What, me worry about being in quarantine? I’m too busy daydreaming to notice. Read More
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Bound Only By the Limits of My Imagination
There’s Too Much to Do During a Quarantine
Looking for ways to keep busy during a quarantine? You’re apparently not me, then. Read More
Family Sick Days Can Be Good
Why is it so hard to call off sick? When we’re all in it together, sick days become a relief. Read More
Thoughts on Demigods and Representation
Reading the ‘Heroes of Olympus’ series with her two ADHD children is making Amy appreciate, again, when characters are more than token “types.” Read More
Who Tells Your Story? Acknowledging Bias in History
All writing is biased. The trick is to recognize the biases and to seek out as many different biases in your reading as you can. Read More
A Reminder About Story Middles: Heroes Don’t Give Up
Things always look bleak for the heroes in the middle of the story. They just don’t give up until they find their happy ending. Read More
Graphic Novels Win Writing Awards & Other Notes On the ALA Youth Media Awards
Announcing the American Library Association’s 2020 Youth Media Awards, and several of Amy’s opinions thereof! Read More
Tricks to Play on Your Brain
You can’t just order yourself to do what you need to (at least not with executive disfunction): sometimes you have to trick your brain into working properly. Read More
How Do You Find a Word That Means Disordered?
Amy ponders the words used to describe people who nowadays might be diagnosed with ADHD. Read More
On Video Game Earworms and the Compulsive Singer
Amy has an annoying (to her kids) habit of bursting into song at the slightest provocation, and video games provide so much repetitive provocation! Read More
How Fanfic Is (Slowly) Restoring My Faith in My Writing
To quote my AO3 bio: No, I don’t write a lot of fanfic, and I read it even less. But when I get the roots of one in my head, it gets me WRITING again, which is great because I’ve been on a bit of a fiction-writing dry spell for the past decade. And it’s nice to have a place to share it. Read More
Thorough and Pointless Radio Station Study: Christmas Edition!
In which Amy reprises her Radio Presets study in order to analyze what the 24-Hour Christmas Music station has been up to this past month. Read More
Geek Links: RIP Caroll Spinney
The beloved performer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch died yesterday. Courtesy: www.sesameworkshop.org Read More
House (and Town, and University, and…) of My Dreams
Amy thinks about the settings of her dreams, and how they might relate to her waking life, in her small series on dream symbolism. Read More
What Is Fandom, Anyway?
What does it mean to “belong to a fandom”? Is it the passion, the action, or the interaction with others? Or all three? I’m genuinely asking, because I don’t know. Read More
The Thorough and Pointless Results of My Radio Station Presets Study
In which Amy shares the results of her obsessive annotation and analysis of radio station playlists (see previous article about list collecting)! Read More
The Greatest Street in History: 50 Years on ‘Sesame Street’
Do you know why ‘Sesame Street’ is objectively the greatest TV show of all time? Read (my 11th-grade research project) to find out! Read More
I Was a Costumed Cartoon Character (and Lived to Tell About It)
The adventures of a GeekMom in a specially-licensed-by-Scholastic Clifford the Big Red Dog suit, surrounded by small enthusiastic children. Read More
On Collecting Lists (And Other Fairly Useless Obsessions)
Amy really likes making annotated lists of random information. But is it really so random, or is it just the way her brain works? Read More
On Watching In Prime Time As a Family
In the era of streaming, it’s common for everyone to stick to their own shows on their own schedules. It’s fun when you can share a favorite show live with the whole family. Read More
