Wildlife sightings on this morning’s bike ride: 2 raccoons playing in a culvert 1 very dead skunk 1 small pile of bear scat (all I need to see of a bear) 1 rattlesnake curled on the road (no desire to check if it was alive or dead) 4 wild turkeys Too many prairie dogs to count #Colorado #cycling

Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer. That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.

I saw a freight train go by today, and all I could think was, America’s rolling stock is a laughing stock… It was slow and creaky and looked like a relic from the past… #infrastructurefail

My “smile line” of the day: “Did it hurt? When you fell out of whatever Norse myth you came from…” (From A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna) #amreading #readingbringsmejoy

Help stop this insanity: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...

CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires

Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso... #Museums

It doesn’t get much better than sipping a hot chocolate on an August morning that is most definitely trending toward fall while preparing for my #kidlit critique group! #amwriting #chocoholic

These books about #geocaching are very outdated but they provided great cover for this library cache…

Remember as a kid when you and your friends would “ride bikes”? That’s the feeling of a great gravel ride… #gravelbiking #Colorado #bigkidfun #cycling

Missing life in #Basel… www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/f...

CONTEST ALERT! #kidlitchat #contest

I love being a Little Free Library steward - look what the community has added: Puppy treats and mystery books!! #littlefreelibrary #lovereading @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

We are a nation under duress. People are being taken from their homes, from grocery stores, from safe places. People with no prior criminal history. People who have active cases for citizenship or asylum.

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!

I discovered Team Caches yesterday in downtown Issaquah. Despite roping in a random stranger, we were unable to get it to work. Next time we’ll bring an entire posse! Love the concept though. #geocaching

So worth reading. Damn. It's tough to be a visionary www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/a...

Today’s reading view…

Happy Birthday Geocaching! How #geocaching became the world's largest game of hide-and-seek one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5342...

Spent a lovely hour or so browsing in @boulderbookstore.bsky.social this morning before deciding on my purchases #independentbookstoreday

I know where I will be on Saturday!’

@cswild.bsky.social Thinking of you today and hoping for a victory against hatred

It keeps getting worse… #handsoff

Seeing this post right after reading HCR’s April 18 2025 post is pretty powerful stuff

Books bring out the best in people… #loveyourindie #bookstores www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Competition was fierce - nothing stokes creativity like oppression- but this was my absolute favorite sign from #HandsOff #Denver

Followed up my #handsoff action yesterday with calls to my reps today to demand they hear the millions of voices that rang in the street yesterday

Another reason to love libraries!

Happy Election Day, Wisconsin and Florida. Go vote like your life depends on it.

Go, Cory, go!

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Heather Stigall is offering a critique on a fiction or informational fiction picture book. Prose or rhyme is ok (no free-verse). 850 words or under please. To enter like, comment, and repost. Must do all three. Good luck! @heatherstigall7.bsky.social

More love from PB creatives

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Lisa Katzenberger is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 1,000 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social

As always, creative signs may just save us #teslatakedown

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/ZK2rvxsH

Duo gets me!! #chocolate #chocoholic

In honor of Pi day, feel free to be endlessly irrational today just as a little treat

Donald Trump said he'd abolish the Department of Education, and that's exactly what he's doing. If you send your kids to public school, Trump is sending you a clear message: he doesn’t care about you.

This look like a job for writers! #kidlit #writingcommunity show us what you‘ve got!

Whatever the weather, NOAA is there #standupforscience #NOAA

Protest at NOAA in Boulder CO Hands off our scientists!

Focusing on this today… #nature #natureheals

I adore cleverness!

I found two new-to-me brands of Fair Trade hot chocolate/drinking chocolate while in New Zealand. The first was truly divine and I brought several boxes back. Sadly those are gone, but it does mean I get to taste test this one today… 🙂 #chocoholic #hotchocolate

And this is probably the least disruptive of what some of you voted for…

Trump’s fascists really don’t want you to see or share this video from Rep. @aoc.bsky.social’s Know Your Rights webinar.

#kidlit opportunities !