I’ve blogged about a lot of topics over the years, including quitting a job to write for a living, experiencing and recovering from a sobering health diagnosis, accounts of babysitting my nephews, and the weeks-long process of raising and releasing monarch butterflies.
Readers call my posts clever, authentic, humorous, thought-provoking, timely, and whimsical. I just think of it as my space to tell the stories that matter to me the most.
![Recommended [Watch]: Rollerball](https://suddenwriteturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ball-2-unsplash-400x250.jpg)
What happens when a ‘winning’ formula shows cracks and is tested? What happens when the colors of your team are soaked in blood and violence? And what happens when the information to make sense of your world is archived and withheld?
![Recommended [READ]: The Actual Star](https://suddenwriteturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9106-400x250.jpeg)
Reading The Actual Star simultaneously destroyed me and remade me. That is the stuff of hope. Facing inevitabilities, destruction, and, nevertheless, opening your eyes the next day.
Say what you will about how well or how poorly the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer television special has aged. It tells the truth. It was the first of dozens of Rankin & Bass-produced stop-motion holiday movies. Rudolph, the Heat Miser, and Frosty were...
![Recommended [Listen]: Rage Against The Machine](https://suddenwriteturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Brick-400x250.jpg)
It’s a rhythmic build and driving force. When those first forceful chords of “Wake Up” filled the theater, I felt activated. And I feel activated every time I hear this and any other RATM song.
![Recommended [Look]: Art @MAG](https://suddenwriteturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_7658-rotated-e1747325751718-350x250.jpg)
Art is dreams made solid. Well, sometimes art is nightmares made solid. Art is also the lessons of those dreams and nightmares. And living in the spaces between dreams, nightmares, and lessons, there is, sometimes, resistance.
![Recommended [Watch]: Soylent Green](https://suddenwriteturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/veronica-lorine-zYrKNo7ZJoA-unsplash-400x250.jpg)
So many dystopian stories written so many years ago are set in the decade that we are currently living. It’s hilarious to see how much they got wrong… and morbidly fascinating to see how much they got right.
![Recommended [Read]: The Moon is Down](https://suddenwriteturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Moon-Light-engraving-400x250.jpg)
John Steinbeck’s novella The Moon is Down may have been published 83 years ago, but it’s more relevant than ever. It’s a quick, oh-so-satisfying read.
![Recommended [Watch]: They Live!](https://suddenwriteturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SUNGLASSES-lucas-george-wendt-3xtCeUhqZWE-unsplash.jpg)
The premise of They Live! is a delightfully late-80s, somewhat campy, thawing-cold-war-era cautionary tale.
“Well, hello there. Have you been waiting long?” “Oh, just almost two years.” “Wow. Has it been that long?” Ummmm….yep. It has been almost two years since I last posted to my blog. Ooops? To be fair, my last post here (February 2022) coincides with when I launched my...
– Me, November 15, 2010 Those words opened my first blog post. If ever a life had a turning point, for me it was then. That post kicked off a run of publishing a weekly blog post for a full three years. (Count ‘em – that’s 156 consecutive weeks, 156 posts. And they’re...