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A realtime record of leaving my tech career to research and write a historical novel based on the life of my relative, a secretary in the FDR and Truman White Houses.
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Choosing your culture (opens the original)
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“What if Taylor Swift never moved to Nashville?”(I promise this is not an entire Substack post about Taylor Swift, just stick with me a minute)I was finishing my daily walk on the track near my house when Angela Duckworth’s voice in my earpods asked that question. I wish I could say she was asking me, personally, on our regular catch-up call, because there are few people I would want to be close personal friends with more than , but no — she was narrating chapter nine of her new book, <a href="h
“Union City Seats the World” (opens the original)
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I attended my first event for historical fiction writers earlier this year (shoutout to my buddies !) and there, I learned about the Historical Novel Society, which hosts the biggest gathering of histfic writers around, in the form of its annual conferences. When I found out that the next North American conference would be in Pittsburgh in June 2027, I was thrilled. I figured I could squeeze in a visit home alongside the conference, and I love an excuse to visit the ‘Burgh.And then I heard about
Amuse-bouches: Back-to-school edition (opens the original)
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Welcome to my seasonal round-up of linkies, recommendations, and musings, mostly of the pop cultural variety. If you like this, don’t miss my previous editions: June’s, March’s, and January’s.A movie that I feel like is flying (unfairly) under the radar right now is Tony. Written and d
When you give a kindergartener a corkboard (opens the original)
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My daughters both started at new schools this past week, and after almost four years with them at the same school, I’m now getting to experience the multiplied chaos of two school calendars and double the teacher and administrator messages (and messaging platforms and billing platforms and and and). My younger one’s first day was Tuesday, and my older one was home with me, as her school wasn’t starting until Wednesday. As is my nature, I tried to make use of the time, letting her watch TV for a
Embrace the seeming randomness (opens the original)
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I reached an important milestone a couple weeks into August, after reading ten books for research on my next project and spending a lot of time mulling: I started to dream about my story. It’s as if my subconscious had been fed a whole bunch of something and had begun to crunch its way through the raw material, spitting out seeds and getting stuff stuck in the back molars. There’s a lot this next book will have in common with my last, most notably, that it’s also based on a family member’s life,
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