We are pleased to announce #OpenRivers Issue 28, featuring work from the Mellon-funded Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange. These ambitious pieces offer strategies for reimagining education, invigorating our connections to place, and confronting environmental challenges.

Last two weeks were “lawyers in the background.” Now we seem to be in “the rise of the judges.”

I’m temporarily off my feet after a wee surgery & had half-British Thanksgiving at my brother’s. I’m SORE today but warm with the glory of good family. I was passed, hand to hand, through a row of husband, brother, nephews, and sons up icy steps and a full staircase to a spectacular dinner. 🦃🍁🍽

When I was in high school I went on a road trip down the Mississippi from Minnesota to New Orleans with my best friend’s family, and on the way we swung through eastern Oklahoma which is GORGEOUS. I used to hike and backpack there every weekend when my family first moved to the US from the UK. So…

Is today's stomachache the half pound of brie I ate for lunch, the new medication, the old medication, or general existential angst?

Or... it could just be that I briefly forgot how to do my job and now have to fix multiple whoopsies in InDesign that Are My Own Fault. Reference yesterday re "Ugh"

I acknowledge that I’m new here, but every time I read “skeet,” brain helpfully continues “Skeet skeet skoodle doot. Flip flop flee. Everybody running to the coconut tree.” With apologies to Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault.

#chickachickaboomboom

"Ugh" is what experience feels like. Some days, I'm the whale, and others, I'm the petunia. Is it the same ending either way?

#douglasadams #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy

LinkedIn Learning (free!) via my county library is my jam today... plus all the other work. Any new accessibility tricks out there I should know about for InDesign?

BTW I've got a dog asleep on one leg and a large brace on the other from surgery. I can NOT walk, and the coffee pot is so far away...