Melanie Sue Hicks, PhD
@melsuehicks.bsky.social
Author, speaker, literary coach, publisher & human connection and resilience expert.
@IEPublishing.bsky.social
📚Incongruent; Travel, Trauma, Transformation
📚Shaking Off the Ashes
Superpowers: ADHD & Sober life
https://linktr.ee/MelanieSueHicks
@IEPublishing.bsky.social
📚Incongruent; Travel, Trauma, Transformation
📚Shaking Off the Ashes
Superpowers: ADHD & Sober life
https://linktr.ee/MelanieSueHicks
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I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries
April 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries
I feel seen!
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff
#HandsOff
April 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I feel seen!
Upset? Write
Worried? Write
Depressed? Read
Happy? Write.
This is me. This is how I function.
Worried? Write
Depressed? Read
Happy? Write.
This is me. This is how I function.
February 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
@jenrubin.bsky.social Thank you!!! Can’t wait to support.
January 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
@jenrubin.bsky.social Thank you!!! Can’t wait to support.
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President Zelensky: 150 Ukrainian firefighters are ready to travel to California to help combat the wildfires.🇺🇸🇺🇦
January 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
President Zelensky: 150 Ukrainian firefighters are ready to travel to California to help combat the wildfires.🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
January 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
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“I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
January 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Where are my nonfiction authors? Can the algorithm please help me find you?
January 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Where are my nonfiction authors? Can the algorithm please help me find you?
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Is anyone here a conference event planner? I’m looking to connect.
January 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Is anyone here a conference event planner? I’m looking to connect.
Happy New Year to my small but mighty community that brings me great social media joy!
January 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Happy New Year to my small but mighty community that brings me great social media joy!
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Something feels heavy this year in a way I rarely feel. I suppose the good news is my creativity is spiking. Anyone else turn dark into power?
December 30, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Something feels heavy this year in a way I rarely feel. I suppose the good news is my creativity is spiking. Anyone else turn dark into power?
@coloradosun.com Why aren’t we?!
I thought you should know that in 2024 New Jersey, Minnesota, Illinois, California, and Maryland have all enacted legislation that bans book bans & censorship in both, school and public libraries, and protects librarians.
December 27, 2024 at 4:00 PM
@coloradosun.com Why aren’t we?!
Be promiscuous in using that (library) card. Yes!!!!
I've seen a lot of posts lately saying that to support a library, you should get a card. Other things you can do:
1. Be promiscuous in using that card
2. Go to board meetings
3. Join the Friends
4. Demand the books that represent you, you can challenge absent books as much as present ones
5. Donate
1. Be promiscuous in using that card
2. Go to board meetings
3. Join the Friends
4. Demand the books that represent you, you can challenge absent books as much as present ones
5. Donate
December 23, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Be promiscuous in using that (library) card. Yes!!!!
You either choose love or you choose fear. All hate comes from fear.
Hate is for the weak.
Hate is for the weak.
December 23, 2024 at 2:39 AM
You either choose love or you choose fear. All hate comes from fear.
Hate is for the weak.
Hate is for the weak.
For anyone thinking about going sober in 2025…
You don’t have to:
hit rock bottom
be an addict
go to meetings
give up having fun
have anyone else’s approval
Explain your choices
If the best version of yourself is a sober one, then it’s the best decision for you. Just do it. You won’t regret it.
You don’t have to:
hit rock bottom
be an addict
go to meetings
give up having fun
have anyone else’s approval
Explain your choices
If the best version of yourself is a sober one, then it’s the best decision for you. Just do it. You won’t regret it.
December 21, 2024 at 9:55 AM
For anyone thinking about going sober in 2025…
You don’t have to:
hit rock bottom
be an addict
go to meetings
give up having fun
have anyone else’s approval
Explain your choices
If the best version of yourself is a sober one, then it’s the best decision for you. Just do it. You won’t regret it.
You don’t have to:
hit rock bottom
be an addict
go to meetings
give up having fun
have anyone else’s approval
Explain your choices
If the best version of yourself is a sober one, then it’s the best decision for you. Just do it. You won’t regret it.
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The smile when a writer stumbles into a boutique in New Orleans and finds her favorite book as a purse. Merry Christmas to me!!!
December 20, 2024 at 7:41 PM
The smile when a writer stumbles into a boutique in New Orleans and finds her favorite book as a purse. Merry Christmas to me!!!
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Billionaires have more money than they could ever need but never enough to fill the holes in their souls. They would send every last one of you into an early grave if it meant paying one cent less in taxes.
December 20, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Billionaires have more money than they could ever need but never enough to fill the holes in their souls. They would send every last one of you into an early grave if it meant paying one cent less in taxes.