My focus word moving into 2026 is: COMMUNITY Valuing and creating it

New travel post from our trip to Spain in September: Oh, how I loved San Sebastián! iamallwrite.com/2025/12/18/s...

I feel as though good and evil are in a desperate race for some quickly approaching finish line, and they are neck and neck.

We visited Zaragoza and 'Hemingway's' Pamplona in September. #Spain iamallwrite.com/2025/11/27/s...

Sometimes one is inspired to write a short something. Free. marywwalters.substack.com/p/a-very-sma...

Just noticed for the first time in my life (I think) how Leonard Cohen spelled Lady's Man (as in Death of a). #downsizing

Amazing Montserrat and the Benedictine Monastery there, which we visited in September. iamallwrite.com/2025/11/09/s...

I think the Dems should vote to get rid of the filibuster and let the Republicans decide what to do when it is suddenly all on them.

Our September visit to The Sagrada Familia (which today became the tallest church in the world) iamallwrite.com/2025/10/30/s...

TTC Line 4 at 10 p.m. when the Blue Jays are playing in the World Series. #Toronto @TTCnotices.bsky.social

I want to live long enough to find out what Putin has on Trump -- and then for another thirty years or so after that, so I can thoroughly enjoy it.

Start of my Spain Travel Blog iamallwrite.com/2025/10/13/s...

Republicans saying they'll negotiate on health care right away if the Dems end the shutdown reminds me of how Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown.

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

I wrote a book review #SevenMoonsofMaaliAlmeida @ShehanKaru marywwaltersbookreviews.wordpress.com

Nothing helps you kill your darlings more effectively than a funding application with word limits and a deadline. #writerspeak #grantwriting

If they're talking about Bolton, they're not talking about Epstein.

A grasshopper just flew into my eye. (Neither of us was harmed.) That's an omen of good luck, right?

"Abertillery." A personal essay. #Wales iamallwrite.com/2025/08/03/a...

Happy No Kings day. Long may it rain (in DC).

Double.

The internet isn't what it used to be. Half of what I see horrifies me and makes me sick and fearful for humanity, and the rest of it I don't believe because it looks like it might have been generated by AI. And yet, like the moth to the flame, here I am.

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” --Olga Tokarczuk www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...

Kermit the Frog giving a better commencement speech than the POTUS was not on my 2025 BINGO card.

DO NOT try to impeach him. You'll just increase his support again as it is finally eroding. With best wishes from a Canadian. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

US Republicans remind me of those talking dolls we used to have. You pulled a string on the doll's back and pre-recorded sentences came out, which were almost always unrelated to the question you had asked. Same talking points were built into all the dolls.

Oilers!!!!!

Two weeks ago the office of Maggie Chi (DVN, @liberalca.bsky.social ) called and left a message to ask if I'd take a lawn sign. Called back to say yes, and followed up 3 more times but still no lawn sign.

My favourite line from my choir rehearsal last night. Our conductor said to the altos, sopranos and basses , "Now, when the tenors come in, you are going to think 'Maybe we're in C Minor 7th or something'." I am glad of his confidence, but

I love this because I can't decide which one it's meaner to.

Melanie Joly just did a brilliant job speaking to Jake Tapper. Politically astute, that one. #elbowsup

Golly, I wonder if he's going to win?

Sucks to be you, small businesses

Does it help that I, a Canadian, have my browser open to watch Corey Booker's long speech live on YouTube? No idea, but in case all numbers matter, I'm doing it.

Looked around the online media for April Fool's jokes, which used to appear in headlines in such respected journals as Nature and Science, and even respectable news publications...

“While the US prefers dictators to democrats, punishes its friends, and lies, bullies and plots to steal allies’ sovereign territory, there is no going back. Many, perhaps most, Americans abhor this vile behaviour – yet unaccountably fail to stop it,” Simon Tisdall says what many of us are thinking.

🎯🎯🎯

The leader of Patriot Front, Thomas Rousseau, responded to an investigation by @philinvestigates.com about a PF compound in Tellico Plains, TN. Rousseau's response is hilarious and reveals how he attempts to keep his org relevant in the white power movement 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4V...

Mark Carney releases second ad with Mike Myers

Solidarity.

He didn't sign it, but it's signed. With his signature. Wonder if someone used an autopen. Wonder if he used an autopen. Wonder if he remembers using an autopen. Wonder if there's such a thing as an autoSharpie.

SNL has finally got the impersonation right, but they’re letting Trump off easy by not mocking the makeup. Just have a sketch where he keeps getting oranger skin and whiter hair between shots