Magical Escapades, Personal Journeys, Celestial Transits, Etcetera

Get Flipped: My Hanged Man Year

I don't generally do end of the year recaps or new year new me resolutions, but I do do (hehe) an annual tarot year recap and reflection. I do these somewhat randomly in the first quarter of the year because tarot years actually have influence for more than a year (about 18 months, though the energy peaks around your birthday) and technically you can be in two tarot years at once. But anyway, since this past tarot year is thoroughly waning and the new tarot year is waxing, January is as good a time as any to reflect!

Joyful Things Because Joy is Resistance (& Boy Have I Got Joyful NEWS)

I have several half finished blogs from post-election written where I tried to gather my thoughts on Everything. But you know what? Other people have already talked about that, and have done so very eloquently. I don't have much else to add that hasn't already been said better by someone else...

Welcome to Happy Valley.

First: The Wilderness of Girls is out now! Second: Here is a weirdly disjointed blog post about the last two+ weeks! I started it pre-release and didn't get back to it until June 26 because omg life, but I feel like it captures the truth of my experience better than re-writing it.

To Be Outspoken.

Content warning: Discussion of sexual assault in the context of impact and social activism. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). If you've read an advance copy of The Wilderness of Girls or even just skimmed the content warnings on the book page, you know that the topic of sexual assault comes up. I don't want to spoil the book by discussing it too much here, but I will say this was not a choice I made lightly, and yet when I did make the choice it was like uncovering the precise cypher I needed to decode the rest of the book...

ABA Winter Institute: My First Official Author Event

I know this is usually a space where I write (hopefully) insightful essays about the human condition that (hopefully) resonate with my readers, but it's also historically been a bit of a public diary where I try to record the moments in my life I'd very much like to remember and be able to look back on. So please enjoy (or ignore!) this recap of my Very First Professional Appearance As An Author at the ABA Winter Institute in Cincinnati!