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Climate roundup: Grief and gratitude

Do holidays make you count your blessings and feel gratitude for the comforts of home and family (and, if you're fortunate, paid time off)? Or do they highlight the losses and worries and deficits of the year that was? Probably a little of both, if you're like me. Here is some climate coverage from the… Continue reading Climate roundup: Grief and gratitude

What writers need to know about AI

Disclaimer: I am not an AI expert, and do not know everything there is to know about AI. I am just a marketing writer wondering if generative AI is going to replace my job, a creative writer wondering how it will affect the publishing landscape, and a teaching assistant trying to help students navigate the… Continue reading What writers need to know about AI

Reading Roundup: October 2023

I got over last month's reader's block, it would seem! The Guest by Emma Cline. I drank this book down in a day--partly because it was a deceptively easy read, drifting effortlessly from one word to the next the way its protagonist drifts from house to house, skating over unpleasantness in a painkiller haze. Partly… Continue reading Reading Roundup: October 2023

Climate roundup: Every week is Climate Week

Cities around the world observed Climate Week during September 17-24 with educational panels, rallies and marches, and calls for action. I'm still catching up on some of the recorded events I hoped to learn from--but there is no shortage of climate news at the end of this hot summer. Good news and bad news. Climate… Continue reading Climate roundup: Every week is Climate Week

Reading roundup: September 2023

I had a bit of reader's block at the beginning of the month. Then two people close to me read Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth respectively, and I realized I was craving something juicy and immersive like that. So I re-read the entire Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir! It was so satisfying… Continue reading Reading roundup: September 2023