David Abrams
@imdavidabrams.bsky.social
Novelist (“Fobbit” & “Brave Deeds”), husband (42 years), human father (3x over), Cat Daddy (3x over). Avid reader. Founder and curator of #SundaySentence. Author of Van-ishing America on Substack: https://davidabrams.substack.com/
What if I told you the most beautiful novel I read this year was about a mass shooting at a school?
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What if I told you the most beautiful novel I read this year was about a mass shooting at a school?
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
The latest installment in "The Month in Photos" at Van-ishing America features Kindle the #cat, #witches, #zombies and the #Halloween residents of #EurekaSprings, #Arkansas (along with a sidetrip to #Montana to pick up our household goods). See the pics here: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The latest installment in "The Month in Photos" at Van-ishing America features Kindle the #cat, #witches, #zombies and the #Halloween residents of #EurekaSprings, #Arkansas (along with a sidetrip to #Montana to pick up our household goods). See the pics here: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
My #SundaySentence is from the remarkable, unforgettable BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt:
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My #SundaySentence is from the remarkable, unforgettable BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt:
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
So go ahead, pray to whichever god
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
October 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
So go ahead, pray to whichever god
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
I am accomplishing quite a lot in my own nice quiet noisy way.
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I am accomplishing quite a lot in my own nice quiet noisy way.
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
September's installment of The Month in Photos is very Eureka Springs-centric. Pics include the Jeep parade, the Run Unicorn Run, and Hillbilly Jim taking a bath. Oh, and #cats, of course.
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
October 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
September's installment of The Month in Photos is very Eureka Springs-centric. Pics include the Jeep parade, the Run Unicorn Run, and Hillbilly Jim taking a bath. Oh, and #cats, of course.
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
"Unlike its French namesake, Paris, Texas, should probably be called the City of Darkness."
New post up at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/one-night-...
This was a hard one to write, and a hard one to read, but once I learned the facts about Paris' history, I couldn't look away.
New post up at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/one-night-...
This was a hard one to write, and a hard one to read, but once I learned the facts about Paris' history, I couldn't look away.
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"Unlike its French namesake, Paris, Texas, should probably be called the City of Darkness."
New post up at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/one-night-...
This was a hard one to write, and a hard one to read, but once I learned the facts about Paris' history, I couldn't look away.
New post up at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/one-night-...
This was a hard one to write, and a hard one to read, but once I learned the facts about Paris' history, I couldn't look away.
#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
The U.S. Constitution, made from the hides of fleeced sheep, the feathers of molting geese, and sunbeams and shafts of light, is not perfect and never was perfect and never will be perfect.
~Jill Lepore, "We the People"
That's my #SundaySentence for the week. What's YOUR favorite sentence you read?
~Jill Lepore, "We the People"
That's my #SundaySentence for the week. What's YOUR favorite sentence you read?
September 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The U.S. Constitution, made from the hides of fleeced sheep, the feathers of molting geese, and sunbeams and shafts of light, is not perfect and never was perfect and never will be perfect.
~Jill Lepore, "We the People"
That's my #SundaySentence for the week. What's YOUR favorite sentence you read?
~Jill Lepore, "We the People"
That's my #SundaySentence for the week. What's YOUR favorite sentence you read?
My #SundaySentence is all about my new town:
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is an accidental town that owes its existence to a chance encounter in the woods.
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is an accidental town that owes its existence to a chance encounter in the woods.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My #SundaySentence is all about my new town:
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is an accidental town that owes its existence to a chance encounter in the woods.
1/2
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is an accidental town that owes its existence to a chance encounter in the woods.
1/2
My #SundaySentence is from Helen Keller's The Story of My Life:
Teacher had been with me nearly two weeks, and I had learned eighteen or twenty words, before that thought flashed into my mind, as the sun breaks upon the sleeping world;
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Teacher had been with me nearly two weeks, and I had learned eighteen or twenty words, before that thought flashed into my mind, as the sun breaks upon the sleeping world;
1/2
August 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My #SundaySentence is from Helen Keller's The Story of My Life:
Teacher had been with me nearly two weeks, and I had learned eighteen or twenty words, before that thought flashed into my mind, as the sun breaks upon the sleeping world;
1/2
Teacher had been with me nearly two weeks, and I had learned eighteen or twenty words, before that thought flashed into my mind, as the sun breaks upon the sleeping world;
1/2
This much is granted for an hour:
That we are young and tender,
That I am bee and you are flower,
Honey-mouthed and swaying slender.
~Countee Cullen from “To One Who Said Me Nay”
That’s my poetic #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence?
That we are young and tender,
That I am bee and you are flower,
Honey-mouthed and swaying slender.
~Countee Cullen from “To One Who Said Me Nay”
That’s my poetic #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence?
August 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This much is granted for an hour:
That we are young and tender,
That I am bee and you are flower,
Honey-mouthed and swaying slender.
~Countee Cullen from “To One Who Said Me Nay”
That’s my poetic #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence?
That we are young and tender,
That I am bee and you are flower,
Honey-mouthed and swaying slender.
~Countee Cullen from “To One Who Said Me Nay”
That’s my poetic #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence?
New blog post at Van-ishing America: The Wild Residents of City of Rocks, New Mexico
davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-wild-r...
Thanks to all who read and subscribe to Van-ishing America!
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Thanks to all who read and subscribe to Van-ishing America!
August 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New blog post at Van-ishing America: The Wild Residents of City of Rocks, New Mexico
davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-wild-r...
Thanks to all who read and subscribe to Van-ishing America!
davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-wild-r...
Thanks to all who read and subscribe to Van-ishing America!
After a year of living full time in our #Winnebago #van with our three #cats, I guess you could say we’ve gone through some changes: davidabrams.substack.com/p/we-survive...
Happy #Caturday to all those who are blending their lives together!
Happy #Caturday to all those who are blending their lives together!
August 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
After a year of living full time in our #Winnebago #van with our three #cats, I guess you could say we’ve gone through some changes: davidabrams.substack.com/p/we-survive...
Happy #Caturday to all those who are blending their lives together!
Happy #Caturday to all those who are blending their lives together!
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.
—Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
#SundaySentence
—Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
#SundaySentence
August 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.
—Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
#SundaySentence
—Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
#SundaySentence
Last month in photos: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
Apparently, this was our month for Big Sculptures (yes, we found all the Thomas Dambo trolls). Other subjects: sunsets, spherical rocks, lakes, and dogs who deliver flowers).
Thanks to all those who subscribe to Van-ishing America!
Apparently, this was our month for Big Sculptures (yes, we found all the Thomas Dambo trolls). Other subjects: sunsets, spherical rocks, lakes, and dogs who deliver flowers).
Thanks to all those who subscribe to Van-ishing America!
August 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Last month in photos: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
Apparently, this was our month for Big Sculptures (yes, we found all the Thomas Dambo trolls). Other subjects: sunsets, spherical rocks, lakes, and dogs who deliver flowers).
Thanks to all those who subscribe to Van-ishing America!
Apparently, this was our month for Big Sculptures (yes, we found all the Thomas Dambo trolls). Other subjects: sunsets, spherical rocks, lakes, and dogs who deliver flowers).
Thanks to all those who subscribe to Van-ishing America!
At the beginning, I was only a little mass of possibilities.
~Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life”
#SundaySentence
~Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life”
#SundaySentence
August 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
At the beginning, I was only a little mass of possibilities.
~Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life”
#SundaySentence
~Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life”
#SundaySentence
I feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.
~Helen Keller on Mark Twain in “The Story of My Life”
That’s my #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence of the week?
#HelenKeller #MarkTwain
~Helen Keller on Mark Twain in “The Story of My Life”
That’s my #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence of the week?
#HelenKeller #MarkTwain
July 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.
~Helen Keller on Mark Twain in “The Story of My Life”
That’s my #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence of the week?
#HelenKeller #MarkTwain
~Helen Keller on Mark Twain in “The Story of My Life”
That’s my #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence of the week?
#HelenKeller #MarkTwain
Our breakfast was before us, but our teeth were idle.
—Mark Twain, “Roughing It”
What was YOUR favorite sentence you read this past week? Share with us at #SundaySentence
—Mark Twain, “Roughing It”
What was YOUR favorite sentence you read this past week? Share with us at #SundaySentence
July 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Our breakfast was before us, but our teeth were idle.
—Mark Twain, “Roughing It”
What was YOUR favorite sentence you read this past week? Share with us at #SundaySentence
—Mark Twain, “Roughing It”
What was YOUR favorite sentence you read this past week? Share with us at #SundaySentence
Our month in photos, featuring #cats, cactus and clouds: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
Happy #Caturday, everyone!
Happy #Caturday, everyone!
July 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Our month in photos, featuring #cats, cactus and clouds: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
Happy #Caturday, everyone!
Happy #Caturday, everyone!
The Bluebird of Happiness, and other photos from our previous month of #vanlife #travel: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
July 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Bluebird of Happiness, and other photos from our previous month of #vanlife #travel: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
Then he poured for us a beverage which he called “Slumgullion,” and it was hard to think he was not inspired when he named it.
~Mark Twain, ROUGHING IT
#SundaySentence
What was the single-best sentence YOU read this week? Share with us at the hashtag!
~Mark Twain, ROUGHING IT
#SundaySentence
What was the single-best sentence YOU read this week? Share with us at the hashtag!
July 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Then he poured for us a beverage which he called “Slumgullion,” and it was hard to think he was not inspired when he named it.
~Mark Twain, ROUGHING IT
#SundaySentence
What was the single-best sentence YOU read this week? Share with us at the hashtag!
~Mark Twain, ROUGHING IT
#SundaySentence
What was the single-best sentence YOU read this week? Share with us at the hashtag!
July 3. Butte, Montana. #Sunset. Let the annual neighborhood #fireworks wars begin.
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
July 3. Butte, Montana. #Sunset. Let the annual neighborhood #fireworks wars begin.
I've blogged about #vanlife for a few months, but it just occurred to me I haven’t talked much about the #van in our life.
Meet Sugar: our one and only, our all in all, and—to get all Barry White on you—our first, our last, our everything.
davidabrams.substack.com/p/meet-sugar...
Meet Sugar: our one and only, our all in all, and—to get all Barry White on you—our first, our last, our everything.
davidabrams.substack.com/p/meet-sugar...
July 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I've blogged about #vanlife for a few months, but it just occurred to me I haven’t talked much about the #van in our life.
Meet Sugar: our one and only, our all in all, and—to get all Barry White on you—our first, our last, our everything.
davidabrams.substack.com/p/meet-sugar...
Meet Sugar: our one and only, our all in all, and—to get all Barry White on you—our first, our last, our everything.
davidabrams.substack.com/p/meet-sugar...