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!

• Happy Poetry Break Day
  (Yes, that’s official. I just checked with the Muse. She nodded.) Some days are for productivity.Some days are for inboxes.And some days—quietly, rebelliously—are for poetry. Poetry Break Day is the pause button you’re allowed to press without explaining yourself. It’s the moment you stop trying to be useful and let language be alive instead. No… Read more: Happy Poetry Break Day
• International Word Nerd Day
  In Defense of Exactly the Right Word There’s a holiday for everything now, which is fitting—because naming things is one of humanity’s oldest tricks. Today, January 9, happens to be International Word Nerd Day, and if that makes you smile a little too knowingly, welcome. You’re among friends who get unreasonably excited about etymology, who… Read more: International Word Nerd Day
• 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