Okay, everyone. I'm about to run a final spellcheck on a manuscript using the non-AI version of Microsoft Word (I had to cancel and ask for the cheaper special subscription to get it). Let's see how bad AI in general has f-ed up even the non-AI spelling and grammar check.

SUN day in Burlington VT! ☀️Day of action ! More solar for more people 💪🏻 #renewableEnergy @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Fall prediction time! Our penultimate prediction post before final considerations. Here are the titles I think have the best show at the two major literary awards. Do you agree? Disagree? Find out! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/17/2...

Layered stone on stone crafted lines like sentences story in the woods #haikuSaturday

Once again: the House and Senate passed a national childcare bill in 1971, sponsored by Shirley Chisholm & Bella Abzug among others — and effing Nixon vetoed it! Time to right the wrong!

Ocean-breath rises wet-kisses the stony shore re-cycling wonder #haikuSaturday #grateful

We are overdue for a “ Have you no decency” kind of moment.

Red tomatoes, green fall chill creeps into August more sun-ripe days please #haikuSaturday

Good morning everyone. I hope you are okay today - especially you, Minneapolis. Check on your neighbors. Call your family members. Smile at children and old people. Pound your swords into plowshares. Topple tyrants with righteousness. Call your reps. Demand the cessation of gun sales. Pet a puppy.

Dear Democrats (and everyone): No, doing something about Trump is NOT going to wait for midterms. (Which should have been obvious from Day 1, but here we are. So DO SOMETHING!)

Great list! Lots to read. #kidlit

Hiking in Frost’s woods paper birch peels, kinglet sings unfurling stories #haikuSaturday #longtrail

THE VALUE OF IMAGERY IN VERSE NOVELS FOR YOUNG READERS teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/08/20/t...

Persistent heat chickadees swallow sprinkler spray #haikuSaturday

This month’s book recs: Ishi Robinson’s Sweetness and Everything by @randyribay.bsky.social #booksky jengennari.substack.com/p/for-reader...

Sign up today! have two new book recommendations in my next newsletter—books that may change your perspective! #kidlit

Sign up today! have two new book recommendations in my next newsletter—books that may change your perspective! #kidlit

Lunch not provided (so cool the pond in summer) Is your next meal known? #HaikuSaturday #feedchildren

This book remains in my collection! A beloved read-aloud. #kidlit

Bee feeds deep in skirted petal summer spire #haikuSaturday

Juxtaposition— [wren calls; the abducted cries] heard songs of the heart #haikuSaturday #nowords

I thought cutting NOAA was a small gov tactic but it turns out it’s small-minded evilness: from Project 2025, [NOAA and its offices] “form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.” 😡 As if facts can be changed #resist

Fiery petals garden eccentric, a balm against conforming #haikuSaturday

This is what terrifies me.

Definitely angry. 😡 Reducing our government to rubble. #resist

Horrified. You cannot opt out of people’s lives.

Great reads! I just finished Ribay’s book and it’s awesome. Emotional, historical and hopeful. @randyribay.bsky.social

Read. This. #resist

Note to media: “Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.

Turtle perched on stone carrying stories northward Earth-bound gravitas #spiritgarden #Toronto #haikuSaturday

Over 100 days after Mahmoud Khalil was unjustly arrested and detained because of his advocacy for Palestinian rights, he has been released on bail. We celebrate that Mahmoud will finally be home with his wife and newborn son while his case proceeds.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

Read a Langston Hughes poem for #Juneteenth #poetry via @poets.org Dream-singers, Story-tellers, Dancers, Loud laughers in the hands of Fate— My People. poets.org/poem/my-peop...

I’ve recommended two books for Pride month! Sign up for book reviews 📚 jengennari.substack.com/p/for-reader...

This makes me weep. "Hortman told MinnPost she decided when she was 10 years old she would be the first female president, while watching the 1980 presidential campaign." #melissahortman #feminism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our Bodies, Our Selves made a huge impact on me 💙Thank you, Norma Swenson! #feminism

Super proud of my parents… protesting for equality and democracy since 1960! #nokings

Our flag flying high for justice and liberty e pluribus unum #nokings #haikuSaturday

The deadline has come and gone for the government to appeal the ruling that blocks Mahmoud’s detention — he must be released immediately. Anything further is an attempt to prolong his unconstitutional and arbitrary detention.

It hurts thinking about how much rebuilding we will have to do…

BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

Porch swing, book, birdsong *gentle rocking, lake-lapping* summer quietude #haikuSaturday

So moved by this conversation between @staceyabrams.com and @joycewhitevance.bsky.social Power belongs to the people! #resist

Pitches and loglines are important marketing tools! But that's not all. They can help you uncover new ideas and threads in your story! They can push you to commit to your themes and character growth! Join me! Let's talk pantsing, planning, and what happens when you do a little of both! #writing

I’ve recommended two books for Pride month! Sign up for book reviews 📚 jengennari.substack.com/p/for-reader...

America is rapidly losing its world-class status for research. Thanks #Trump and associates! #MAWAWW (Making America Weak As We Watch!)

Restarting my newsletter with a focus on book recs! Reading is saving me right now. #kidlitchat #kidlit jengennari.substack.com/about

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈