Check out this article from Cincinnati.com: Where to find food assistance in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky if SNAP benefits run out www.cincinnati.com/story/news/l...

Menopause Is NOT One Day Women manage an everyday normal life while in wait mode—again—for this stealth stranger known as menopause, which according to our friend is just one day. open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

A pair of lions at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, allegedly loosely affiliated with the Pacific Northwest chapter of Antifa, await the arrival of federal troops sent in by President Trump. Developing story. 😳🦁

Whenever someone mentioned Detroit, my ears perked up. You used to work there? You lived there a while back? The mere mention of Detroit snapped my mind to attention. When would be my time for Detroit? What would it be the city's turn for me? annettejwick.substack.com/p/detroit-ca...

Writers know what we’re built for when we’re in it, when the iron strikes. If we’re not in it, if we’re not writing, if we go cold, we fall apart. Misery wins. What are you built for? Read on. annettejwick.substack.com/p/were-you-b...

Whether marching with several thousands blue cities or protesting in the middle of a handful of heroic marchers in red states, confidence came from not feeling alone." What did I find "left behind"? What did you? open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

Last Saturday, I took a shoemaking workshop. Some nails hit their mark, others left a mark on my thumb. Pounding of twenty some nails into a plastic last, a whoosh startled me. It was the ancestors. My latest is up! Read to the end for the finished product! open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

Reading Dream Hotel by Laila LaLami is like immersing oneself in the entirety of one news cycle in the US. It's real--and possible. I'm worried for my dreams now for sure.

"Work isn't glamorous. It’s what we do. I write bi-weekly missives to connect to readers, encourage them to support my work, earn credibility. We all want a little credibility. What workers don’t want is someone to take away the little credibility we already have." open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

Why is it never enough, to be without papers (WOP is slang for Italians without papers)? To prove we exist because our feet have walked the earth? My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

"I opened Espress-way in August of 1994, married in September, and closed the business in early 1996 due to a move—to Oregon. In that time, I learned mostly, that I needed NPR, coffee, and Aunt Lynne in my life." A Husband’s Aunt, a Drive-thru Coffee Bar, and NPR open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

“Library visits became a pattern to pursue. Some people visit baseball stadiums when traveling, I take in a library. Library services save lives, jobs, dreams. Through Covid, libraries saved many a soul.” Are we still a nation fit to inherit our wealth of books? open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

"Perhaps it’s a collective amnesia about Covid, or our inability to find the right words for might be called a “great interruption” or the “anthropause," that has caused our blinders to stay in place." Have you taken the time to reflect? Latest post it up1 annettejwick.substack.com/p/time-to-re...

When one word has two meanings….

The top question asked about living in a neighborhood in flux, with its prosperous and dubious history, was, “You’re packin’ a gun, right?” More statement, it was accompanied by a shifty grin as if they were in the movies. Read on for my answer below. annettejwick.substack.com/p/do-you-sti...

After the SuperBowl with their super QB, I'm ready to go all in on Philly. Seems like my kind of town.

Hey writers, @weeknightwriters.bsky.social writers, all writers I follow, looking for a quote about the first gen of immigrants and their children struggle to work, to make it, the job of the next gen is to make meaning from the struggle. I can't recall the author, and it's not in my "stacks." Help!

Love the ad and this team. youtu.be/vGnDZdNaETI

I'm Italian. I'm really good at "opposition."

It feels fitting to post this today... "Digging deep into the internet, I learned more about the player whose jersey I would wear. And excavated some deep connections to the Cleveland Browns and why I demonstrated a curious sympathy toward “Johnny Football.” open.substack.com/pub/annettej...

For whatever reason, the elected leaders who begged us for money 3 times a day for a year (and still are...) don't have an ounce of the courage and creativity of federal employees like this.

"JD Vance, a former Ohio senator and Middletown native who has a home in Cincinnati, commented, "President Trump and I will stop this." If this be the revolution, let it begin here.

"They would have found him guilty"

Do you talk to yourself? And is that a bad thing? annettejwick.substack.com/p/why-we-sho...

I can’t unknown this. www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/...

Thankful for our community of Gugel Alley Writers. If you don't have an writer's accountability circle, make one for yourself. Reach out to a library, a bookstore, a coffee shop. All places where I've made or helped make a community. Writers gotta write. They will come. They always do.

"As I review what has transpired in my life, it’s evident my writing examines what serves me or how my words can serve someone else. That’s the highest achievement we can attain, the best of ourselves we can give." My latest blog is up! annettejwick.substack.com/p/happy-nudg...

it’s just been me and dad since calgon took mom in ‘86

My first post to Blue Sky... "One of the graces of aging is figuring out how you might want to be represented in literature, not in how many memoirs can I publish, or necessarily as a singlet. But as a community, as a generation." annettejwick.substack.com/p/art-that-t...

We can still win at life.

A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls

My first entry on Bluesky: "Slowly women enter this phase in our lives. A phase some tout as a third act. I liked to think we have FOUR." annettejwick.substack.com/p/women-tell...