Author: marylowd

Me: *sees an interesting submission call*

Brain: *outlines a suitable short story*

Me: “Great! Now let’s write it…”

Brain: *looks around frantically trying to figure out who I could possibly be talking to, because it certainly didn’t sign up for that kind of work* Continue reading “Stubborn and Brilliant in Turn”

I’m helping my kid brainstorm an outline for a playwriting class they’re taking — it involves a cat superhero protecting a museum from a dog supervillain trying to steal a T-Rex leg bone.

This may be better than any of the projects I’m working on.

It’s amazing how much you can suddenly love pizza that you would have previously been snobby about when your options get narrowed down by no longer being able to eat actual real cheese.

I love how #FurryBookMonth gets so many people talking about furry books!

Proposal: #FurryBookYear

But then at the end of the year, we forget it was temporary and everyone just keeps talking about furry books forever.

I know I say this every time I rewatch any of the Scream franchise, but I just really love how much it gets how incredibly ominous it is whenever a man touches a woman without her consent.

At the Raptor Center with my 8-year-old…

Bald eagle: -stares intently at 8-

Me: “That bird looks like it wants to eat you.”

8 to eagle: “Yeah, but I could take you down in a game of Roblox!”

Diablo 2: Resurrected has a toggle that lets you switch between the new updated graphics and the original, 20-year-old ones.

And it’s both amazing how beautiful the original game was… and amazing how much more beautiful the new version is.

A friend of mine once had a sick cat losing her fur. The cat played with laser pointers & had an enclosed patio for bird watching. The vet concluded it was anxiety caused by never catching anything she chased, & she needed more physical toys.

Writing feels like this sometimes. Continue reading “Jumping at Shadows and Lights”

I’ve been sharing a lot of quotes on social media from “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men” by Lundy Bancroft, because it seems like an important book. However, it’s not an easy book to read (I mean, the prose is very readable… but it dredges up a lot), so I read it as fast as I could, so I could be done reading it sooner. Continue reading “Lundy Bancroft’s Book”

Based on how people react to me — and have done so for my entire life — I seem to have big “I’m gonna flip this table!” energy.

I have literally never flipped a table. But at some point, I can’t be expected to completely and utterly obscure my desire to go around flipping them. Continue reading “Flip the Table”