First time finding a rare Prairie Warbler here in San Luis Obispo! Look at that cute tum tum! 🪶

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Some of the problems is people are afraid to use their voice and fight back, but the other problem is people are not being heard. Vote for listeners not just speakers.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

There's just one week left to submit to our fourth issue! 🔱 Hurry quick, before the tide goes out. 🌊 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

When Pete Townsend asked WHO are you, it rocked the crowd. Everyone jumped to the feet. It's been a long time since I've been to the Hollywood Bowl. Takes a legend. We really hope the Song is NOT over.

I am so thrilled to announce that I will be giving my unique and heartfelt presentation, “Fantasy, Reality, and the Adoptee Imagination” at the 50th annual FAMILIES RISING conference on October 7th in Orlando, Florida! Tickets are still available here: wearefamiliesrising.org/families-ris...

Got my Covid vaccine today!

September calls for prose, poetry, and playwrights thewritelucywang.substack.com/p/september-...

I made an eggplant tofu yellow squash dish with ginger, garlic and scallions. DH asks what inspired this delicious creation. I respond my nose and my stomach!

Tomorrow is my dad’s BD. He would have been 88. Yahrzeit is Aug 22.

People love freebies. Sunday I have out free bags of fertilizer as a party favor. Tonight I gave away free vegetables and passion fruit from my garden.

We have to push back against acquired powerlessness. thewritelucywang.substack.com/p/mid-month-...

Sunday Best is wonderful. #edsullivan what an inspiration. Life changing.

I feel so sad. When I worked for Mayor Dinkins, we worked on keeping David Letterman and Late Nite in NY. We were so happy and now Colbert has been canceled.

I'm going to tell you exactly how to write a book. Do you see that impenetrable brick wall ahead of you? You're going to ram your head into it until long book is long.

Congratulations Francis Jue #Tonys

I made a list of my favorite places. Realized most of them are near the water.

Heads up if you want to submit to TBQ8, we're closing the 31st! You got about 9 days left to shoot us something to consider for the most prestigious literary magazine of all time!

Graphic Lit prize is open for another month @solsticelitmag.bsky.social which has been a joy to work with. Submit.

Watching Etoile makes me very homesick for New York, New York.

Would be great if media could focus on the fact that every imported good—& everything with imported components—will be affected by the tariffs. Our whole economy. Not just dolls, pencils, whatever else he rants about. This doll conversation shows how weird he is, but isn’t really the point at all.

You know you’re a gardener when you are thrilled to win a bag of compost !!!

I dreamt I was in balmy Scotland but woke up in Los Angeles CA. #PlagueRemedyPodcast @stephensacco.bsky.social

Day 2: in the context of love by @lindaksienkiewicz.bsky.social

Day 1: Circe by Madeline Miller

I made matzoh ball soup. Put in some rainbow carrots w/o thinking. The broth changed color. Why is this night different? Harold and the Purple Matzoh Ball. #seder #matzohballsoup #Passover

I was leaning towards leaving the community garden and I ended up being elected Chair. Everyone applauded.

We continue with our BEST OF episodes of the Plague Remedy Podcast with Christian Livermore, talking about her memoir 'We Are Not Okay: Elegy for a Broken America.' Her writing is so honest, painfully at times, but not without humor. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Just finished a terrific book, Homeseeking by Karissa Chen.

The only Ponzi scheme is how the rich get away with paying only 1% of their Social Security tax.

Hampton Dellinger definition of John Lewis’ Good trouble.

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

My biggest takeaway from a zoom tutorial on Filming, Editing & Publishing Reels given by my publisher @regalhouse.bsky.social was that short dynamic reels that end with a call to action perform best. Keep it under a minute.

The news is freaking me out. Feel like I am on the edge of despair. Agree we need some daily press briefings of how democracy is being saved. Nominate @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

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Why can’t the Dems hold a daily press conference on what they are doing to save Democracy? What’s stopping them?

For Valentine's Day, I'm getting a dozen eggs instead of a dozen roses -- and I feel fine :-) Eggs are the new truffles.

People marvel -- why do I still write letters (snail mail). So much life rushes by us, we're squeezed thin by time and pressure, 1000s of demands. The act of writing a letter to someone is capturing a moment in time and space. Cheever said letters are kisses.

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

I was honored by the Kennedy Center for my play JUNK BONDS. Now I’m deeply saddened and horrified by the purging of the board who represented bipartisan support of the arts.

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

Score! Willem Dafoe and Catherine O’Hara for Michelob Light making old people look good! Ooh I liked that Nike commercial with the female superstar athletes to Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love"

“It’s time to build community…creating community around you is one of the strongest, most powerful and also the most radical things you can do in an environment like this.” - @aoc.bsky.social Join us for Connect 25! Details and sign up here: calendly.com/suzannebachn...