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Born in a NEBula
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Writer, runner, crafter, proud cat servant & wife to an amazing artist.
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Happy #NationalBlackCatDay from our void spirit Nightshade.

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A black cat sitting on a black rug where the only visible parts of her are her golden eyes and the insides of her ears.
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Timeline cleanse with a bit of #bloomscrolling because there is way too much doom out there this week.
Bright purple flower of an ice plant succulent against a gray rock with its greenery at the bottom.
September 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Happy #BlackCatAppreciationDay to all the beautiful void spirits who bring joy and mystery to our lives. This little lovebug is very appreciated for her antics in this house.

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A black cat with a white spot on her chest sitting on stairs. A black cat laying on her back showing her tummy, her tail in a hook. A black cat with a white spot on her chest sitting on a stair banister looking directly at the viewer. A black car balancing on the top of a sisal car scratcher, her tail in a perfect curl.
August 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Perfect day in the #garden. Started from seed, so excited to see pea flowers finally blooming.
Close up of a fuchsia and pale pink flower backed by green leaves.
August 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Happy #InternationalCatDay from the rulers of this house who believe everything here revolves around them. (Because it pretty much does.)

#Pspsps to all the #cats and 🤗to the people who care for them!
A long-haired gray tabby with big yellow eyes sits above her sleek black short-haired sister with her patch of white barely visible. Both on a vibrant red and pink rug, they look out at the viewer as if posed. A fluffy brown and white medium-haired tabby sits folded in half, his tail sticking out under him. He is on a multicolored rug and looks up at the viewer.
August 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women on the last day of #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Link in alt text. Re-examining why we need to reckon with the truth of our country's past in order to move forward.
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Book cover for An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, winner of the 2015 American Book Award, featuring the picture of clouds over a vast empty plain of scrub brush with the stars and stripes superimposed over it. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-9780807057834/1-0?
April 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012). Link in alt text. Inspiring story of courage, determination, and self-discovery - challenging us to go beyond our own comfort zones.
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Book cover for national best seller "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed with a photo of a well worn brown hiking boot with ragged red laces below the title and above the author's name. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/wild-9780307476074 Photo: Girlgottahike blog
March 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker by Kathleen Brady. Link in alt text. Tarbell's relentless investigative journalism helped expose Standard Oil & break up its monopoly. May she inspire modern day muckrakers.
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Book cover for 'Ida Tarbell: Portrait of A Muckraker' by Kathleen Brady featuring a black and white photo of the woman in a long sleeved dress with small clutch of flowers tied with a ribbon on her chest. Her cheek rests on her left hand. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/-9780822958079 Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Tarbell
March 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is The She Series with art by Karen Hallion and various authors. Link in alt text. Essays about inspiring women are accompanied by beautiful art, reflecting the power, strength, and courage of these trailblazers.
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Book cover for The She Series: 120 Portraits & Essays Celebrating Inspiring Icons Whose Actions Changed The World with Art by Karen Hallion. In the center is a periwinkle blue square where the title appears over the silhouette of a woman with a braid. Twenty portraits form a border around the square. Each portrait faces a word that they symbolize and their name is below the portrait. Link: https://www.karenhallion.com/thesheseriesbook
March 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin. Link in alt text. Was honored to host her at a writing group I facilitated in Oregon years ago, & she spoke about this book. A gracious author with her time & advice.
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Book cover for Ursula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew. (1998) Link to revised edition: https://www.powells.com/book/steering-the-craft-9780544611610?
March 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Artemisia by Letizia Treves & others. Link in alt text. As one who likes to recreate clothing from that time period, I could study the fabrics alone in her paintings and never grow tired of it. Stunning work.
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The book of Artemisia featuring one of the artist's paintings, 'Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes,' focused on Judith, her left hand casting a shadow on her face, her right hand holds a sword. A candle on a nearby table bathes her yellow dress in golden light. Behind the book is a black cat peaking out looking directly at the camera. Book was published by The National Gallery in conjunction with an exhibition there in October 2020. Link: https://www.abebooks.com/9781857096569/Artemisia-Treves-Letizia-1857096568/plp More on the artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi
March 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Link in alt text. Both the story and the author are studies unto themselves, having influenced and inspired generations for over 200 years.
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Book cover of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley from Penguin Classics 1986 printing featuring the painting of a seated man in orange robes holding a leg bone with a oil lamp casting light and shadows in what appears to be a cave. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/frankenstein-9781926444314/7-0
March 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Witness to War by Antoinette May. Link in alt text. Marguerite Higgins broke a lot of glass ceilings. Having fought her way into Columbia University, can only imagine what she would say about it today.
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Book cover for Antoinette May's "Witness to War: A Biography of Marguerite Higgins, the Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning War Correspondent," featuring a black and white photo of a woman wearing sunglasses and khakis holding a satchel and jacket with a military plane behind her. The photo is bordered in red with three stars on each side of the author's name at the top. Marguerite Higgins wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Higgins Book: https://www.abebooks.com/9780140075977/Witness-Biography-Marguerite-Higgins-Antoinette-0140075976/plp
March 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. Link in alt text. Her story & experience is a warning to the world. If we choose to ignore it, it's not only at our own peril, but that of all the vulnerable & innocent.
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Book cover for The Diary of a Young Girl (originally published 1947 - this is the 1984 printing), featuring a black and white picture of Anne Frank above the text: "Out of the millions who were silenced forever, one voice remains to remind us -- the voice of Anne Frank," which is above the book's title. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/diary-of-a-young-girl-9780553296983
March 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher. Link in alt text. She's one of my idols. All her books are great - even better when read by her. She was so much more than Leia and a spitfire to the end. Truly missed.
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Cover of the audiobook The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (2016), read by the author and her daughter Billie Lourd. Features picture of half Princess Leia's face with a pen sticking out of her trademark bun. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/princess-diarist-9780399565557
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman. Link in alt text. Great read if you're a female runner or know one. Explores the physical, mental, & team sports challenges women continue to face in professional running.
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Book cover for New York Times Bestseller: Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman, showing a track with hot pink lane lines and the back of a female runner in a racerback sports top, crouched in the starting position with her fingers behind the line. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/good-for-a-girl-9780593296783 Photo: Google Books
March 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover. Link in alt text. Ultimately a book about courage - separating yourself from everything you knew growing up to live your best life. Hats off to those who find that courage.
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Book cover for the #1 New York Times Bestseller Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, featuring an illustration of a sharpened pencil that also doubles as hills with the silhouette of a woman standing on them. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/educated-9780399590504? Credit: Barnes & Noble
March 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's books are the Uppity Women series by Vicki León. Links in alt text. Bite size bios of women throughout the ages, around the globe, & from all class levels who lived life on their terms. Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
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Four of the eight books in the Uppity Women series by Vicki León, each featuring artwork with women or a woman from the era they are depicting including: Uppity Women of Ancient Times Uppity Women of Medieval Times Uppity Women of the Renaissance Uppity Women of the New World. Because they were purchased through Friends of the Library book sale, three of the four have a Withdrawn sticker on them. Love library book sales!! Support your library - get great books. Link: https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/uppity-women/41558/
March 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is The American Way of Eating by Tracie McMillan (2012). Link in alt text. Insightful look at where we get our food & the people who help bring it to our tables. Hats off to McMillan for immersive journalism.
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Book cover for New York Times Bestseller, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. featuring three stacks of three "canned foods". Tomatoes at the bottom with the author's name, Tracie McMillan on the middle can, peas in the middle row with the subtitle in a box over the cans, and the top row with the title on cans of sweet potatoes. A quote at the top reads: "The book Ms. McMillan's most resembles is Barbara Ehrenreich's bestseller Nickel and Dimed. Like Ms. Ehrenreich, Ms. McMillan goes undercover amid this country's working poor...This is a voice the food world needs."-- Dwight Garner, The New York Times Link: https://www.powells.com/book/american-way-of-eating-9781439171950 Photo: Amazon
March 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir (1999). Link in alt text. Powerful women have existed throughout history including the truly remarkable Eleanor. Katharine Hepburn won her 3rd Oscar portraying her.
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Book cover for Alison Weir's Eleanor of Aquitaine, featuring a illustration of the Queen framed by a stain glassed window. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/eleanor-of-aquitaine-9780345434876
March 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlington (2021). Link in alt text. Story is heartbreaking and uplifting. Read it shortly after watching Zone of Interest which made it all the more poignant. A must read.
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Book cover for The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington. The text appears over a photo of three spools of thread, two in shades of dark teal and one in a silvery cream resting upon a distressed wooden table. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/dressmakers-of-auschwitz-the-true-story-of-the-women-who-sewed-to-survive-9780063030930/1-0 Photo: Google Books
March 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman (2014). Link in alt text. Two women race around the world in opposite directions, defying convention and expectations, for the story and experience of a lifetime. Be Bold!
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Book cover for Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman. It features the black and white photos of the two women, each holding a suitcase, superimposed over an illustration of a steamship on the ocean. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/eighty-days-nellie-bly-elizabeth-bislands-history-making-race-around-the-world-9780345527271 Photo: Penguin Random House
March 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research by Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan (2022). Details in alt text. Celebrating science and research while we still can. Great for the middle-school kids in your life.
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Book cover for Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research by Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan. Features illustrations of a tortoise, dolphin, cheetah, and penguin as well as two woman, one wearing waders and a hat and the other holding binoculars. Link: https://bookshop.org/p/books/animal-allies-15-amazing-women-in-wildlife-researchvolume-4-elizabeth-pagel-hogan/17747327
March 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Sharing books by/about amazing women for #WomensHistoryMonth. Today's book is Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon (2023). Details in alt text. Fascinating read shining light on an often ignored subject - in science, medicine, and culture.
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Cover of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon, featuring an illustrating in a large V between the two smaller Es that depicts a prehistoric river. Link: https://www.powells.com/book/eve-9780385350549
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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As we move into #WomensHistoryMonth, will kick it off with a cookbook. Unbelievably Vegan by Charity Morgan (2021). Has show of same name on MAX & featured in The Game Changers. Details in Alt text. With egg prices what they are, try her tofu scramble recipe as a delicious alternative.
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The cover of Unbelievably Vegan: 100+ Life-Changing, Plant-Based Recipes by Charity Morgan, as seen in The Game Changers. Photo of Chef Morgan eating a chip with a photo of large plate of nachos in the foreground. Her website: https://www.charitymorgan.com/ Cookbook: https://www.powells.com/book/unbelievably-vegan-100-life-changing-plant-based-recipes-a-cookbook-9780593232989/62-0 Documentary: https://gamechangersmovie.com/ Max show: https://www.hbo.com/movies/unbelievably-vegan-with-chef-charity Recipe for vegan tofu scramble from the Unbelievably Vegan cookbook by Chef Charity Morgan.
March 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM