"for never plucking that big black eyebrow for surviving despite the pain for painting herself to her last breath" #TodaysPoem #poetry It's All Frida K's Fault by Emily Pohl-Weary (@kissmachine.bsky.social) (2000 dig.8 edited by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social) brokenpencil.com/reviews/dig-3/

Whoa. Sometimes, a vanity search pays off. You can read the first of four issues of my 2005 comic, Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate, illustrated by Willow Dawson, online for free at Strange Horizons! Find out how to read it in this post: emilypohlweary.com/post/7995064...

When a friend you haven’t seen in a long while (years) visits you in a dream, do you reach out? Yes/no

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it. @tyolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

There's a reason authoritarian regimes crack down on artists first. Because ART speaks to people more than anything else in this world. ART informs our hearts and our minds. Art forms bridges between our souls. Art heals what the world breaks. So yes. Promote the art. Keep making the art. Please.

Please join us for a reading and celebration of Keith Maillard as he retires from the School of Creative Writing. 🎉 Everyone is invited to attend this online event (Zoom). 🗓️ Thursday, October 16 ⏰ 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm 🎟️ RSVP for meeting link RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...

Newest and most photogenic member of the family: sweet Leica the miniest Aussie Shepherd. #miniaussie #leicathedog

Astonished that I can eat figs grown on the tree in my Vancouver Island backyard. Hand model is @nalohop.bsky.social #igrewthis

www.canada.ca/en/canadian-... Apparently, it’s Emancipation Day.

“I was finding a way through the forest (wearing silver platform boots) to meet the wolf. Who or what is the wolf? Perhaps the wolf is the whole point of writing.” —Deborah Levy, REAL ESTATE (thinking back on herself in her twenties)

Update on fixing up my lil Writing Shed. Have a desk, daybed, and cuddle bear. Still need insulation, windows, electricity, and drywall.

This spring, I’m renovating a 7x7.5-foot garden shed into a home office. Here’s the first update.

“Don’t look over... Oh, shit, he saw us.” “No way he can recognize us from there.” “You’re really tall. Of course he knows it’s you. And I’m always with you.” “So what? He hates us.” “Nah. He likes us, but knows I hate him. There’s a difference.”

Most appropriate public art in Vancouver.

I am astoundingly grateful to the BC Arts Council for a grant to work on my non-fiction book. For the past year, I've been writing (very slowly) about living with an invisible and debilitating chronic illness since my early teens. Can't wait until May, when I'll have time to work on it full-time.

These little feathered harbingers of spring are only about 2 inches tall and huddle together against the wind.

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally? Me:

First snow day this winter, likely the only one, in Vancouver.

Sunset on campus from the door of Tim Horton's. Just finished teaching the second class of intermediate writing for children and teens. Stopped lugging 40 pounds of books to get a hot chocolate and turned around...

Added to the nonfiction reading list for 2025 - Better to have Loved - the life of Judith Merril #scifi #judithmerril

Benefit of living in the Pacific Northwest is that we can go forest bathing at the end of Dec in tees and light jackets.

My first lecture

Ol’ Misery Guts over here (me) has the flu and is sick in bed. Send good news, happy memories, cute pet photos, etc

Isn’t that the most beautiful book cover? Got my holiday reading thanks to @nalohop.bsky.social (and a brand new puzzle) and am ready to cocoon. Bring on the bad weather!

Fresh cut! 1/2 my hair is gone. Feels so good. 💇🏼‍♀️

Whoa. Also, the real Ruby Slippers (dog version) is worth a gazillion times that much.

Nice to see Anecdotes on the Star’s fall book list with Lisa Whittington-Hill, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki, Tamara Faith Berger, Alicia Elliott, Jessica Westhead, Emily Pohl-Weary, Gary Barwin, Emily Zhou, Elizabeth Ruth, & more! Thanks to Deborah Dundas! www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Hey folks. This week on GET LIT we speak with author Emily Pohl-Weary about her novel How To Be Found. Had a great conversation and I hope you enjoy listening! 1230pm on 93.3/cfmu.ca or anytime on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/3myc76wf

Conversation with Emily Pohl-Weary about writing mysteries! @irondogs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqSB...

Judith Merril [SFE entry: sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/merril... ] was born on this day, so here are some of the books she wrote or edited (artist: Gray Morrow, possibly Robert Foster, Ed Emshwiller and Richard Powers):

Judith Merril was my grandmother and, yes, the collection is worth visiting! ❤️👽🚀👩‍🚀🪐🛸

I ate seafood for my birthday dinner while this guy glared at me. Bad vibes.

I feel like if Bluesky doesn't already know about tree.fm you would want to. It loops recorded sounds from random forests from around the world & yes, it is just really, really nice.

I made “invisible” apple cake this evening. Not-so-invisible apple cake, really, with five sliced apples and only 1/2 a cup of flour. Dad ate a piece, announced he’d had better, then asked for a second slice. Ruby wanted a dab of cream to fall in her mouth but no cake. Tough crowd. 🤪😆😋

Montreal Zinesters, Expozine is next weekend, on November 23 and 24, at 1025 rue Bélanger! Hundreds of people will be selling zines in English and French, and many independent publishers will be selling books as well!!

Stepping into November with Jessica Bromley Bartram’s nonchalant beast! smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/10...

Hello, new followers and people fleeing other social media! To learn more about me and my writing, check out emilypohlweary.com

Major investment in my sanity. (A puzzle caddy.)

Spent most of the day worrying about my US friends and what may be coming for us up north in the next federal election. Highly recommend new Stardew Valley update for a fantastical reprieve. Solves nothing, but blocks out the fear.

First Bluesky post! Since I mentioned the shrimpy Aussie Shepherd in my profile, thought I'd share some pics of Ruby "Stink Butt/Gooseberry/Ratscallion" Slippers herself.