Archive - This Is Not What I Expected

You Are Here... in the Parking Lot

Or how to meditate amongst concrete and traffic noise

Aug 3 •

April 2024

Procrastination, Part XXXVI

Or listening to me make excuses for not writing

Apr 5 •

March 2024

Or freedom in Central Texas at sixteen

Mar 22 •

February 2024

Flash Fiction #1: A Certain Lack

As promised, the first piece of flash fiction!

Feb 23 •

Or, almond, cashew, oat, coconut...so many choices

Feb 16 •

Truth is Easier than Fiction

Or why I'm avoiding the eight or nine stories I've started

Feb 9 •

January 2024

Advice from Matthew McConaughey

Or how to extract useful pointers from ridiculously famous people's writing

Jan 26 •

The Way It's Supposed to Be WON SOMETHING!

or what awards actually mean and don't mean

Jan 12 •

Ghosts of Holidays Past, Part III

Or how to be lazy by reposting a piece about being lazy

Jan 5 •

December 2023

Ghosts of Holidays Past, Part II

Or how to be an undisciplined writer and still share stuff

Dec 22, 2023 •

Ghosts of Holidays Past, Part I

Or how to maintain a newsletter without having to write anything new

Dec 15, 2023 •

November 2023

Make it a Great Day; Get Hit By a Car.

Or how a brush with death really perked me up

Nov 17, 2023 •

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