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jess 🫀🌈
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•Author: "Strong Heart: A Story of Coming Home"
"Tink the Bravest Donkey"
"Will You Be My Val-Equine?"
•School Librarian 📚
•Be cool to each other☮️
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August 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"And somehow, from that incomprehensible beginning, we’ve arrived at this: five ducks in a hotel lobby, and a hundred strangers cheering them on. It’s the most human thing I can think of: finding reverence in the ridiculous."

Read on: open.substack.com/pub/adonkume...

#writing @astrokatie.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I wrote a new Substack about extreme #empathy and I would love... LOVE...to know if any of y'all are like this and what you are doing to navigate living right now 🥴🥲🏃‍♀️
open.substack.com/pub/adonkume...
To the Extreme Empaths (Yes, Even the Ones Who Cry Over Paper Plates)
A love letter to the tenderhearted weirdos who feel everything, even when it makes no logical sense...and why the world needs us now more than ever.
open.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Genuinely just the sickest fucks
July 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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June 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I made a little video of some review quotes from Strong Heart and I’m feeling lots and lots of deep feels about it.

Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, or sent kind words my way. You make me braver.

More here if you're interested: linktr.ee/adonkumentary
#poetry #bookreview #author
June 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“We fight for spaces that feel like something…For the parts of the world where time slows, not because there’s nothing happening, but because everything and everyone matters.”

I'm really proud of what I wrote.❤️ Keep fighting for what's right.

open.substack.com/pub/adonkume...
#writing #essay #love
What’s Worth Fighting For
Amid chaos, a small Mississippi town reminded me why we don’t give up.
open.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Today, a beautiful sunflower bloomed in my garden. She bloomed despite it all. I am in awe.
June 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.
June 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Flowers, frogs, and dogs, oh my! Take a morning walk with me through the East Texas Piney Woods. 🌼🐸🐶

#naturewalk #getoutside
June 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today.

#wipolitics
June 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I was nervous to read my Kirkus review & when I saw words like ordinary & lightweight, my stomach knotted.

But those words describe what I meant to write: a soft, quiet book that notices.
"A sweet and accessible but sometimes-lightweight collection of short poems."
open.substack.com/pub/adonkume...
“In a world that rewards cruelty, softness is bold, brave, and daring.”
softness, critique, and choosing to share anyway
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is a totally underrated and wonderful character whose sweet and charming friendship with Perry warms the heart.
This was fun last time, let’s do it again. Quote this with a take that has nothing to do with politics or Bluesky
June 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
June 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#OCD isn’t always what you think it is.

For me, it doesn’t look like meticulously labeled storage bins of office supplies or color-coded, alphabetized, bookshelves...it looks like a garage door I know is closed but can’t stop checking in an infinite loop of shame.
open.substack.com/pub/adonkume...
The Garage Is Closed (And Other Things I Tell Myself)
Reframing OCD, discomfort, and the quiet work of healing
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows
June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Nbd, just spent the afternoon RECORDING MY AUDIOBOOK😱😱😱😱😭😭😭😭😭🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

I'm about halfway done because it hit me what I'm doing and I just 😭
(Get excited with me? 👉👈🥺)
(and if you want a hard copy, go here👉👉 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...)

#poetry #writing
June 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My newest substack is live!

I am trying to write more to zoom in instead of scroll past 🧡

open.substack.com/pub/adonkume...

#writer #writing #slowdown
May 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
@barnesandnoble.com has my book as one of their "Mother's Day Picks" and I couldn't be more honored. 🌻❤️ If you're looking for something for mom (or yourself as a mother to your own, inner child) get yourself a discounted copy today:
shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
May 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"STRONG HEART is a deeply personal and evocative collection of poetry that weaves a powerful narrative of resilience. Through lyrical verse, this book explores the raw emotions of rejection, anxiety, motherhood, and the complexities of human connection in a rapidly changing world...
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis.
If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.
March 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Y’all, this is just the shit we KNOW about.
March 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM