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Do Girls Really Think Books about Boys Don’t Apply to Them?

Thea van Diepen

Someone asked me the other day whether girls really think that books about boys don’t apply to them. It was an honest question, respectfully asked. I’m glad they asked, too, because the intensity and passion of my answer surprised me, so much so that I felt it important to share it more widely. This is why I will never stop asking for and writing more female protagonists: I remember the first time I read A Paper Bag Princess. Even at that

The Kitten Psychologist and What the Kitten Did

Thea van Diepen

(Just jumping in now? Read the previous installment, The Kitten Psychologist Tries to Be Patient via Email, or start at the beginning with The Kitten Psychologist.) Wednesday arrived, and 2:55pm found me in my office, sweating. I’ve really got to turn the heat down in this place. Oh. It is down. Well, crap. I’d cancelled my other appointments that day when it became clear partway through my first one that all I could think about was this one. This one in thirty

Farewell (a poem)

Thea van Diepen

The birds have flown go on, go on Their dark-rising shapes giving way To the dark-arriving clouds Thick with thunder and the cleansing rain

We Are the Sound History Makes

Thea van Diepen

We are living what will be known in the future as history. Us, with all our secret struggles and secret fears. With all our hopes, all our dreams for the future, all for us. All the selfish things we want even as we’re afraid of the world ending around us, afraid that working to get those things is a mistake, afraid of the people who might turn against us for those things when or if the world ends. Us, with

The Meaning of Life is Potato Waffles

Thea van Diepen

Piper Bates and I have determined that the creating and eating of potato waffles is the meaning of life. It works like this: Potato waffles are excellent and having them 24/7 would result both in being fed and general happiness. Since they are so happy-making, you could also have friends over to eat them with you, thus allowing you to have a social life without leaving the house. And, as we all know, potato waffles + social life + never leaving