It is May! Summer looms, but more importantly, many sports are occurring in my home state, and I believe the winners of each will be given a big glass of chocolate milk. Not to share—one each. Makes you rethink your life choices, doesn't it? For example, I've won exactly one ladies' league golf tournament and I was not gifted so much as a shelf-stable coffee creamer. Do I not bleed? Do I not thirst for post-performance dairy? Where is the justice?? While we brood, how about some...
8 months ago • 6 min read
Merry Christmas, happy holidays! To celebrate, this entire newsletter was written by ChatGPT! Or was it? That's exactly what an impostor would say. Or is it? Here's a sentence only Lisa could write: Perhaps an octopus had an existential crisis about David Tennant. Or are those just the highest-frequency words aggregated from the past twelve months of newsletters? For recommendations, scroll down with your human fingers. What I'm reading Little Weirds, Jenny Slate Jenny Slate's collection of...
about 2 years ago • 5 min read
Happy and/or sad October, depending on your seasonal affective disorder status! This month brings a chill in the air and the launch of Google Analytics 4, which I failed to register for so if everyone could just clap very loudly when they open this, that would great. I've got graph paper and excellent hearing. And you've got recommendations! What I'm reading This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub If I ran a major publishing house, we'd have an entire imprint for time travel romcoms. We'd also have a...
over 2 years ago • 5 min read
Happy end of July! And happy end of summer, at least as we in the Indiana public school systems understand it. The Common Core bows to no season. And neither does the newsletter! You don't mind if I send it out at the absolute last possible moment, do you? It's too hot to care about anything, and besides, you'll need a book to read as your chambermaids fan you with palm fronds and spritz your feet with rose-scented water. Recommendations ahead. What I'm reading The Mountain in the Sea, Ray...
over 2 years ago • 6 min read
Get ready to take your evening needlework outdoors because it's a summer solstice newsletter, people! Light a bonfire! Drink some mead! Stave off depressing thoughts of each day getting progressively darker by taking one of these recommendations for your reading, watching, and listening pleasure! What I'm reading The Creative Act: A Way of Living, Rick Rubin So Rick Rubin, who I'd never heard of before this book and its accompanying podcast blitz, is a deeply interesting dude. For one thing,...
over 2 years ago • 5 min read
May is here, with its sunshine and flowers and seasonal allergies! Perhaps I can interest you in a book while the pollen count is high? Or a BRAND NEW BLOGCAST to listen to whilst you reap and/or sow your raised garden beds? Read on for recommendations, my friends, read on! What I'm reading We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge I'd never heard of the genre "psychological fiction" before I read We Love You, Charlie Freeman, but if there's a poster book for the form, this is it. On...
over 2 years ago • 4 min read
Well, well, well, if it isn't April! The month when we must prepare to deploy either shorts or mittens at a moment's notice, and when brutal frosts threaten our freshly-bloomed lilacs while we slumber. Spring and winter, life and death—April closes its talons around the great dichotomies of existence. Might as well read something good in the meantime! What I'm reading What If?, Randall Munroe If you've always thought science education would benefit from a bit less memorization and a bit more...
almost 3 years ago • 4 min read