“iTs ToO eArLY tO dEcOrAtE fOr ChRiStMaS” Are these, or are these not, unprecedented times?

I hope Alice Wong knew how hugely important she was to so many of us. How deeply she was loved.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

Gah, so sad to hear about the passing of the great Alice Wong. Better people than me will have more meaningful words to say, but her work meant a great deal to me and to many.

He’s out of the shower now but still hasn’t answered the question

Me, trying to include my husband in the creative process: “hey, what’s a pizza topping that starts with B? It’s for a poem.” Him: “we’ve talked about this, the shower is the ONE place I get to be alone”

The Shakespeare in the park version (with Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Lupita Nyongo) is streaming on PBS now and it is DELIGHTFUL

I love Twelfth Night because it’s 90% just characters being like

Monday! Monday! MondayMondayMonday!

Gave an essay exam over the novel “Never Fall Down” today. Going to thread my favorite “I didn’t read the book so I’m tap dancing” openers here.

sign The Boy up for a HAD call!

Having some creative differences with The Boy as I help him with his submission for the local Xmas story contest. I know they want cute stories, but so far his ideas are: “Santa stops bringing presents and kids come with pitchforks and torches” And “Dasher can’t get off the toilet”

You know what everyone loves for holiday gifts? Books of poetry! Your options are: 1. Chapbook about the Angel Gabriel hanging out on earth 2. Multi-award nominated collection about parenting, pregnancy loss, and the internet Ordering links: www.frances-klein.com/books

Picked up this game at the Portland Art museum and it’s a blast. Pictured: my attempt to draw Mr Burns next to my husband’s much, much better one

Went aurora chasing last night, but all I got were some blurry oranges

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "The Flooded Grave" by Jared Beloff (@readinstead.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/the-flooded-...

Absolutely bonkers messaging from the avocado-breast cancer alliance

fun fact, this is everything we publish

Found this one in the notes app from a year ago

Found this one in the notes app from a year ago

This is fantastic and eye-opening reporting from @gracesegers.bsky.social about SNAP and hunger in a remote part of Alaska -- Americans we don't hear from much in national reporting. More reporting like this, please, everyone! newrepublic.com/article/2027...

JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15 jmww.submittable.com/submit

Ladies, if you want your man to communicate, don’t take him to therapy. Give him one of those business astrology tests (myers-Briggs, enneagram) and tell him it’s what Tim Cook gave to all his mentees. You’ll crack him like a walnut.

“The audience won’t buy 007 surviving an explosion” in Fast 9 Ludacris drives a Honda Civic to space, I think I’ll manage.

Hope you give Episode 80 with Natalie Solmer a listen! From Diane Seuss and Great Lakes to South Bend and Gustav Klimt! @nataliesolmer.bsky.social Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/bb99659d

Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate

It's fiiiiiiiiine. I'm sure nothing escaped from the 1700s stone crypt.

We didn’t need all these biographical Willy Wonka movies about who he is as a person. In the older versions, he’s obviously God or the Devil. You’re supposed to spend the entire story wondering which one and gradually become worried they’re the same being

"The more my mother shames me for my weight, the stronger words taste." If you have a few minutes, I hope you enjoy me reading my micro "Word Palate" in the lovely new issue of The Ilanot Review. www.youtube.com/@ClaudiaMonp...

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME: We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL. Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties. 📚 Pre-order details coming soooon Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹

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One sentence horror story: the key to the coffee shop bathroom was wet to the touch

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Went to the Portland Japanese garden to make a new mental happy place for when I’m too stressed

I, for one, welcome the carnivorous death ball

I student taught at Cesar Chavez, Jesus Christ

I kiss my biceps after each skeet

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

Who runs a pretty rad lit mag and book press, recently had his cat book published by a big 5 publisher, and is filing his SECOND piece for BBC Travel this month? this guy.

Got in a good snuggle with The Boy before leaving town for the weekend, which is good because at morning drop off he was too cool for a hug goodbye 🙃🙃🙃

Best encapsulation of my gender presentation is the cashier who called me sir, leaned in and squinted, and then switched to ma’am

The medical community in Indy has, for a long time, been quietly exploring really interesting ways of fighting maternal mortality. I benefited from a lot of pilot programs when I was pregnant due to living in a target neighborhood.

6 is loving “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” so much that he “just one more chapter!”-d me into staying up way past bedtime and now having his first experience of Morning Reader’s Regret

I knew it was a full moon today before I even checked because of how my 9th graders were acting

Thanks #MilkCandyReview for getting 'The Suitcase of Lost Belongings' out there! And thanks @corrineleith.bsky.social for the prompt and @fionamckay.bsky.social for the feedback to get there! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...

Every morning, I look at the list of new civil lawsuits in Alaska courts, and this article was the result of me saying, “gosh, it sure looks like there’s more debt collections than there used to be.” #akleg

This is is in 3 days!!!!