New blog post up. Not sure why I keep losing the connection to Bluesky so the autoposting doesn't work. #Memories #Journaling #personalposting taramoeller.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/e...

Copy Edit or Proofread? As I've been looking for freelance projects, I've noticed something: Proofreader jobs that are actually copy editor jobs when you get into the expectations of what tasks you are being asked to perform. While these two jobs are very similar, with a lot of skill overlap, they…

Winter Wonderland (Not!) It's cold here in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. We were preparing for anticipated snow that, of course, didn't happen. Sometimes it does, just not when it's hyped and multiple warnings are issued. So now we have cold (below freezing) temperatures without any of the…

Verbs in Article Titles Do you remember seeing this article title back in November of last year (2025)? What will 3I/ATLAS teach us about the universe?  It was used in a Medium email and post to garner interest in reading about the asteroid careening toward our part of the galaxy. While I…

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Matilda/Matilda How many Matildas do you know?

How (not) to use statistics Statistics can provide validity to what you are trying to write (or say, if presenting orally), but you can't just drop a number in and - voila! - have validity. Even if that statistic is related to what you are writing about, it isn't always enough. I recently read an…

Not so Smart Cookies But sometimes...I don't know. I find them annoying.

Come see us in the vendor room! We'll have copies of Nowhere Land by @pamelakkinney.bsky.social, Like Second Skin by @taramoeller.bsky.social, Helmets by @portfolimo.bsky.social, and more!!!!

I read an "opinion" piece and have some thoughts to share...

Cold Haiku freezing fall fingers hang clothes to dry on the line and wear crisp autumn

The regime in the White House is making devastating cuts to the social safety to finance tax cuts for the super rich. And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years. Oligarchy.

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I won an Award! Like Second Skin, my science-fiction semi-dystopic military novel, won two third-place awards from The BookFest Fall 2025

Trump has canceled hundreds of millions in public health research grants since taking office — endangering pediatric cancer research. Now he wants to slash the National Cancer Institute's budget by 37%. How is this Making America Healthy Again?

I'm with Dan

This would explain a lot.

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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"ICE" does not exist in any way that resembles what it was in its former life. This warrantless....non-identification bullshit...is the extension of the most evil, lawless...heartless son of a bitch in the United States of America.

JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ

Trump is fighting for the average American by striking a deal with the UK that will reduce prices for Rolls Royces and Bentleys.

trumptariffstracker.com/products In case you want to track them…

So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?

Finished just over 2000 words in my sci-fi WIP today. It's been a while since I've felt able to write...and this feels so good. (Let's not dwell on the fact that it took me almost all day to put those 2000 words together.) #author #writing #💙🪐 #💙📚

1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally. I interviewed Hermosillo. He says the government is lying.

3 Technical Writing Resources from my Personal Shelf As a technical editor for 25 years, I've accumulated a lot of book resources. Here are 3 that I think would be great to have on your shelf (if you can find them). 1. Technical Editing : The Practical Guide for Editors and Writers by Judith A…

7 [personal] Rants about Editing 1. Editing is not proofreading (and vice versa). Editing and proofreading are two different, but related tasks, and have overlapping, but not identical, skill sets. Proofreading is the last task that should be completed before a piece of writing is typeset (or…

youtu.be/fNAzAowrURo?... I read an excerpt from Like Second Skin on DreamPunk Press' YouTube channel if anyone wants to go listen. I cringe listening to my voice; I hate how it sounds in playback. 📚🪐 📚💙

1 HUGE Reason Books are Political If you've followed Bookstagram or Booktok for a while, you have probably seen those older book influencer videos where they practically begged readers not to make books political. I (and many other readers and writers) did not take that stance then, and are even…

3 Quick Grammar Tips English grammar can be tricky. Here are three little tips to help make your writing clearer. 1. The possessive "s." The possessive "s" is pretty straightforward, you add an 's to the end of a word signifying ownership (you can do this for words ending in "s" now, too). Unless…

Vance is lying (again). Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Trump announces tariffs. 10% minimum. 20% for EU. 34% for China. Segments in Canada and Mexico face 25% or more. Expect everything to get a little more expensive and some things to become much more. Stocks sharply down in after market trading. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This is the list of nations Trump is imposing tariffs on. Who isn’t listed? Wait for it. ….. ….. ….. Russia. #RadioFreeAmerica

“Outside economists have warned that tariffs could slow the global economy, raise the risk of recession, and increase living costs for the average American family by thousands of dollars.” "This is how you sabotage the world’s economic engine…” #RadioFreeAmerica www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Saturday. Everywhere. #RadioFreeAmerica

we're deciding, at scale, that laws do not apply to republicans during an election cycle

if you think this violates the law (and it very clearly does imo), you don't seek an injunction, you seek an indictment, given that the law makes it a class 1 felony. cowardice from the AG, cowardice from the courts, nobody wants the responsibility of actually enforcing the law. cowards all around

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

Yesterday (a poem) I wrote this on May 11, 2022. Might have been a bit depressed (probably forgot to take my meds.) Reality in pieces bite-sized seconds of minutes, of hours, days slurring into rain-washed pastels blurring into tie-died eddies along empty sidewalks of memory. Chalk drawings on…

Like Second Skin (a novel) This is a sci-fi novel that was published earlier this month (4 March 2025), and I forgot to post about it. Go me! Honestly, so much was happening that it's not a big surprise that I forgot. In 2114, the future is bright and the world is burning. Kaalinda is studying…