Sending light and love to all. We need it more than ever this Hanukkah and Holiday season.

Will brake for sunsets.

Come work with me at KMUW! Or at least, work with our News team on the other side of the interior window next to my desk. 😁

Old Town glow-up.

Missing an artist premium from a previous year? Get them all! Thank you for being an important piece of the #publicradio puzzle w/ your year-end donation to #KMUW: call 316-978-6700 or go to: www.kmuw.org/give More about our contributing ICT #artists: www.kmuw.org/kmuw-artist-... Thank “U”! 😊

A must-see for #FirstFriday tomorrow, ICT friends! 🤩 I have a couple of Charles Baughman's paintings in my home and they're like a breath of fresh air -- especially on cold, dreary days like today. 🥰 www.visitwichita.com/event/colorf... www.wichitagallery12.com

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Thanks to anyone working to create more accessible systems and infrastructures for everyone. "If we live long enough, all of us, without exception, will become disabled."—Rebekah Taussig #IDPwD www.un.org/en/observanc...

is thankful for serendipity, jazz progressions, freaks & geeks, energy that always flows, late bloomers, spa gloves, kindred spirits, 2 great tastes that go great together, C8H10N4O2, hyperbole, her fur-babies, friends who prefer to use their natural intelligence, and that AI hasn’t taken her job.

Paid summer journalism internship opportunity at @kmuw.bsky.social — please share! www.kmuw.org/korva-colema...

My 1st proof copy of my 1st book — it’s becoming more real — so exciting! Thanks to Charles Baughman (cover art) & Kate Pepper (interior art) & @anamcarapress.bsky.social (where you can pre-order; the Spring publishing date is still TBD, so be patient like me): anamcara-press.com/product/the-...

Any #MorningPeople friends? IDK; I don't do mornings unless required. I mean, unless I REALLY want to! Which of course I do for our informal @kmuw.bsky.social event tomorrow! Join me? You don't even need to talk. Until I've had #ParanormalCafe coffee & scones. #notamorningperson #butfirstcoffee

Happy #ILovetoWriteDay! Grateful to have another CNF story published in 105 Meadowlark Reader: by/for/about KS folks — hopefully next time it can be you! Get from @watermarkbooks.bsky.social or @meadowlarkpress.bsky.social. Art by Barbara Waterman-Peters. #ReadLocalKS www.105meadowlarkreader.com

In case anyone in Wichita is wondering where all the ducks are right now, they're in my 'hood.

Thrilled to have 6 poems (and 1 photo!*) in the current ‘Write from the Center’ zine featuring fellow fabulous #KansasAuthorsClub folks. Thanks to @curtisbecker.bsky.social, Editor. #ReadLocalKS and get your very own copy here: shorturl.at/cw815 * Not the cover photo, tho; it's by Madeline Male.

Vote, vote, bo-bote, banana fana fo-fote, fi fy mo-mote: vote!

Keep your friends close ...

I’m grateful for Michael Poage, one of my early book manuscript (p)reviewers. Here’s my belated thank-you/return of the favor. Check out his 17th (or 18th?!) book; this particular one was published by Spartan Press: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Personas and costumes and masks: oh, my! open.substack.com/pub/julieann...

Scary stories in 5 words or fewer? I’ll go first: “Something squirming in my shoe.” (Bonus points for alliteration!) #HappyHalloween

Happy #PublicRadioMusicDay! My unbiased favorite music shows are in NPO: Soulsations w/ Carla Eckels, Global Village & Crossroads & Night Train w/ Chris Heim & Strange Currency w/ Jedd Beaudoin—all on @kmuw.bsky.social + scores of other stations. PS: Buy a groovy shirt (& thanks): shorturl.at/9GLor

Tomorrow night! Come have snacks w/ myself & my weird and wonderful @kmuw.bsky.social colleagues. (OK; I'm the weird one!) LMK if you need a designated driver. 🥰 www.kmuw.org/pint-night

“I want [people] to walk away with an understanding of the kinds of books that are being banned and why that's just totally antithetical to democratic values and first amendment rights,” Steven Kelly, Adult Literacies Mgr, Wichita Public Library. #BannedBooksWeek www.kmuw.org/2025-10-03/w...

I can't wait til my poetry book is banned! It has controversial issues like empathy, gratitude, and the realization that not a single one of us has ever done anything “all by myself” (contrary to the popular opinion of many toddlers). #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #ReadForYourRights

THANK YOU to everyone who was able to pledge, volunteer, listen, make in-kind donations of goods and services, and/or otherwise support @kmuw during our routine Fall pledge drive. You make our community stronger! (Photo by sundesigns on Freeimages.com.)

Need a special reason to donate to @kmuw.bsky.social (besides strengthening independent media)? Pledges today have a chance to win a pair of Tallpasses: www.kmuw.org/give “Power to the Public” design: Kerrick van Asselt; shirts donated by Prairie Print; photo by Karlee Cooper. tallgrassfilm.org

Make unscrupulousness vile again.

I was today years old when I learned 811 is the library code for Poetry. Don't know why it took me so long. Thanks to the #NewtonPublicLibrary folks for working late to let grown-ups have some quiet time in your beautiful and welcoming community space.

Which cover design do you like? My full-length #poetry book should publish in the Spring, thanks to @anamcarapress.bsky.social. The art by #CharlesBaughman makes me happy, so it’s non-negotiable; just LMK which layout & fonts you prefer. P&TY! P.S. Pre-order available! See: anamcara-press.com

🎤 Thank you TONS to everyone who supports public broadcasting by giving time, talent, treasure ... and/or just by paying attention to what's going on, and caring. ❤️ @kmuw.bsky.social

Community Service Grant: the name of the CPB funds cut from @kmuw.bsky.social’s budget. A modest amount to support all we do for/with/in/around ICT. It’s not “free money;” we work hard for it. Then we report on it. This is basically a brag sheet—check it out & gift if you can: shorturl.at/Biljc

Happy to have 2 poems in the new Write Bridge by AnamcaraPress, with @ambertolina.bsky.social, @fatladysings.bsky.social, @bethgulley.bsky.social, @irisgarden9.bsky.social & more! Y’all can purchase locally or remotely at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social or @bookshop.org. 📸by Watkins Museum. #ReadLocalKS

Beauty is in the eye of the billionaire.

Honored to be included this evening in the Anamcara Press LLC event with so many fabulous folks! For friends / family who can't be there, Watkins Museum will record & broadcast: www.facebook.com/WatkinsMuseum www.youtube.com/@watkinsmuse...

Spoiler alert. "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." --Joshua, in 'War Games' (1983) written by Lawrence Lasker & Walter F. Parkes

"The Supreme Grand Master smiled ... It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom ... And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable." --Terry Pratchett, 'Guards! Guards!'

🎵 Same as it ever was ... same as it ever was ... same as it ever was ... 🙁

🍕 Join me for pizza this evening at WBC in Delano! 🤩

Remembering. open.substack.com/pub/julieann...?

A Flag Day Poem: abstract symbolism about an abstract symbol. open.substack.com/pub/julieann...

♪ My selfie brings all the calls to the pledge room, all the calls to the pledge room ... ♪ 316-978-6700 to support better music than my dumb parodies. Plus fair, balanced news coverage and more. www.kmuw.org/support P.S. Photobombing by consent: Jon and Aminah! 🤩

Bonus: You might get to talk to Yours Truly when you call in your pledge of any amount! 😇 It all adds up. Call 316-978-6700 during business hours or visit kmuw.org any time, early and often! 🥰 Pledge now, pay later. Thank you!

For those of you into Substacking. And/or adulting. Possibly poorly. julieannbakerbrin.substack.com/p/adulting-a...

““Nortadoes?” No problemo! We are paws-itive the Dog Mansion our Daddy built will protect us during stormy weather,” says Niko Sneako Moonbeam.

This is the 4th consecutive volume of 'Mikrokosmos' to publish my poetry!* Hope to see my fellow logophiles at WSU RSC Saturday afternoon by 4 p.m., where I'll read my piece "Bearable," which also won 2nd place in their annual contest. * My poems also got rejected from 4 volumes before that. ;-)

For the 12 yrs. I've worked at NPR affiliate @kmuw.bsky.social, I've watched my colleagues in the news team go out of their way to get all sides of a story. I'm sure that goes up the chain. (You may feel I'm biased since I work here. I didn’t always; for ~20 yrs. prior, I was a volunteer & donor.)

😍 As #volunteermonth ends I must express my amazement and appreciation for the many #volunteers who have contributed time, energy, and expertise to causes near to my heart: @kmuw.bsky.social, Alternative Gifts, the Orpheum Theatre, and beyond! Thank you all for your generosity & community support. 🥰

🌏 Despite its flaws, Planet Earth kicks Mars's a** every day and twice on Tuesdays. 🌍 Happy #EarthDay, y'all. 🌎

Happy #InternationalHaikuPoetryDay! Honored to receive 1st place for a recent piece in WSU Japanese Culture Association's annual Photo Haiku contest; thanks to WSU Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures! [Natural Flora] weeds in the brick road I’ll hold nature where I can before it takes me

1 grain of basmati rice closely resembles the shape of my current mental bandwidth.

Join me tomorrow for @kmuw.bsky.social "Pint Night" ... I'll be the renegade who's not drinking alcohol but stuffing my face with amazing food from The Monarch! 🍲 LMK if you need a DD. 😇 www.kmuw.org/pint-night