Category: Personal Posts

• I’m Moving All Posting to Substack, Follow Me There!

  I have a small, but kinda big, announcement to make. I am consolidating all of my e-newsletters, blogging, and book reviews into one monthly newsletter that I launched today called, “Rogue Writer, by Shari Lopatin.” I’m using Substack for this change, but I’m still keeping my writer’s page here on WordPress. However, if you follow…

  Shari Lopatin

  July 28, 2021

  For the Writers, Industry News, Personal Posts

  newsletters, publishing, Substack, Writing

• For Holocaust Remembrance Day, I Watched a Friend Fall for QAnon and into Anti-Semitism

  

  Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of when Auschwitz was liberated and the horror of the Holocaust began to truly reveal itself to the world. Instead of sharing the usual photos of emaciated bodies behind barbed wire and spouting #NeverForget hashtags, I want to offer a personal story—one that’s much more recent and…

  Shari Lopatin

  January 27, 2021

  Current Events (and stuff), Personal Posts, Social Issues

  anti-Semitism, Capitol Insurrection, conspiracy theories, cults, current events, fake news, genocide, Genocide Watch, Holocaust Remembrance, QAnon

• Why I’m Cutting Back on Social Media as an Indie Author

  A week before Christmas in 2018, a virus attacked my brain stem. Technically, it was my vestibular nerve, which is responsible for communication between the eyes, inner ears, and brain. The condition is called vestibular neuritis (yes, you can Google it). The result of this random, weird sickness was the world wouldn’t stop spinning and…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 2, 2019

  Personal Posts, Social Issues

  anxiety, blogging, creative writing, dystopia, indie author, mental health, science fiction, self-publishing, Social media, technology, The Apollo Illusion, Writing

• Screaming is What We Do Best (As Writers Writing for Nothingness)

  DO YOU EVER FEEL like writing nothing for the sake of nothingness, in a black hole of a vacuum of ideas, pandering and rambling about rambling in pure space and time, because the blank page mocks you into a fury? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I just want to write, and type, and stumble over words, words…

  Shari Lopatin

  August 13, 2018

  Personal Posts, Random Rants

  art, blogging, creative writing, inspiration, journaling, literature, poetry, reading, wordplay, wordsmithing, Writing

• What It Feels Like When Someone Wishes Me ‘Happy Hanukkah’

  I grew up in a conservative, Christian state where most people say Merry Christmas. And that’s fine. I usually say Happy Holidays. I never take offense to a greeting of the season, regardless of how it’s spoken. But something warm and precious emerges when someone wishes me Happy Hanukkah. Let me paint a picture for…

  Shari Lopatin

  December 12, 2017

  Personal Posts

  cultural norms, culture, Hanukkah, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays, Holiday Season, Jewish, Judaism

• Yes, I’m Angry. But I’m Choosing Love Anyway

  Let me start with this: I didn’t vote for Donald Trump. In fact, the man has the rare ability to crawl under my skin like lice and turn my blood to lava. Despite these feelings, I have chosen to resist and fight back with the strongest action of all … love. On the day of…

  Shari Lopatin

  March 23, 2017

  Personal Posts, Social Issues

  #lovewins, life, Love, Love Wins, politics, Trump, Writing

• Preparing to Say Good-Bye

  Saying good-bye is nature’s cruel joke, and now I’m preparing to say good-bye to my best friend and my writing companion of the past 13 years. Chance “Mazel Tov” Lopatin, also known as Mr. Man. For those of you who have been following my blog for years, you may remember Chance from the viral Freshly Pressed post,…

  Shari Lopatin

  June 2, 2015

  Personal Posts

  animals, cats, death, grieving, life, pets, Writing