Faith Lapka Richardson
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Faith Lapka Richardson
@faithr.bsky.social
farmgirl, writer, ecotherapist, RN
www.faithrichardson.info
www.faithwrites.ca
Fable has mad skills as a cucumber pointer. A must-have helper in the chaos garden when Greek salad is on the menu!
August 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I love this wildly productive time when the garden is going mad with flowers and fruit ... and I'm flinging out words like zucchini! #writingcommunity #kidlit #amquerying
August 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Smoky skies over Puck's head. Horses are now inside with hay, and I'm on my computer. No plum picking for now.
August 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Not sure whether to pick that flower or worship it ... Strange alien communication? Making my tinfoil hat now! (okay, anything to avoid working on this next chapter.) 😉🤣😬👽#wip #writingcommunity
August 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Berry, Destroyer of Worlds, with his evil genius sister, Honey. They've taken out one pod and one umbrella and are now ready for breakfast. It's a good day. #WIP #BerryDestroyerofWorlds #kidlit #amquerying
August 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Every bloom reminds me to pray for nurses. It's a tough profession. Stay safe, keep burnout away, my colleagues! Thankful for a wonderful class of nursing students who gifted me this lovely plant when they graduated a few years ago. #nursing #caregivers #nursesky
July 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Berry, Destroyer of Worlds. #wip #kidlit #writingcommunity
July 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Yup. Impostor syndrome doesn't care about any past success ... it's kind of like that Jack-in-Box pop up that scares the heck out of kids the first 101 times they play with it. Then, it doesn't. You just sort of realize it's going to happen! And carry on. 😄
July 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Penelope waiting for her hay. "I get it, Penelope," she said, rechecking her email again. #amquerying #kidlit #writingcommunity #writesky
July 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In the creative summer time, summer is still best done with friends. Thankful for my writing friends and partners! #writingcommunity #kidlit #writesky #booksky #creatives
July 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Berry is in a mood. Berry is fueling the energy of a character who is pushing everyone away with his chaotic frustration at LIMITS! A whole acre of wooded, bushy, goaty bliss, but he is preferring to bash things where I can note his displeasure. Berry would like to be driving the tractor.
July 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Good morning, Creatives! I hope you are peacefully gearing up for a productive day 🧑‍🎨🧑‍💻👩‍🏫
June 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Puck and four 'dear' friends 😉😁🤣
May 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My 'really?!" face following what feels like the 139th rejection letter of the 139th rewrite of a 3 page PB ... #kidlit #amquerying #writesky
May 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Lilacs ARE spring, aren't they? #garden
May 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
In spring, I am torn between writing and gardening. Both honor fingertip wisdom! #writingcommunity #gardening
May 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Berry has his own style. But one thing is certain: Berry is watching everything! Kidlit inspiration at its finest. #kidlit #writingcommunity #booksky
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Were you a horse book addict growing up? All it took was a cover pic of a pony to get my attention! The Black Stallion series, Jill pony series, all the Pullein-Thompson stories ... even Trixie Beldon and Honey Wheeler had horses! Walter Farley ... I'm not worthy. #kidlit #writingcommunity #booksky
May 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Good morning, Creatives. Here's to an energized weekend of doing what brings you joy! #writingcommunity #wip #writesky #booksky #kidlit #gardensky
May 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It is strangely pleasant to be writing about winter snow and Christmas on this gorgeous spring day! I get to have minibreaks outside with the horses and watch them LOVING the new grass! Keep being nature inspired, Creatives! #writingcommunity #frostpony #kidlit #wip
April 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Walter stopping to smell the magnolias ... a good message to me. Creatives, take a nature break to rev up the inspiration vibes and calm the querying jitters! #writingcommunity #writesky #kidlit #amquerying
April 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Timeless PB ... "I think I can, I think I can!" The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper and Loren Long. This little PB always got us up and over that mountain. #timelesswriting #PB #kidlit #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky #amquerying
April 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets ... their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
–Ursula K. Le Guin
April 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“Socrates said, ‘The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.’ ...To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies..." (LeGuin)
April 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Promote Ukrainian Authors Challenge. Viewed again Oledsandr Shatokhin's moving wordless PB Yellow Butterfly.
"No, I'm alive! I'll live eternally! I have that in my heart which cannot die!" from The Forest Song by Lasya Ukrainka #writingcommunity #booksky #supportukraine #bookchallenge
April 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM