Even when they cut you open, may love be what they find. #lovewins #valentinesday

I am one of those people who learns something new about someone and immediately thinks of a book I should recommend they read. What does this mean for my life? What should I be when I grow up?! 📚

Parents: “6:45 is probably early enough for our Christmas morning wake-up, right?”
Kid: “Fine, but if you’re not out of bed by 6:46, I’m getting my trumpet.” 🎺

Sleep tight, ya filthy animals! 🎄

📱 In case you’ve missed it, phones in classrooms have been a recent hot topic in education. I talked to @npr.org a bit about why here: www.npr.org/2024/12/03/g...

Essay on those old circular department store racks and The Never Ending Story and getting lost and college frat boys and the ins-and-outs of a fear in Autofocus Lit. 🔥

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Just heard this song for the first time and now I must admit to being the theater girl I was and clearly still am because I would brave a crowd of thousands for tix to this show #anastasia

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It’s officially “once I’m home, I’m not coming back out” season

Reminders:
1. Every human is somebody’s human.

2. You don’t have to smile at everybody, but if you’re doing okay, it diminishes nothing and possibly expands something essential to pass that doing-okay-hi-smile on.

3. If you’re not doing okay, here’s a picture of a couch in the woods, because 💡.

Folks! I’m on the hunt for small presses that accept non-agented nonfiction manuscripts. Who can throw some names at me, especially if they’re not ones that pop up first in a Google search? 🙌🤞

Ittybittymicro in @riverteeth.bsky.social ‘s Beautiful Things about an embodied out-of-body experience. Happy hiking. 🌾

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New story about a scared lady on a dock with some baggage up at @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2024/11/11/d...

Here for the writers and the writing. And maybe a few funny writing memes? 👋