dear readers ~ we have a November promo for the audiobook of LINH LY 💟

Writing to let it be known that I am still editing and def rewrote 1/2 a manuscript (that's right, ~40k!!!! 🫠) and a newsletter will be out tomorrow (forgive me; it's short), so sign up! 🌻🌻🌻

Today is LINH LY's one year anniversary 💗 Give my book a read (or listen, with the super sale below!) ~~~ bookshop.org/p/books/linh...

✨ thanks for reading & writing! ✨💗💞☺️

New organ clock data support the anti-aging benefits of estrogen for postmenopausal women. Reviewed here in context with previous and other recent reports. erictopol.substack.com/p/new-anti-a...

I just read my tenth #COVID19 research study in the past month or so that demonstrates COVID infections cause brain changes that may accelerate Alzheimer's disease, are associated with cognitive decline, and cause fatigue, memory impairment, and sleep disorders. (1/?)

It's been about two years since I've written anything art-related, and Aisha Imdad's beautiful exhibition coaxed me out of my hibernation ~~~ southwestcontemporary.com/aisha-imdad/

The beginning of the month will roll around again which means a newsletter will be out soon. Sign up — thao-votang.kit.com/91bfefdbb4

Usually I awkwardly insert this into conversations w acquaintances but have never here. So here it is: get a water bottle with water filter. Seems more and more important to have with every passing day. lifestraw.com/collections/...

"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

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✨ LINH LY received the honor award for the Texas Institute of Letters Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction ✨ Very excited to dig into the books of fellow honorees & awardees! texasinstituteofletters.org/winners-of-2...

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Lovely review by Adalyn Tâm An Ngô @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social of LINH LY 💗💚💙 dvan.org/2025/01/book...

Helped 20 other volunteers haul trash out of a nature preserve while listening to crows build a nest nearby 💚 the organizer said they had yet to see a squirrel in the area. Maybe this will be the year they can return.

thanks for reading & sharing, @kristenleigh.bsky.social ! 💚

Finding it helpful to start my days with the five remembrances. This version was written by Thích Nhất Hạnh — mountainsangha.org/the-five-rem...

Saw some beautiful things for a day, which was a nice change —

Reading about Ogallala Aquifer was not so feel-good BUT I somehow encountered "sailing stones" and that is joyful — youtu.be/fMm1E8CYSxk

What does Zebrowski miss about pre-pandemic times? “I miss the illusion that people are willing to care for each other,” she said. “How hard is it to put a mask on? It rattles your faith in humankind …

Contribute before the next cold front: givebutter.com/weatherama

Thank you for reading @kristenleigh.bsky.social ! 💗💗💗

For lack of any personal holiday around this time and in appreciation of the day off — I'm starting a new tradition I'm calling Dumpling Day (which I suppose could be 'celebrated' any day you want). May yours be decadently doughy: thewoksoflife.com/dumpling-wra...

I hope I can do something like this every solstice. Grilled cheeses and s'mores and an impromptu water color session at a nearly deserted park with some of my most loving friends listening to the crows and hawks & all the other birds ✨💗

This is all I want to do now, right on through the lunar new year. Do you have a favorite? yearcompass.com

See you Saturday!!!!! 💞💞💞

Tune in!!!!

Watch @utopiastateofmind.bsky.social on Sun 11/24, 5ET ✨✨✨ Panel with — Elizabeth Sails / @kristinowenswriter.bsky.social Linh Ly Is Doing Just Fine / 🙃 Masquerade / O.O. Sangoyomi Original Twin / @paulagleeson.bsky.social The Nightward / @rsagarcia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/dZp_PD3...

Fresh Fiction reviewed LINH LY 💗 💗 💗 💗 💗 If you must get through some holiday eye rolls & want good company, I highly rec! 🙃 freshfiction.com/review.php?i...

Huge thanks to Pandora's Bookstore for hosting a fabulous event. I get so nervous I want to puke, but am always so grateful to meet other authors & readers! #writingcommunity #sanantonio

going to be in San Antonio on Saturday for a sweet little author meet & greet. Come hang out!

“Over the past three years, a wave of new data — and lawsuits — have made the case that the outages were, in fact, a result of market manipulation by some of Texas’s biggest fossil fuel companies.” thehill.com/regulation/c...

Tonight! 😷 Please wear your N95s and lets have a fabulous night! www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...

I'll be online for a chat about LINH LY in less than and hour! Recording will br available after: www.youtube.com/live/Sy93UI8...

Southern Review of books on LINH LY and I'm 🥹

You can ORDER my book today, on its pub day! 💐 votang.com

Important discovery related to LongCovid: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 virus can reassemble into "zombie" complexes (XenoAMP-dsDNA) and induce a major and sustained immune response, affecting healthy, uninfected cells, not seen with common cold coronaviruses www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...