Mary Ellen S
@maryellens.bsky.social
Retired - Quaker - dog owner - SFF fan - living in Twin Cities/MN. I have a dog whose name is Charlie. Looking for shards of light in an unexpectedly dark season.
Many mallard ducks.
January 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Many mallard ducks.
Lovely book on sale.
Lent is only $2.99 as an ebook right now, so if you happen to want a book about a Dominican monk casting out demons in Renaissance Florence -- what, it's a perfectly normal book like normal people write, well, that part of it, anyway! www.amazon.com/Lent-Jo-Walt...
Lent: A Novel of Many Returns
Lent: A Novel of Many Returns - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Lent: A Novel of Many Returns.
www.amazon.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Lovely book on sale.
From four years ago today. I went out at sunset, reeling from images of insurrection. From the park, the high bird-like sounds of children's voices echoed from the sledding hill, and the little pond across the road from the Loppet center filled up with mallard ducks for the night.
January 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
From four years ago today. I went out at sunset, reeling from images of insurrection. From the park, the high bird-like sounds of children's voices echoed from the sledding hill, and the little pond across the road from the Loppet center filled up with mallard ducks for the night.
Reposted by Mary Ellen S
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
November 20, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
Yesterday at Wirth Lake 4 pm.
November 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Yesterday at Wirth Lake 4 pm.
Helpful. I have started lap swimming in a therapeutic pool.
November 15, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Helpful. I have started lap swimming in a therapeutic pool.
This morning - distance is unformed and murky. So is my muffled, incoherent state of mind.
November 6, 2024 at 5:57 PM
This morning - distance is unformed and murky. So is my muffled, incoherent state of mind.
Swift-changing days of October. I never remember how quickly fall slips past.
October 20, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Swift-changing days of October. I never remember how quickly fall slips past.
I never vote here in Minneapolis without consulting Naomi's blog. Seriously.
Election 2024: MN House (Mpls and St. Paul seats) legislative race roundup.
Covers: 51A, 59A&B, 60A&B, 61B, 62A&B, 63A&B, 64A&B, 65A&B, 66A&B, 67A&B. Click to find out which Republicans could bring themselves to type, "Joe Biden won in 2020"!
naomikritzer.com/2024/10/16/e...
Covers: 51A, 59A&B, 60A&B, 61B, 62A&B, 63A&B, 64A&B, 65A&B, 66A&B, 67A&B. Click to find out which Republicans could bring themselves to type, "Joe Biden won in 2020"!
naomikritzer.com/2024/10/16/e...
Election 2024: Minnesota House (Minneapolis & St. Paul Seats) Legislative Roundup
The tl;dr is “vote for the DFLer” but I e-mailed every Republican running in a city district to ask who they think won the Presidential race in 2020 and now I need a post to share the r…
naomikritzer.com
October 17, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I never vote here in Minneapolis without consulting Naomi's blog. Seriously.
October sky is the best sky.
October 9, 2024 at 12:47 AM
October sky is the best sky.
Not "late summer" anymore.
October 6, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Not "late summer" anymore.
Happy to support this great camp.
Thank you to everyone who has donated to my fundraiser for Camp Northern Lights, I really find it genuinely motivating to see that number go up!
www.justgiving.com/page/naomi-k...
www.justgiving.com/page/naomi-k...
YMCA Camp Northern Lights "Be the Light" Campaign
Help Naomi Kritzer raise money to support YMCA of the North
www.justgiving.com
October 3, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Happy to support this great camp.
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden late Sept.
September 29, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden late Sept.
Martha Wells' Element of Fire and Death of the Necromancer for $2.99 ebook sale today.
August 22, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Martha Wells' Element of Fire and Death of the Necromancer for $2.99 ebook sale today.
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden - early August
August 5, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden - early August
Minnehaha Falls - lots of rain this summer!
August 4, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Minnehaha Falls - lots of rain this summer!
Looks like this might be continuing. Intriguing!
To my moderate horror, several more lines of dialogue pushed into my brain.
Renndy’s clearly a dick. Wish I knew what he was.
Renndy’s clearly a dick. Wish I knew what he was.
July 25, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Looks like this might be continuing. Intriguing!
This is helpful.
I called Senator Smith (and left a message because the lines were busy). I don't know if it's worth calling Amy K, who literally cosponsored this POS bill, but I let Tina know I opposed it and used both this argument and "loaded weapon in the hands of Republican AGs."
Literally all you have to say about KOSA: "A site can't tell who's a minor without age-verifying every visitor to the site. I don't want to have to scan my face or my ID every time I visit any site on the internet and I don't want that information out there to get hacked."
July 25, 2024 at 5:23 PM
This is helpful.
I feel pretty enthusiastic about this shift. I wasn't feeling clear to donate before, but now I am.
If, like me, you think that the clear way forward is to elect Kamala Harris in 2024, this is one of the times I think a direct campaign donation is super worthwhile. This is the link Joe Biden shared on Twitter for people to donate to support Kamala Harris's campaign.
t.co/A0T3v7ItQm
t.co/A0T3v7ItQm
I just gave to Kamala Harris!
Pitch in to help deliver four more years in the White House.
t.co
July 21, 2024 at 7:39 PM
I feel pretty enthusiastic about this shift. I wasn't feeling clear to donate before, but now I am.
Reposting so I can find this again.
I do not know what this is or what it means or where it came from. I got this chunk of dialogue in my head with no other information. This seemed like the best way to get it out. There is no follow-up in my head at this time.
July 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Reposting so I can find this again.
If you see this, post your blue art. 💙
July 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
If you see this, post your blue art. 💙
This ⏬
This is a fantastic essay which I am glad to have read.
Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...
July 18, 2024 at 1:23 AM
This ⏬
Reposted by Mary Ellen S
Story day! "Too Little, Too Little, Too Much" is one of the darkest and more personal stories I've ever written, about childhood abuse and pyrokinesis. It's about starting fires.
The great folks at Pseudopod reprinted it today *and* produced a fabulous podcast audio version!
The great folks at Pseudopod reprinted it today *and* produced a fabulous podcast audio version!
“As soon as the adults leave him alone, Lark takes a shower to get the smoke out of his hair.”
Too Little, Too Little, Too Much
By John Wiswell
Narrator: Paul Cram
Host: @alasdairstuart.com
Audio: @chelsead.bsky.social
Read or listen here:
pseudopod.org/2024/06/10/p...
Too Little, Too Little, Too Much
By John Wiswell
Narrator: Paul Cram
Host: @alasdairstuart.com
Audio: @chelsead.bsky.social
Read or listen here:
pseudopod.org/2024/06/10/p...
PseudoPod 923: Too Little, Too Little, Too Much
As soon as the adults leave him alone, Lark takes a shower to get the smoke out of his hair. He’s tall enough to reach the knobs all by himself. The only shampoo in Uncle Lee’s bathroom is coconut…
pseudopod.org
June 10, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Story day! "Too Little, Too Little, Too Much" is one of the darkest and more personal stories I've ever written, about childhood abuse and pyrokinesis. It's about starting fires.
The great folks at Pseudopod reprinted it today *and* produced a fabulous podcast audio version!
The great folks at Pseudopod reprinted it today *and* produced a fabulous podcast audio version!