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Jolie Williamson
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Travel woman. Auntie. Writer-editor-artist. Cat au pair. Powered by empathy & curiosity. 💙
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This is me last month, walking the causeway toward St. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall. Now I’m home in Pennsylvania. I want to figure out how to be two places at once so I can be with all of my people, all the time. ❤️
April 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Zelenskyy is the bravest man I’ve ever seen. The Ukrainian people are the strongest I’ve ever seen. This American stands with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
March 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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People often ask me what people in the UK think of what’s happening in the US. Here’s a pic from today’s newsstand: (At Marks & Spencer in Hereford, UK)
Front page of a British newspaper on a grocery store newsstand in Hereford, UK. Headline reads: “SHAMEFUL (in all caps)” with a photo of Trump. The article, headline, and photo refer to Trump’s blaming “DEI” for Washington DC plane crash.
February 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Please help. I can’t stop eating these …
Packaging for Maynard’s wine gums candy. Red pouch with the name in a script-y white font with images of the multicolor gummy-style candy.
January 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Getting back to it: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
11/20
“Little Weirds” by Jenny Slate.
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#BookChallenge
Book cover: in black type, title Little Weirds (words stacked vertically) and underneath, author’s name, in same font but in blue, Jenny Slate (also stacked vertically). Words surrounded by a vertical, oval-shaped wreath-like illustration. It’s very colorful and contains flowers, a sandwich, an elephant, and other assorted items.
January 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Taking care of an animal brings me peace. This old man, Jasper, isn’t mine. I came to love him, though, over a few weeks watching him along with my man companion through @trustedhousesitters.bsky.com ❤️ #cats #catsofbluesky #tabbycat
Woman (me) sitting on a brown leather couch holding a small dark gray and black tabby cat on my lap. I’m smiling. I’m wearing glasses, gray cardigan sweater and jeans. Hair all pulled back. There is a Tiger-striped patterned blanket on the couch. The background wall is light blue but looks nearly white. A little of the wood plank floor is visible.
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Getting back to it: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
10/20
“52 Ways to Walk” by Annabel Streets.
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#BookChallenge
Green background book cover with the words “52 ways to walk” in large white font that nearly takes all the space on the cover. Also author’s name, Annabel Streets, also in white font, slightly smaller.
January 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I’ve heard that the Gower Peninsula is “the Cornwall of Wales.” Rhossili Beach proves it. This stunning spot made me so happy on such a cold day 😍🥶🌊
Selfie of woman (me, the poster) with long brown hair, wearing sunglasses and fuzzy white hat and white outerwear. In background is wooden fence, the grassy top of a cliff, and overlook onto a sandy beach below.
January 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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President Carter’s example of service and empathy is one everyone can aspire to follow.
Portrait of Jimmy Carter, head and shoulders. He is wearing a dark blue suit jacket, a blue striped tie, and white shirt. He has a hint of a smile on his face. Text in the image reads “Remembering Jimmy Carter 1924-2024”
January 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The city wakes up … (Bloomfield, PIttsburgh, PA, USA)
Top level of parking garage. Stairwell entrance with light stands out in the moments as dawn breaks over the darkened city neighborhood.
December 26, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
9/20
“Unfamiliar Fishes” by Sarah Vowell.
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Book cover with author Sarah Vowell’s name in large white type and title “Unfamiliar Fishes” in smaller, light yellow font. Image of a toy colonial soldier type man which is in focus. Rest of image is in extreme soft focus, with other toy-like people seated around the in-focus character, with a giant pineapple and an array of unfocused colors in the background suggesting land and sky.
December 1, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
8/20
“The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey” by Candice Millard.
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Book cover reading “The River of Doubt” in large type with “Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey” in script font, smaller, above the main title. To the left side is a partial front portrait of TR, faded into the other front image, one of a waterway with riverbanks and possibly small islands in it. The photos are duotone, over a parchment-colored background, making the cover look like yellowed newspaper.
November 30, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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He resembles a slice of pumpkin pie. It’s Ger(ald), one of the many cats whom I’ve met on my travels. His brother, a fluffy version of him, is named Gin. #catsofbluesky #cats #gingercats
Short-haired orange-stripe cat with white paws and chest. He’s lying on a royal blue velvety-fabric chair. He’s posed with all four feet coming to a point at the bottom of the photo, while his body and head arch, creating a triangle/wedge/pie piece shape. He’s looking directly up and into the camera—photo is taken from above him.
November 30, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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I first thought it was fake. A parody account. Hahaha. Then I saw @mollyjongfast.bsky.social posted it, too. So I thought, ok she wouldn’t spread a fake.
Nevertheless: due diligence. The former journalist in me never wears off. So, ah, yeah. From his gray-check Xitter account. Urm.
What? Why? Help?
X/Twitter post from his actual grey-check account showing him dressed as the wife/mother half of a couple serving a Thanksgiving “turkey” that is actually a map of the USA showing the areas voting for Trump in red and for Harris in blue. Trump is depicted as the husband/father as they stand closely together serving the “turkey” to a family seated at a table.
November 30, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
6&7/20
“Exhalation” and “Stories of Your Life and Others.” By Ted Chiang.
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Collage of two book covers. It shows nearly entire cover of “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang. It’s white type on a black field with a scattering of far-away, realistic looking stars in outer space. The other part is a sliver of the cover for “Stories of Your Life and Others,” also by Ted Chiang. Title is written in small all-caps white type and authors name is in large blue all caps type, with the name Ted written inside the near circle created by the C in Chiang.
November 27, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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Yubi’s been sad — her best friend, Teagan the dog, passed away this year. In my cat au pair role, I’ve sat with her & her furry siblings several times the last 3 years. It was nice to see her excited to watch the birds, and to come over for a scratch behind the ear as she head bumped me. Sweet girl.
Gray cat perched on a side table covered with a multicolored striped table runner. She has her back to the camera and is looking out of a window. She’s in a semi-crouch, with her haunches lifted up and her tail curling up over her back. The sun is shining outside and some greenery is visible through the window.
November 22, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
5/20
“On Writing” by Stephen King.

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Book cover, Stephen King written in large font at top. Title “On Writing” in a red script font as if written on a wall in blood. The wall is illuminated by light from an adjacent window. There is a lone desk chair in the room.
November 22, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
4/20
“In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin”
By Erik Larson

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Book cover reading, title: “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin” author name Erik Larson in largest font at the bottom of the cover. Black ground with a red-orange-yellow lit Brandenburg Gate, one of the best-known landmarks in Berlin, Germany
November 21, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
3/20

#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
November 17, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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hoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

2/20

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Book cover with title “Hallucinations” by Oliver Sachs. Light aqua background with a closeup of a human eye in the middle in a line-drawing style in darker blue, with diagonal “sunburst” type lines in blue and yellow above the eye.
November 15, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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He’s my #1 Hall of Fame of My Heart pick. My old boy Jupiter — miss him every day but thankful he was my faithful friend. Who else among my friends new, old, and yet to be met can say their cat basically saved their sanity — maybe even their life?
#catsofbluesky
#cats
Close up of orange tabby-stripe Maine coon cat face. Showing gold eyes, pink nose, white whiskers, and white “eyeliner.”
November 15, 2024 at 6:14 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

My choices begin:

1/20
“Way Station” by Clifford D. Simak
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Book cover with title “Way Station,” author Clifford D. Simak, Doubleday Science Fiction. Cover image is collage-like arrangement with black-and-white mechanical pieces/gears/metal strips (measurement or clock pieces?) along with illustrations in orange-tan of a small house and and splat-like shape that looks something like a cartoon germ.
November 15, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Perhaps:
November 14, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Spotted this little creature on my front porch doormat a couple summers ago.

I’m enjoying all y’all’s photos and book collections and thoughtful observations.

Hope to make your acquaintance.

🦋💙🦋
November 14, 2024 at 3:16 AM