At some point during a historical Chinese epic, you will, against your will, be forced to learn about the importance of canals, dams, and waterways for the survival or the destruction of a city which is why I would like people to stop calling them soap operas.

I would very much like it if I could go back to a time before I knew there were people who used the phrase "The Sort".

Parenting feelings.

I was feeling poorly so Husband allowed me to talk at length about the pre-Raphaelites and the Ruskin-Gray-Millais affair.

I'm the age where, when I see a picture of myself, I think, "I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly."

The reason I have consequences in my fiction is because Roald Dahl turned that kid into a mouse and kept him that way.

I babysit for a lot of young friends and family members because I believe you should subsidize the things you want more of.

A proud parenting moment. I woke up on Easter Sunday and realized I hadn't put together an Easter basket for my children. I had to sneak into Pledge Five 's room and fish the basket out of her closet.

Husband is telling me about his elementary school days when he wore a Psychedelic Furs button and a Pet Shop Boys button in violation of school policy. I don't understand how he married someone so uncool unless I was also super cute.

Such is my interest in space that I could not have guessed the distance from Earth to the moon to the nearest couple of hundred thousand miles.

Thinking back to the time when my parents gave me a book about how great freckles are which was the first time I wondered if they thought my freckles were weird.

Men should smell like Old Spice.

I love it when people I know read my books and act like taking one year to write one is an impossible feat, instead of glacially slow.

Husband is getting a gift from his company for 10 years of service. There is some nice stuff in the gift guide, but I'm just taking notes of everything he's interested in because that's birthday and Christmas sorted for several years.

Liked the first ep of Perfect Crown, and was so delighted to see Lee Yeon as the much-harassed assistant to the FL. She had such wonderful energy in Crash Course in Romance (I am forever touched by that role) and I love her.

This little 2yo I'm watching calls me "Sista Dominguezes" like her mom would say, "We're going over to the Dominguez's."

When a drama has a suspiciously good-looking rando and then a character finds last-minute love with them, I always think of Mrs. Bennet. "I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing."

Saw a post asking how people wind down at the week's end when they don't do alcohol, drugs, etc. There are a lot of prim answers about communing with nature. The answer is ice cream. Why isn't anyone saying ice cream???

My hot take is that I'm pro any White House renovations under any administration that get us closer to the aesthetic zenith of James Cagney's Yankee Doodle tap dance down its imaginary grand staircase.