30 years ago I had a cat who looked exactly like this one. 🥲

Absolute flash to the past. Where where you in '05? www.firesides.ca/bestpoets.htm

Because of the heat we've been having, the okra plant is now taller than me, and the tomatoes are having a strong comeback. I don't think the oregano was oregano, it has no smell or flavor yet the flowers are accurate to what I searched. Gardening, you will always be surprised by what comes.

This is beautiful.

Can't wait!!

Peaceful hike today.

Wow, you can feel every single line.

Are you aware that LinkedIn will begin using your data, including your resume, on November 3 to train its generative AI and you must opt out to prevent it? Settings —> Data Privacy —> … AI

Like buying new calendars or notebooks, but bigger.

Antique stores are the best. James Baldwin at the front. Incredible headline too.

I wrote a guest blog post for @beckyltuch.bsky.social on her Lit Mag News, focused the history of the separation between "literary" and "genre" magazines. Check it out! litmagnews.substack.com/p/a-legacy-o...

Best pie: cheesecake Best Ice Cream: Vanilla bean Best Doughnut: cruller, unglazed Best Bar: my aunt's date bars Best Cake: coconut milk cake with coconut milk frosting, everyone thinks it's white cake, and then boom Best Other: tres leches cake the moms made at the school I used to work at

It took a sec after a short skirmish, but the dragonfly and hummingbird have reached detente on the metal arch.

While looking for something else in my old blog, I came across this post. 💔 OT I miss the blogging world of then, it's not the same now. reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com/2007/08/work...

Just took out 50 versions of "look" from my novel. LOL

FB memory, the day after he died, and I still do: 17 years ago Vicky MacDonald Harris September 11, 2008 will miss Reginald Shepherd's poetry and his light.

A hummingbird just hovered for many seconds about a foot from me. 🥰

"Detroit rang so loud pipes burst up and down the street and I passed out: my lead rain, heaven-sent city came onto me while I slept." Find this incredible poem, CRUISING IN THE MOTOR CITY, by Alex Bortell in our JUNE ISSUE before it hits the archive: buff.ly/cNEBOaW

FB memories: September 9, 2016: "Poetry club was a blast. To quote one boy, "best club ever!" I could not have asked for a better hour. We wrote poems riffing off of Williams', This is Just to Say, with real plums, cold and delicious, for snack, and The Red Wheelbarrow. So much fun!"

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The Driveway.

Siobhán McSweeney's Sister Michael might be one of my fav characters ever. And she drives a DeLorean. Derry Girls is so good. Late to the party, but better than never.

My husband found this at a nearby antique store. 1914. The photos within the whole issue are wild.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Interstellar 3I/ATLAS might be older than our solar system. How cool is that?! ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The emotional engine that is a poetry reading, sustains for days, and surprises me every time. \o/

The wildest thing about his clothes, wasn't the outside, it was the inside between the lining and the outer fabric. That is where the magic of construction happened. I hated when I couldn't look up the bottom of the jackets to peek inside to see the work.

Gateway. 2001, the first time we could afford a computer. The computer was good, XP, but the HP Deskjet printer we purchased lasted until 2017! when we moved and no one thought to take out the ink cartridge. I wish printers were like that now. Hundreds! of color copies on one set of colours.

Real time. Gorgeous day!

Today's Word ridiculousness: it won't recognize "malevolence" as a noun. Wants me to change it to malevolent, which is incorrect. Context is gone.

Making homemade agua de jamaica, and the house smells amazing. Finally found a store here to buy the dried flowers. This is the recipe I'm using. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/21436...

This came up on my FB memories. Still brilliance at work. Enjoy. youtu.be/98lOJGTe1M0?...

The pointed use of thunder sound effects in The Gilded Age is cracking me up. The show's made me cry twice today, so there is that too. Denée Benton should get all the awards.

You change one character's name, and you end up having to change the whole family's.

Nick Cave on the antidote to our existential helplessness www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/29/n...

I didn't realize that Pity by Andrew McMillian was the poet. Hit that purchase button immediately.

I'll likely keep watching Alien Earth, but if a slowly crashing spaceship, skims the side of a building, it's likely those on the balcony below won't survive. Suspending disbelief big time.

😍https://youtu.be/3k5acPIi0f8?feature=shared

I have an okra flower. Deep frying awaits! Also weird fungus on my walk this morning.

Furthest in each direction I've been in Canada: N: Edmonton S: Point Pelee, to the tip. Grew up in Windsor. W: Nanaimo, BC E: St. John's,, Newfoundland plane refueling, if that doesn't count than Cheticamp NS.

Fans are already fighting about Blood of My Blood. So funny. media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

This is so good. And if birds dream, then dinosaurs did too. Another thing to put on my (never written down) you can't change my mind list.

The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill edited by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and John.Keene has one of the most beautiful forwards I've ever read. Goodness.

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It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

40, maybe a few more. Mostly driving too.

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My fav kid's book. Love every single thing about it, many reasons detailed here. 💜

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