C.A: …She said something I never would have thought of about the potential source of your depression. D: What, my diet? C.A: You’re close. D: My clothes?

Let’s do this: gofund.me/b3d97b9cb H/T @electroboyusa.bsky.social

Please help Sandy:

Today’s *Do You Need a Copyeditor* quiz: When is it correct to use “I’s,” as in, “Joe and I’s house”? ManuscriptMagician.com #copyediting #ManuscriptMagician.com

Sh*t my husband says: “We’ve become old crones.” Well, bucko, aging’s changed you more than me.

OK, a package is coming. Thanks for the notification, but how excited am I supposed to be, exactly?

Today’s *Do You Need a Copyeditor* quiz: What’s the difference between “annunciate” and “enunciate”? ManuscriptMagician.com #copyediting #ManuscriptMagician.com

Today’s *Do You Need a Copyeditor* quiz: What’s the difference between “avert” and “avoid”? ManuscriptMagician.com #copyediting #ManuscriptMagician.com

🔥 Heidy has still not received her $770 emergency money from the government almost 7 months later. Her FEMA funds (more than $5,000) have been rejected. If you can chip in only $10, $25, $50, $100 or more we'll make up the difference that will never appear. Thanks -- and click on "Donate" below!

For the price of a Starbucks you could help pay for 1 hour for my caregiver. I am in end stage respiratory failure and end stage congestive heart failure confined to my hospital bed at home. Please donate if you're able. Please repost. I'm truly grateful for your support 🙏

It’s time for Iowa to fire Joni Ernst - before we all die!

Today’s *Do You Need a Copyeditor* quiz: When would you say “silicon,” and when “silicone”? ManuscriptMagician.com #copyediting #ManuscriptMagician.com

“Every day, do one thing that scares you.” OK. Checked my bank account. Next?

One for the books:

#AuthorChallenge Day 20: A tie: Patti McCracken, Michele Hollow, Michele Wojiechowski, Pamela Toler, Lisa Ianucci, et al.

#AuthorChallenge Day 19: Edith Wharton (“Roman Fever,” not House of Mirth)

#AuthorChallenge Day 18: Flannery O’Connor

#AuthorChallenge Day 17: Maud Hart Lovelace

#AuthorChallenge Day 16: Carolyn See

#AuthorChallenge Day 15: Hope Dahle Jordan

#AuthorChallenge Day 14: Sandra Cisneros

#AuthorChallenge Day 13: Joanna Cannon

#AuthorChallenge Day 12: Barbara Kingsolver

#AuthorChallenge Day 11: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#AuthorChallenge Day 10: Judith Viorst

#AuthorChallenge Day 9: Anne Lamott

#AuthorChallenge Day 8: Brenda Ueland

#AuthorChallenge Day 7: Luisa Alcott

#AuthorChallenge Day 6: Rita Mae Brown

No good deed goes unpunished, am I right?

#AuthorChallenge Day 5: Jean Kerr

#AuthorChallenge Day 4: Judith Guest

#AuthorChallenge Day 3: Lenora Mattingly Weber

A longtime friend—type O—needs a kidney. Any chance you or someone you know can help? Please DM if so. Tsm!

#AuthorChallenge Day 2: Anne Tyler

#AuthorChallenge Choose twenty female authors whose work you admire, one each day. Day one: Tana French

@warren.senate.gov I’m sure I don’t have to tell you cutting SNAP benefits—especially now—is not the answer to *anything. Thank you for standing up for the right thing.

If you're in or close to West Orange, NJ, bring the kids. 18 authors will be on hand to discuss & sell their books. (I'm one of them.) There will be an area dedicated to learning about and raising awareness of autism. The event is free. Authors will be there selling their #books. #Authors #Writers

Every year for the last…many, I’ve raised money, mostly on the other blue platform, for the Walk for Hunger. Would I be out of line to do so here? Will post T-shirts for proof, if you want. TIA: www.facebook.com/share/1A77bX...

This is a tough story with some solutions. Imagine having a parent or a partner not recognize you anymore. #Health @nextavenue.bsky.social www.nextavenue.org/how-to-care-...

So well written and unsurprising.

Every year for the last…many, I’ve raised money, mostly on the other blue platform, for the Walk for Hunger. Would I be out of line to do so here? Will post T-shirts for proof, if you want. TIA: www.facebook.com/share/1A77bX...

Yup.

What came to mind as I read this was the long-ago ad in which a Native American surveys a once-beautiful waterway now impossibly polluted and cries.

Part II: And all would love you! (This is “yuuge.” For reference, sir, I give you Scrooge.) Consider how much you could do. That empty space? It’s inside you.

OK. I have to post this in 2 parts. 🤷‍♀️ Noel (IYKYK) Religion wouldn’t be so bad. If that was all a people had …To stanch despair and give us hope. But IS that all? I answer, “nope.” The joy of giving, I submit, Might ease that emptiness a bit.

My answer follows:

Well, if this isn’t heartening, I don’t know what is:

Hey, @ox.ac.uk, how about an honorary degree for this woman pilot with a PhD in aviation safety, whose employer hired a crooked psychiatrist to label her mentally ill after she blew the whistle on safety practices? She fought (for years) and won. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...