Yesterday morning's sun absolutely lit up the small maple tree in our front yard!

These 3 reference books have been super useful for me as I've worked with my #CoverArtist & worked out other practical & legal aspects of my #SelfPublishing project. Full citations in Alt Text. #WritingCommunity

These 3 reference books have been super useful for me as I've worked with my #CoverArtist & worked out other practical & legal aspects of my #SelfPublishing project. Full citations in Alt Text. #WritingCommunity

Redoing my fictional college campus map using a proper design software. (I used Word some bleems ago when first envisioning the setting.) What a pain in the tuchus! 🗺️ #Wordbuilding #PageDesign

Reading 3 books concurrently & nearing the end of each. Do not want any of them to end! All are re-reads. Guess I know what happens next. 📚💙 #Rereading

The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife

Stunningly well-crafted essay by Albert Burneko. #politics defector.com/dick-cheney-...

We decommissioned our small garden this weekend. We're planning a 3rd raised garden container next year for veggies. #EndOfSummer #BackyardGarden

Made the tough decision to post a notice on our #StreetLibrary asking folks not leave foodstuffs. Suggested they donate to our local Hunger Taskforce who can make a larger difference. (We'll take the several cans of beans & dry soups to our grocery store's food bin.) #LittleFreeLibrary #EndHunger

CS Lewis: No one who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. 11/

"The wind groomed the speechless grass." From KA: DAR OAKLEY IN THE RUIN OF YMR (2017) by John Crowley. #SentencesIHaveLiked 📚💙 🪐📚

Right up there with A. Bartlett Giamatti's essay "The Green Fields of the Mind" (Yale Alumni Magazine. Nov 1977) that includes this: "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart." ⚾️

Pitchers and catchers report on February 10, 2026. Just sayin'. ⚾️

Ok! Educate those young men abt affirmative consent & safer sex. Make abortion & contraception free & available everywhere. Enforce sexual assault laws actually. Create media that cultivates sex positive respect & care for everyone. Get ppl who don’t suck in office. Culture change is possible!!

"Ashby didn't care much for gravity that couldn't be turned off." From Becky Chambers' THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL ANGRY PLANET. #SentencesIHaveLiked 📚💙 🪐📚

Introducing #writingcommunity and #booksky to @malagopress.bsky.social and our new spooky story book! Quite Weird www.amazon.co.uk/Quite-Weird-...

An Online Trove of Historic Sewing Patterns & Costumes

Made the tough decision to post a notice on our #StreetLibrary asking folks not leave foodstuffs. Suggested they donate to our local Hunger Taskforce who can make a larger difference. (We'll take the several cans of beans & dry soups to our grocery store's food bin.) #LittleFreeLibrary #EndHunger

I was an archivist for a bit, an academic librarian for a bit, & a professor who taught new librarians for yet another bit. So I know the theory & need for occasionally weeding books. But it still gives me a gut punch to see this sort of stamp on a used book when I buy it. 📚💙

Just saw an event announcement for a book release that described it, most enthusiastically, as "a new Christmas classic." Pretty bold, I'd say. Doesn't it take a little time for a book to ripen into a classic? 📚💙

Blue Jays lost. 😪 Moar baseball! 😄 ⚾️⚾️⚾️

Lots of classics by last night's trick-or-treaters: ninja turtles still a fave, regular ninjas, a variety of witches, a spider, & several way cool teens just chilling. Lots of fun. (Plus candy left over for us.) 🎃👻👽🐢🧙‍♀️😎

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

With the trick-or-treaters coming by tonight, we've temporarily redone our street library with kid, YA, and a few SFF books. 🎃 📚💙 🪐📚

Up early to read on a chill morning...tucked this little fireplace nearby and imagined it warmed the room. 🔥 📚💙 youtube.com/live/mSX3OyW...

Thanks to Samuel Delany for highlighting this article (via his Tumblr page: samueldelany.tumblr.com). 🪐📚 📚💙 www.prideindex.com/black-specul...

Working on the back-of-book synopsis for my forthcoming academic mystery. It reminds me of my days as an information organization editor (& later, professor) when I taught text abstracting. It wasn't easy then and it's still a challenge now! 🤯 #WritingCommunity #AcademicMystery ⚡📚

Someone added foodstuffs to our street library. Kind, but sad too. In 2 days the U.S. govt shutdown will eliminate the food assistance benefits program for nearly 40 million citizens; 700,000 Wisconsinites will be affected. 1/2 #LittleFreeLibrary #SNAP #EndHunger

Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁 Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨ Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌 “Take a look, it’s in a book!” YOU can be anything 📚🌈

So apparently re-reading isn't seen as a thing anymore? Who makes up this shite? #venting

Not sure, but I think I just saw someone liken academic regalia to "academic bathrobes." Snorted my tea up my nose. 🤣👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓

Had to spend a day on the couch after a medical procedure on my knee (ouch!) so I set up a little comfort TBR stack nearby. Between naps, I managed to finish one: Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life. A splendid work of insights, private pain, & partial memoir. 📚💙

The Dracula clues & answers in today's NYT crossword puzzle are definitely rocking the Dad joke vibe. 🦇📰

⚡️📚 📚💙 #QueerCrime #BookRecs

The grace of these sentences is just something! Definitely going to track down a copy. More info here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 📚💙

This whole thread! Am in SF-reading mode so am adding it to my WIP reference files. But the rich sociology of its history, politics, memoirs...etc. Fascinating.

Just recalled when a male person I know stated that all the tea-drinking characters in Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch books were female because "only women drink tea." Years later I'm still agog. 🫖☕️ 🪐📚 📚💙

Enormous news in literary arts philanthropy: Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Poetry, Ford, Lannan, Hawthornden, & other foundations, will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits & fiscally sponsored lit orgs & publishers over the next 5 years.

Oh no...am I going to DNF this book already? A sentence that opens with "We haven't even been supposed...." Ouch! Jumped ahead just to see. Nope, lots of choppy, you-are-there-isn't-this-awful 1st person stuff that wants me to care & follow along. Hmm, don't & won't. There's no grace to it. 📚💙 🪐📚

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I mentioned Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin yesterday. Today we also donated to Hunger Taskforce, a Milwaukee-specific food resource for people in need. Help out if you can! 🍎🍌🥦🍞🌶🥩🥗❤️ www.hungertaskforce.org

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Finding some solid stuff for the backstory of my fictional college's psychologist/counselor. (Doing research is as fun as writing! 😄) Full citations in the ALT Text. #AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CharacterDevelopment #WriterResearch #backstory #WritingCommunity 📚💙 ⚡📚

Hey fellow Wisconsinites, with the imminent hit on the SNAP FoodShare program, if you can swing it, perhaps you can set up a one-time or monthly donation to the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. Even a small amount helps those folks in need. #EndHunger 🍎🍌🥬🍞🥩❤️ www.secondharvestsw.org

Have seen this before, but like to repost. #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Ageism 📚💙

Comforting words from Becky Chambers' Wayfarer novel, THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL ANGRY PLANET. 📚💙 ⚡️📚

Read around in 3 books today; one for new info on a long-time favorite artist, one for the thoroughly entertaining storytelling, & one to escape into space with much beloved characters. 📚💙 #reading

You know, the USDA used to be useful. They put out cookbooks for schools for years, all intended to serve hundreds of kids for around (a constant) $1.35 per meal. And if you loved school pizza, the secret is the Pourable Pizza Crust. (As well as the school rolls.) You can have your own copy:

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