Sarah Opatz

@opatzsarah.bsky.social

Events Coordinator @ Blue House Books 📚 Creator & Editor-in-Chief of Kenozia- local Kenosha Arts & Literary Zine 🖌️ My personal art Ko-Fi page= https://ko-fi.com/distinctivemediums 🖤 Kenozia Zine Ko-Fi page= https://ko-fi.com/kenozia 🎨

I’m teaching a monthly kids painting class at east view coffee and I just finished up the next painting I’ll be teaching. It’s a little robot. I need to come up with a name for it?

A photo of the painting I made of a little grey robot with a bunch of buttons and things on its chest. It has an orange background and blue colored accents.

Trying to figure out what the heck I’m gonna do with my life is making me fall into full on depression. I wish there was a way to turn my zine business into a full time career. That is truly the dream. 😞

Every time I’m in mke dog sitting. I have to stop into Beerline cafe. It’s an all vegetarian restaurant where everything can be made vegan and most things gluten free. It’s my absolute favorite place! I just wish it was closer to my house 😭

I wonder how much is the thought process: -Most artists can't support themselves on art alone -"Being an artist" is therefore a dream people grow out of -Therefore artists are people who refused to grow up -Therefore artists are naive With a dash of "I gave up my childhood dream, so sour grapes"

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

Noticing some folks seem to think writers just say clever things without understanding how the world works, as if we're all naifs who just happen to be good with words instead of people with formal educations and a professional interest verging on requirement in the ability to conduct research

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Am I behind on my deadline. Yes. But did each article blow up to be twice the original size. Also yes… quality takes time. Might have to pay for expedited shipping at this point to have the zine in time for the release party. I am panicked. 🫨