Imagine trying to herd cats… now give each cat a pen name.

That’s A Heep of Words — my creative universe where three distinct voices chase inspiration, not laser dots.

• Alexandra Heep decodes the mysteries of health and the human body, where science meets intuition.
• Helena Parx travels through gnome groves and gem worlds, crafting tales where magic rewrites the rules.
• Lexa Drane brings comfort and calm to children (and their grown-ups) through gentle stories and coloring adventures — from mindful skunks to humming alpacas.

Together, they make one gloriously uncooperative herd of imagination — and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Please join me on this fantastic journey!

• National Old Rock Day
  In Defense of the Patient Ones Today, January 7, is National Old Rock Day, which sounds like a celebration invented by geology professors and sentient mountains—but it turns out to be surprisingly relevant to how the world works, how stories work, and how some planets refuse to be rushed. Old rocks are not just “rocks… Read more: National Old Rock Day
• Take a Poet to Lunch: A Brief (and Slightly Hungry) History of Poetry
  Today, January 6, is National Take a Poet to Lunch Day. Long before poetry was something you encountered on a greeting card or scrolled past on your phone, it was how humans remembered who they were. Poetry began as breath and rhythm—spoken aloud around fires, carried across generations before writing even existed. The earliest poets… Read more: Take a Poet to Lunch: A Brief (and Slightly Hungry) History of Poetry
• Happy National Science Fiction Day
  National Science Fiction Day (today, January 2) feels like permission. Permission to look up from the practical, the predictable, the already-mapped—and ask, what if the universe has a sense of humor? I’ve loved science fiction for as long as I can remember. As a child, I was captivated by Star Trek: The Original Series—not just… Read more: Happy National Science Fiction Day
• Happy New Year
  Did you know that New Year’s Resolution Week is actually a thing and takes place each year from January 1 until January 7? The first week of January is when optimism does cardio. Gyms are full. Planners are untouched. Everyone is definitely becoming a better person this time. And then statistics do what they always… Read more: Happy New Year
• Mongolia, Metal, and the Languages We Invent to Understand the Stars
  Today, December 29, is Mongolia’s Independence Day — a date that rarely appears on international calendars, yet carries a quiet, enduring gravity. On December 29, 1911, Mongolia declared independence from Qing rule, reclaiming sovereignty after centuries of external control. It was not a loud revolution. It was an act of remembrance — a return to… Read more: Mongolia, Metal, and the Languages We Invent to Understand the Stars
• Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts
  A Completely Appropriate Celebration for Fiction Writers Today, December 12, is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, a holiday that sounds suspiciously made up but is, in fact, rigorously observed by anyone who writes fiction or poetry and has ever stared at a sentence thinking, If I leave this in, people will have questions. Writing does… Read more: Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts