"Perhaps if I hadn’t taken such pride in those awards bestowed by authorities, if I hadn’t been so eager to be renamed, I wouldn’t have ended up stuck so badly in mid-life, carrying a diagnosis I couldn’t shed: Failure to Progress." #WIPsnips #memoir #amwriting

"In each of us there is another whom we do not know." -Carl Jung

Epigraph to my #wip titled A Long Line of Nobodies 'We sense the dead have a vital force still. They have something to tell us, something we need to understand. I come from a long line of nobodies.” -Hilary Mantel #wipsnips #memoir #montana #writesky #grief #writingcommunity

The first bloom in my NYC tree pit garden. Planted these grown-from-seed coreopsis and asclepias tuberosa seedlings last year. Many survived NYC winter, drought, Ocean Pkway traffic & trash & dog pee. First bloom of the year. Go ahead--try new things! #FridayFlowers #nativeplants #pollinatorgardens

"Perhaps the pages were redacted or maybe the Pierce County Superior Court records clerk assumed that anyone requesting these documents would be looking for information relevant to the case, not an opportunity to learn more about their own family history." #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIP #memoir

To explicitly remember is to see "oneself in another," (Ricoeur). What is the difference between the visiting expert, objectifying and theorizing -- versus the person with belonging, affinity, proximity? Who is the more reliable narrator? #memory #inheritance #montana #evelyncameron #montanawomen

Listen to this insightful and alarming episode! @errollouis.bsky.social is sharp as usual. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

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“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

“Pay attention to the weather, to what breaks your heart, to what lifts your heart. Write it down.” Ellen Meloy.

Gardening for my ecosystems insects and butterflies and birds is my obsession—join us, it’s fun!

Absolutely bonkers and racist.

NOTICE: Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. If they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Remember…last summer we had 95 degree weather. Look out for them

what the fuck are we doing

Well, this video is pretty persuasive - and I am totally on board with the politicians willing to take some time, respect us enough to explain things in their videos @aoc.bsky.social @chiosse.bsky.social

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So, maybe apps are not the best way to do therapy....

Pop quiz: What's the number one cause of death among pregnant women in the US? No googling.

I called. It took one minute. Do it.

The further Putinisation of America. The regime seizes upon crime to justify its own criminality and supress opposition.

This week on Unsung History I was delighted to be joined by returning guest @mkn.bsky.social, discussing the Frontier Myth and the actual diverse group of people who lived in the American West. You know it's a podcast about the Western US because Frederick Jackson Turner makes an appearance. 😂

Remember when a congresswoman from Texas was in a memory care unit with dementia for months—still holding her seat?

AOC takes no bullshit.

For a long time, I've been trying to write about the culture of silence I felt in Montana family culture. And how to represent that in my essays, the gaps and empty spots.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Nice data map!

an underrated, unforgivable belief that remains prevalent among pols and normies is that a rising tide lifts all boats when it’s been clear forever that a rising tide simply drowns the people on low lying land

It's reverse Robin Hood.

It's still poetry month and it's still possible for hope and beauty and surprise reversals.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.

As feeling affects the body, as a sleeping mountain moves men, as Shasta Daylight transports honey in tank cars, that old house moves us again. At the Office for Short-Lived Phenomena everyone says contact the center of volcanoes if you want news. M Defrees #poetry agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/moving/

if you’re trying to “save time” as a writer by using AI, i suggest you find another profession. it takes time to write well, time to write exciting books. it takes time to write one good poem. i’ve spent years on a single poem. the time spent learning one’s craft is everything

April is National #Poetry Month. Here is Lynda Hull. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

It is poetry month, so poets.org/poem/conditi...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

We are launching a big project today with MIT — The Electricity Price Hub! You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020. electricity.heatmap.news

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

How could this possibly go wrong? 🤡

I’m haunted by Tree of Heaven myself, and yes, in Greene County—this article really sets out the painful conundrum we face.

Great discussion about the systematic nature of sexual abuse of women and girls -- it's not just about "bad men." Because there's so many, everywhere. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

The shift from full-time jobs to random "just-in-time" part-time ever-changing schedules must be reversed. It's not radical-just a return to commonsense. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/o...