I know it's making the rounds already, but I wanted to help spread the word. A great list for helping out people in Minnesota, especially for those of us far away. www.standwithminnesota.com

The sort of people who griped to no end about "participation trophies" are seal-clapping about this.

"In mature life, the world overlays and vanishes us, Pierre; the thousand properties and polished fineness and grimaces intervene, Pierre; then, we, as it were, abdicate ourselves, and take unto us another self, Pierre; in youth we are, Pierre, but in age we seem." #sundaysentence

Glad to have made it out there myself. Not bad for a Thursday in January!

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

Something I am trying out in the new year is keeping a reading journal to organize my thoughts and observations.

Perfect coda for the events of this past weekend.

TRIAL BY STONE!

NH peeps, one of these human warehouses is being planned for Merrimack NH. Speak up with the volume on 11.

this one small brain think thoughts

Great opening line for a cover letter if I ever saw one.

Is there a mycologist in the house?

While starting the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary: "The American Revolution is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting" Me: "Hm, and here I thought France was a major supporter."

"My mother, likewise, is not there, and my grandmother in her house slippers with her pigtail wagging, and my grandfather, with his hair combed flat against his brow, does not examine the menu with studious interest." - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson #sundaysentence

My mom slipped him a piece of apple pie, so now he's waiting for lightning to strike twice.

Trying out homemade bagels for the Thanksgiving pregame/breakfast fare.

Whenever I hear "living the dream" at work, I respond with "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday... unless you need to get up for any reason.

Are email rejections typical for literary agents? I know to expect them for journals. My impression was that they typically don't respond unless they want to work with you. Just got an email from an agent assistant that was complimentary but said she had too much to work with now.

"Nobody thinks of the present as the future past." Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar #SundaySentence

Wanting to go, all the leaves want to go though they have achieved their kingly robes. Weary of colours, they think of black earth, they think of white snow… —Norman MacCaig, “Autumn” in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2009) #BookWormSat #poem #Poetry birlinn.co.uk/2022/10/21/p...

The thinker.

Ned Blackhawk - How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

This is going pretty well! I can't complain. But I'd like to get the "backers" number up to 2K, even 3K. This is one-and-done, this collection won't be in bookstores. Reserve one while you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Me as I send out some initial agent queries: "But what if this writing project that all of my friends and loved ones who have read it have praised, that I feel good about as I actually read through it, that my research contacts have all encouraged is actually... bad?"

"They are invested in this story because having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history would mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves."

"Yes, the 'Horrors' of Spider Island."

From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's book, Good Bones. #poem #books #writing

An unmentioned part of the novel in progress depicts the Shaker 'Era of Manisfestations' from 1842 to 1860 so this caught my eye. www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...

So a book review I did for a journal years ago was listed here. I am wondering how that works in this case...

This is made all the more heartening by the fact that my novel is actually about a rent strike too!

To underscore how out of touch I am, I had originally mistaken those "Disregard all prior instructions" posts NOT as a way to scramble a suspected bot account but rather as "ignore this trolling jerk and go do something else (especially silly or out there)."

I heard he just got an endorsement from the Clintons... the DeWitt Clintons that is.

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

🎶Moon reactor Wider than a mile!🎶

"On turning round I saw that all the graves were open, that all the dead bodies had emerged from them, and that all had effaced the lies inscribed on their gravestones by their relations, substituting the truth instead." - "Was it a Dream?" by Guy De Maupassant #SundaySentence

Name a book you loved from a used bookshop (or library) that you loved but might not have read had you not found it on the shelf? #booksky

In a mirror universe, John Roberts becomes a historian and posts grumblings about people's lazy historical analogies. The Supreme Court is still governed by precedent and what laws actually say. Also, hamburgers eat people in that universe but, on balance, it's still better than ours.

"How strange it is to have carried your convictions like a set of keys, only to realize they will not open any doors." - There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak #sundaysentence

It's like Kate Beaton was making ancient pottery. www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

One anxious thing about drafting a novel is waiting to hear back from people you've entrusted to read the draft. You've put so much effort into something and yet you are the only person on Earth who has read it fully so far. Will people like it? Is my vision of it way off? Gotta wait and see!

Went to mow my lawn today and encountered this little one. Had to shoot it away from the open garage door so it didn't get trapped in there.

The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime. #20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers and the publisher's name. Publisher: @catranslation.bsky.social 10/20 #litfic

Not from Minnesota, but I realized that I have only lived in places that have winter and have such a hard time contemplating places that don't.

It's been a little while since I did a post about my research into the Anti-Rent War in 19th Century New York. To change it up, I figure I'll share a little sidebar on the research itself. Link below for the previous threads on the subject.