News + I am, and I am not

News, Clarity, And the Overwhelm

News

I am taking part of the Clean Sci-fi and Fantasy Newsletter Bookfunnel from February 18-March 17th. Find some free books here.

I will be giving a message at my church next Sunday.

I am attending Emerald City Comic Con as a fan/attendee.

I am attending Norwescon in March as a panelist.

I am/am not

This week I landed in a state of feeling overwhelmed. To handle this, I retreated, and then decided I needed to remind myself of who I am and who I am not. This happily/fittingly came just in time for Lent, a time of contemplation.

I am an author. I am a poet. I am a writer. I am a speaker. I am a podcaster.

I am not a social media guru/influencer.

I am fond of newsletters and thought-provoking posts.

I am not fond of daily emails.

I am not fond of “THE OVERWHELM” which is my way of describing that feeling I get when I open my email and over a hundred emails have come in overnight, or that feeling I get if I doom-scroll on social media. (So, I am fasting from social media Monday-Saturday until Easter.)

I am a Christ-follower and a feminist woman —I mean a woman who believes every woman has the right to a voice, a vote, a job, a business if she chooses one, an equal education, the right to be as fit or not fit as she desires without getting harassed for either a desire for athleticism or chocolate, equitable pay, a place in the world, decent and fair treatment by others regardless of her clothes, her size, background, economic status, race, or religion, and who can sit with the disciples at the feet of Jesus, and tell everyone the good news of the gospel knowing that women were the first to do so.

I am tenacious.

I am a Bible reader — like the whole Bible, over and over again.

I am a fantasy and sci-fi reader, who also reads all the other genres, too.

I am resolved to have courage.

I am also resolved not to be ignored, but yet, also resolved not to be a part of the overwhelm.

I am sure that we can all lives our lives fully and with more joy, with less screen time. So, even though I have a newsletter, and socials, and a Youtube channel, I am taking time these days to remember that I am an author first, and the rest is extra, so extra that I am going to slow it all down a bit.

It’s time for this road:

(Image from Canva)

And more of this:

This is a picture of Mt. Rainier I took with my phone from an early February walk at Dune Peninsula Park in Tacoma, WA. The Dune Peninsula Park was named after the novel Dune because the author Frank Herbert grew up in Tacoma.

If you are a fellow author and would like a super short feature in a future newsletter, please comment below. I will happily offer up monthly shout-outs for fellow authors in the form of 200-word or less book blurbs and 150-word or less author bios, with up to two links and one image. I thought I would do interviews, but given my “overwhelm” state, I will simply give shout-out shorts for now.

BTW - find all my links here: Tyrean’s List of Links