Thank you for speaking up, Senator.

What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE? Here's what you need to know about your constitutional protections from immigration stops and detentions.

19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-...

Apache Stronghold - Protect Oak Flat.

Oak trees hold their leaves. I don't know or care why. It's just cute.

Don't Give Up

I received this folder at a professional conference years ago. Best SWAG ever.

Such an honor to win the Finalist prize in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival short story contest. Last week I read from "Couch" at the Rockville Memorial Library. Link to full story: fitzgeraldfestival.com/contests/.

The Earth is sacred. I'm calling on President Trump to respect religious freedom and #saveoakflat #defendtheholy.

What commitment will you make today to gather resources for yourself and your community?

Short Story Readings - F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference Inc. Thursday, October 9, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30pm Rockville Memorial Library 21 Maryland Ave, Rockville, MD 20850 This special event features the winners of this year’s Short Story Contest! The Short Story Con...

I am thrilled to share that my short story, "Couch," is a finalist in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival Short Story Contest! I will be reading on Thursday, October 9, at the Rockville (MD) Memorial Library (6 - 7:45 p.m.) "Couch" will be published on: fitzgeraldfestival.com/short-story-....

Thanks for the nudge!

Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Video) YouTube video by neilyoungchannel

Bring on the protest songs! youtu.be/8B9ATiGpbl8?...

Looks like an ESOL class.

Former national guard vice chief calls deployment into D.C. an 'intimidation' tactic Former National Guard Vice Chief Major General Randy E. Manner says deploying the Guard to D.C. will ruin how the average American views the military.

What the National Guard is supposed to be for is not what it's doing in DC.
www.npr.org/2025/08/20/n...

Free DC: Inside the women-founded movement opposing Trump’s militarized takeover Residents are organizing against Trump’s power grab in the capital — the latest embodiment of a generations-long fight for autonomy.

Free DC: 19thnews.org/2025/08/free...

Thanks, Amy! Best wishes also to you.

I hope you're doing OK.

Terrible.

I hope you're doing OK.

Greetings! Thoughts on timeline of responses to submissions? Emails to submissions@nightgingko.com bounce. Thank you.

Good times over here. Wishing you a good read today!

On Saturday at Good Contrivance Farm in Reisterstown, MD, it was delightful to meet Ross Gay, who read from new essays just before a drenching rainstorm.

Best sign at this morning's parade. Happy Interdependence Day!

More Grit & Gravity news, part B! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...

Spot LIT: Local Women Writers Show Their Grit in a New Anthology Grit & Gravity features 38 stories tied together by a shared sense of resilience. And more lit events for May too.

More Grit & Gravity news! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7641...

Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves. That is the result of a review...

When I attended my first Board of Visitors meeting a few weeks ago, I brought some of the books the Academy had banned — including Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" — and moved to end the ban.

This is progress. We can’t stop fighting back.

burlwoodbooks.com/spinning/ Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life. Benefitting Beloved Asheville and World Central Kitchen. www.belovedasheville.com and wck.org.

Reading from my short story, "Killing It/Talent Show," published this week in Grit & Gravity, at DC's The Inner Loop. @graceandgravity.bsky.social @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social

Calling all DC book lovers! Come celebrate the release of Grace and Gravity's eleventh edition, Grit and Gravity, on May 7th at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Ave. #graceandgravity #dc #booklaunch #literature #shortstories #fiction #politicsandprose