Despite crazy siren after siren speeding down my street, F18 fly-overs (why?) and my nerves shattered by the big ghoulish sadistic bill, I know surrender to darkness is not an option. There is only one direction, forward, and only one goal, that all the world might live in peace, in plenty, in love.

OMG Everybody is driving me crazy. PLEASE: 1. Live by your values, beyond whatever your tribe affiliation. Are you clear what they are? Write them on the mirror. 2. Make sure you have the real 911 - not JUST what your algorithm serves up. Did s/he really say that? Or does it just confirm a bias?

I have no hate. I see God in everyone. No matter how twisted. I do have fear. I fear Trump's aggressive cruelty and fascist moves. I also fear Mamdani's aggressive anti- Zionism. I feel unsafe everywhere.

Shabbat games

Last night 10pm longest day of the year

Roses at night

Swimming hole with dog. Note Mt. Rainier in distance. Closer up for detail. Blissful swim.

June garden.

June. Andy Warhol and me.

Every June my neighbor Joe brings me peonies from his yard. #communityfortheW

Gotta a whole lotta love in the mist

@msnbc.com. So y'all think we Jews need to hide? That's your advice? Don't exercise your freedom of speech in public?? Wow.

Tulips at dusk

Porch flowers

My glorious offspring!!

My adult 20 something son still lives at home. It is mostly pleasant. We often talk about our dog and wonder exactly what he's thinking. Also news of the birds in our yard comes up daily. Today the crows were chasing off a bald eagle. The chickadees were terrified. More at 11.

Pensive dog.

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

@esfletcher.bsky.social. So glad I found you again!! Lost many virtual friends when I left Twitter.

Ok honestly. Aren't people full up with substacks and newsletters and blogs? Are people really clamoring for more? They tell us we need to do it, but does it really help sell books? Truly curious. #writers #writingcommunity #publishing #bookmarketing

Forest in spring

Dog in garden

@katiephang.bsky.social Can't imagine why you are losing your show. You are a favorite of mine. Your legal expertise undergirding your analysis makes it potent and intelligent. Also you have a pure heart.

Walk today

My dad, son of immigrants escaping programs, who got his PhD at Harvard, would have been ashamed of his alma mater last spring when they failed to protect Jewish students, but so proud today as Harvard resists Trump's fascism.

May spring give hope to our resistance.

Location of my WIP

Pres Trump declared that Chuck Shumer and Jews that oppose Israeli government actions aren't really Jewish. One of the most anti-Semitic things imaginable: A non-Jew declaring who is and who isn't Jewish. Hey GOP, the anti-Semitism calls are coming from inside the (White) house.

The obscenity (and the menace to Jews) of these officials pretending any of this police state assault on our constitutional order has anything to do with concern about antisemitism is off the charts. Just diabolical.

Tulips on the table.

Guess what! Signed a contract for my debut novel FREYA THE DEER out in early 2026!!!!

Garden path

I may have lost my retirement security this week, but I still have nature.

The only good that can come from this is that a humbled USA will stop resting on laurels of imagined exceptionality and strive for justice and abundance and world peace.

Hood walk

On my corner

Currently querying School for the Insane, a moody literary fiction. Two story lines, a century apart, intertwine on and around the grounds of a charitable institution for mad girls. Is this place haunted? At least by memories...

I'm not an evangelist or anything but I would say the inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg in that group chat is proof positive of the existence of God and Their intervention in our affairs

Spring by the shed

Popping blossoms

@chrislhayes.bsky.social watching you with Schumer. You laugh at him for saying Hamas uses civilians as human shields. In the unconscious of the European (i.e. you), is an idea that Jews are dark and powerful. You infantalize the Palestinians. They have no moral responsibility.

The pack

@schumer.senate.gov NNNOOOOOOOOOOO! Vote no on the CR. For God's sake fight the madness!!!

If you are trans and thinking of suicide or self harm here is a number you can call for help TRANS HELP LINE from the Trevor Center 866-488-7386

Any claim to American exceptionalism is over. We are fully humbled, ruined, our ideals in ashes. Let the Phoenix rise on wings of compassion and justice.

To any non-U.S. folks on here. I want you to know how many of us here in the States are repelled and horrified by our current administration. We are resisting as best we know how....

@democracydocket.com @occupydemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @aclu.org @bluerevolution.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov etc. Can you guys please have a zoom meeting and figure out a way forward. We are starving for coherent leadership.