I enjoyed discussing #TheHintOfLight with a book club in Richmond, Virginia last night! 💙🧡💙

Watching Last Words from Jane Goodall. She left us with a powerful message of hope (and my girl liked whiskey)

Something to lower your heart rate & maybe give you hope: You can help out pollinators & other wild critters no matter where you live (if you want to, that is!) This piece on monarch butterflies, gardens, green-space advocates & biodiversity in NYC is very much my jam 💚🦋 www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Waving from Maine

I love watching sunrise while taxiing to the runway 😎

Exhausted. Busy all day. Got nuffin done. See you in the morning beautiful babies. Family sends love & hugs 💤💙💤

From the data we've collected from fired State employees, here's what was lost on 7/11: —20 Chinese speakers —17 Russian/Ukrainian speakers —14 Arabic speakers —4 Farsi speakers —4 Korean speakers And that’s only a partial list. At a time of shifting alliances, we've traded expertise for chaos.

Two years ago today, my debut novel, THE HINT OF LIGHT, met the world! 💙🧡💙 a.co/d/dLmp2xN

Remnants of an ancient, sunken city were lifted from waters off Alexandria, Egypt, last week, officials said, with cranes hoisting parts of statues and tools dating back 2,000 years. The artifacts revealed that the city might have been larger than previously thought.

Princess Diana’s 1991 time capsule was opened! www.instyle.com/princess-dia...

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

I neither confirm nor deny that I made an encore trip to Veniero’s Italian Bakery while visiting NYC. 😎 @marlenestringer.bsky.social

Last night I got to go back to The Upper West Side of Manhattan & walk down memory lane. 🍎 This was the brownstone walkup building of my 4th floor apartment, which I rented many (many!) moons ago.

Ready to take a bite out of The Big Apple

It warms my writerly heart to send a draft out to my beta-readers. Just sayin'.

TFW you are planning a visit to NYC, so you check to see if NYPL has your debut novel in their catalog. 💙🧡💙 THEY DO!!! 💙🧡💙

This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

NPR REPORT: White House orders NASA to DESTROY satellite used for monitoring climate change. 😳 So if you can't see climate change, it doesn't exist? Are we FOUR YEARS OLD?? The stakes are too high to comply. NASA: REFUSE THE ORDER.

Rabbit, rabbit Hello, August!

Hmmmm....what could possibly go wrong? 😨 apnews.com/article/trum...

Gerrymandering undermines the power of marginalized communities by manipulating district boundaries to weaken their collective voice. For Black, Latino, Indigenous, immigrant, low-income, and other disenfranchised groups, this often means remaining unheard in the places where decisions are made.

This is what this country needs! Stop the billionaires from ruling.

Twenty states and Washington, DC are suing USDA after the agency demanded states turn over sensitive data on applicants for food assistance by July 30.

Boom & I wish y’all a happy #Caturday!

💔 Feed. The. Kids.

Today's writerly task? Polish a sea shanty for a new short mystery story (as one does). Happy Friday, y'all!

Hey America. Follow Pennsylvania's lead here. www.pottsmerc.com/2025/07/22/b...

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

The USA is the only first world country to not offer #UniversalHealthcare. We need reform now.

MAGA would rather burn 500 metric tons of emergency high-nutrition biscuits than feed 1.5 million children in Pakistan & Afghanistan for a week USAID spent $800,000 on this food and now we will spend $130,000 to burn it The ineptness and cruelty embedded in this Admin is off the charts #ProudBlue

Love this li’l toadstool village

You know the part of the movie where the antagonists seize control, and a ragtag group of misfits is still learning to trust each other before they form a well-oiled team and vanquish the monsters? Well, we’re there, and we’re the misfits. Let's go! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

more businesses need signage like this brownsville flea market

Hey y'all, Bookshop.org listed 💙🧡 #TheHintOfLight 💙🧡 on sale plus free shipping through 7/11. The feel-good vibes from helping your local indie bookstore are a free perk! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The crime. The suspect. He’s lucky he’s cute.

Monday vibes

While vaccine policy is being unraveled at ACIP, let’s not lose sight of what vaccines have already done. ✨Millions of lives saved. ✨Diseases wiped out. ✨Generations protected. We made an infographic to show just how much the world owes to vaccines. #VaccinesSaveLives

To all my lawyer peeps… 🇺🇸

Hot take: people should be able to call the police to verify if they think they’re being kidnapped by men in masks who won’t identify themselves in unmarked cars without it being a “resisting” crime

Love me a fiery sunset! #RVA

Anyone else remember when 47 campaigned on being the “peace president”?

My writing assistant is sleeping on the job

Hey, Virginia! Get out the vote & here’s a plug for @shannontaylorva.com for Attorney General! 🦋

C’mon, Virginia. It’s Election Day…Get out the vote! 🇺🇸 #PrimaryElection

Resigning is not giving up the fight. It is simply taking it elsewhere for now. And leaving the agency does not have to be for forever. In a few years, many will return to rebuild. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵