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Wendy Oliver
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Lover of rushing creeks, dark starry nights, and books. #Kidlit. Romance. Writer.
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Aspen trees are just as interesting after their leaves have fallen.
A photo of a grove of white Aspen trunks with black scars and a green juniper bush close to the ground. The photo is from late October so all the Aspen leaves have fallen leaving the bare trunks, lit from the side.
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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To my fellow Disney fans: The FCC is now “investigating” Disney’s DEI policies based on an executive order that only applies to the federal government. Yet the EO is being used as a weapon against the business practices and free speech of private corporations and individuals.
March 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Here's a pretty picture of a sunset just because.
A bare tree is silhouetted against a sunset with intense orange clouds and a snowy mountain fading into the twilight.
March 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Three really important special elections are just over a week away. Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court supports fair voting laws. Gay Valimont and Josh Weil in Florida are running for US House. If they manage to flip their red districts, it would give Democrats the House majority.
March 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Our Public Lands are NOT FOR SALE! This video has some good talking points about the economic benefits of keeping national parks, forests, grasslands, BLM, Interior lands under federal protection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Bc...
American Conversations: Wes Siler and America's Public Lands
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March 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Rumor has it that Doge and bullies are currently at the IMLS building dismantling that tiny agency who administers grants to keep our local libraries and museums open and relevant. 😢
March 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Rivers on fire. Toxic air. No one wants to go back. But the White House is gutting protections that keep us safe—who benefits, besides polluters & their politicians? Lies don’t justify poisoning our people! #TruthBrigade truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/VeYiKojA
Join the Truth Brigade!
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March 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I went outside for a few minutes this afternoon and got buzzed by a little grey bird. I wandered across the parking lot and discovered my LGB had two little grey friends and four of the brightest, bluest, bluebirds I've ever seen. The bluebirds are home!
March 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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To resist without going nuts:

Pick a subject.
Learn everything about it.
Let others know that's your lane and you're here to help.
Then focus your efforts countering that one thing. Use your smarts to make the other side hurt.

Again...
February 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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our annual Presidents’ Day lesson remembering the 3 US presidents who died of a waterborne illness.
February 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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@ladygenerica.bsky.social Hi! I'm here, too.
January 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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A couple of years back I pulled some of the Dr. King quotes that often go unrecognized by lots of people who look like me, and turned them into graphics.

Here's a few.

#stopwhitewashingMLK
January 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Book Challenge Day 20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Cover for "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. The letters are gold on a red background. The middle looks like it was torn and revealed just the eyes of the Mona Lisa.
December 16, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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Book Challenge Day 19: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "The Emerald Mile: The epic story of the fastest ride in history through the heart of the Grand Canyon" by Keven Fedarko. The cover photo shows three men in life jackets rowing a wooden dory through big river waves. Actually, the photo only shows two men. The third, along with the back of the boat, is completely submerged in the rapid.
December 16, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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Book Challenge Day 18: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "Another Fine Myth" by Robert Asprin. Four characters are walking in a valley with a mountain behind them. The woman has sturdy leather boots, a skimpy green dress and green hair. The teacher is green, scaly, and well muscled. The student is wearing brown and carrying a stick. His baby dragon is nibbling on his shirt fringe.
December 14, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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Book Challenge Day 17: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "Don't Shoot the Dog!" by Karen Pryor. "The new art of teaching and training." Blue text on light grey background. The O in "Don't" is a red circle with a line through it.
December 13, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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Book Challenge Day 16: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "Her Majesty's Wizard" by Christopher Stasheff. A red-haired lady in a flowing green Renaissance bodice and skirt is laying a stick on the shoulder of a man. He is kneeling, looking at the grass-covered ground, while wearing an orange shirt, jeans and sneakers. Behind them, a long-jawed green dragon is observing the knighting ceremony.
December 12, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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Book Challenge Day 15: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons" by John Wesley Powell. White lettering is over a litho print with dark brown canyon walls and a giant green rapid. A wrecked dory (wooden boat) is pinned against a rock. The book is a composite of Powell's two voyages. Most of the adventure, danger, ignorance, (and the scientific instruments being bashed, rusted and dumped overboard) was during the first expedition in 1869. The second expedition in 1871 successfully completed the science and measurements.
December 11, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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Book Challenge Day 14: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "Princess Academy" by Shannon Hale. A girl in a blue dress is holding a red book. She is standing on marble steps in front of the open doors into a grand building.
December 10, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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Book Challenge Day 13: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "The Edge" by Dick Francis. Blue cover with gold writing. A chestnut horse with a jockey wearing green and white is in full stride above railroad tracks, as if the horse is the train.
December 8, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Book Challenge Day 12: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Book cover for "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" by T. Kingfisher. The cover is dark maroon with pale yellow swirls. The writing is pale yellow in a rounded, fantasy-style font. A frowning gingerbread man holds a small sword. Across the top are the words: "Siege. Sorcery. Sourdough."
December 7, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Book Challenge Day 10: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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"The Early Asimov, Book One" by Isaac Asimov. The book cover has a blobby brown alien creature with claw-feet surrounded by green, blue and red bubbles. Or floating spheres of some kind, or possibly a red sun coming out of its nose. Red text on a white background.
December 7, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Book Challenge Day 10: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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The book cover for "Bear Bottom" by Stuart Gibbs. "A funjungle novel". A brown, cartoonish bear with very round eyes is on an aqua background.
December 5, 2024 at 4:06 AM
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Book Challenge Day 9: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Cover of the book, "The Last Knight: a Knight and Rogue novel," by Hilari Bell. The title is written in purple above a silver sword hilt between a full green moon and a crescent red moon on a dark green background.
December 4, 2024 at 6:26 AM