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'I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls'
Travel across the years in this compelling collage memoir composed of personal stories, prose poetry, and an archive of letters and images.
books2read.com/IMustHaveWan...
Travel across the years in this compelling collage memoir composed of personal stories, prose poetry, and an archive of letters and images.
books2read.com/IMustHaveWan...
It's cold outside.
January 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's cold outside.
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I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls (Second Edition) by Mary Ellen Gambutti is a book worth reading
Travel with the author on her quest for identity in her compelling collage hybrid memoir.
www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/i-must-...
#memoir @maryellenlwrites.bsky.social
Travel with the author on her quest for identity in her compelling collage hybrid memoir.
www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/i-must-...
#memoir @maryellenlwrites.bsky.social
I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls (Second Edition) by Mary Ellen Gambutti is a book worth reading #memoir #adoption #nonfiction #booksworthreading
Title I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls Author Mary Ellen Gambutti Genre Memoir Book Blurb Travel with the author on her quest for identity in her compelling collage hybrid memoir. In a wealth of creative non-fiction prose, archival letters, and photos, she portrays an abandoned newborn girl adopted by an Air Force couple in post-World War II South Carolina. Her adoptive father’s career as an Intelligence officer, his demands for model behavior and discipline, his absen
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December 6, 2024 at 2:08 PM
I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls (Second Edition) by Mary Ellen Gambutti is a book worth reading
Travel with the author on her quest for identity in her compelling collage hybrid memoir.
www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/i-must-...
#memoir @maryellenlwrites.bsky.social
Travel with the author on her quest for identity in her compelling collage hybrid memoir.
www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/i-must-...
#memoir @maryellenlwrites.bsky.social
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Note that it's always the agencies, employees, and regulations that exist to protect the powerless from abuse by the powerful which Elon deems unnecessary & targets for cuts.
November 28, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Note that it's always the agencies, employees, and regulations that exist to protect the powerless from abuse by the powerful which Elon deems unnecessary & targets for cuts.
Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving, with my gratitude for you good people!
November 28, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving, with my gratitude for you good people!
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Remember, by elevating incompetent fascists like Hegseth, Gabbard, and Gaetz, the aim is to demoralize us.
It's ok to be horrified by the injustice and insanity of it all, but instead of feeling helpless and withdrawing, let’s get angry and fight.
It's ok to be horrified by the injustice and insanity of it all, but instead of feeling helpless and withdrawing, let’s get angry and fight.
November 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Remember, by elevating incompetent fascists like Hegseth, Gabbard, and Gaetz, the aim is to demoralize us.
It's ok to be horrified by the injustice and insanity of it all, but instead of feeling helpless and withdrawing, let’s get angry and fight.
It's ok to be horrified by the injustice and insanity of it all, but instead of feeling helpless and withdrawing, let’s get angry and fight.
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I’m trying to strike a healthy balance between being informed and being oblivious.
November 23, 2024 at 11:53 AM
I’m trying to strike a healthy balance between being informed and being oblivious.
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
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Trump taps Project 2025 architect Ross Vought to lead the budget office. Here was Vought during the campaign saying he didn't blame Trump for disavowing Project 2025 because he knew it was a good political move.
November 23, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Hat tip to Elissa Altman of "Poor Man's Feast" for this by E.B.White: 'I am deeply suspicious of people who are beginning to adjust to fascism and dictators merely because they are succeeding in war. From such adaptable natures a smell arises. I pinch my nose..."
open.substack.com/pub/poormans...
July 1940: A word from E.B. White
Notes on Freedom, from One Man's Meat
open.substack.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Hat tip to Elissa Altman of "Poor Man's Feast" for this by E.B.White: 'I am deeply suspicious of people who are beginning to adjust to fascism and dictators merely because they are succeeding in war. From such adaptable natures a smell arises. I pinch my nose..."
open.substack.com/pub/poormans...
How can we push back against the new administration's unlawful orders and unethical actions?
Use the law where we can to stem Trump's attempts at unchecked power.
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
Use the law where we can to stem Trump's attempts at unchecked power.
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
To defeat Trump, we must defeat what made him possible
Last time, we delayed Trump. This time, our resistance must resemble the country we need to become.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:10 PM
How can we push back against the new administration's unlawful orders and unethical actions?
Use the law where we can to stem Trump's attempts at unchecked power.
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
Use the law where we can to stem Trump's attempts at unchecked power.
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
'I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls'
Travel across the years in this compelling collage memoir composed of personal stories, prose poetry, and an archive of letters and images.
books2read.com/IMustHaveWan...
Travel across the years in this compelling collage memoir composed of personal stories, prose poetry, and an archive of letters and images.
books2read.com/IMustHaveWan...
November 21, 2024 at 2:39 AM
'I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls'
Travel across the years in this compelling collage memoir composed of personal stories, prose poetry, and an archive of letters and images.
books2read.com/IMustHaveWan...
Travel across the years in this compelling collage memoir composed of personal stories, prose poetry, and an archive of letters and images.
books2read.com/IMustHaveWan...
2. At 57, my life was radically changed by a brain bleed. I fought hard to regain my strength, eventually self-publishing 'Stroke Story: My Journey There and Back', 'Fortitude's Footing: Coming to Terms With Stroke', and 'Permanent Home: A Memory Collection.'
November 21, 2024 at 1:51 AM
2. At 57, my life was radically changed by a brain bleed. I fought hard to regain my strength, eventually self-publishing 'Stroke Story: My Journey There and Back', 'Fortitude's Footing: Coming to Terms With Stroke', and 'Permanent Home: A Memory Collection.'
1. Hello, BlueSky! Glad to be here. An independent author, my personal essays and Japanese photo poems have been in many literary journals.
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM
1. Hello, BlueSky! Glad to be here. An independent author, my personal essays and Japanese photo poems have been in many literary journals.
Excellent resource!
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Excellent resource!
Her great article reports on one of our most important books challenging the ethics of adoption.
I wrote this #antiadoption #prochoice piece “I’d Be An Adoptee Teen Mom All over Again” re the book “Relinquished” a while back for
@msmagazine.bsky.social - a piece more timely than ever these days. #writingcommunity #adopteesky #righttichoose #books Check it out —> msmagazine.com/2024/04/09/a...
@msmagazine.bsky.social - a piece more timely than ever these days. #writingcommunity #adopteesky #righttichoose #books Check it out —> msmagazine.com/2024/04/09/a...
I'd Be an Adoptee Teen Mom All Over Again - Ms. Magazine
A teen mom's take on Relinquished book by Gretchen Sisson: "Thirty years later, would I still make the same choice to keep my baby? Yes."
msmagazine.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Her great article reports on one of our most important books challenging the ethics of adoption.
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sadly, it's time to update this ancient tweet
November 16, 2024 at 8:49 PM
sadly, it's time to update this ancient tweet
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“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” - Timothy Snyder, “On Tyranny”
November 19, 2024 at 10:12 PM
“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” - Timothy Snyder, “On Tyranny”