A Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt — Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a full stop flat out masterpiece. This may be cliche, but words are not enough to express the way I feel about this novel and especially its surprise, unexpected, delightful sometimes narrator Marcellus, the giant Pacific Octopus with three hearts of…

Reflections on Unexpected Joy and Peace — 2020 was a hard year for many of us. On my end, I have had some hard years since about 2010 and was really hoping things would shape up and get right in that decade. And spoiler alert: they did! But not in a way I had expected. …

Wildfire Smoke Outside, Delta Inside — As I look outside my window here in Nevada, I see two things that I did not see last year: intense wildfire smoke with bad air quality and little kids walking to school. I think to myself, wow we have really already normalized this. Last year, recall that in the…

Hint: Whatever Makes You Feel Your Best! — As I write this I am torn between my leopard print jumpsuit and a red white and blue tiered off shoulder maxi dress. Why? Because tomorrow I have a date. It’s time. I feel ready. And I feel so nervous and so excited! But this is not about me, this…

Observations from The West in Wildfire Season — I am writing this as I look out my window. The sky is so strange, everything is a bit yellow and when I walked outside to take the trash out it all felt kind of ominous and weird. I remember last summer felt like this too, for days and days…

A Girl With Glasses Book Review — vix·en /ˈviksən/ noun a female fox. INFORMAL a spirited or fierce woman, especially one seen as sexually attractive Published June 29th, 2021, The Vixon, a novel by Francine Prose takes us back to the early 1950s and to a nation in turmoil over what it means to be an American…