Jane Ratcliffe
@janeratcliffe.bsky.social
Newsletter: Beyond, series of author interviews with today's greatest heart-centered minds. https://janeratcliffe.substack.com
Words in The Sun Magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine, Creative Nonfiction https://janeratcliffe.com
Dog/kitty mama.
Beekeeper
Boxer
Words in The Sun Magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine, Creative Nonfiction https://janeratcliffe.com
Dog/kitty mama.
Beekeeper
Boxer
Friends who have traded in traditional front door locks for keypad locks, how are you liking them?
And did you go with the version that has a back-up key lock? Or straight keypad lock?
Thanks!
And did you go with the version that has a back-up key lock? Or straight keypad lock?
Thanks!
April 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Friends who have traded in traditional front door locks for keypad locks, how are you liking them?
And did you go with the version that has a back-up key lock? Or straight keypad lock?
Thanks!
And did you go with the version that has a back-up key lock? Or straight keypad lock?
Thanks!
"I don’t really trust my voices, but I trust my body’s responses to the voices. When my body can make me go, “Oooooh!” I’m like, “Okay, bro, you found it.” Man, ain’t nothing like that feeling." @kiese.bsky.social
Craft Advice with Kiese Laymon
On writing in your car, daily experimentation, the body as anchor, laying yourself bare, laughter, writing about rooms and wig heads, and the spiritual dimensions of the memory
janeratcliffe.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"I don’t really trust my voices, but I trust my body’s responses to the voices. When my body can make me go, “Oooooh!” I’m like, “Okay, bro, you found it.” Man, ain’t nothing like that feeling." @kiese.bsky.social
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Well, it’s almost 3 weeks since the election. I am in a full Diet Coke relapse but I have not started smoking cigarettes again. Also bad sisters is so good.
November 23, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Well, it’s almost 3 weeks since the election. I am in a full Diet Coke relapse but I have not started smoking cigarettes again. Also bad sisters is so good.
Fantastic list of fiction writers!
Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/ARue8c8
#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚
#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚
November 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Fantastic list of fiction writers!
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This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
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I walked four hours today. Cried all over Boston and Cambridge. Saw some art as well as a modern dance performance.
Lots of convos with terrified friends and neighbors, many of whom are planning on leaving Ohio.
Lots of convos with terrified friends and neighbors, many of whom are planning on leaving Ohio.
Today, Nazis proudly protested in what used to be my neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. I lived on that block for five years.
As my friend Kiese Laymon has said “there’s no safe [for us] in America, only safer.”
I’m staying where it’s safer.
And I know my worth and needs.
Godspeed.
As my friend Kiese Laymon has said “there’s no safe [for us] in America, only safer.”
I’m staying where it’s safer.
And I know my worth and needs.
Godspeed.
November 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I walked four hours today. Cried all over Boston and Cambridge. Saw some art as well as a modern dance performance.
Lots of convos with terrified friends and neighbors, many of whom are planning on leaving Ohio.
Lots of convos with terrified friends and neighbors, many of whom are planning on leaving Ohio.
Great Starter Pack! 🌸
Starter Pack of CNF folks!
go.bsky.app/C32PkRW
go.bsky.app/C32PkRW
November 17, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Great Starter Pack! 🌸
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And I gotta say, so far it seems like if any platform will foster this balance, it's this place
One lesson I think a lot of us learned in the 1st Trump era is that keeping ourselves in a constant state of outrage & panic didn't help anything. Being informed is one thing, but cortisol-poisoning ourselves is another. Idk how to strike that balance, but glad to see I'm not alone in wanting to
November 13, 2024 at 8:11 PM
And I gotta say, so far it seems like if any platform will foster this balance, it's this place
Beautiful interview with @danquahrising.bsky.social.
"Kindness is intentional and pure. It’s something that makes the giver, the one who is being kind, feel internally good because it’s a release, without expecting anything in return."
"Kindness is intentional and pure. It’s something that makes the giver, the one who is being kind, feel internally good because it’s a release, without expecting anything in return."
All The Love And Joy Our Lives Can Contain: A Conversation with Nana-Ama Danquah
On mental health, rest, "nice" v "kind", how our energy affects one another, spontaneous generosity, the potency of local friends, and the myth of the Black female caretaker.
janeratcliffe.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Beautiful interview with @danquahrising.bsky.social.
"Kindness is intentional and pure. It’s something that makes the giver, the one who is being kind, feel internally good because it’s a release, without expecting anything in return."
"Kindness is intentional and pure. It’s something that makes the giver, the one who is being kind, feel internally good because it’s a release, without expecting anything in return."
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Ok let's try this out and see if it works better than on the other site... I'm teaching a generative seminar on braided essays starting 7/20, and registration closes one week from today! Check it out: https://www.lillydancyger.com/the-braided-essay
The Braided Essay
7:00 PM EDT. Online via Zoom.
(4 weeks, 2-hour meetings on 7/20 and 8/30, half-hour check-ins on 7/27 and 8/10)
This course will guide you through the process of writing a braided personal essay th...
www.lillydancyger.com
July 5, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Ok let's try this out and see if it works better than on the other site... I'm teaching a generative seminar on braided essays starting 7/20, and registration closes one week from today! Check it out: https://www.lillydancyger.com/the-braided-essay
Gorgeous essay by Cindy Lamothe.
"Before motherhood, I didn’t understand how chaos and calm could coexist within a person. I didn’t understand that the space I craved was more than physical—it was the room to become, to grow into something beyond myself."
"Before motherhood, I didn’t understand how chaos and calm could coexist within a person. I didn’t understand that the space I craved was more than physical—it was the room to become, to grow into something beyond myself."
Cindy Lamothe on Motherhood, Grief, and Metamorphosis
Read "A Room of My Own," Cindy's new essay about the arduous reconstruction of the human heart
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July 6, 2023 at 12:41 PM
Gorgeous essay by Cindy Lamothe.
"Before motherhood, I didn’t understand how chaos and calm could coexist within a person. I didn’t understand that the space I craved was more than physical—it was the room to become, to grow into something beyond myself."
"Before motherhood, I didn’t understand how chaos and calm could coexist within a person. I didn’t understand that the space I craved was more than physical—it was the room to become, to grow into something beyond myself."
Hello! Can we send private messages to one another over here on Blue Sky? Thanks!
July 5, 2023 at 6:55 PM
Hello! Can we send private messages to one another over here on Blue Sky? Thanks!