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#humanitarian. Mash's mom. #USAIDForever.

Epidemiologist. Cyclist. backpacker/forest bather. harrier.

Bibliophile. moss-, lichen-, and baobab-obsessed.

📍 whiskey-loving Michigander in occupied DC.

| #bikeDC | #episky | #GoBlue! | #USAID |
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An acceptably stocked backcountry backpacking weekend "bar".
Including glassware to louche the absinthe 😅

And #cheetos. Bc my crew of backpackers is just that classy.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGlass #Photography #EastCoastKin #whiskey #westvirginia #backcountry #bourbon
Photo shows 5 bottles of whiskey lined up on a picnic table bench, alongside a bag of cheetos and Glenlivet glassware. Tents and other camping/backpacking gear are visible in the periphery (on top of the picnic table)
August 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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📷 of a family-friendly bike ride last fall in NE Washington DC-
These are the terrifying, crime-ridden streets of Washington DC (with some lovely fall foliage 👀)

#dcstatehood #freedc #bikedc #bikesky @hillfamilybiking.org @thehillishome.com @freedcproject.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social
Picture of several cyclists riding through an intersection with some lovely red fall foliage in NE Washington DC. Photo taken in fall 2024.
August 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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While solo parenting this summer, therapy came in an old-fashioned glass and in the form of garlicky foods eaten with a cute lil fork (while the tiny human enjoyed his balsamic-covered heirloom tomatoes).

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGlass #Photography #EastCoastKin #whiskey #oldfashioned #smoky
Looking down on a table with an orange-garnished cocktail alongside a plate of escargot
August 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Jaywalkers! A poster on a lamppost!

These are the terrifying, crime-ridden streets of Washington DC. #OpenStreetsDC

#dcstatehood #freedc #bikedc @thehillishome.com @the51ststate.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social
Photo of people enjoying OpenStreetsDC (with a #FreeDC poster on a lamppost in the foreground)
August 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Campfire cooked brioche French toast with berry compote (and maple)...
Part of our backcountry gourmet cookoff 🤤
featuring bougie backpackers willing to carry olive oil, maple syrup, and cast iron up mountains in the #WestVirginia woods😅
#AlphabetChallenge #weekFforFire #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow
Brioche French toast with berry compote (and a campfire in the background)
August 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Pareidolia in fire - Do you see the likeness of a puppy?

The night i took this, my fellow #fire/ #whiskey/ #backpacking brethren and I could all picture our friend's puppy's face.

#AlphabetChallenge #weekFforFire #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow #TravelPhotography #ThePhotoHour
#WestVirginia #scape
Low light image of flames in a firepit. For those inclined to pareidolia, there may be the likeness of a puppy's face.
August 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Pork
In a pig
On fire.

Because Malagueño food is just this diabolically appetizing and delicious.

📍La Recova, Malaga

#weekFforFire #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow #scape #foodie #spain #fire #Malaga #españa #thePhotoHour #Photography #Travelphotography
Skewered pork sausage served en flambe in a ceramic pig serving dish
August 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Sprawled fireside in the West Virginia woods, with my Bourbon socks, some whiskey, #girlscoutcookies, and my backpacking besties on a decidedly not UL (ultralight) trip.

#weekFforFire #WestVirginia #backpacking #bourbon #firepit #fire #scape #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow #Photography #whiskey
A woman wearing bourbon socks and long underwear lays near stone fire ring, with a bottle of bourbon and a box of (samoa) girl scout cookies visible fireside.
August 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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at elevation.
📍Sylhet, Bangladesh

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEasyE #scape #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow #Photography #Travelphotography #floods #Bangladesh #rainyseason
August 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Excessive educational accoutrements on poor Billy.
Aka: flashback to a profoundly unaesthetic Ikea-Billy shelfie.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEasyE #shelfie #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow #Photography #bibliophile #booklover #shelfie
#shelfie of an overfilled Ikea Billy bookshelf.
August 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Escape along the Mara River.
📍Olchoro Oirowua Conservancy (Fairmont Mara)

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEasyE #scape #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow #Photography #Travelphotography #safari #Kenya #savanna @fairmonthotels.bsky.social #MasaiMara #olchorro #coffeeclub @rothys.bsky.social #maasaimara
Photo of a woman holding a white coffee mug, relaxing on couch with outstretched legs on a wooden deck, and a view of a river and lush landscape on the opposite bank.
July 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Just 6 months ago, but it feels like another lifetime...
Wildebeests frolicking somewhere over the rainbow.
📍OlChorro Conservancy

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDrivetime #scape #EastCoastKin #blueskyartshow #Photography #Travelphotography #safari #Kenya #savanna @fairmonthotels.bsky.social #MasaiMara
July 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Dodging cows on #SouthSudan bush roads is a helluva way to learn to drive stick.

Additional motivation: fear of potential blood-money negotiations if i failed to skillfully navigate the thick black-cotton mud.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDrivetime #scape #EastCoastKin #Travelphotography
Herd of cows crossing the muddy, puddle-filled ruts of a South Sudan bush road. Seen through a mud-streaked windshield. UHF radio antenna also visible (mounted on the vehicle's front grill)
July 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A stravaig and the right to roam among the #mosses.
- On the Isle of Lios Mòr (Lismore), Inner Hebrides. August 2017.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDrivetime #seaside #moss #seascape #scape #scotland #BlueSkyTuesday #EastCoastKin #Photography #Travelphotography #wanderlust #glen #mosssky #hike
Narrow one-lane Scottish road winds around mossy boulders and under trees along the sea on the Isle of Lismore (in Scotland).
July 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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More *completely* unambiguous signage, this time courtesy of Cincinnati's GOAT #Bockfest

#WeekCforCommunication #miscommunication #AlphabetChallenge #beersky #goats #Cincinnati @overtherhine.bsky.social #bock #craftbeer #bockbeer
#eastcoastkin #travelphotography #travelsky #signs @fccincinnati.com
Sign at Bockfest for "additional restrooms located outside" that includes icons for: a man | a woman | a goat.
July 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Some completely unambiguous signage at the World Bank in Abuja 😅
Just one of *many* [female] conveniences I encountered in Nigeria.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCommunication #Nigeria @girlslovetravel.bsky.social #eastcoastkin #travelphotography #travelsky #signs
[Bathroom] Sign with a female figure that reads: "ABJ 2-119 FEMALE CONVENIENCES"
July 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Because caffeine (or, i guess, any delicious sustenance) is our love language...
Here is le husband's first attempt at #coffeeart.
And yes, it is an apple in my #glüwine mug 😅

#lovelanguage #coffeeinbed #cortado #coffeelover #weekendvibes #goodmorning #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #Sundaymorning
Womans hand holds a small mug with rudimentary attempt at apple-shaped coffee art in the foam of a cortado.
July 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A Beer Called Covfefe.

Did my own little boda 'n brew in Uganda in 2019 and came across this gem 🤌

Normally not an APA fan (i like my IBUs low), but this 🟠🤡trolling tasted SO good.
Need something stronger now.

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekBForBars #Uganda #beersky #EastCoastKin #craftbeer @dcbeer.com
Wooden bar top with an amber colored beer in the glass at the end of a tasting rack, sitting on a beer menu for Banange Brewing Company with one beer listing and details partially visible: Covfefe Ale American Pale Ale (4.7%) Bitterness: Medi[um] ...
July 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Shute's Bar (originally Curto's Saloon) in Calumet, #Michigan (on our COVID-era #minimoon):
where you can have an 1890s #copper rush saloon all to yourself on your off-season #honeymoon.

#Michigander
#pleasantpenninsula
#ratherbeUPnorth
#whiskey
#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekBForBars
#EastCoastKin
One-of-a-kind glass canopy over Shute's Bar (originally Curto's Saloon) in Calumet, Michigan. February 2022.
July 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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We've all repeated/heard #LessonOne ad nauseam, but Lesson Five is the one that I keep getting stuck on: Remember Professional Ethics.

As the #civilservice has been gutted and intimidated, those left standing need to hold the line – and the rest of us can't accept #concentrationcamps or cheap labor
July 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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#tbt my previous, oft itinerant life...
One of my daily glimpses into the salvage process of this partially submerged, rusted ship.
- Marina Petit Bateau, Conakry, July 2016

#Guinea #Ship #harbor #Scape #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #TravelPhotography #ThePhotoHour #thelittlethings #urbanphotograpy
a partially submerged, rusted ship, mid-salvage in Conakry, Guinea. July 2016.
July 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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"Trumponomics 2.0 is chipping away at the foundations of America's prosperity..."
... In addition to the evisceration of soft power and true strength on the world stage. And more importantly here at home: a loss of important societal values (and our humanity).
#medicaid #USAID @altusaid.altgov.info
July 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Help #Shroom Friends!

This remnant of an invasive tree in our #DC rowhouse backyard is now visibly hosting #mycelium...

Anyone know what type of #mushroom this is?
(And is it friend or foe to my toddler?)

@lukelukeluke.bsky.social @thehillishome.com
#mushrooms #mycography #mushroomphotography
A brown and black mushroom growing on a felled tree round (from an invasive mulberry) Brown and black mushrooms grow under the bark of a thick tree round.
July 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Couldn't be prouder of my bike-loving toddler who has on multiple occasions tried to "dock" his balance bike with the bikeshares when we bike by 😅

He's not quite at the point of biking for transpo, but this sweet kid is well on his way to being one of us.

#bikedc #bikesky @hillfamilybiking.org
A young toddler "parks" his balance bike at a #bikeshare dock. A young toddler "parks" his balance bike at a #bikeshare dock.
July 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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In which "From the American People" (our former motto) takes on a particularly ominous tone.
open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

#stealfromthepoor #USAID #USAIDSavesLives #humanrights #humanitarian
@deadder.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info @usaidstopwork.bsky.social @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM