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Renewal: It is the breath or the pause between breaths. It is the step or the poised, gathered energy between steps. It is never an ending: it is a beginning, or… | anniemueller.com/posts/bef…
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When I was 16 or 17 years old, I stood with a group of people outside an abortion clinic. I was holding a sign that said, “Choose Life.” I was… | anniemueller.com/posts/peo…
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I’m sitting on the floor in a convention center. Lily and her friend are wandering around nearby in their Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun cosplay. The cosplays here are amazing. I don’t recognize most of… | anniemueller.com/posts/eve…
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You’re whatever color, ethnicity, ability, physicality, gender, sexuality, neuro-ness you are: Cool, welcome, come on in! You’re carrying whatever heritage (or burden) of history, class, culture, connection, lineage, background you’ve… | anniemueller.com/posts/see…
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“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I… | anniemueller.com/posts/how…
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Finished reading: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver 📚 After many months of being my bedside book, this one is moving out of Current status. But the truth is you’re never really finished reading poetry. At some point I’ll revisit to read the same-but-different poems.
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“Many see that in this nightmared land, language has no meaning and the work of the writer is ruined. Many see that the triumph of authoritarian consciousness is its ability… | anniemueller.com/posts/it-…
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Today’s #hikingchurch: It’s bluebell season.
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I made a small informative zine about tacos to help! It is made out of Taco Bell wrappers because why not? We begin with the essential questions: Who? What? When?… | anniemueller.com/posts/do-…
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Yellow! Also green! And a bit of purple!
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Sometimes you just don’t get to feel good about things. Anyway a good rule I read somewhere long ago is something like Never trust how you feel about your life… | anniemueller.com/posts/tom…
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There was simply no other way to make our voices heard. “I spoke up today because after learning that my org was powering the genocide of my people in Palestine, I saw no other moral choice. …For the past year and a half, our Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim community at Microsoft has been silenced, intimidated, harassed, and doxxed, with impunity from Microsoft. Attempts at speaking up…
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Finished reading: The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas 📚 Easy read. Enjoyable. Mysteries, some ghosties, friendship, a little messing about with time. I often get annoyed when books alternate between time periods but this one was well-done . I’ll keep the author on my list for more easy reads.
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“Rules are not valid because the Senate passed them, or because heroes once played by them, or because God pronounced them through Moses or Muhammed. They are valid only if… | anniemueller.com/posts/bre…
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This Is Just To Say I have issued the tariffs that were not meant for this and which we will definitely regret for ever I don’t get economics or life or groceries
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What I read about last month: Mysteries in the woods! Stories! Kind-of-not-really pirates! Ireland! Friendship! And saying no! In the Woods by Tana French Gorgeous writing. Good plotting. It unraveled slowly,… | anniemueller.com/posts/rea…
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Let’s make a list. I’ll start. I’m eating a really good sandwich. Soft roll, rotisserie chicken, crisp lettuce, a little mayo, gruyere cheese, candied jalapeños. Yes and amen. Also, what… | anniemueller.com/posts/sma…
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Currently reading: Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1) by Jim Butcher 📚 You ever get 317 pages into a 653 page book before realizing you have, in fact, read this book before? Yeah? No? Me neither. Right. Yep.
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Finished reading: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty 📚 “But the guilt of outliving those you love is justly to be borne, she thought. Outliving is something we do to them. The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantastic of living. Surviving is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.”
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Finished reading: The Sea Wolf by Jack London 📚
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I have a small circle of friends. I’m choosy. Within this small circle, two friends deal with chronic illness. Another with multiple serious allergies. There are some mental health challenges… | anniemueller.com/posts/how…
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Finished reading: The Story Collector by Evie Woods 📚 Lovely and cozy while dealing with grief. Some difficult themes which are touched with a light hand. Magic, friendship, light romance, Ireland.
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9You’re doing everything for the first time. Every single thing. Even the things you do over and over are new, because you’re always new. Life might look the same on… | anniemueller.com/posts/lov…
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Finished reading: In the Woods by Tana French 📚 Gorgeous writing. Good plotting. It unraveled slowly, and I got impatient, but I don’t think the pace was wrong. It fit in with the main character’s own unraveling. Heavy themes, violence, trauma. Sadness bordering on bleak. I was frustrated with several plot choices, including the resolution, but saying more will spoiler it. I’m also not sure they…
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One thing I will not do: any sort of #notallAmericans bullshit. We’re a dying empire built on the blood of subjugated peoples. Those of us who benefited from that subjugation for a few centuries don’t get to act surprised now. Roll up your sleeves. We fix it or we don’t. Who’s responsible? We are.