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Author Andrew Butters
@andrewbutters.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 (He/Him) I sometimes let my love of attention override common sense. I also write things and eat snacks. https://authorandrewbutters.substack.com
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Found on the shores of the St. Lawrence. I opened it and found the most adorable note. "I wish for the best grade 1 teacher". I am guessing it either made it from up river, or it was dropped in the water by a tourist. We need the internet to work its magic and find out who made the wish. Go!
Small glass bottle with a cork stopper being held between a thumb and forefinger. In the bottle is a green rolled up piece of paper with a tiny gold band around it. In the background is a wet sand and rock beach. Hand holding a small slip of green paper with "I wish for the best grade 1 teacher" written on it. In the background is a wet sand and rock beach and a black shoe with rainbow laces.
August 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Passed this lovely sculpture on our walk to the ice cream shop.
A garden with purple flowered shrubs and grass and trees in the background. In the foreground is a sculpture with big green leaves lighter purple flowers and a big monarch butterfly on top
July 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Found this "little" spider in the bathroom up at the cabin.
Dark fishing spider in the bottom of a Solo cup.
July 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Built a new Little Free Library. Just needs paint and some books!
Square wood box with a square hole in the middle and an overhanging roof with a wavy border.
June 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Art feeds the soul and should only be created by those with one.
Rainbow "The More You Know" logo with yellow star in the bottom right. A red translucent rectangle overlayed on a larger blurred logo in the center. Inside the rectangle in white text: Art feeds the soul and should only be created by those with one.
May 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Sometimes, the right class comes along at the right time. I've been feeling kind of down lately. Tired. Frustrated. Low value. I was teaching a grade five class today that I had not taught before, so walking into the school this morning there was a certain amount of uncertainty hanging in the air. I sat at the desk and read the lesson plan and oriented myself with the things I would need in the classroom. I put the chairs down. I sat and waited for the students to arrive, and when they did it was the most wonderful thing. They came in one by one, laughing, giggling, and with a spring in their step. They didn't even pay much attention to me in the corner behind the desk. Some sat quietly while others read a book. There was some conversation but it was at a very reasonable volume and no one was out of their seat. It was the most organized and respectful beginning to class I've seen. I introduced myself and told them how impressed I was with how they started their day, and that if the whole day was like this, they would end up being the best class I'd ever had. Well, they were like that for the entire day. They were not perfect, I think that is an unreal expectation to put on anyone let alone an 11-year-old, but when I asked them for their attention I got it, when I asked them to quiet down they quieted down, and when I asked them to be better they were better. Before the last period of the day, where they were to work on some science posters they were creating on the respiratory system, I sat on a stool in front of the class told them how proud I was of the way they conducted themselves today. I told them that I had been feeling kind of low, not having the greatest days lately, how I am normally the one trying to make a positive impact on their day, and today they had a positive impact on mine. Many of them looked very proud, as they should have. I left them a glowing note for their teacher and told Admin as well.
May 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I am a big GenAI hater!
My non-AI stuff:
authorandrewbutters.com/books/

My New Year's Plea:
open.substack.com/pub/authoran...
Rainbow coloured The More You Know logo with yellow five-pointed star in the bottom right. Overlayed is a translucent red rectangle with "Art feeds the soul and should only be created by those with one." in white text inside.
May 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Thirteen years ago my daughter was 9 and my son 5 and his birthday was approaching. Daughter was going to make a toy car for his birthday and was doing research. She asks, "How many gifts would you want if someone made them for you?" His reply, "Just one. It wouldn't even matter what it was."
An orange box-shaped truck made out of balsa wood with black, hard plastic tires sitting on a dark wood coffee table.
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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@electmikeingram.bsky.social we MUST know how you feel about Peeps. Also:
Picture of a 3-pack of candy corn flavored Peeps
April 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Cover reveal! Read it as a serial for FREE on Substack. Paid subs get installments 3 weeks in advance and a fully formatted ebook at the end. Every installment includes a PDF as well as numbered shortcuts to all previous installments so you can get caught up.
open.substack.com/pub/authoran...
Top center: ANDREW BUTTERS in white with faint red outline Bottom left justified in much larger font: NO FIXED ADDRESS in black that transitions down to red. The words have a faint white glow. Background: a concourse with pipes and conduit. Everything has a red hue to it with a glow emanating out from the center in a horizontal bar
March 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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New Brunswick
March 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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New Brunswick
March 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Beaver lodge! 🇨🇦🦫
Picture of a pond with sparse forest in the background and melting ice on the water with a beaver lodge in the middle.
March 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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A picture of the sun taken with a solar filter in the middle of a circle of other pictures of the sun during various stages of an eclipse.
March 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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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.

Day 19
It's an old school black hardcover. The text is stamped gold letters not real gold though and in all caps reads at the top The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson and underneath that a drawing of a man and a suit jacket standing over a table top covered with Miles and potions standing above the man our threads of gold that we've into an amorphous blob above him. Almost like a cloud that is using man as a marionette.
February 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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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.

Day 18
A white cover with a brilliantly colored drawing of a round shaped hot air balloon. The main balloon is shades of blue and blue green and it almost looks like the Earth as seen from space. Across the middle is a thin orange and yellow stripe with a thick blue stripe underneath it. Through the middle of the blue stripe is the word alligator written in a fancy all caps font and red with flex of Orange. Below that is a multicolored stripe with flag designs and a pink oval with an all caps word pie in the middle of it. There are flags hanging off the ropes that hold up the basket. In the basket is an alligator a young girl a young boy and a Canadian mountie with a spyglass. A blue flag Trails off the basket with the words in script, poems by Dennis Lee. Below that a pink flag with the words and script, pictures by Frank neufeld. The basket has gold colored sandbags hanging off of it, four of them, and is colored with a thick black stripe and a thinner blue stripe and a thinner Green Stripe underneath that centered on the basket is a red maple leaf.
February 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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February 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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.

Day 17
Cred touring motorcycle sits just to the right of Center on a deserted Road. There is no one on the motorcycle. To the left and right are fields of green and brown vegetation laying close to the ground and in the distance are brown Hills. The sky is blue with white whiskey clouds and as you look higher the clouds dominate the scene and change color that's almost copper like. The title of the book is at the top and white all caps font, Ghost Rider, with a lowercase i and the last "R" with a fancy bit. The author's name is in all lowercase and a smaller font than the title, the bottom it reads Neil Peart.
February 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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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.

Day 16
A black and white picture of Richard Feynman, with longish hair and a goofy smirk on his face. He's wearing a white dress short unbuttoned at the top with no tie, a thin black belt, and grey pants. One hand is in his pocket the other has his thumb hooked into the bocket with his four fingers on his thigh. Behind him is a chalkboard and under the chalkboard is a shelf with some papers and under that is another shelf with a black rotary dial phone and some more papers. In yellow right justified text overlaid on the chalkboard is: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman." Below that in one line and smaller white all caps font: ADVENTURES OF A CURIOUS CHARACTER Below that, in small yellow mixed case font: Introduction by Below that in all caps yellow and slightly bigger: BILL GATES At the bottom of the cover in a greenish all caps font slightly bigger than BILL GATES and on one line is the author's name: RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Under that, in white, small, mixed case font on a single line: "Funny, brilliant, lovely... enormously entertaining."-The New Yorker
February 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Grammar police are not welcome wherever I am.
A screenshot of a Facebook comment and reply. The commenter's name and profile picture are blocked out with a red line and red circle respectively. The comment reads, "Not to be contrary but if you are an educator, you ought to know better ways to use the English language. Rule one is to never end a sentence with a preposition. The first sentence should have been: Every middle school where I subbed." The reply is from Author Andrew Butters. His name is not blocked out and his profile picture (a portrait of him sitting, wearing a purple sport coat and grey shirt on a bright yellow background). His reply reads, "[Name crossed out with a red line] Yours is exactly the type of comment up with which I will not put. As such, please self-fornicate elsewhere."
February 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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.

Day 15
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
A dark sky of blue and green filled with wispy clouds Fades to White and then orange towards the horizon as we see a Setting Sun casting a silhouette on a lone figure walking down a country road. To the left stands a water tower with a flag on top of it. The words Wanderers is repeated on different lines fading in from a white font to Gray and then black in the center of the cover. Beneath the black Wanderers title is the author's name in red, Chuck wendig. Underneath that in black and a different font Newark times bestselling author. Above the silhouetted person and in the clouds are the words in white, a novel.
February 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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.

Day 14
A portrait of a man with short disheveled dark hair and bushy eyebrows and huge mutton chop sideburns. He wears a worried look. His eyes are brown and he's wearing an overcoat that looks like it's made of leather and under that a white shirt that's rumpled and collar askew.
February 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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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.

Day 13
#1 BESTSELLER at the top in small white font. STEPHEN KING in red. Big font with smudges and smears around the first couple letters of the first and last name. A black and white scene underneath the author's name of a bunch of dead bodies lying on a stretch of deserted road. THE STAND in white. All caps. Thin font. STAND is much bigger than THE. At the bottom in red, small all caps font, COMPLETE AND UNCUT EDITION.
February 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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@thisone0verhere.bsky.social, I was substitute teaching today and rooting around for an eraser on the teacher's desk and found this!
A teacher's desk with a peach coloured organizer for pencils and markers and other teacher accoutrements. A couple of black binders sit off to the right. On top of a blue stamp it's a cutout of a white piece of paper with a pencil drawing of a rabbit on it. Barley is growing out of the rabbits eyes. The rabbit is from the cover of the novel Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
February 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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.

Day 12
@gavinmcdougald.bsky.social
A brilliant yellow sun makes silhouettes out of space objects like a moon and asteroids. There is a dust cloud at the top. The title of the book, the long watch, appears in the upper left portion, words stacked on top of each other and in mixed case font. The letters are white with a thin black outline. Near the bottom of the book is the author's name, Gavin mcdougald. Also in white with a very thin black outline but much smaller than the title of the book
February 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM