@xyzpoly
Welcome to my BlueSky. I’m Carrie — writer, seeker, survivor. No DMs or scams. I block accounts whose primary function is solicitation or spam. From the Threshold on Substack. Come sit with me. substack.com/@carrielauer...
Fremont Street neon. Tracers in the lights. Teenage laughter. A desert night at Lake Mead. And a moment when I knew with absolute certainty… I was a bush. 🌵
New story on Substack: Fremont Street, Tracers, and Sagebrush substack.com/@carrielauer...
Sobriety gave me more than freedom from alcohol it changed the way I think. Today I realized how deeply the teachings of Alcoholics Anonymous shaped my life, carrying me through caregiving, grief, and grace. I walked into those rooms on Aug 15, 1999. One day at a time.
substack.com/@carrielauer...
I woke up to headlines about the U.S. bombing Iran and felt the familiar spike of fear. Instead of spiraling, I asked questions. What’s likely? What’s not? Are we powerless? The morning after the headlines is quieter than the night before. We are awake — not doomed. open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...
When you’ve given narcissist immunity and you give a narcissist a weapon, you give America a war.
thought my big dog needed more than I could give. Turns out she just needed me. “The Dog I Couldn’t Rehome. open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...
Doggy interrogation she wants to know what I did with her toy little does she know she’s actually laying on it.
The interrogation has begun
This little princess refused to pee because the rain was personally offensive.
She tried to shake it off like I scheduled it.
Now she’s Velcroed to me under a blanket.
Honestly? I respect the standards. 👑🌧️🐾
Sometimes the walls built around us are made of love. Brick by careful brick, named safety, meant to protect. But growth still asks for pressure, for leaning into resistance. Even unwitnessed, even unapplauded — I rise. substack.com/@carrielauer...
After watching that hearing, I’m confident she’d thrive anywhere questions aren’t allowed
Forever and for always, my valentine. He’s been gone almost 2 years and I miss him like it was yesterday.
It squeaked.
It shrieked.
It taunted.
It never let up.
But in the end… it met its match.
Survived by one triumphant pitbull mix and one weary woman who now knows the true sound of silence. chatgpt.com/s/m_698e0bf8...
Thursday, 8:26 AM. She finally killed the squeaky ball. I’ve endured the relentless soundtrack of canine chaos for days—but I’m still standing. The ball is dead. My spirit is intact. I can survive anything. #doglife #morningchronicles #survivor
I have been doing the squeaky ball I can survive anything.
No legitimate public figure needs to “prove it’s really me” in your DMs—especially by moving platforms.
Red flag parade 🚩
Campaigns really need someone whose only job is:
“What does this look like in half a second?”
Because… yikes.
I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
He can silence the GOP, but he cannot silence us.
Thank you Carol 😊
Stronger together 💪 💙
go.bsky.app/E82qECV
Thanks for calling that out. I don’t think people are aware that these detention centers are for profit?
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Verizon: Stop Powering Detention, Deportation, and Abuse.. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
“Teaching my ADHD to fly in formation”
was really about learning where my attention belongs.
Sometimes we give it away for love.
Sometimes it comes back
when we’re finally still enough to notice. open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...
This isn’t about villains. It’s about unintended consequences—what happens when money, power, and judgment arrive before experience, formation, and
open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...
Activists and groups across the U.S. are calling for a nationwide strike and boycott of everyday economic activity — specifically urging people to avoid work, school, and shopping today as a form of protest. 
• The movement is often described as a general strike or “economic blackout
today
When help becomes something you have to buy, it’s not because people stopped caring—it’s because time became scarce. I wrote about laundry, neighbors, and what happens when survival leaves little room for care.
open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...
AI, loneliness, and human connection came up on the Ezra Klein Show and I agreed mostly. But something was missing. Some people were already isolated by caregiving, disability, grief, and aging. For us, AI didn’t replace relationships—it kept us from disappearing.
open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...
Here’s the fact Several men attacking a citizen and somebody thought it would be a good idea to just fucking shoot him
My take away from my morning practice
Spirit doesn’t ask who’s being targeted. Spirit asks who’s being fed.”
open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...
This is fraud by the way
