Let's Scribble All Over the 4th! I’m sitting in the cafe at Under the Umbrella on the 4th of July. Today is my usual day to hang out - I do a drop in TTRPG game on the first Saturday of the month from 11:30-3:00 and then I’ve got my writers group meetup from 3:00-5:00. Because it’s the 4th, I didn’t expect a lot of people to show for the game, but I’m still sitting here with the Daggerheart materials and my dice and kind of sad I don’t get to make characters that can fight the machine. Yeah,...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Scribblers! As I write this, Pride events for June are starting to ramp up and I want to remind you to take some time to really celebrate what is out there. I’ve got some history below for you to read through and a quick excerpt from Dancing in the Ghost Light, featuring the cast of Cat’s Eye at Pride. Quick real talk: May kinda sucked and my being sick for a bunch of it is why this is late. Instead of rehashing all of it, I'm going to spend our precious internet time this month talking...
3 months ago • 11 min read
April Chaos Brings May Excitement Hello Scribblers! May Day crept up on me - despite my paying careful attention to its approach. Suddenly, it was May 1st and I found myself unprepared for the May Day actions of the weekend. It's Beltane and International Workers Day and both matter a lot to me - so do me a favor and take some time to read up on these days! This update is a bit chaotic this time around. Have fun! ;) April for me was all about Moon Joy. The collective dopamine given to us by...
4 months ago • 9 min read
Hello Rejection Anxiety, My Old Friend Hello Scribblers! They say that April Showers bring May Flowers, but I’m honestly not sure that’s going to happen in Utah. Even with the late winter/early spring storms, the snowpack is down and things already feel warm and dry. It’s weird to still be figuring out how I want to send info and talk about my writing and the world around me. I’ve had some feedback that some of the newsletters have been harder to read in email or on different sites, and thank...
5 months ago • 8 min read
March is Coming In Like a Lion... at least ... politically. Patreon! Welcome back! February has been an interesting mix of joy and frustration and a heavy dose of grief as we said goodbye to my mom's cat and remembered my late sister-in-law. But! I celebrated my 47th birthday this month. My fiance and I (whose birthday is the day before mine) headed down to Zion's for a couple of days. Our birthdays tend to fall around President's day so you can thank Stephanie for having the day off if you...
6 months ago • 7 min read
Hi Scribblers! We've made it one month into 2026, which to me feels wild. My parents always warned time would move faster the older I got and now I get it, Mom and Dad. (They'd better be reading this). But, for all of the horrors out there, there have been some stunning victories as well. Communities across the country have come together and stood up and against ICE and the terror they are exacting from Minneapolis to West Valley. The noise that was raised around the Strike on January 30th is...
7 months ago • 6 min read
January Scribbles Welcome to my chaos! I wasn't sure what I was going to call this corner of the internet, but the more I thought about it, the more I kept coming back to this picture. The door is long gone. Demolished in the never-ending gentrification quest that Salt Lake City has set upon, but the ideas on this door imprinted on my soul the moment I took this shot and it has become the symbol of my taking this leap of faith. The basics though? Well, my name is Shauna and I'm a middle-aged...
7 months ago • 3 min read