Dizzy and I had a surreal day together in late-80s Boston, and the Kennedys were involved... Details in my memoir HOLY DISOBEDIENCE, out with @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social in March 2026.

Reading two novels - one fairly bad, one brilliant. Trying to parse it: the amateur one has up to three fairly trite similes per paragraph. Contrast with this single simile, rich with meaning, from the brilliant one (The English Patient).

I am reading two novels simultaneously that are each, at times, confusing - but one is absolutely intoxicating & delicious and the other is...MEH.

Trying to consolidate all my socials - Substack will (for now) be my "website" and overall landing page if you want to follow there! (Melissa Duge Spiers)

Lovely, foggy, solo 6-mile run this early AM. Nowhere near my old mileage but feels good ❤️

Not #ebay proving yet again to have the worst, most complicated and illogical seller support ever...

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

These are the dumbest times, led by the dumbest of people.

For the love of gawd, what is going on with Marco Rubio's tailor?!? #marcorubio

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY announcement makes HOLY DISOBEDIENCE seem so...real and official! Here we goooooo! #holydisobedience #memoir #writingcommunity #Adventist #adventista #exAdventist #exseventhdayadventist #seventhdayadventist #seventhdayadventistchurch #sdachurch

Thank you to @bookpipeline.bsky.social for officially kicking off my memoir journey that culminated in my signing with @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social yesterday! #writer

I SIGNED WITH LAKE DRIVE BOOKS TODAY for my memoir! It has been a LONG TIME COMING and I am so thankful for that, because it found the PERFECT publisher! @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social #memoirist

The unfair FAFO of my parents' silent-gen lives: born in depression, war, market crash -> lived their entire lives (w/boomers) in the "FA" of unsustainable capitalism, American arrogance, & deliberate environmental ignorance -> likely to die in depression, war, market crash & WE get to "FO." #FAFO

Where is our modern-day Mata Hari, a s'worker who can seduce one of Elon's incel Traitor Tots and get all the Intel? #stolenelection2024

Have I missed all of the Musk=Megamind memes? Because... #presidentmusk

Our coalition is a peaceful resistance—a group of tree-huggers dedicated to keeping Americans informed.

Regenerative farmers can be sane, scientifically literate, Black, Indigenous, non-religious, non-crunchy, non-alt-right, feminist, accepting of plant based diets, urban born, and a heterosexual male, all at the same time. Retweet this and/or follow me to see what that looks like.

Adjusted for equivalency (I sell twice as much on Posh as eBay) these are my 2024 numbers. Guess which reseller app I like better? #ebaysucks #poshmark #reseller

Zuck around? 👉Find out.

He wants so desperately to be profound, but instead this stuff comes across as super weird and uncomfortable.

Remember a few years ago when Maye Musk was hailed everywhere as a great supermodel (she was not) and the hallowed mother of the most brilliant man on earth (he was not)? Not hearing much from her camp lately. #elonmusk

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

Really trying this year to stop supporting (to the greatest extent possible) all big companies & power players. Starts of course with wearing only vintage 😍! No Amazon acct, switching from GoodReads to Story Graph, trying to shop more local groceries/less Safeway, etc. Suggestions welcome please?!!

Trying to figure out how best to transfer content here from IG and TT. Vids there are 90 seconds - here they're 60. Maybe can download and speed up existing stuff? Then I'm going to have to talk faster! 😆

Meta is trash and so is Twitter. Zuck & Musk can LMB🖕