Very proud to have this story up @literarymama.bsky.social. Editor Elizabeth Conway was wonderful to work with and made the story to much stronger. literarymama.com/articles/dep...

The NY Times has devoted a full page to the profile of a militant who is feeling hopeless that his violent actions didnt uproot Israel (His words.) Why? Are we supposed to feel sorry for him? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...

With poetry and the fine stitching of words, Yasmina Khadra (pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul) portrays the reality of life under the Taliban. Using just a few characters, he gives us an intimate look at lost hope and devastation. #theswallowsofkabul

Out of respect for those who may be triggered we are asked not to use words like master bedroom, tone deaf, crazy, exotic, spooky, etc. but when Jews are triggered by globalize the intifada all we hear is that it doesn't mean what we think it means. But it means exactly that. #jewsky #wordsmatter

Not surprising that I haven't seen a single non-Jew posting about this. How will this murder help to Free Palestine?

Thank you @netflix.com for #thequilters and for @restorativejustice.bsky.social for this amazing program. Thank you for bringing humanity into conversations about incarceration.

Congratulations to @cavankerrypress.bsky.social author @nadiaalexis.bsky.social on the pub of BEYOND THE WATERSHED and this interview in @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/03/26/n...

I'm so used to seeing posts that compare writing to other life endeavours that this was a refreshing change. It's not like kayaking, apparently. @judithhannan.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/k... #writingtips #authorlife #writingcommunity #skywriters

So honored to be featured in today's Brevity Blog. Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social

I guess there wasn't any need for the @icrc.org to work in/delineate such "occupied" territories when Jordan and Egypt were the occupiers. (Screenshot, surprisingly enough, from a recent NYT article.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

Don't fool yourself. Migrants aren't being deported. They're being held in internment camps, many without any criminal record whatsoever. The resurrection of internment camps should give us all chills.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has the authority to remove Mayor Adams who is betraying the people he was elected to represent in the name of kissing up to Trump. She needs to hear from us to urge her to do the right thing.

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

It was a special day when we found this series of decorative plates created by David Lynch. It's too hard to see but each one has a caption and together they tell a story. A moody one of course. May his memory be a blessing. #davidlynch

My first read of 2025. @legroff.bsky.social has set the bar high. A propulsive read that forced me to slow down to savor the beautiful sentences. As one girl seeks to survive we confront the difference between conquering the land and living within its rules.

Last book of 2024. A fitting examination of time, belonging, leaving and returning, cycles, and asking questions about what is so important about human beings anyway.

I went to the bookstore and said I would read whatever the bookseller recommended without reading the blurb. This was a brilliant choice. I Amy try this strategy more often.

I'm a cliche. Watched Love Actually on Christmas, after lighting the candles for the first night of Chanukah. I'll take love and light wherever I can get. Happy holidays, winter, solstice --whatever today means to you--to everyone.

So nice to have a dog that loves books as much as I do.

In her essay in @pw.org on decolonizing the novel, Namrata Poddar says: "The Holocaust was the culmination of a white history of colonial and genocidal violence perpetrated against people of color across the planet." No. The victims were 6 mil Jews and their ancestors whom you have just gaslit.

Cutting edge pediatric cancer research saved my daughter's life. What will cutting $190 million from the budget save? It's too small a number to even make an impact on the deficit. Once again, children being asked to sacrifice themselves for a sick Republican agenda. www.newsweek.com/pediatric-ca...

Thank you @erikadreifus.bsky.social and @howardlovy.bsky.social

Now you see him, now you don't.

Thanksgiving at my house: 9 kids under 4, 7 moody teens and pre-tweens, 7 dogs, lots of happy adults, age 30 to 78, missing our elders and counting our blessings. #gratitude #thanks #family

From Leila Slimani's WATCH US DANCE. "He thinks she does all this out of love and she wants to yell at him: 'What you call love is actually work!' Were women really so filled with affection and kindness that they could spend an entire lifetime ... taking care of others." #women #marriage #motherhood

Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social for posting this wrenching essay. Best to read by pausing after each name mentioned.

Using TALK, a poem by Kwame Dawes, with my writing group today to generate stories about anger, who speaks for you, the anger you never expressed, etc. I expect there will be some powerful stories. #generativewriting #writingworkshop poets.org/poem/talk

I needed this today, a reminder if what we as writers are capable of www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Just left X. Not sure what took me so long. Except I do. Social media platforms seduce you, make you worry about what you might miss. Here, I am hoping for more meaningful interactions.

@rafleishman.bsky.social writes movingly about her work as a neonatologist. Now you can hear her heartfelt words on how writing saves lives. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social for including my essay, "Depression in 100 Word Doses" published by The Manifestation in last week's Memoir Monday roundup. www.themanifeststation.net/2024/10/23/d...