Lily Casura, MSW
@lilygc.bsky.social
Mixed methods social science researcher; author; journalist when I have something to say. Cultural creative; reader; TED Talk on women veterans and homelessness. Chapters in Routledge, Oxford University Press, and Springer Nature. Married to @rjhphd.
My neighbors are fostering pups whose mom is a Great Pyrenees, which prolly makes me think of that. They’re kinda pyrfect for the job.
August 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My neighbors are fostering pups whose mom is a Great Pyrenees, which prolly makes me think of that. They’re kinda pyrfect for the job.
I am spending Memorial Day weekend focused/speedily writing an article with @rjhphd for a journal special issue on aging veterans. While thinking with reverence of those who never lived to be. #Respect #MemorialDay
May 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am spending Memorial Day weekend focused/speedily writing an article with @rjhphd for a journal special issue on aging veterans. While thinking with reverence of those who never lived to be. #Respect #MemorialDay
Was VERY surprised by the low quality — in multiple places — of an IKEA bookcase I put together last night. Have bought IKEA products for at least 20 years and never had an issue b4. 🤷🏻♀️
March 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Was VERY surprised by the low quality — in multiple places — of an IKEA bookcase I put together last night. Have bought IKEA products for at least 20 years and never had an issue b4. 🤷🏻♀️
@fpwellman.bsky.social Fred, five years ago total. Feels like multiple lifetimes ago, to be sure!
March 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
@fpwellman.bsky.social Fred, five years ago total. Feels like multiple lifetimes ago, to be sure!
I wish I had seen this earlier.
February 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I wish I had seen this earlier.
Here’s an example of one of the photo transfer concept. A friend of mine had died really young and I borrowed a bunch of photos from her family and put them all together and sort of a collage of the cycle of her life. And picked fabrics she would’ve liked. It was very moving to work on.
January 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Here’s an example of one of the photo transfer concept. A friend of mine had died really young and I borrowed a bunch of photos from her family and put them all together and sort of a collage of the cycle of her life. And picked fabrics she would’ve liked. It was very moving to work on.
I’m glad I bought this bumper sticker but now there are just too many places to post it. I went through social work grad school, as ironic as that might be, during the first Trump administration. But this one is so much worse, intentionally so. So much cruelty and chaos and that’s the game plan! 🤮
January 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I’m glad I bought this bumper sticker but now there are just too many places to post it. I went through social work grad school, as ironic as that might be, during the first Trump administration. But this one is so much worse, intentionally so. So much cruelty and chaos and that’s the game plan! 🤮
My handbasket MUST include baking supplies! 🤣🤣❤️
January 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My handbasket MUST include baking supplies! 🤣🤣❤️
Oh yeah, THAT’S gonna work out well! 🤣🤣😬
January 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Oh yeah, THAT’S gonna work out well! 🤣🤣😬
We still have just one #hummingbird visiting our feeder every day, several times a day. It seems to be getting thinner by the day. Sad to think there’s no way it’s gonna survive this coming 🥶 snap.
January 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We still have just one #hummingbird visiting our feeder every day, several times a day. It seems to be getting thinner by the day. Sad to think there’s no way it’s gonna survive this coming 🥶 snap.
My late dad did the most beautiful cartoon of the late, great #JimmyCarter back in the day. I have always loved it because it captured his #HabitatForHumanity phase, which so encapsulated so much of what was wonderful about him.
December 31, 2024 at 2:37 AM
My late dad did the most beautiful cartoon of the late, great #JimmyCarter back in the day. I have always loved it because it captured his #HabitatForHumanity phase, which so encapsulated so much of what was wonderful about him.
Thought for the Day.
December 29, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Thought for the Day.
It was great to get a copy of this the other day, where I’m published as a chapter co-author on why you’d bother taking academic research and writing newspaper Op-Eds about it, to inform the general public. Good times :-).
December 22, 2024 at 7:54 PM
It was great to get a copy of this the other day, where I’m published as a chapter co-author on why you’d bother taking academic research and writing newspaper Op-Eds about it, to inform the general public. Good times :-).
And in the process we found some kick-ass migration maps done by someone named Minard (French) in 1858, and they really give you a lot to think about. Good stuff. I'm still craving larb and want to see a good migration map about the Hmong ending up in Minnesota from Laos and previously from China.
December 20, 2024 at 2:23 AM
And in the process we found some kick-ass migration maps done by someone named Minard (French) in 1858, and they really give you a lot to think about. Good stuff. I'm still craving larb and want to see a good migration map about the Hmong ending up in Minnesota from Laos and previously from China.
Yesterday would have been my 500th day straight #reading, less 2 missed days on #Kindle. This year, about 140 books 📚 so far including paperbacks and audiobooks listened to while commuting. #Libraries
December 8, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Yesterday would have been my 500th day straight #reading, less 2 missed days on #Kindle. This year, about 140 books 📚 so far including paperbacks and audiobooks listened to while commuting. #Libraries
Thank you! In the oven now. Fingers crossed! 🙏🏻❤️🥰
December 8, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Thank you! In the oven now. Fingers crossed! 🙏🏻❤️🥰
I hope #UPS isn't planning to stand behind this "proof of delivery" photo because -- it sucks -- and, of course it isn't even our door. The plot thickens. I'm on minute umpteen of waiting for their callback about this.
December 7, 2024 at 10:52 PM
I hope #UPS isn't planning to stand behind this "proof of delivery" photo because -- it sucks -- and, of course it isn't even our door. The plot thickens. I'm on minute umpteen of waiting for their callback about this.
I think this is the first year I will make German Christmas stollen in a longish while. Got the recipe from my high school best friend‘s mom who is German. She got tired of my asking for it every year so I ended up promising to keep a copy somewhere safe. 🤣🤦🏻♀️❤️
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 PM
I think this is the first year I will make German Christmas stollen in a longish while. Got the recipe from my high school best friend‘s mom who is German. She got tired of my asking for it every year so I ended up promising to keep a copy somewhere safe. 🤣🤦🏻♀️❤️
While the NYT cooking app’s roasted duck with cherries was pretty ho-hum, the ensuing duck stock made a great base for the Thai hot and sour shrimp soup tonight. (All the grainy, tasty, flavor-conferring things had already been strained out when this pic was taken.) Body temperature at 💯. 🤣🤣😋
December 1, 2024 at 1:40 AM
While the NYT cooking app’s roasted duck with cherries was pretty ho-hum, the ensuing duck stock made a great base for the Thai hot and sour shrimp soup tonight. (All the grainy, tasty, flavor-conferring things had already been strained out when this pic was taken.) Body temperature at 💯. 🤣🤣😋
The old Yankee Magazine Cookbook recipe for Apple 🍏 Oatmeal Crisp did not (never) disappoint(s). Made an equally fab brekkie, reheated.
November 30, 2024 at 12:39 AM
The old Yankee Magazine Cookbook recipe for Apple 🍏 Oatmeal Crisp did not (never) disappoint(s). Made an equally fab brekkie, reheated.
I labored over a duck dish yesterday for Thanksgiving — NYT Cooking app — and it was just “meh” despite lots of tedious, nay, fussy effort. Made duck stock too. May turn it into Thai soup.
November 30, 2024 at 12:37 AM
I labored over a duck dish yesterday for Thanksgiving — NYT Cooking app — and it was just “meh” despite lots of tedious, nay, fussy effort. Made duck stock too. May turn it into Thai soup.
This is my artist dad, well b4 I ever knew him, also by the same portrait painter, Harold Irving Smith, who as I knew about him, wasn’t “in” the Ashcan School, but was in the 2nd generation of artists who came out of that school. And randomly, it does of course capture a bit of my dad.
November 29, 2024 at 1:42 AM
This is my artist dad, well b4 I ever knew him, also by the same portrait painter, Harold Irving Smith, who as I knew about him, wasn’t “in” the Ashcan School, but was in the 2nd generation of artists who came out of that school. And randomly, it does of course capture a bit of my dad.
My brother sent me this pic of moi as a toddler, which is remarkable in its own right. Painted by a semi-famous American painter, who my artist dad apprenticed with. But then…
November 29, 2024 at 1:37 AM
My brother sent me this pic of moi as a toddler, which is remarkable in its own right. Painted by a semi-famous American painter, who my artist dad apprenticed with. But then…