Elizabeth Rynecki 

That Sinking Feeling: Adventures in ADHD & Ship Salvage available everywhere you get podcasts. I wrote CHASING PORTRAITS + made the docfilm. WIP: a novel inspired by real events. Bay Area.

There's this idea that if parents of neurodivergent kids would only make expectations clearer, and if they'd be more firm with their neurodivergent kid, that it would somehow turn them into more neurotypical kids. It doesn't work. Listen to That Sinking Feeling wherever you get podcasts.

Five years ago I started a blog called Authors Answer. Authors answer 5 questions about their lives off the written page. Today’s post features Henry Woodman. He makes popcorn with coconut oil and fine sea salt. He speaks Spanish and French and says, “There was a time, living in Chile, that I would often think and even dream in Spanish.”…

Authors Answer: Henry Woodman

The sad truth is that 9 years after Chasing Portraits was published, it is now, as they say: Out of Print. Penguin Random House gave me the opportunity to buy some copies before they offer them as remainders or (gasp!) possibly pulp them. So I bought one hundred (yep, 100) deeply discounted copies. Want one? I can sell one (or more!) to you, sign them, and ship anywhere in the US via media mail.

A few years ago I started the Authors Answer blog to invite authors to wax eloquent about their lives off the written page. There are 20 standing questions. Authors answer FIVE. Today Leah Fisher shares that her “second language” is that of psychological curiosity. Read the full interview here:

Authors Answer: Leah Fisher

This is a photo of my Dad during the TransPacific race (California to Hawaii). He twice went as the navigator (1965 and 1967). This is a photo of him using a sextant. Read the newsletter to learn more!

Shame, Sulfuric Acid, and Pancakes.

Episode three of That Sinking Feeling: Adventures in ADHD and Ship Salvage is now out! There are pancakes and a submarine and reference to a Boomtown Rats song.

Shame, Sulfuric Acid, and Pancakes.

I love this! I still have the 1949 telegram that my grandpa George sent President Truman, thanking him for allowing refugees from WWII to immigrate from Europe to the United States.

Traditionally charged by the word, telegrams were kept concise, and directors love using them in period filmmaking as urgent narrative devices. If you work on a film that’s set at any point between 1790 and 1970 you’ll probably make one, too. (I’m sorry that the same can’t be said for the humble facsimile: I can’t recall any 1980s movie …