Peg Cheng

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

This nonprofit provides books to prisoners. Its Bellingham branch is searching for a new home | Cascadia Daily News Seattle-based organization creates Nancy Duncan Huss Fund nine years after Whatcom County chapter went dormant

Hi everyone! Our sibling chapter in Bellingham, Washington is searching for a new home. Do you have any leads? If so, please contact the Bellingham group at bellinghambtp@yahoo.com ASAP

Your help is appreciated 🫶

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“But quality over quantity matters. Life is too short to spend with obligatory relationships and false friends with funky agendas.” Yaas, Theresa. Couldn’t agree more.

This brings back such memories!! 🥶😳 My hubs and I went here about 10 years ago and felt like we were standing in a gigantic freezer next to a bunch of big, organic-shaped ice cubes. It was wild. Great experience.

Some gorgeousness to look forward to. 😍

Ahhhhhhmaaaazing, Theresa! Congratulations! 😲🙌🎉

This astrology class looks awesome, Theresa! I love getting my natal chart read by astrologers, but how cool to be able to read it myself??? Going to check my calendar now to try to make this.

Beautiful blues! 💙💙💙

Totes! 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s not Year of the 🐎 until Feb 17, y’all. 🧧

“Lazy” is a social construct rooted in capitalism and religious dogma about hard work “protecting people from sin”.

Rest and relaxation are good for you, good for our relationships, and good for our resistance against systems of harm.

🕺🏻 Yaas! 🤑

💔💔💔 It’s so hard to say goodbye to a loyal car that got you through and to so much.

Mine too! 🤎🤎🤎

Yes!! Thanks for this, Theresa, and I wish the same for you. 🙏

Yaas! Congratulations, Casey! 🙌

Just finished a 6-week Watercoloring Butterflies & Moths class with Robin Bundi at North Seattle College Continuing Education. Loved it! If you’ve been wanting to paint watercolors—even if you’re a total beginner—check out Robin’s classes for Winter 2026. conted.northseattle.edu

Ahhhhhhh! 😍😍😍 Love this tree!

That’s cool you’re in Seattle! This city is chockfull of great indie bookstores. 📚 Don’t know if you have been there yet, but Magus Books in the University District is the best used bookstore in town IMHO.

Many days can be made better if we pause, breathe, and enjoy the present moment.

Ahhhhhh, love this red maple! 😍 Fall is my favorite time of the year.💛🧡🤎❤️

Ha ha! Mine too. 📚🔖📝💓

Whoa! 121??? Why so many? Looking good though. 👌

Enjoy the present. So easy to say, harder to do. But for a day, every time you think about the past or the future, stop yourself and bring yourself gently back to the present. See how you feel by the end of the day. It makes a difference.

Love this! 🐟💙🩵

Congratulations, Theresa! 🎉😄That is a huge accomplishment to finish the rough draft of a new book. 🙌

“In thank you letters, readers tell us that books are passed around their unit, to be read and treasured in turn. Patrons speak of unquantifiable benefits provided in a system where outlets for books are scarce and on-site libraries are frequently closed, hard to access, or even non-existent.”

Double your donation when you buy a book for BtP during Banned Books Week, Oct 5-11 2025 “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” That's the theme the American Library Association and the Banned Books Coalition have chosen for Banned Books Week 2025. Their focus is on censorship in ...

It’s BANNED BOOKS WEEK & @bookstoprisoners.bsky.social is teaming up with indie bookstores. Buy a book for BTP from 10/5-10/11 & they will receive a 1:1 match from a family foundation. BTP is a fantastic organization & I love volunteering for them. 📚 www.bookstoprisoners.net/post/double-...

Exactly! 😂

Truth! This needs to be taught and spread throughout the U.S.

YOU ARE ENOUGH written on a rainbow-colored watercolor painting

Because I think many of us need this reminder.