Annabelle Fern Praznik

The wound, the window, the light that makes it through. The Exit Wound is a Window—new on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/annabellef…

Transformation is a simultaneous witnessing and remembrance of self. New essay: If This Were a Poem annabellefernpraznik.substack.com

New essay: Visibility, Privacy, and the Osprey—on technology, recovery, and living with what is sacred. open.substack.com/pub/annabellef…

The “I” Rewritten A live creative writing workshop for writers in transformation. September sessions: Friday, Sept 26 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM MST (5 PT | 7 CT | 8 ET) Sunday, Sept 28 | 2:00 – 3:30 PM MST (1 PT | 3 CT | 4 ET) Details and sign-up: annabellefernpraznik.com/workshops-edit…

The “I” Rewritten — an online writing workshop to reimagine voice, experience, and story. Sunday, Aug 31 | Zoom $45 Workshop Only | $95 Workshop + Feedback Limited spots. Register: annabellefernpraznik.com/workshops-edit…

Okay wait guys I also signed up for a stroke development class at the senior center. I’m really in my group sports era. 😭

Watched Challengers last night. Signed up for pickleball lessons today.

@sighswoon Walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, rye bread, & lamb. I go into anaphylaxis so I carry an epipen. Was allergic to all nuts, dairy, & cats as a kid but outgrew almost all of that. Allergies are pretty wild, man. Seemingly nonsensical.

new author headshots by the ever-talented, visionary @annabellefern 🩵 (hey, uh, *author* headshots as in… order my book maybe?)

@donna_hennessy Me too!!!

@annabellefern Oh, how I love your Mom!!💕

The other day I was talking to my mom on the phone—just how I talk, all over the place, musing, theorizing, reflecting—& she’s like “you should write a book about this!” I said “mom! I am! I have been for the last 2 years.” She goes, “yeah, but a book a normal person can read.”

@sluttyesque That’s my girl.

Sometimes I’ll put on a show and then decide it’s much more important to google the life span of a cow

@sluttyesque So funny my mom was in Vegas two weeks ago. She overheard a woman say she hoped some guy gets fucked by a giraffe’s cock & that there were these cute southern ladies excited to feed their husbands a buffet breakfast at a strip club.

My mom just called me from Vegas and said “the whole place is sensory offensive”

@bg_writing As you should be!!!

three (almost four) book events scheduled… more coming soon… i’m about to be so annoying w/ this launch & promotion lmao

@sluttyesque I feel attacked!

You haven’t been heartbroken until you’ve gotten into the best shape of your life in the wake of the breakup

My kids have slowly been compiling this lore for me all summer over shared meals & today they let me write it down. Ten out of ten.

Most beautiful advice I’ve received recently was about meditation while exercising. “I like looking up at birds until I can see myself running on the ground through their eyes.”

@donna_hennessy 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@annabellefern It takes a lot of strength and work to live the Serenity Prayer. Weeping is part of the process as I try everyday to accept the things I cannot change and change the things I can. It’s progress not perfection, one day at a time. 💕

Cried so much this week I gave myself a stye in each eye. My mom sent me this on the “weeping mode.” I cried to my dad over FaceTime last night. This morning, my sister woke me up in bed & I started crying because I was happy to see her. I’m my own little healing body of water.

I rewatched 3 episodes of The Sopranos & suddenly I’m crimping my hair & clipping it up to the side & doing my makeup & taking all my gold jewelry out of storage & wearing tear-away adidas pants to my daughter’s softball game.