Louise
@sstrohem.bsky.social
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?’” - MLK
Loves USA Swimming, books, and Taylor Swift
Loves USA Swimming, books, and Taylor Swift
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My wildest take and it shouldn’t be is this: there is enough if we share.
That’s all.
kthxloveyoubye
That’s all.
kthxloveyoubye
Writing a letter to my friends’ children and telling them to find that boy in every page of Animalia.
Too early but happy holidays lol
Too early but happy holidays lol
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Writing a letter to my friends’ children and telling them to find that boy in every page of Animalia.
Too early but happy holidays lol
Too early but happy holidays lol
Great speech on cinema!!!
We have to thank Chicago for this Augustinian Pope, MJ, and @barackobama.bsky.social and NOT thank Chicago for Kanye West unfortunately.
We have to thank Chicago for this Augustinian Pope, MJ, and @barackobama.bsky.social and NOT thank Chicago for Kanye West unfortunately.
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Great speech on cinema!!!
We have to thank Chicago for this Augustinian Pope, MJ, and @barackobama.bsky.social and NOT thank Chicago for Kanye West unfortunately.
We have to thank Chicago for this Augustinian Pope, MJ, and @barackobama.bsky.social and NOT thank Chicago for Kanye West unfortunately.
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we Catholics have done a lot to shame ourselves and damage the world. But we also knock it out of the park sometimes!
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
we Catholics have done a lot to shame ourselves and damage the world. But we also knock it out of the park sometimes!
Hey @bsky.app, please make the app safer by giving us the option to retroactively apply interaction restrictions to all skeets in one go. Just restricted interactions across my skeets, but I had to go through them one by one. Please, tysm.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Hey @bsky.app, please make the app safer by giving us the option to retroactively apply interaction restrictions to all skeets in one go. Just restricted interactions across my skeets, but I had to go through them one by one. Please, tysm.
Almost the end of the afterschool program term. Gonna miss these little people!!!
6…7…6…7…6…7 and my little soda pop 😂
6…7…6…7…6…7 and my little soda pop 😂
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Almost the end of the afterschool program term. Gonna miss these little people!!!
6…7…6…7…6…7 and my little soda pop 😂
6…7…6…7…6…7 and my little soda pop 😂
Just wanna remind them of this Jesuit prayer which I’m sure they already know:
“Lord, teach me to be generous…”
I can go on and on.
“Lord, teach me to be generous…”
I can go on and on.
Craziest when Catholics especially those with Jesuit education flat out choose to starve the needy. Ignatian spirituality teaches us to be men and women for others. Were they absent when that was taught in their elite Jesuit prep school in DC?
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Just wanna remind them of this Jesuit prayer which I’m sure they already know:
“Lord, teach me to be generous…”
I can go on and on.
“Lord, teach me to be generous…”
I can go on and on.
My afterschool program students have a joke: “Louise writes in 2 languages: English (a.k.a print) & cursive.” I show them both. They’d erase the print & figure out the cursive like it’s a riddle. I write in cursive cause I went to Catholic school in the PH where it was the only handwriting allowed.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My afterschool program students have a joke: “Louise writes in 2 languages: English (a.k.a print) & cursive.” I show them both. They’d erase the print & figure out the cursive like it’s a riddle. I write in cursive cause I went to Catholic school in the PH where it was the only handwriting allowed.
Craziest when Catholics especially those with Jesuit education flat out choose to starve the needy. Ignatian spirituality teaches us to be men and women for others. Were they absent when that was taught in their elite Jesuit prep school in DC?
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Craziest when Catholics especially those with Jesuit education flat out choose to starve the needy. Ignatian spirituality teaches us to be men and women for others. Were they absent when that was taught in their elite Jesuit prep school in DC?
Name as many P things you could see here! I could remember giving this book to my mom friend whose son’s name is Mateo. So she immediately checked Letter M, and we started naming M things. Made me realize we enjoyed it more than Mateo that day. To be fair, he was only 2 that time lol. #booksky
My other fave is Letter P! The book is a visual feast. This is the first time I’ve purchased the 30th Anniversary Edition. Highly recommended AND please get it from @bookshop.org to support indie bookstores!!!
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Name as many P things you could see here! I could remember giving this book to my mom friend whose son’s name is Mateo. So she immediately checked Letter M, and we started naming M things. Made me realize we enjoyed it more than Mateo that day. To be fair, he was only 2 that time lol. #booksky
Another book that I would give my friend’s children is The ABCs of Inclusion. Written by Beth Leipholtz whose son Cooper is deaf. (My friend’s middle child is also a Cooper!) This book introduces readers to 26 differently abled kids.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Another book that I would give my friend’s children is The ABCs of Inclusion. Written by Beth Leipholtz whose son Cooper is deaf. (My friend’s middle child is also a Cooper!) This book introduces readers to 26 differently abled kids.
Books from @bookshop.org came today! As a serial aunt of 3 boys & later 2 girls, I refrain from gifting toys. It creates problems for mom & dad cause kids would like to play w/ the same toy at the same time or would think the other’s toy is better than theirs. Books, though, are read with everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Books from @bookshop.org came today! As a serial aunt of 3 boys & later 2 girls, I refrain from gifting toys. It creates problems for mom & dad cause kids would like to play w/ the same toy at the same time or would think the other’s toy is better than theirs. Books, though, are read with everyone.
My wildest take and it shouldn’t be is this: there is enough if we share.
That’s all.
kthxloveyoubye
That’s all.
kthxloveyoubye
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My wildest take and it shouldn’t be is this: there is enough if we share.
That’s all.
kthxloveyoubye
That’s all.
kthxloveyoubye
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The popularity of the word honestly online and in conversation has soared in recent years. TBH, we'd like to know what's going on. n.pr/3WKCslI
If we're being truthful, people are saying 'honestly' all the time
The popularity of the word honestly online and in conversation has soared in recent years. TBH, we'd like to know what's going on.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The popularity of the word honestly online and in conversation has soared in recent years. TBH, we'd like to know what's going on. n.pr/3WKCslI
When I said breathtaking, I really mean breathtaking, as always with Enchanted Lion. Received them yesterday, read and took them all in the whole night, didn’t get to take more pics as I was too excited to bring them to the afterschool today.
Look at these beautiful breathtaking @enchantedlion.bsky.social books!!! This is for the library of the afterschool program where I volunteer. Thank you, Enchanted Lion!!!
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
When I said breathtaking, I really mean breathtaking, as always with Enchanted Lion. Received them yesterday, read and took them all in the whole night, didn’t get to take more pics as I was too excited to bring them to the afterschool today.
Look at these beautiful breathtaking @enchantedlion.bsky.social books!!! This is for the library of the afterschool program where I volunteer. Thank you, Enchanted Lion!!!
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Look at these beautiful breathtaking @enchantedlion.bsky.social books!!! This is for the library of the afterschool program where I volunteer. Thank you, Enchanted Lion!!!
Have you ever loved a sport so much that it’s such a spiritual experience to watch the greatest of all time?
She paused to ask for my name & sign my copy of her book. Told her “I love you. I’m your biggest fan!”Hahaha the lifeguard: “You’ve really waited long for that.” Fucking sure. To be inches away from her and see her do all the strokes! My soul has left my body. Gone to heaven. I haven’t come down.
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Have you ever loved a sport so much that it’s such a spiritual experience to watch the greatest of all time?
Not ideal to make distance swimmers swim the 200FR. Just watched the World Champ did one. He ended in 5th. Painful to watch! But he smoked everyone in the 500FR. Also, an Olympian did the fly events, won them all like he didn’t just come back with a WR from the World Cup. A fucking swimming machine.
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Not ideal to make distance swimmers swim the 200FR. Just watched the World Champ did one. He ended in 5th. Painful to watch! But he smoked everyone in the 500FR. Also, an Olympian did the fly events, won them all like he didn’t just come back with a WR from the World Cup. A fucking swimming machine.
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Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books. n.pr/47sxHCe
Volunteers foster literacy by reading to children and giving them books
Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books. n.pr/47sxHCe
Y’all this guy has an emotional support goat!!! So random but so good!!!
October 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Y’all this guy has an emotional support goat!!! So random but so good!!!
Btw, her story’s something we’ve been allowed to tell. She knows we’re just so proud of her. When you’ve got a friend like that you just can’t help it!
Today’s my childhood best friend’s birthday! One of the loves of my life! It’s a privilege to have grown up with Hannah. When people say I’m strong, i would say they haven’t met my childhood best friend! Many would have k*lled themselves had they been on her shoes, for real.
October 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Btw, her story’s something we’ve been allowed to tell. She knows we’re just so proud of her. When you’ve got a friend like that you just can’t help it!
Today’s my childhood best friend’s birthday! One of the loves of my life! It’s a privilege to have grown up with Hannah. When people say I’m strong, i would say they haven’t met my childhood best friend! Many would have k*lled themselves had they been on her shoes, for real.
October 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Today’s my childhood best friend’s birthday! One of the loves of my life! It’s a privilege to have grown up with Hannah. When people say I’m strong, i would say they haven’t met my childhood best friend! Many would have k*lled themselves had they been on her shoes, for real.
Aside from my big students playing and serving as Guinea pigs for my board game (told them sorry they were Guinea pigs, they laughed), also had a massive win with a little student at the afterschool today. She’s been one of my most challenging, but I think we’ve just turned a corner. Homework done!
Too delusional that I created a board game for my big students (cause I have big students and little students lol), and they gave a really kind feedback. Not disregarding the power dynamics here though, of course.
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Aside from my big students playing and serving as Guinea pigs for my board game (told them sorry they were Guinea pigs, they laughed), also had a massive win with a little student at the afterschool today. She’s been one of my most challenging, but I think we’ve just turned a corner. Homework done!
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
Too delusional that I created a board game for my big students (cause I have big students and little students lol), and they gave a really kind feedback. Not disregarding the power dynamics here though, of course.
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Too delusional that I created a board game for my big students (cause I have big students and little students lol), and they gave a really kind feedback. Not disregarding the power dynamics here though, of course.
But what Lorca said: “Lo que más me importa es vivir.” 🤍
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
But what Lorca said: “Lo que más me importa es vivir.” 🤍