This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, which happens to be our family’s Super Bowl. It’s the biggest sales day of the year for most local bookshops, and we start planning in January to have inventory, promos, and new products ready to go. Don’t forget to support your local bookstore on April 25!

Happy Opening Day! It’s the first day of baseball season, which is my favorite national holiday. Here’s 10 things worth sharing:

February flew by, didn’t it? Here’s 10 things worth sharing:

We’re going for it, you guys. The new studio is coming along -and- I just hired my first full-time teammate. We want to be able to take on more projects, grow our stationery side project, and even pop-up at a few events selling merch and goodies.

Our family is ending the year with some big wins: we re-opened the bookstore just in time for the holidays (thank god) AND I recently moved out of our home office and into my own studio.

Last week, during yet another delay on the rebuild of our bookstore, I thought writing would make me feel less anxious but it turned out to just make for a very anxious newsletter. Lord knows we have plenty of those these days…

I don’t know if it's the changing seasons or getting older or just the craziness of our life right now, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the art of storytelling. What makes a great story? Why do we do it? Why do we love it?

I made this list of “Options” the day I was laid off from my previous job. Looking back, it makes me smile. I admire that I just sat down and took action – even though, for some reason, my first thought was to become a YouTuber.

Family movie night has been all bangers lately: Cool Runnings, Rookie of the Year, The Pacifier (feat. Vincent Diesel). All these movies are 20 years old – do they still make movies that are just…. fun?

It’s hot in Kansas. I don’t really like the phrase “beat the summer heat” – I think you just have to give in and let the sweat overtake you. On that note, a few things that might make the Swamp Ass™ more bearable: