1000 Days

Somewhere here in the next couple years it’s going to be time for me to write a children’s book. Or rather, a series of children’s books destined to become wildly popular for both their authenticity and their unabashed look at femininityism.
We have four daughters. People ask if we were trying for a boy. [...]

I believe I’ve griped elsewhere that I envy artists’ ease concocting the fantastical.  I don’t know that I pinpointed the part that annoys me the most: that they can do it with obvious style, accuracy, and expedience.
There are differences in drawing giant lizards and writing giant lizards.  An artist draws the exact giant lizard she [...]