Been a While

Life & the Black Hole

Apr 27, 2026

To call the world and news cycles chaotic would be a gross understatement at this point. Am I right? I’ve been in the worst rut when it comes to writing. Between my Substack here or the multitude of actual literature projects I am working on behind the scenes.

If I am really being honest, because I like for y’all to hold me accountable… I hadn’t even opened my laptop to write since No Kings… last month.

Trying to keep up with the news, work commitments, travel, graduation coming up… Yes. Graduation. My oldest son, my first born baby is going to be graduating high school. I don’y even understand how that is possible.

But I am telling you all of this for a reason… accountability. I have two half written books I must stop trying to perfect and just finish. The amount of stress over perfecting the story I’ve obsessed over for the last decade has paralyzed me into literally publishing nothing.

At all.

When I left my full time job to be a creator and host my trips full time I told myself I would finally finish and publish my book about the loss of my sister. What I didn’t account for in the decade it took me to really find clarity in the project, was the healing journey that would take center stage in the book itself.

Something I needed before I could fully tell my story. Healing that would come in various forms. Parenting and my relationship with my daughter, how our relationship would turn to mirror the relationship I shared with Dawn all those years ago. That full circle moment that made me feel like I had the slightest bit of closure.

Enough to actually tell the story, I guess.

But like many good chaotic artists, in the middle of this I also birthed a book I had no idea I needed to write.

Reflecting on my experience as a mother in the first 18 years, I found just how many of my parenting choices had direct political undertones in them. Activism and community organizing has always been in my bones.

In conclusion I am writing a second book, which will not only be my first political novel but also my first parenting book. A little bit of both. A whole lotta Oz.

Now that both of those secrets are out in the open. I’ll be working my ass off behind the scenes trying to get one of them finished, and edited before the end of the summer. I’ve worked under tighter deadlines. And if I can get both of them finished and edited before the end of the year… it’ll be a small miracle.

In the meantime, I’ll be keeping up with my regularly scheduled shit talking on all my platforms!

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