Sitemap - 2024 - You Think Too Much

How much living and how much writing?

Dogs honking horns and how to figure out what to give our attention to

Voting isn't our only power

How we get through

I hate this about us

Comforting songs for trying times: "You are the everything," by R.E.M.

We see social class

I'm halfway through Inktober and here's what I've learned

The chaos lapping at the edge of our lives

Ask a Sociologist: Why we can't predict shit

In defense of "dull and dreary"

It's just me and the cat

The moon is never what you think it is

I want to see the whole world the way I see my students

"Sunday morning's I'm too tired to go to church"

My obsession with seasons

How success (or the possibility of success) might just mess me up worse than failure

Teaching is love

Writing is thinking

Ulysses S. Grant is my people

Truth is a cozy blanket

A cuppa is a magical space portal that leads to home

Just go ahead and wear the perfume

There are so many reasons not to go swimming as an adult

How to preserve food for the winter

Getting lost in the stacks again

The very tiny berries

Power lines and other things I do not see

Pride comes to Madison, Indiana

"What did they expect? I'm a writer, and I use everything."

If a writer could tattoo, what would it look like?

In favor of taking more of life lying down

The Ziploc bag option

A totally purposeless vacation

What Edith Wharton might have said about whether anyone buys books anymore

I fly around and around in circles

I say no to things

Get rejected early and often (Redux)

I'm not cranky, I'm an empath

I have powers of invisibility

The case of the syllabi kittens

Thinking about assigned seats (redux)

Everything I know about Chinese history I learned from historical fantasies

Can you forget how to write a novel?

I stopped checking my subscriber count...

That one Madonna song

Death on the Intracoastal Waterway

What I want for my birthday is (an) acceptance

How to take yourself less seriously...

An enshittification story

“If the Bengals had won the Super Bowl in 2022, I would be famous now.”

The great peanut mystery and other delights

The ghosts are all around us

Shut up, Taylor and Travis are real

Sitting in front of the machine

My goal for this year is to be less organized

The opposite of the elevator pitch

Lunch with the Goddess

Thank you, Laverne and Shirley

When story fails

Watering the seeds (or not)