writing
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I’ve never been particularly sentimental about New Year’s resolutions. But this year, the idea feels less like a list of promises and more like a map — a way of drawing myself back to the work I care most about. My science-biography projects have been waiting patiently for me, and understanding the world of plant
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Lately I’ve been thinking about time management—not in the abstract way that leads to spiral-bound planners and goal-setting podcasts, but in the ways I’ve learned to carve my priorities out of the hours required for work calls, dinner, and bedtime stories. Sometimes, I really only have 30 minutes to write down an idea, add meat
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The Supreme Court may decide whether the output of an AI system can be copyrighted — a question I might have ignored if I didn’t use AI to create children’s books with my daughter. A friend once confirmed a thought I had when my daughter, Elise, was about two years old: seventy-five–page coloring books are
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I have an idea for a short story where the plot twist involves the police acting on a tip that their suspect is sleeping in their car in front of a church. They have eight minutes to get there. Maybe less. Rushing over with lights, no sirens, they find a Nissan Pathfinder — windows tinted,
Growing Like Weeds 