Hallie out and about this morning. #Dogs #JackChi #DogsofBluesky

Beauty I thrifted for $7. Pristine inside and out. #vintage

Sun and shade on a 95° Sunday morning turtle visit. #turtles

Outside my bedroom window this morning. She comes and goes. I named her Patsy Cline, for my late mother’s favorite singer.

Outside art.

A lovely Sunday morning turtle visit. Late June. 86 degrees. Occasional breeze. #turtles

I love reading an essay that opens a drawer to memory, but even more, I’m drawn to moments in essays that open a drawer to thought, to thinking.

"Didion’s exercise in returning to her past again and again is a moving commentary less about what we remember than how we remember, and what that mode of remembering reveals about us as individuals and as a community." Maggie McKinley @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/on-joan-didi...

Bringing Back What's Been Lost: 4-Week Literary Essay Independent Study (with me!) July! #writing #literaryessay #reading #loss jilltalbot.net/register/p/l...

New addition to my Postcard/Photo series. Clayton House Motel Denton, Texas #postcard #motel #vintage

"It was in the summer that one really lived.” — Willa Cather #turtles

The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr

Be happy.

Sunday turtle visit after heavy morning rain. #turtle #redearedslider #texas #pond

Celebrated #GlobalRunningDay!

Fascinating essay about autobiographical memory by Jonathan Weiner theamericanscholar.org/you-must-rem... @theamscho.bsky.social

I took my #JackChi, Hallie, along for today’s Sunday morning turtle visit. #turtles

WOW. WOW. WOW. "Autobiographical narratives are part of a compulsion to resolve the unresolvable, destined to chase what cannot (should not?) be caught." "You know what happened to you, but you do not know what happened to you." —Emily LaBarge, DOG DAYS @transitbooks.bsky.social

Love this brilliant essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in this week's Short Reads (@index.short-reads.org.ap.brid.gy).

“He started writing to me when I left for college. They arrived every week with a rhythm as steady as his love for me.” @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

Hello from the Sunday morning turtle visit. Have a happy week. #turtles

Six years ago today! My daughter (graduating this summer with her MS in Geosciences before beginning her PhD studying volcanoes!) graduated high school at the Texas Motor Speedway. Thanks to @longreads.com for publishing my essay about it back then. longreads.com/2021/06/24/r... #grads #graduation

I love this essay. therumpus.net/2021/06/09/i...

Start your summer #writing on the #road with a virtual 4-week #nonfiction writing class. #writingclass #cnf #literaryessay #memoir jilltalbot.net/register/p/w...

Hallie and her ball on #TongueOutTuesday #Dogs #JackChi #Retro

Brevity magazine has launched its 82nd issue of innovative flash nonfiction, featuring essays from Brenda Miller, Angela Edward, Hea-Ream Lee, Karissa Nevada, L.F. Khouri, Ann MacDonald, Emily W. Blacker, Erin Wood, Michael Singleton, Noel Thistle Tague, Sara Daniels, & T.C. Martin. brevitymag.com

Hanging out with friends on a sunny day #turtles

One of my postcard tables. Authentic postcards from #Paris 1900-1908. #postcards

"Nothing is more dangerous for a writer than to be dismissive. To dismiss means to judge, and nothing kills a piece of writing faster than that. Make room, make room! Let the world in all its shades and tones and terrains take you more fully into the human heart. " ~ Lee Martin

"The most seen and supported I feel in my bipolarity is in literature." @gabemontesanti.bsky.social @nervetowrite.bsky.social #bipolar #bipolardisorder www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

Bravest Turtle Award #turtles

My copy of @gabemontesanti.bsky.social's new memoir, DRAG THING, arrived today! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social #WeekendRead #Memoir #BookSky

"I’m in grad school and living in a house on Rochester Avenue near where it feeds out to the Herbert Hoover Highway, and I’m on my couch in my underwear reading the opening pages of Absalom, Absalom!" Peter Orner @thebeliever.net www.thebeliever.net/end-notes-ab...

"It had started years earlier, this readiness, this turn, on a wheel that rolled back through the choices I had made, one after another, and carried me forward to his office and made me take the hand he offered." Marcia Aldrich's sizzling #literaryessay americanliteraryreview.com/2026/04/17/m...

Your instructor for Writing the Younger Self May 7 - May 28 (Thursdays 11 AM - 1 PM CST) Info here: jilltalbot.net/register/p/w... #writingclass #literaryessay #cnf #amwriting #flashessay

Today's thrift: a Holsag Bulldog Chair for $7.49 (slowly adding seating to my writing room for small writing workshops and mini-readings) #thrifting #literaryessay #writing #reading

Rainy welcome this evening to the postcards from Paris (1900-1908) I will use to make my next postcard table. Here’s the first one I made. #postcards #Paris

I wrote my MA thesis on Redford's adaptation of Maclean's book & interviewed screenwriter, Richard Friedenberg, by phone. During our call, Friedenberg got another (call waiting). He came back on the line: "Well, speak of the devil. That was Bob!" @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/of-nature-ar...

From the Sunday morning turtle visit #turtles #redearedsliders

Writing room with Hallie #JackChi #DogsofBlueSky

What a difference in stability for #HIIT! Nike Free Metcon 6

Learn how to create standout sentences, when and why to flash a fragment or two, and ways to elevate your prose with sentence variety, rhythm, lyricism, and emphasis for an immediate upgrade to your syntactical style! Virtual seminar April 19 jilltalbot.net/register/p/s...

“Living in grief is this: never being alone.” — @criveragarza.bsky.social What an incredible read. Wow.

Friendship #turtles

"I’m trying to think when any memory worth remarking arrived. Did I have memories when I was ten years old?" Sven Birkerts ruminative essay on the past, memory, and our sense of self as a self. thecommononline.org/thirty-seven...

Rainy morning at Sonic

My mother died eight years ago today. An essay I wrote when she had been gone "a little over a year." A year. Eight years. More years. It's all now. www.therupturemag.com/rupture/a-ma...

Hallie thinking about things. #dogs #JackChi

"The weight of what I remember is a force strong enough to eject me from the world, but it is also the only road that returns me to it." Jamila Osman, Winner of the 2025 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest in the new issue of @prairie-schooner.bsky.social prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/drea...

Check out the incredible inaugural issue of @nervetowrite.bsky.social with its impressive list of contributors and AMAZING work in poetry, nonfiction, art, fiction, and hybrid work. #DisabilityLit #InvisibleIllness #NeurodivergentLit www.nervetowrite.com