Marlaina Cockcroft
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Freelance writer, editor-for-hire | Fantasy/spooky story writer | #ADHD | Member, Authors Guild. Always needs bookmarks, probably wants tea. She/her. Found at marlainacockcroft.com
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Marlaina Cockcroft
@mdcroft.bsky.social
· Aug 22
Things are changing
There's change for the bad, and for the good. And sometimes both. The worst part of losing a pet is having to make the decision. I kept hoping Theo would die peacefully in her sleep, but even as she lost her appetite and her ability to walk, she kept hanging on until we brought her to the vet. The last time I lost a cat, she died in the car on the way to the emergency vet.
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Marlaina Cockcroft
@mdcroft.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Despite the storm
We were in the Poconos recently on a family trip. Rain was threatening, and thunder rolled across the lake. My son and I sat on the balcony of our hotel room, casually chatting, while the thunder got louder and the rain poured down and lightning flashed around us. A strange crackling, crashing sound startled us; we guessed lightning had hit a tree somewhere around the lake.
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Marlaina Cockcroft
@mdcroft.bsky.social
· May 21
Marlaina Cockcroft
@mdcroft.bsky.social
· May 16
Starting over, again
One of the hardest parts about baking—bread, biscuits, cookies, whatever—is trying not to overmix the dough. Knowing when the ingredients have more or less come together and that you haven't whisked, mixed or kneaded them into stiffness, because otherwise the dough won't hold its shape properly and might crack in the oven. Then you're stuck with a final result that doesn't represent your best work.
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Marlaina Cockcroft
@mdcroft.bsky.social
· Apr 18
Getting neurodiversity wrong
I put our Passover Seder together in a hurry last weekend* because we were on a college campus for most of it, attending an accepted students' weekend for our son. Our autistic son. I don't talk about my kids much online, because they're entitled to their privacy. But certain newspapers and public figures recently seem intent on suggesting (again) that ADHD is overdiagnosed and overmedicated and (again) that autism is a horrible thing and autistic people are somehow a burden on the rest of society.
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Marlaina Cockcroft
@mdcroft.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Just the words
Sometimes I think it's the pen. My favorite for a while was a white pen that said Walt Disney Resorts on it in gold. The pen always wrote smoothly. I'd never run out of words. (It was probably just a white Bic pen in fancy clothes, but I liked to pretend otherwise.) Sometimes I think it's the notebook. Smaller is better for road trips.
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