Alexis Dawn Thomas

Alexis Dawn Thomas

I am a writer, mother, and lifelong learner, trying to understand what it means to raise a child and build a life during a period of enormous technological change.

What I’m making

A portfolio of my work, in two parts: a game and two essays.

Game · in build

The Inner Library

A game where you inhabit a home and the ecological region around it while accomplishing your own real-life goals. Your paper is on the left: the day, your habits, the season’s goals, your books. The house and its county are on the right, drawn. It feels like a dollhouse you live in: you choose the decor, you keep the record of yourself, and the grounds go on past the yard.

The clock is your clock and the sun is the real sun. The work you were going to do anyway earns credit, credit furnishes the house, and outside you come to know one place well. No feed, no notifications, and everything you write stays on your own machine.

There is also a paper version that goes alongside the digital one: a 120-page journal system built around the same thirteen-week season.

I’m still building out the full experience, but you can try the demo now.

Open the demo

Writing · two essays

The writing

Two essays from spring 2026 — the digital divide I wrote a college paper about in 2011 and the one that replaced it, and the invitation that started the Inner Library Project.

Read the writing