell Checked
Warning: This blog post has not been editied in any way. I have not right clicked on any squggly red lines or had this post read back to me by the computer to search for missing words. I haven’t even let Word autocorrect anything. I am dyslexic, this is about my life as a dyslexic. […]
The Q Word – A Personal Sociological Linguistic History
Let’s start by putting this all into correct context. I am old by internet standards. I was born in 1981. Ronald Regan was in his first term. The Space Shuttle had its first flight. Harvey Milk had only been assassinated two and a half years earlier. Most states still hand antisodomy laws on the books. […]
Clean Reader – won’t somebody please think of the children
In all the noise being made about Clean Reader I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the kid. For those who missed it Clean Reader is an app that changes dirty words in ebooks to clean ones. According to their website- One day our oldest child came home from school and she was a […]
My Mother, Myself, My Daughter, and Spock
I was woken up at seven this morning by a text from my mother informing me that Leonard Nimoy had died and that she was crying in her office. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen my mother cry and I don’t have to use all my fingers. Star Trek […]