This first ran July 2, 2018, back when UNCONTROLLABLE STRESS was only politics, not yet politics/election or politics/election/insurrection; and before the pandemic and way before the pandemic/alpha/delta/omicron; and of course before Putin invaded Ukraine; and on and on, far into the night. It really has been a LOT for a LONG time, hasn’t it. These […]
Month: March 2022
This post written by Christie Aschwandan and illustrated by Sarah Gilman originally appeared Nov. 30, 2020 I have a personal policy: never read the comments. And when my book was published last year, I quickly learned that I probably didn’t want to take note of the reader reviews at Amazon either. Don’t get me wrong, […]
When I was in my 20s and we liked to be out professionally drinking after a day of professionally working, a study made the news – I have no idea which study, by whom, or exactly what it said because I only heard about it through the bitter complaints of my friend. She was a […]
This post first ran on January 28, 2015, but I thought of it again recently while playing Wordle and finding that that day’s answer was “moist.” Words are a writer’s currency, and we each have our favorites. The first word I remember falling in love with was onomatopoeia. It had a satisfying rhythm, plus there […]
We had a doozy of a snowfall last week in southwest Colorado, the high desert blanketed a foot and a half deep, the mountains getting a good four feet. Knock on wood, I don’t like to tempt the fates of nature and climate change, and I’m not meaning to brag, I just want to celebrate […]
