space is always needed
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. LAST CALL for paid subscribers ($7/month or $70/year): FRONT SEAT OFFICE HOURS returns Monday, February 10, 2025. We’ll meet...
browsing brain
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. I hope you’re taking deep breaths. For paid subscribers ($7/month or $70/year): FRONT SEAT OFFICE HOURS returns Monday,...
hi, hello, it's me, Maleficent
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. For paid subscribers ($7/month or $70/year): FRONT SEAT OFFICE HOURS returns Monday, February 10, 2025. We will meet over Zoom...
activate/deactivate
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. For a gofundme directory of displaced Black families affected by the Eaton Fire, click here. On the same page you’ll also find...
❤️ Los Angeles ❤️
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Is the newsletter still late if I’m sitting down to write it at 6pm Pacific? In any case, perhaps you might have guessed? This...
the reading year in review
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. I’ll be taking a brief break so the next newsletter will appear on Sunday, January 12, 2025. Here’s what I read and what I...
support what you want to see in the world
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Next week I’ll share the titles of all the books I read in 2024, with notes. The short list below is for those of you in a...
The beautiful, fucked-up thing is
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. PAID SUBSCRIBERS: There is one more opportunity this month to attend FRONT SEAT OFFICE HOURS. Monday December 16th, 1pm-3pm...
zero gift guides, zero best of lists
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. PAID SUBSCRIBERS: There is one more opportunity this month to attend FRONT SEAT OFFICE HOURS. Monday December 16th, 1pm-3pm...
Hope. Pleasure. Strength.
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Some housekeeping: Last week the newsletter seemed to get stuck in the ether, and I got an explanation from Buttondown about...
preparing for endings
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. What’s this all about? Subscribe now Photo by Cecile Hournau on Unsplash An odyssey, going from my house to my mother’s house,...
coming in April 2025
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. It’s that time. That time when I ask you, sweet readers, to consider pre-ordering my books, forthcoming in spring 2025. Why not...
our current and temporary trajectory
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Make yourself at home. Los Angeles,CA, 11/5/24 11/9/24 …what to write/how to write into the future that feels so overwhelmingly...
on the periphery of your radar
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Like many people, I’m thinking back to November 2016. Brooklyn, NY, November 2016 My third book, Bruja, had just come out. A...
outside of time
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Dodger Stadium, 10/20/24 You may have noticed that there was no Sunday post last week. I took a spontaneous holiday in...
mini-interview with Taleen Kali
Before the pandemic I was just beginning to get to know Taleen Kali. Btw, I still have the aloe plant from your pre-pandemic tamale party, Taleen tells...
OPEN BOOK DOCUMENT
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. note to self Not listed: brainstorm potential reprint launch events. Official publication date of reprints: 4/15/25—my books...
mini-interview with Tori Holder
Subscribe now Recently, subscriber Tori Holder reached out to me via email. Not sure if you remember this, but two years ago you did a workshop about writing...
telling
The purpose of telling.
process: writing log
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. It’s been one year since I started a simple writing log in an Excel spreadsheet. my laptop in my office By simple, I mean I log...
