Moths are not attracted to light. They are disoriented by light. Their entire navigation system assumes the brightest light at night is the moon.
When confronted with a lightbulb, they enter a tilted death spiral around it. They are just very dizzy.
#parenting
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I posted a quote carousel.
Same dark background. Same gold font. Another sentence pulled from my own writing, divorced from the rest of the writing.
Three likes. Ninety-nine views.
A flare from a sinking ship.
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3:20am.
Body: gravity-pinned, limp-noodle limbed, doing its one job beautifully.
Brain: writing a romance novel about a fae man who accidentally broke the heroine's glasses.
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1:20am. This is fine.
2:38am. This is fine.
3:20am. This is fine.
4:40am. This is fine.
6:24am. This is fine.
#insomia #perimenopause
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And other questions I asked Google last night between 8:49pm and 8:57pm.
Hot take: we have spent more money on the dog than on either of the children.
Vet bills, chronic illness management, prescription food.
Would still do it again. Send help.
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Authentic means you can see her pores but the lighting is good.
Authentic means the kitchen is messy but the messiness is curated.
Authentic means you mention being tired in a way that suggests you are still attractive. #writing
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Inventory:
– four hours of sleep
– one five-year-old
– ninety decibels of lip-smacking
– Bluey: Babyrace
– cold coffee I forgot I made
– the algorithm, demanding content
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A working theory about my marriage
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Or: how to make a TikTok at 6:47am while a five-year-old eats honey toast.
I do not appear in my own videos.
I am 39. I have a corporate job. I would rather die than be perceived in a fifteen-second clip set to that one song everyone is using.
This is, apparently, holding me back.
#writing #authorlife
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Or: how to make a TikTok at 6:47am while a five-year-old eats honey toast.
8:49pm last night I told my children moths are "basically night butterflies."
Eight-year-old: what's the difference between a moth and a butterfly?
Me, with confidence: they're night butterflies.
She was not satisfied.
#parenting
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