«I think Americans are overly punctilious punctuators.» -Ellen Jovin Guilty. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

We can’t let children inherit this world. We have to make it better. Going to wake up in the morning and try to move the needle a little every day. And I’ll just keep doing that, I guess.

This time last year I set out on a solo vacation. Best thing I ever did as a mother. I came back rejuvenated in my role and more in love than ever. #motherhood #morethanmotherhood

2025: light, dark, then light again 🤍 (Shoutout @angiemcmahonhq.bsky.social)

Low Threshold Book Club 2025: We read a whopping 3 books! 1: A topical 🇺🇸 book on feminism. We could not stand the writing. Abandoned. 2: A romantasy. They loved it, I struggled. Took months to synch, months to recover. 3: Winner! The gorey murder novel Victorian Psycho. Finally! #libfaves2025

“May your hope always outweigh your doubt, until this whole world finally punches you out” -Todd Snider. I’ll play your music extra loud today. Thanks for the words when I lack them. RIP.

A break from the routine reminds you that you’re still that girl with the wind in her hair and who wears adventure on her sleeve.

My fave book of 2025. Jim and Huck escape from home and travel along the Mississippi River. The storytelling is just so…so… ✨ @percivaleverett.bsky.social

Ah, Paris ❤️ Where the fumes from the traffic and the cigarette steam make my eyeballs well up like life is a dream. -Hollie McNish

A war monument at my old school. Elverum folkehøyskole is where the King 🇳🇴 said «no» to joining its invaders. Everything was bombed in the city spare a few buildings, including my old school.

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How very similar and how very different we are to the versions of ourselves with each decade. leahplotz.substack.com/p/missent-po... #postcard #travel

Vinneren av brosjyrene gjennom hele denne valgkampen: @sv.no ! Tydelig, ryddig. Føler meg informert og inspirert 🤔 Taperen: @mdg.no. 😔 OK: stem på dere, og så…kommer ikke KfF frem. Men, jeg kjente ikke at det SA (ga) meg noe. Hilsen PR rådgiver. Godt valg!

“People are holding back…and we are losing because there are stories that are not being told.” Thank you, Chimamanda Adichie, for an unforgettable night. What a force. #DreamCount

I just really really enjoyed Cloudstreet by #TimWinton. Two captivatingly castarophies of family units living under one roof in post-war Australia. Thankful to Matilda bookshop in Adelaide’s hills for the rec to start there.

Kjære deg, kjære pust, kjære natt. Les den.

Einar Skjæraasen en gang skrev «august er det mykeste myke jeg kjenner,» men i år kjennes det som løv mot kinnet. Som om oktober kommer etter; vi hopper over september. Det er bare noe med lufta.

Sommer i Norge er virkelig ekstra stas i år. #gaularfjellet

My first (!) graphic novel had to be this good. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... Thank you Rachel Ang 🥹

I was lucky enough to go to summer camp because I had ample amounts of outside financial support. Summer camp was my safe space, like it is for countless other kids who don’t fit the mold. open.substack.com/pub/leahplot...

“The best poems come barreling over the plains under a sky of stars.” Elizabeth Clark Wessel

Boys need their uncles. I think about this a lot, how boys need as many good male role models as they can get. War rips uncles away all too often. I’m so sad that this letter from Ukraine is from 2022. It should have stopped then. open.substack.com/pub/leahplot...

I’m looking over an English translation for a friend. Their large, rich publishing house claims to have done the work. The amount of corrections I’ve made proves that automation kills books. Praise be that they asked me for my opinion. #editing #booksky

Book launches will always be important, way beyond the commercial gains of them. Getting art out to the world is a community affair. A labor of love for more than one. Writing is not a vacuum. #keepwriting

I’ve learned that grief is the only state of living that still feels raw ages after the urgency of it has healed. #grief #loss open.substack.com/pub/leahplot...

Either one of my parents when they finally go to the doctor. @theoatmeal.bsky.social

This book. It twists my veins and I cry for every character. I feel a piece of every one of them and want to reach through the pages and comfort them. For Natasha Rai, I hope it’s just the beginning. 🌹

🤓 let us dive into the rabbit hole

Tusen takk, @ruthrostrup.bsky.social, for en av de mest rørende gavene jeg har fått. En bok fra 1947, full av #dikt skrevet av Inger Haugerup. ❤️ Og nå klarer jeg ikke å slutte å tenke: hvem var Inger Haugerup? 🤓

Inger Hagerup. 1947. For et vakkert eksempel på norsk poesi og historie. #arkiv

Will someone please tell me how Oisín McKenna managed to make me obsess over these characters even when I wasn’t reading it? ❤️ #booksky #irishliterature

I’ve many attempts to find the words to express my <3 for #libraries. A declaration of love but also a plea for their very existence and I’ll continue trying but for now, @holliemcnish.bsky.social caught all my feels:

As women we are built to believe that the body we had in our 20s and 30s is something to cling onto, as if it can’t be as beautiful as it changes with the seasons. But what if we proved that it just gets better? #weightlifting #perimenopause

My friend wrote a book and it is funny and full of dreams and I am so damn proud! #childrensauthor #booksky #gyldendal

Jeg elsker å bo i #Oslo, byen i mitt liv. Men hver gang jeg tar turen til fjellene, til naturen, til vannet, blir livet…bra. #norge

Norwegian is the language of poetry. Hvordan skal jeg ellers beskrive fjorden? #vestlandet

#Regjeringen elsker å legge ned gårder rundt omkring i Norge, men mye har endret seg siden januar. Kommer de til å endelig sette pris på og høre på bønder? #norgetrengerbonden

Team building trip. I gave a presentation about the importance of Tone of Voice to a buuuunch of engineers. Feels like no matter what job I have, I give talks to engineers. #contentwriting #toneofvoice #marketing

Jeg liker veldig godt å lese norsk sakprosa. Denne fortellingen er en sterk historie om en datter som fant ut hva familien gikk gjennom under krigen—kun etter at moren hennes døde, over 100 år gammel. —Side 20 og jeg er takknemlig for at denne ekte historien blir fortalt.

I wrote a raw and heartfelt letter to a fellow creative mother, @leahplotz.bsky.social. It’s now out in the world on Substack. For you. Just in case you need to hear it too. 💌 leahplotz.substack.com/p/cold-coffe... #writer #motherhood #poet #writingcommunity

Letters are intensely private, and urgent only in their intimacy. Yet, @ruthrostrup.bsky.social and I both knew this letter had to be shared: leahplotz.substack.com/p/cold-coffe... #handwritten #letterwriting #letters

Gadgets won’t make me a better writer…except for the printer I recently bought. 😍 There’s nothing like catching errors on paper #writingsky

Pour yourself a glass and get ready for the next Substack drop while you still can! 📥 📬📯 leahplotz.substack.com Special guest is my special girl @ruthrostrup.bsky.social

🇳🇴 Norwegian tax system be like: Them: «this look ok to you?» Me: «Yup» Them: «Cool. Here’s your money.» Me: «sweet, thanks!» 🇺🇸 American tax system: Them: «You have to file.» «But I don’t make money there.» «file or go to prison.» «OK» as I spend money on an accountant.

First official #bookclub meeting over #fourthwing and look, y’all: there’s a lot of #smut hate out there but GONE are the days of female characters being completely overrun by their psychopathic partners and that makes bandwagon reading worth it #booksky @rebeccayarros.bsky.social

Something wholesome from the farm. Cause you need it:

First things first. Over 200 people have have signed up to disrupt their inbox with #poetry and words of #inspiration. ✨ Fuck. yes. This postcard is dedicated to #women, #friendship, and soul sisters. With poetry from @leahplotz.bsky.social and @nikitagill.bsky.social 💌

Read this and feel empowered after a dismantling weekend of events. I wrote a bit of it and Ruth did, too: open.substack.com/pub/ruthrost...

Communities can be reborn. Connection can be reignited. Now more than ever:

Want to spread joy in this excruciating reality of a dumpster fire we live in? Send a letter of inspiration. Love you, @ruthrostrup.bsky.social #letter #writemoreletters