The Erin Endeavor

[AE.Gamedev] We Are Not At Home To Mrs. Fish

March 3, 2022

The most recent episode of HBO's prestige TV show The Gilded Age presented one particularly memorable scene drawn at least loosely from actual history: Mrs....

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[AE.Disability] Perhaps planning for failure is also part of planning for success.

March 2, 2022

So, to briefly continue on the theme of plans... I woke up this morning with a clear plan for my newsletter today, including not just an idea but an outline,...

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[AE.Personal] Even the best-laid plans still need to get laid.

March 1, 2022

Between NiNoBilMa, my budgeting project, my Lenten plans described yesterday in this space, and a smattering of other scattered things, it feels like the big...

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[AE.Personal] Friends, Roman Catholics, Countryfolk... Lent Me Your Fears

February 28, 2022

Just a note in advance that this newsletter will mention food and voluntary dietary restrictions, Christian culture, and Catholic upbringing. While I was...

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[AE.NiNoBilMa] A NiNoBilMa check-in of sorts.

February 25, 2022

So, when I posted off the NiNoBilMa project for this month, I said I would be following it up with some notes about my thoughts and intentions regarding the...

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[AE.Gamedev] Reading Ron Edwards

February 24, 2022

It's become a very common tactic these days among the "opposing oppression means opposing freedom" crowd to claim that all of us who refuse to associate with...

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[AE.Personal] Please Allow Me to Explain Myself, I Am a Woman of Digression and Other Notes

February 23, 2022

As the point of NiNoBilMa is for me to acquire some writing skills I missed the first time around, it's certainly been useful for identifying my weaknesses...

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[AE.NiNoBilMa] February NiNoBilMa

February 16, 2022

Apologies for the late start this month. I'm learning that the beginning of months tend to be unsettled; it's one of those obvious lessons that I leaned over...

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[AE.Personal] Lessons from a Twitter Lockdown

January 20, 2022

So, I'm on my second day of being locked on Twitter, and it's been nice, and interesting, and relaxing, and instructive. I mentioned this on Twitter, but...

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[AE.Personal] Yielding the Stage, or, the *Other* Kind of Lockdown

January 18, 2022

The lede: In the next few days, I'm going to be taking my Twitter account private ("locking"), for an undetermined length of time, and for reasons I'll get...

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[AE.Disability] Home Ergonomics

January 14, 2022

There's an old joke that goes something like, "I told the doctor 'it hurts when I do this.' and the doctor said, 'So don't do that.'" In a sense, the field...

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[AE.NiNoBilMa] NiNoBilMa January 2022: First Grade

January 13, 2022

The thing that became NiNoBilMa has its roots in my adult, ADHD-medicated regret over not having internalized or retained the writing structures that were...

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[AE.Personal] In which my mother still takes me to school (even when I have a sick day)

January 11, 2022

Picking up a thread from yesterday's newsletter and from my ongoing life-long process of self-reflection generally: a thing that stops me from writing more...

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[AE.Personal] When does getting better become being better?

January 10, 2022

Hey, all. This is a little personal update as I claw my way back from a bad cold. I talked a bit in my last newsletter about the intersection of a chronic...

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[AE.Personal] When An Illness Meets An Illness Coming Through The NYE

January 5, 2022

A few minutes before I started writing this, I tweeted out the words "Chronic illness is what happens when you're making other plans." I did have plans for...

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[AE.NiNoBilMa] Kindergarten, Week 4: Just write.

December 28, 2021

I said on Twitter yesterday that I'd be doing this week's NiNoBilMa stuff today, as my schedule for things on Monday was thrown off by outside factors. Turns...

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[AE.NiNoBilMa] NiNoBilMa: Kindergarten, Week 3 (Colors)

December 20, 2021

Welcome to week 3 of #NiNoBilMa! This one's going to be shorter and sweeter because this is the first week I'm not reinventing everything mid-stream. It...

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[AE.Personal] Voicing My Concerns

December 16, 2021

A big part of my plans for boosting NiNoBilMa as we go into and through 2022 is holding virtual events, like group write-ins or writing streams. This idea...

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[AE.NiNobilMa] NiNoBilMa 2022: Kindergarten, Week 2

December 13, 2021

Hello, and welcome to week 2 of #NiNoBilMa! I have been reflecting a lot on what worked well the first week and what didn't work, and the short version is:...

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[AE.NiNoBilMa] There's An Alligator In The House!

December 8, 2021

Yesterday's octopus game got a better response on Twitter and in my email than the open-ended prompt did, so I'm going to keep going in the same vein. Not...

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