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Kristen
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Writing lecturer, literature PhD, mom to two small boys, a smidge burnt out from parenting and working in the humanities during *all of this.*
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#NoKings in #Tucson
Two children hold posters for No Kings. One has a candle drawing on it and says "This Little Light of Mine melts ICE." The other has a big pink cross in the background and says, "Christians against Christian Nationalism."
October 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Please look at these perfect portrait tattoos I got of my dogs dressed up like dapper gentlemen. We lost the top one this year at 16, but now he gets to be with his brother on my arm. 😍😭🩵 #dogs #tattoos
A person's arm with two black and grey portrait tattoos. The top portrait features a floppy muppet dog in a newspaper boy hat and a scarf. The bottom portrait features a foxy mutt in a monocle and top hat.
August 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Poster says This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine and features a candlestick with rays of light streaming out of the flame. At the candle's base, piles of ice are melting.
June 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Do I need to label the ice in this protest poster for #NoKings?
Poster says This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine and features a candlestick with rays of light streaming out of the flame. At the candle's base, piles of ice are melting.
June 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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We got both boys baptized today! So thankful to Pastor Kelli and Catalina Methodist United Church.

#Methodist 🕯️
My husband and I hold our sons in front of a church. The pastor announces their baptism to the congregation.
May 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Spring in Tucson 🩵
A green cactus is blooming with several beautiful magenta-pink blossoms.
May 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Just alternating wildly between sobbing to Mary Oliver and grading today. #poetry #booksky #dogs
Mary Oliver's Poem "The Sweetness of Dogs." Black text on a white background. The text reads: What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. It’s full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, myself thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! how rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were just as wonderful as the perfect moon.
April 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The thing about having a dog for 16 years is it's such a blessing... and also you then lose a dog who has been with you for 16 years. 😭 Send Mary Oliver poems!
A fluffy dog is being carried down a hiking trail, like the prince that he was, his fur should be white but is instead a dusty brown to match the trail. He has that cottony fur that soaks up filth like a sponge. His tongue is hanging out in a smile. He's perfect.
April 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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I am an LLM hater, but I weighed the benefit of generating one text that would fool them by beginning plausibly so I could continue grading and still throw some sand in their gears and decided this is at least a morally neutral use of ChatGPT.
A Chat GPT prompt reads: "Write a complaint about a school district that starts off with plausible complaints about corrupting our youth but ends with hysterical Salem witch trial accusations of teachers cavorting with the devil in the forest. Make it sound like it was written by a Republican."
February 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Welp. This can't be a good omen for the new year. 😂
A notification from Bluesky says Antichrist followed me.
December 31, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Merry Christmas Eve 🕯️
A baby in a Christmas sweater holds a battery-operated candle in a dim church.
December 25, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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The first half of 2024 was a lovely time for my family. My husband and I were on parental leave, and I took a full semester away thanks to 5+ years of acquired sick time and FMLA. Then, the second half of 2024... I've been looking at photos from the beginning of the year, and I have whiplash 😭.
A perfect newborn baby snuggles on my chest, holding my sweatshirt string in his finders.
December 12, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Our reverend took a picture of me keeping my 10-month-old entertained during the Christmas concert today. 🩵 🕯️
A woman holds her baby on her hip; he is reaching out his hand to touch the yellow stained glass window in front of them. The entire picture is diffused in soft yellow light.
December 9, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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My exvangelical self was bemused and delighted to see Relient K in the order of worship at my Methodist church this morning. 🕯️
An order of worship for a Methodist service. Next to contemporary anthem, "I Celebrate the Day," by Matt Thiessen is listed.
December 8, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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This book needs a cringe warning for readers in academia. 😂

I'm also watching the main race science plot play out about using the Origin of Species and DNA evidence to study the weakening bloodlines of the magical races, like 🤨...

#booksky #academicsky
A passage from A Discovery of Witches is highlighted in green. It says, "My degree from Oxford, my position at Yale, and my carefully researched and written books had long provided meaning and structure to my life. But none of them were of comfort to me in this strange new world of menacing vampires and threatening witches."
December 6, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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I'm reading Song of Achilles for my fun/easy reading before bed to distract from The Horrors™️ & I just can't stop picturing Achilles with his skin like fresh-pressed olive oil. 😂

#booksky
A metal vat receives freshly-pressed olive oil from a spout. The olive oil is a lurid shade of chartreuse green.
November 24, 2024 at 3:37 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. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

10/20

#bellhooks again!
Book cover for Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, by bell hooks. The cover is a bright primary yellow, and above the title is a small image of a ladder labeled "la escalera"
November 23, 2024 at 5:05 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. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

9/20
A red book cover with subtle white stripes. All about love is printed in a large black cursive script, with "new visions" in a small white sanserif font underneath. Finally bell hooks is written in a black serif font at the bottom.
November 22, 2024 at 9:18 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. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

8/20
Book cover for Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, by Angela Garbes. On an ombre pink/peach background, an illustrated brown-skinned woman cradles her infant to her chest, rays of light shine out from her head.
November 19, 2024 at 3:46 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. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

7/20
Book cover for Kristy's Great Idea, the first Babysitters Club book. Four girls in early 90s fashion are lounging by a red telephone.
November 19, 2024 at 12:36 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. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

6/20

(I've decided to start threading them together)
Book cover for Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. A cluster of tents shelter behind a low stone wall under a night sky full of stars.
November 17, 2024 at 3:35 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. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

5/20
Book cover for The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. A border of peaches ring the title in the center of the page. The peach in the top right has a bite taken out of it, and blood oozes from the punctures.
November 16, 2024 at 11:19 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. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

4/20
Book cover for Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Two golden figures look out over a red Martian landscape with a river running through it and skeletal towers in the distance.
November 15, 2024 at 4:38 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.

Day 3

#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
November 14, 2024 at 4:54 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.

Day 2

#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge
A book cover with a cloudy sky that looms over a small church that sits at the edge of a field. The title of the book is Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans.
November 14, 2024 at 5:51 AM