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Follow along for some unhinged ranting about writing, life-ing, and things that I am reading or hyper focusing on at the moment. Could be a book series or Orcas, your guess is as good as mine.

  • Captain’s Log: Covid 19 Social-Distancing Day Five

    Captain’s Log: Covid 19 Social-Distancing Day Five

    Captain’s log, day five of social distancing. Nature is trying to kill us and I don’t really blame her. But could we call a truce? The social distancing is hard enough but this morning to add insult to injury, we also had an earthquake in Utah. A fairly big one. And then another one about…

  • Captain’s Log: Covid 19 Social-Distancing Day Four

    Captain’s Log: Covid 19 Social-Distancing Day Four

    Yesterday was boring until it wasn’t. We spent the morning trying to come up with a fun way to entertain Leo. Then after his nap was eventful in a bad way. Leo got stung by a rogue bee with a bazooka for an ass. He was playing next to our living room window and out…

  • Captain’s Log: Covid 19 Social-Distancing Day Three

    Captain’s Log: Covid 19 Social-Distancing Day Three

    Captains’s Log It’s the third day of self-isolation and I am bored. My toddler is bored. My husband won’t stop reading the news and pacing back and forth and anxiously listing off everything we should be worried about from now until we are eighty. I’m a tad worried we didn’t grab enough booze to be…

  • My First Year of Momhood: Moms are Like Al Pacino in Yoga Pants

    My First Year of Momhood: Moms are Like Al Pacino in Yoga Pants

    This week my son turned one while I’m still over here like “wow, I can’t believe I have a kid.” Because despite carrying him and birthing him and spending 24/7 with him that shit still blows my mind. It’s insane. And me being in charge of another human’s life just proves that the universe is…

  • What to do When Love Cannot Conquer All

    What to do When Love Cannot Conquer All

    The other day I met my cousin in a cafe to go over some edits we needed to make to a screenplay we wrote together. I asked her about her relationship and life and next thing you know she was basically summarizing (accidentally) all of the hard things I’ve been thinking and feeling lately. I’ve…

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I’m m.e.evans

M.E. Evans is a journalist and the author of the bestselling feminist memoir, Naked In Italy. She is known for her stinging prose and dark humor. When she’s not holed up and writing you can find her talking about books on her podcast You’re Gonna Be Great! (YGBG!) or writing about books for the bookish lifestyle newsletter, The Main Character Society.

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