POTD, by Stewart Sanderson, found on @northseapoets.bsky.social's substack email. 👏https://www.northwordsnow.co.uk/issue37/Unland

TBH still pouting about this. XP was the best. From FB memories. "On this day 16 years ago: wishes that Vista defragmenter had the same pretty graph image that XP did. ::pouts::"

TBR piles show you are supporting writers, maybe your friends, and its good insulation even if you never get to it. First learned back in the day when sewers would say, who ever dies with the most fabric wins. Nope, you're fine, good insulation.

Waawiyaataanong, or as it's known now, the Detroit River. Grew up a block away.

Fun fact: a $53k scotch's delivery is only $9.99. Reserve Bar, you made me laugh.

I finally started submitting again for this year. Last year was a near drought after '24's welcoming vivaciousness. Hope springs, next year country ... no promise but hope.

Lafayette Coney Island, or American Coney Island, in Detroit. Best I've ever tasted. For my own, just mustard and tomato. www.detroitpbs.org/news-media/o...

I've never gone in this hard with stew before, but if you use 3 cups of beef stock, and 3/4 bottle of red wine, it turns out quite well. This link, mostly. I cubed the beef into 1 inch pieces, and floured it. Roasted two heads of garlic separately and added later. laurenslatest.com/arm-roast-re...

Do watch, worth every spin!

So funny. I'm not one to talk because I thought at the end of the first movie, the ring would have been dealt with. So surprised it wasn't. I'd only read the Hobbit book at that point.

They thanked "viewers like you" almost every time. 💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk7d...

Tripped over a large exercise ball. I hadn't realized it had rolled in front of me, fell over it and concussed myself. Roads to exercising can be fraught. Oh, another, I think I tore my meniscus by rolling over in bed.

Went to the Monet in Venice exhibit yesterday, and my fav painting there was this one, clearly not a Monet. The Antiquary Shop by William Merritt Chase. Stunning work. I love a museum surprise. museums.co/products/the...

Reading frank: sonnets by Diane Suess. In the local to this part, she's flexible with facts. But this commentary feels true no matter. I ❤️ this book so much!! Ah, the old hard-core days lol!

I purchased the giant collection a few weeks ago and was thinking about diving in, a few poems a day. IDK. Curious what I might find too.

This is excellent! People refuse to believe that so many were enslaved in the French Windsor Detroit area in the numbers they were long before the British system. Or they think the enslaved had it better off because it wasn't British plantation slavery. I've heard this so many times!!

Thank god Word has the date a doc was made, proving to myself, after entirely forgetting I wrote a thing, that I wrote a thing, cross referenced to my calendar that I took a flash fic course a year ago. 1/

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To those that celebrate:

Tennyson on my mind today: Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57829/...

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

CCMM, all birds carry the spirit of dinosaurs, this one in particular. Gorgeous.

“As a writer…you are the freest person that ever was.” Don’t let genAI ever take away this freedom.

Since Word's synonym function is so borked, and seemingly censoring options, I'm just going to leave Rhymezone.com open all the time. Their "related word" function is the best!! I found it years ago and will recommend 💯%!

I miss Winnipeg.

Dick Van Dyke's 100th! birthday today! reminded me of my poem inspired by him and Mary Tyler Moore's ground breaking show, and my annoyance of being shuttled to capris upon reaching certain ages. www.janusliterary.com/2022/06/30/v...

FB memories reminded me of this, from 2012. " I thought of this in a dream, and actually remembered. "Caring is the new possible."" Still true.

Happy 195th Birthday, Emily Dickinson! From 372: This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –

From FB memories ~2016: "Today at Poetry Club, one boy said, "If anyone gets hurt in Poetry Club, no one has to worry as I'm a Boy Scout and know what to do." So cute. Poetry injuries go beyond paper cuts apparently. And we haven't started on revision yet, so..."

Camille Claudel is my fav sculptor. She reveals the fire imbued in metal. She destroyed most of her work in 1912. jvaraujo.art/arqueologiai...

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TIL there are cat shaped wine bottles. Got the blue one. Moselland Cat riesling. I don't care how it will taste, because I often buy wine for the cover. (Charden-yay (sp) was the most disappointing as there's no yay.) It's not a bad way to judge wine because most of them have been decent.

New development. My "Bits of things to remember" list has been lifted out the the depths of my writing file. 2 bits were added. Feb last it was opened and added to. Do I sense an end of year inspiration? One, ->me, can only hope.

Requiem The endings are never easy. They waft up in your mind's periphery like the scent of your father's wine on a summer night, when the streets are emptying with cars, and the city lights flare to chase away the encroaching shadows— no delay—like clockwork. Love is just time, you think. Love is…

I hope they did too. (Still the best platform, from the start.)

If people see faces on Mars, pareidolia, they will see people in AI. I think it's the same brain function, for connection.

Killing me! I'm going to splurge and go with the newest big boy in town. Seamus Heaney!

The End Times has arrived. I will make apple cake from the harvest gathering soon.

They don't deserve their children, if their first choice is this. Absolute evil. Anyone who has lost a child, yearns for a child they can't have, probably shouldn't read this.

I'm reading some draft stuff for a thing right now and I keep thinking about how strict genre expectations ruin perfectly good storytelling. Not the major genre conventions (HEA/HFN for Romance, a puzzle to be solved for Mystery, personal/social/global stakes/peril for Thriller, etc.). 1/?

For those following along in my holiday baking adventures, the rugelach are done. Walnut raisin. Forgot the apricot jam, but as with all baking, it's a bit of random toss of what actually occurs. Interestingly, on FB memories, the same two years ago on this day. Now back to novel revision in 10.

The beauty of living in the Midwest is that you can attend an incredible poetry reading, get two dozen cranberry mincemeat tarts, and one cherry jam turnover with the leftover dough, all done by 8pm. The poetry was so good!

My fav thing reading is when I say how did they do this? The best thing.

Despite and perhaps because of my food processor fluffing flour all over me and the floor, the resulting cranberry mincemeat tarts came out well. (I added more flour, used a pastry cutter, then my hands because I have no time for pastry cutters.) Follow me for more adventures in Christmas baking.

Graven images.

Why can't beaten metal jewelry be a thing again?? I want to see hammer strikes on bracelets, and necklaces. Metal molded like that. Also now I guess I've got to visit Wales.

I started rereading WH after seeing the trailer, also started baking cc cookies for the holidays. Then I saw this beautiful thing! 💯 Now as I read, it's earworming me, and I think this is the energy going into the holidays!

My fav of the bunch.

These are the best I've ever seen, even when we lived in Winnipeg.