Talkin ’bout my generation… oh wait, our generation’s too young for that song.

I got asked to fill out a survey about Generation Y (ages 18-31, I think) and some of the questions got me philosophizing. I thought I’d share.
If you want to take the survey, go here.

Fighting the blues

Keeping track of your spending is quite simply one of the most depressing practices known to man.
Add to that a shift to working nights and a post-holiday blah and your husband basically working his tail off and…
blah.

(Yet Another) Year in Review

Warning: this year in review will have very little about the presidential election, even though it dominated all of our consciousnesses. This is more navel gazing. So yeah, unless you like your head in my belly button… feel free to ignore.
This year I wrote more than 294,000 words of fanfic (not counting ficlets, drabbles and [...]

Deconstruction of a Drama Queen

And this is where I will explain how my brain works, how it gets me into such massive trouble, and why I can’t see a way out of it.
Here are the operative axioms:

Axiom 1) I advance conversations and conditions inside my head until they are at a different place than they are in real life, [...]

How I’d market my book, and late-evening high-flying thoughts

Five words that change the universe. A new kind of supernatural thriller, based on an original mythology– simple and limitless in scope.

Tiptoe writes about fan fiction on her non-fan fiction blog, Part 3 of 3

The three favorite fics I’ve written, behind the cut.

In a moment of panic

Because I am trying to learn about myself and figure out how to deal with these situations, I’m writing this blog from an emotional foxhole. I’m despondent and frustrated and need to figure out how I go on from here and don’t let my emotions rule me. Abandon hope all ye who click the “more.”

We interrupt this blog for a brief love letter.

My husband is perhaps the most patient, forgiving, hard-working and long-suffering soul I have ever met. I don’t show him half the respect and gratitude he deserves, and somehow he is still willing to put up with me. I am honored and blessed every moment I have with him.
I love you, darling.

“It’s beautiful, but…” and the secret language

I’m going to put the majority of this behind the cut in case family members don’t want to hear about what non-Jewish practices may occur in our interfaith homes. Think before you click, guys. I warn you now. THINK about it.
If you don’t want to click the “more,” I will provide you instead with [...]

What’s the opposite of writer’s block?

Why must my teeth now hurt, in addition to everything else? I’m despondent. Two days out of surgery and I’m back at work, despite a rather painful commute. And now my teeth are bothering me. It’s never over, is it?
So the biggest disappointment of this particular medical adventure is that I don’t have what I [...]