No kidding! I'm getting a flood of these right now. Spam filed and blocked, they are! #writingcommunity
No kidding! I'm getting a flood of these right now. Spam filed and blocked, they are! #writingcommunity
Oh, my. Such a powerful PB. It's like an intricate miniature of our history ... traveling our street, our timeline. Amazing book. Thanks for sharing, Karen Krossing. #kidlit #writingcommunity
So many phenomenal picture books this evening at the CANSCAIP PB event! I got those beautiful story shivers with this one ... thank you for sharing tonight, Laura Alary π¦ #kidlit #writingcommunity
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Wow ... shades of today. Really sad that we are repeating history.
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A chaos garden with Dalmatian pointing at a hidden cucumber. in the foreground, a metal colander full of freshly picked tomatoes and basil.
Fable has mad skills as a cucumber pointer. A must-have helper in the chaos garden when Greek salad is on the menu!
I love this wildly productive time when the garden is going mad with flowers and fruit ... and I'm flinging out words like zucchini! #writingcommunity #kidlit #amquerying
Wow. They must really be afraid of 'the Libs' ... what did 'the Libs' do to them??! Asking for a friend.
"It's just wrong to require grown people to get a permission slip to roam about freely. So, I resisted, I objected, the only way I knew how."
TX State Rep. Nicole Collier on why she will remain locked inside the Austin statehouse chamber until the House reconvenes.
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Okay. Officially having an attack of 'Writer's Kalopsia' πSuddenly fascinated by the wonderful word 'nor' ... 'no' plus 'or.' NOR Amazing! π€£ππ€£ #writingcommunity #wip #kidlit #amquerying
Just saw this! Yeah, kinda, but I actually ping off the horse's bored, or interested reactions ... probably based on my own inflection and energy, but they do react in different ways to my verbal wanderings!
Bay horse forehead and ears, smoky orange sky above with hidden sun.
smoky sky treeline with orange encircled sun
smoky orange tinted sky above goat pen
Golden egg plums hanging in the tree
Smoky skies over Puck's head. Horses are now inside with hay, and I'm on my computer. No plum picking for now.
Good memoir and essay (like this) may save our history from this escalation in whitewashing. LOVED THIS. open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
sun dog effect on cosmos pink flowers
Not sure whether to pick that flower or worship it ... Strange alien communication? Making my tinfoil hat now! (okay, anything to avoid working on this next chapter.) ππ€£π¬π½#wip #writingcommunity
I tell the story to my horses. Literally sit on a mounting block surrounded by my horses and tell them the story. Then I wonder out loud with them. Somehow, in that horse discussion, the story moves!
We all have that same choice: the choice to STOP homophobia.
I love this idea ... I've not seen a Venn diagram poem before. Great job!!!
Honey the goat standing beside a wrecked dog 'igloo' or pod, and a tattered sun umbrella.
Berry standing on a second dog 'igloo' or pod, starting his attack on it, too.
Berry, Destroyer of Worlds, with his evil genius sister, Honey. They've taken out one pod and one umbrella and are now ready for breakfast. It's a good day. #WIP #BerryDestroyerofWorlds #kidlit #amquerying
apricot rose and rosebud against a weathered wood porch railing
Every bloom reminds me to pray for nurses. It's a tough profession. Stay safe, keep burnout away, my colleagues! Thankful for a wonderful class of nursing students who gifted me this lovely plant when they graduated a few years ago. #nursing #caregivers #nursesky
We need Colbertβs bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
disgruntled goat "Berry" in a green hammock.
Berry, Destroyer of Worlds. #wip #kidlit #writingcommunity
74% of teens use AI for friendship. Half talk to their AI friend EVERY DAY. One-third report the AI has said something that makes them uncomfortable.
AI friendship bots are a freight train headed for our kids. It's malpractice not to protect them.
Yup. Impostor syndrome doesn't care about any past success ... it's kind of like that Jack-in-Box pop up that scares the heck out of kids the first 101 times they play with it. Then, it doesn't. You just sort of realize it's going to happen! And carry on. π
Miniature appaloosa horse standing in front of an old red barn, waiting for her hay.
Penelope waiting for her hay. "I get it, Penelope," she said, rechecking her email again. #amquerying #kidlit #writingcommunity #writesky
In the creative summer time, summer is still best done with friends. Thankful for my writing friends and partners! #writingcommunity #kidlit #writesky #booksky #creatives
Andrea, he is that! (Interesting always, a handful, often)π
Palms up, speechless.
Berry the goat is annoyed. Two other goats and a horse, in the distance, look on. A tractor is behind the fence.
Berry is in a mood. Berry is fueling the energy of a character who is pushing everyone away with his chaotic frustration at LIMITS! A whole acre of wooded, bushy, goaty bliss, but he is preferring to bash things where I can note his displeasure. Berry would like to be driving the tractor.