Any #T1Ds here in the #Tegobprubart trial? I am so eager for ALL the news. It sounds very promising. I've been T1D for 34 years... always thought they'd cure it SOON. Maybe now it really will be soon? Though I almost can't imagine not having the huge obligations of managing it.

This feels like an important re-post.

Carolyn See was my beloved Creative Writing prof at UCLA, novelist, memoirist, & regular Post reviewer. The books coverage always seemed sacred to me.

Outrageous. :-(

Love this #travel exploration by my panel-pal Darryl Whetter. I met him at the Intl Conference for the Short Story in English in Killarney, alongside his bicycling crush Shady C. Look what emerged! Searching for Ancient Boulders in a Hidden Irish Henge www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/0226/...

#Writers! #Readers! #Poets! Fans of #Florida! The first time I TRIED to get in to the Key West Literary Seminar, registration sold out within 2 minutes of opening. I missed it by a minute. Today, it's TODAY. 5pm CET. 2027 theme is #poetry. www.kwls.org/program-over...

Britain’s first energy-producing spin studio, Revolt Cycling WC1. For YEARS I have wished this existed. Now it does! The building’s power is entirely dependent on people’s workouts. #mustsee

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

I think the power of a song like Bruce Springsteen's "The Streets of Minneapolis" is not just that it cuts right through the moral smoke screen the feds are putting down, and not just that it is very direct, but that it claims the wider scope and vindication of history and the future to come.

Theia Chatelle's amazing photograph of Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis...emerging from a cloud of tear gas. Signed there a couple of times, great SF/Fantasy bookstore.

After a very busy weekend I joined @saloneurope.bsky.social #Sestina #poetry course. 39 lines, 6 stanzas of 6 lines, plus a tercet "envoi." End words repeat per rigid structure. It was FABULOUS. I wrote stuff. And I highly recommend that brain game for a great night's sleep afterwards.

Repost b/c I just spent a ski weekend w/a real human who'd read Mailbox & brought it up unpromtped. Said she was very moved by it. 1 scene in particular made her cry. I didn't guess the scene... led to a very satsifying, lovely conversation. Maybe I was more receptive to the praise thx to the AI?

Wow! Wow! Wow! I've got to seriously juggle stuff around so I can be there with these wodnerful European #writers.

I just thought everyone should see this

I hope people support birchbark books in the twin cities which is run by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. birchbarkbooks.com

I've just received the most glowing, moving, touching letter about my novel Mailbox. Sadly, I know it's AI & the "conversaation" the guy wants to have will become a demand for cash. But on the bright side, someone out there totally got what I was trying to do with that book. Even if he's fake.

"Living w a #ChronicIllness or #disability isn’t only about seeing the #doctor & getting prescribed #medications. Many of the statistics that are reflected in the news do not delve into the everyday, which is where we actually live our lives.": buff.ly/AEKhYdi #MondayBlogs

You’ll find me celebrating this incredible organization ALWAYS, and especially on their 2nd birthday. 🎉🌟🩵

Sounds about perfect. :-)

Has anyone here ordered Dos Hombres Mezcal - delivery failure and no reply regarding refund due, despite my numerous attempts to get through to a human being there? Advice? I'm caught in an AI loop.

Congrats to ALL y'all & right now especially Cole Beauchamp, whose writing I know thanks to the @saloneurope.bsky.social!! Way to go @nomad-sw18.bsky.social. Yet again, amazing things happening @smokelong.bsky.social

Just home from the beach where every young woman I know was there reading a #FreidaMcFadden novel. Somehow I have missed an entire swath of obsessive fiction and I'm pretty sure I can never catch up. But if I wanted to try, which one would I start with? #Mystery/thriller

However you wanna express a thing, you're allowed. Do your thing.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Fab discovery - if you're on #HRT w/ #oestrogel & you're traveling, 1 glurp fits the well of a contact lens case perfectly. I didn't want to check a bag, which that whole oestrogel bottle would have required. Contact lens case to the rescue! #menopause #menopausal #perimenopause #womenshealth

Exciting to learn Brunel University of London will soon offer a variety of #creativewriting short courses. They're starting with one in #fiction & one in #poetry. 8 weeks. More info here: shortcourses.brunel.ac.uk/catalog?page...

Wow! TY @dbmiller.bsky.social & TY @mattkendrick.bsky.social! I'm excited to tag @meggardiner.bsky.social, @adriennedines.bsky.social & @deborahzafer.bsky.social 😀

My daughter left her Spotify account logged in on our TV while she did her DofE expedition back in April, so I did what any self-respecting dad would do. Payoff finally came today.

A top favorite thing - introduing 2 soul sisters in MY mind in real life. At Ottolenghi! Pure joy w/these literary powerhouses @deborahzafer.bsky.social of @saloneurope.bsky.social & Lucy Durneen, my great friend & prior #Cambridge MSt supervisor. Talking #poetry & #community & #intuition.

Hit command-F & search for Sinclair. As in Charlotte Sinclair's Aurora Prize FIRST PRIZE story of new motherhood. It's a beauty. Page 170. She does #interiority like nobody's business. writingeastmidlands.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Assumed this was AI and I was thinking well, then, Fine By Me... but if you read the comments it seems it's for real. Even better. DJ Padre Guilherme is on youtube.

Last chance to book for 2 online workshops happening very soon. This Sunday 23rd as part of our workshop series, we are exploring Rhythm and The Ballad. Join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

Anyone know who might publish a slightly fugue-state #lowbloodsugar poem I just wrote? It's got some profanity because it pretty much tracks my real-time, real-life glucose descent/ascent. Any #chronicillness mags or #T1D or #autoimmune or other submission ideas? I should know already, but I don't.

Wes Anderson! I heard about this exhibit in London on the radio, so I had to imagine all the visuals that might accompany the story. Had to look it up here. So many movies! So much #color! #puppets #candypink It's on till July. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3-P...

Thanks for the nudge, @marinasofia.bsky.social

Great little video on book cover design! So many iterations! I was halfway into it before noticing it was produced by/posted by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. How cool is that?

Look @nancyfreund.bsky.social 👀 v useful for Berlin and Madrid www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

When I 1st saw word online about the CONCEPT of a European Writers Salon, this is exactly what I imagined. And it's here! Happening in Paris! Sorry I couldn't make it this weekend, but what a fabulous thing to see in action, even if only in pictures this time. Rock on EWS! @saloneurope.bsky.social

Serious FOMO.

Most of the news, with or without closed captions, is hard to watch. Hard to hear. However, the incorrect caption I just read, showing the word "sickopants" is a tiny joy.

I’ve just learned from #paulainsworth on @saturdaykitchen that you can use a tomato vine in roast potatoes and veg like a bay leaf. Extra scent and flavor! I’m so thrilled.

These new Zweifel Truffle Cashews I got at the petrol station smell and taste exactly (somehow) like the dry gin martini my father drank every night after work, "olive and a twist, both, please." To this day I've never had a sip of one, so this Proustian moment is impossible to explain. Madeleine?

This isn't a random thing. It's my friend Ken, a real person, a really GOOD person. And his partner Jude, who's really great too. I hope posting this might help. Feel free to share it further. That would be wonderful. youtu.be/WLHv0Z_7rHw

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

Once in a blue moon I write a poem.

I've studied much #poetry in academic settings, often super boring & I can say THIS 1st session on sonnets was a delight. Interesting, inspiring, organized, substantial. Can't wait for Rhythm & Ballad in session 2. TY, @saloneurope.bsky.social.

true.

Every school & summer camp & Rotary exchange & literary conference or retreat I've attended... it's the people who stick around afterwards - zoom, emails, socials, in person - who truly make the thing. Last night's mtg w/#LucyCaldwell's Short Stories 3 die-hards was brilliant. So smart! So generous!

Sad I couldn't make it! I KNOW it was fabulous.