Fall is calling Leaves are falling 🍁🍂 #fallcolors #mapletrees #photosky #photography #womenphotographers

Wiped out after an hour of online research for a writing idea and am surprised by how little info is out there on the topic I'm researching. I thought this was the internet? Hello? Is there anybodyyyy in there? Wayback machine??? #brainfog #research, it hurts me!

I see what I did there... learning all over again that I can't control when I feel better and well enough to go back to life as usual is another lesson in #longcovid living. Even if I really really would like to work and earn a paycheck, life's that bitch sometimes. ##longcovidawareness #reallife

Oh, yes, I have experienced ALL of these symptoms from #longcovid in one way or another...with apologies to Blondie.....I'm gonna get cha get cha get cha🩺🎶

My mini-memoir of my childhood spent taking train pictures with dad and grandpa is now on Substack. mysabbaticalera.substack.com/p/my-girl-sc...

I took a leap of faith today and requested the information about getting a (undergrad? masters?) degree in grief and trauma counseling. Seems to fit right in with this #saturnreturn I'm realizing I'm warp speeding thru. May the Force be with me. ✨️😎 #grief ##griefcoach #griefcounseling #backtoschool

Mom is happily watching her #Seahawks game and baking an apple galette as the cat sleeps away the day. It's Fall, y'all. 🍂🍁🥧🐈😎

Sunday reading for #writing research and pleasure (the memories are many for this Bay Area native). This was published in 1970. 'Twill be interesting to read about so many presumably paved-over routes and points of interest. Am taking notes, too! #writersky #memoirwriters ##womenwriters #Sundays

Caturday Saturday contemplation. #Caturday #caturdaycuties #orangetabbycat #catsky

A Brazilian grandmother prayed for years to Elrond, thinking he was Saint Anthony. The mix-up went viral, and the family replaced the figure with a real saint. Faith and pop culture, face to face.

Just say I told you so--I pushed past my energy threshold all week long, and will now pay for it in the next few days. The PEM monster is calling from inside the house! 🧌🛌🧌🤯💤💤 #longhaulers #baddays #longcovidclub #chronicfatigueflare

Hey, hey, hey....sending news of my new #photography presence on @fotoapp.co Here's my home page. ⬇️ At K Demoro Photog is back!!!

I still want a #Lububu though

So excited (and a bit overwhelmed) to open @scrivenerapp.bsky.social --for the 1st time--to read/do the tutorial on my laptop. I feel all the feels--writing is really so empowering. ✨️🖋>>🗡✨️ #writersky ##womenwriters #writing #feelthepower

When you're waiting for your dr appt and your mom goes missing 🤯🤯 because #longcovid makes you forget where she said she was going before you went into the clinic. #panic #memoryloss #cognitivelywacked

This looks like a fun evening. Sorry I'm not in SF to attend. (Sounds like something my late transit writer dad would've enjoyed).

Cute

It’s almost time

In the research stage of finding some courses in my journey to become a ##griefcoach (or maybe even a grief #counselor), Sooo many online options, when I just need basic info at this stage. Looking 1st for free classes, then will concentrate on certified courses. Not ruling out a degree program.

Boosting the kitty cat rescue fundraiser signal ♥️ 😻 #catsky #TTRPGs

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

When the Cone of Shame is really getting on your nerves.

My early thoughts on the Anthropic settlement: a) good, fucking pay us b) no, that’s not enough c) shouldn’t have stolen our shit to train your stupid mediocre plagiarism artbarf robot in the first place, you fuckers d) this isn’t something to celebrate; it is a Pyrrhic victory at best

Sleeping off the gabapentin. Kitty had a good check up. 😻 ##catnap #catsky #orangetabbycat ##felinefriday

A #haiku for your Thursday night. Made with my newly rediscovered Haikube set that I forgot I owned. Yes, this was my mood this time around. #poetry #poetsky ##writersky #womenpoets A reflection on our world: wicked wind whispers ugly putrid fantasy tiger that eats limbs

I can’t read minds so I can’t say for absolutely certain, but I don’t think I’ve come across anyone who says “during COVID” who also fully understands & acknowledges that it’s still very much a threat to them & everyone else—because it is. And that’s the problem.

These later-in-life deep convos w/ mom are something I never pictured us as being able to do. Sometimes feelings get stepped on, but to get it out of deep storage is really good for (us both) me, after having kept it in for 40+ years. #talktherapy #griefwork #GenXers (Not my actual barber shop⬇️)

Have I mentioned how excited I am to have found Homicide: Life on the Street in its ENTIRETY on @tubitv.bsky.social ? What took me so long? 😎✨️

It's that time of year already? Time to read all the haunting stories...👹😎

I guess I will switch my fabric tests from touch to taste. 😂 I learn something new every day.

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/a... @flakphoto.news these contact sheets from the NYT are taking me back to my black and white darkroom days. (Hope this was shared as a Gift Article, as I intended)

I went for it and ordered my first #Hobonichi Cousin 2026 planner. A small investment, for sure--but the cost is the same as a planner + a daily diary. So, let the planning begin! (In December, of course, but I didn't want to miss out) #planner #journaling #writerslife #documentinglife

Note that .word programs (the new ones) are preprogrammed to harvest what you type. Hunt down the privacy settings and say no, take a screenshot to verify and be wary. Steal first, ask permission later. Sound familiar? It is the mantra of the super rich. #writingcommunity #booksky #theft #programs

Uh oh! And just when I finally purchased Scrivener. I hope they don't consider themselves big tech and entitled. 🤯

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u... A miraculous birth on the Playa!?

If you fall asleep and dream of a green 🐍 snake and it wakes you up! after listening to the #thisjungianlife podcast about Jack and the Beanstalk, what exactly does that mean? #dreamwork #symbols #fairytale

I just spent an hour cutting back blackberry bushes in the yard and I think I'll be able to recover by the weekend--a #memoir #longhaulers #summerfun #longcovidawareness

CLEARLY I need to up my #crochet game! Would you look at this!

Why does Chewy's advertising algorithm think that I have horses? Have they *seen* my less than 7 pounds cat? There's no comparison. 🐎>🐈 A real #caturday conundrum 🦧

When the old warehouse you once lived in appears in the NYT #realestate section, totally remodeled and FANCY in a not extremely desirable neighborhood, you know that the #Oakland that you left in 2020 is really, finally gone. Just a memory. #griefandloss #hometown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Awww. It's the little things that make my day. How can we not have hope, when a story like this happens? #cuteanimals #hope apnews.com/article/phil...

Summer is soon ending, and the blackberries are ripe on the vine. #writersky #womenwriters #blogs #amwriting mysabbaticalera.substack.com/p/blackberry...

"Continually surprised by animated memes in texts " is how I will be remembered. 😎😂 #memes #technicallychallenged

pandora.app.link/LycwWIY6PVb Nothing quite like Def Leppard for feeling 14 and free again. Their first and best album, of course!

Just a cat in a heatwave tryna keep cool by cuddling up to her hooman. 💝😻😎 #twinkietuesday ##catsky ##orangetabbycat #irony

I also agree! #longcovid really sucks.

In it to #sweat it. Summer better back off! 😎

I know some of y'all dont vibe with Substack, and I'm looking at alternate options, but in the meantime, I wrote about and possible new path for me that I'm well qualified for--becoming a Grief Coach. mysabbaticalera.substack.com/p/i-have-exp...