Honored to find out I’m on the 2025 Granum Prize longlist with these other fine arse writers!! This award would support my memoir-in-progress 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 Thank you Granum Foundation for lifting up our stories ✨🌙 www.granumfoundation.org/news/2025-gr...

Such an amazing piece - best thing I've read this month

This is wonderful 🌕

Gorgeous writing. Take a minute and read this.

Must read!!!

Honored that my piece Moon Boots found the best home in @thesunmagazine.bsky.social It's about the mayhem and magic of being a single mother. I hope you'll read it www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/moo...

Oct. 1 is a historic day. It marks the official end of federal funding for public radio and television. But public media endures: independent, resilient and powered by you. Here at KTOO, we’ll keep telling the stories that matter to Juneau and Alaska. We may be defunded, but we remain determined.

Ultimately, 32 Chunk’s grit and determination tipped the scale. Fat Bear Superfan Na Mee celebrates the impressive, massive, emphatically fat champion and all his resilience.

New Champion, who dis??? A historic night for three-time runner up, first time #FatBearWeek champion, 32 Chunk! He defeated enormous elder 856 in the finals on Tuesday, ousting two-time title holder 128 Grazer.

It’s the Fat Bear Week Finals and two of the biggest boars of Brooks River are here to conceptually duke it out. Around 150K voters have been weighing in daily, and as superfan @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social writes, this one’s a real claw-biter.

#FatBearWeek So how did two semi-villains make it to the finals? Complexity! Depth! Conflict! www.ktoo.org/2025/09/30/b...

Little big widing queen and the three boars - here’s a link to today’s published #fatbearweek preview www.ktoo.org/2025/09/29/f...

Good morning, fat bear fanatics! Here we are at the Semifinals of #FatBearWeek and everybody’s fired up. Who’s with me??

After the rain we’ve been having, it’s been nice to have a break in the weather. #akwx #Alaska #Juneau

We need some Zen right now.

#FatBearWeek Hold on to your hats, adoring fans of flabulous, because defending Fat Bear Queen 128 Grazer competes today. Here's more about 128 Grazer / today's match:

#FatBearWeek 32 Chunk is a familiar face on the fat bear circuit, but he has yet to do a victory lap. Character sketch aside, this boar is borderline bursting. Chunk the Hunk, we call him. Even standing, his belly almost kisses the ground. Let me tell you a lil more about him

#FatBearWeek Biggie, 128 Grazer’s girl, is on a roll! She may be a toddler but she is waddling into this match having now defeated 609, 26’s girl cub, and both of 803s yearlings.

#FatBearWeek Look, 901 is an actual boat. She’s so wide, I don’t know how she turns a corner. She is the Michelin man in a bear suit. She is a runaway parade blimp. What we love about 901 is that she has always had her priorities straight - eat, mate, and sleep - and she’s a very focused gorl.

#FatBearWeek let me tell you a little bit about 602 Flotato

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

#FatBearWeek KTOO has published my profiles for today’s fat bears here: www.ktoo.org/2025/09/24/t... 🐻🤎

#FatBearWeek day 2, Match 4: Ponyboy 99 (I'm the only person who calls him that lol) vs 856. Here's some tiny profiles for these fat bears:

#FatBearWeek, Day 2! We’re off to a roaring start: the tiny but ginormous, glorious, and notorious B.I.G.G.I.E 128jr took the dub in Match 1, and in Match 2 the crowds went wild for beach babe 901. Let’s take a look at the bears in Match 3:

National parks matter. #KatmaiNP #NPS #environment explore.org/fat-bear-week

well this made me sob openly

If you enjoy Fat Bear Week, be sure to follow @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social for the commentary and observations!

#FatBearWeek Welcome to Day 1! Here's who's in today's matches:

A beautiful tribute to Otis, the very best fat bear. Glad that places still exist where bears can live long lives just doing bear things. "480 Otis was the gentlest of gentle giants. When he growled, it rained. When he ate, it shined. Every time he blinked, somewhere a broken heart healed" #Alaska

I’m baaaaaack with my dream job of Fat Bear Week Correspondent, this time for @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social!! Prepare for daily updates this week, and follow KTOO for the most detailed #FatBearWeek coverage in news media. www.ktoo.org/2025/09/22/p...

Difficult to not tear up watching a magnificent creature walk away for what was the last time.

Thank you @adn.com for publishing my obituary for perhaps the most beloved bear in the world: the late, great, king 480 Otis.

#FatBearWeek 2025 official bracket is out! Let’s go 503 🐻 that’s my boiii

Ladies and Gentlebears, welcome to Fat Bear Week 2025! Are you like "what is that? I'm in"? Here's a #FatBearWeek 101 for you:

Fat Bear Week started as a one-day celebration over a decade ago, but has grown into an international phenomenon. Over a million people from more than 100 countries voted in the bracket-style competition last year. (From @alaskapublic.org)

Good morning fat bear america! It’s that time again!!!!! *throws salmon roe in the air* #FATBEARWEEK starts next Tuesday! But first: welcome to Fat Bear Week Jr - a 2 day baby bracket to celebrate our favorite chubby cubbies. Here's what you need to know about today's bears:

In other news, I released my fifth handmade bookling today. Because they take a long time to make, they’re always a limited edition. I’m really proud of this one, and I only have a couple left. It’s called Tiger Mom if you want to check it out. www.tsunamee.com/shop/p/bookl...

Anyone else on the Ladder app? I just did today's workout, Legends Rise. I have to tell you. My legends were not rising lol. My legends can barely walk now 🫠

Going back to Korea next week so I've been amping up my studies with 1:1 tutoring. I love how our notes always read like accidental poems 엄마 가요. Umma (Mom), let’s go 가세요. Please go 눈물나요. I have tears (Tears are coming out) 먼저 go first 먼저 끊으세요 please hang up first 먼저 가세요 please, you go first

When he pre-orders your favorite authors’ new books for you 💛🧡❤️

“Thank you for your 16 years of service.” - excerpt from the Mother’s Day card my 16yo made

PLEASE SEE THIS FAT BEAR MY SON MADE ME IN HIS CERAMICS CLASS !!!! I feel so loved lol 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🤎🤎🤎 #fatbearweek #kingotis

There's a white-throated sparrow nesting in the backyard and it sings its heart out every day and I love it

A much-needed moment of calm 🐺

Some behind the scenes moments from being the poet-in-residence at a Margaret Cargill convening last week - I performed (accompanied by local MN musician Mikey Marget!), led some creative facilitation activities, and wrote a portrait poem. What an honor to be invited, really, anywhere 💛

Hi! This has worked great several times now so I’m going to do it again! Please share to folx you know? Are you an artist (or remote worker) who loves animals and would like to have your own art residency/vacation retreat at my house in Juneau, Alaska this summer?? 1/