https://digitaldryad.com/authors/leticia-darroch/Recent content in Leticia Darroch on Digital DryadHugoen-us© 2024–2026 Jennifer Kyrnin. All rights reserved.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://digitaldryad.com/posts/i-am-afraid-of-fire/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://digitaldryad.com/posts/i-am-afraid-of-fire/<h1 id="i-am-afraid-of-fire-and-i-am-telling-you-to-use-it">I Am Afraid of Fire and I Am Telling You to Use It</h1> <p>My daughter asked me to write for her website.</p> <p>I said no. Sierra keeps her tree inside a machine, and I have spent two hundred years explaining to her why human machines are a mistake, and she has spent seventeen years not listening. Then she told me what the post was to be about, and I said no again, more sharply, and she waited, because she has learned that from her grandmother.</p>