Lewis, David G. The Tribal Histories of Willamette Valley. Ooligan Press, Portland, OR: 2023. Thank you, Ooligan Press and LibraryThing, for this free ebook galley. I was surprised to see an email from Ooligan Press, the grad student-run press at Portland State University. …

On the night before the full moon, I had a nightmare in which octopus-like alien parasites lodge themselves in people’s anuses or at least on their back ends. I see someone — maybe on tv? — with predominantly greenish-brown but also part orange octopus… with tentacles sticking out of people’s…

Instead of deleting unread all the allegedly tantalizing emails from the Dumpster Fire Formerly Known as Twitter, I clicked on one of them and ended up logging onto Dumpster Fire. FYI, my latest visit to Dumpster Fire wasn’t that interesting. I participated in a few writer’s lifts (type #WritersCommunity for…

Oh, the things you learn on the Dumpster Fire Formerly Known as Twitter. British TERFs (trans-exclusive “radical feminists”) have coopted the British suffragist flag colors (green, white, and purple — in contrast with the yellow, white, and purple of U. S. suffrage). They use it on their DFFKAT profile. If…

The shitstate of Kansas has weaponized transphobia as an excuse to make it legal to examine the genitals of school kids. Remember this whenever someone from Kansas smugly claims, “Kansas is a great place to raise kids!” Newsflash: it isn’t. …

Blake, Adrienne. Witchy Way to Murder. CityOwlPress, 2023. Thank you, LibraryThing and CityOwlPress, for the free ebook galley of Witchy Way to Murder by Adrienne Blake. (Unfortunately, for over a week, Goodreads has been refusing to let me log in. Changing my password makes no difference — no matter how…

I know — that’s stating the obvious. But in this dystopia, I’ve noticed, the obvious is bizarrely not obvious to many. Assaults on women’s, BIPOC people’s, and LGBTQIA+ autonomy, well-being, and rights are assaults on constitutional democracy. A country in which half the population is marginalized and subjugated is no…

Yesterday I published “Empaths & Toxic Social Circles” and described a friend/frenemy whom I think is narcissistic rather than someone with full-blown narcissist personality disorder. Empaths & Toxic Social Circles If you’re an empath who went for decades without knowing about boundaries and without knowing you were people-pleasing…sewigget503.medium.com One of the galling things about this friend/frenemy was that, from what I could see, I was her only scapegoat. I didn’t observe her insulting…

If you’re an empath who went for decades without knowing about boundaries and without knowing you were people-pleasing, maybe you have a history of being the scapegoat in circles of “friends.” If so, you didn’t know any better. Maybe you were so accustomed to being bullied and generally treated without…