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Nancy Cooper Frank
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Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia
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Living with cancer.
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Just a sweet little hummingbird encountered on my path. (Fuzzy enlarged phone photo but it makes me happy)
In the sky between two buildings and a street post, a humming bird in flight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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It woke her up and the first thing she did was yawn
Calico cat sleeping on a quilt same cat woken up, yawning
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Current energy level
An orange cat and a calico cat lying on the floor near a bed
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Describe your cat’s personality with one photo
Orange cat splayed playfully on her back on a rug
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Hey Lynda! When I was diagnosed with cancer in 2021 a dear friend made this card for me. I have kept it through these years of living with cancer as a symbol and source of strength
Hand made card with the head and bust of Wonder Woman against a painted background of red and yellow and pink tones
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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In SebastIan Florida visiting my Dad. Hanging out on the waterfront in town
Blue sky, some clouds, a palm tree, a grassy beachfront along the Indian River
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Fight me, San Francisco has the best airport. I was able to visit a small but inspiring and informative Afrofuturism exhibit, leave a message for my late husband at the Dia de los muertos installation and visit a branch of my favorite bookstore Green Apple Books. Great food choices too
Women of Afrofuturism entrance, SFO Museum, w futuristic portrait of a Black woman Dia de los Muertos installation festooned with different colored post it notes on which visitors have left messages for the dear departed
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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hey there
Poster Matisse 1953, picture of a black cat reading the newspaper on the loo
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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My Halloween look , hello and boo
Me. Pale: yes. Wraith-like: maybe. In black with orange beaded necklace, black beret, and a pin with a black cat on it
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Sign of fall in San Francisco, first sighting of the season of a holiday-light-installation truck
A red “jolly lights” truck on a tree lined street
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Update: work on the puzzle has come to a halt
Orange cat sitting on a jigsaw puzzle. Not going to budge.
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Women*, they’ll pick up a hobby they haven’t engaged with since they were 11 years old rather than go to therapy.

*Me. No-one is more surprised than me how mind-clearing and relaxing this sudden interest in jigsaws has been.
Here, a nod to spooky season
Unfinished jigsaw, featuring a whimsically macabre Edward Gorey cast of characters including a lady dancing with Death
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Chemo socks today: St Patrick’s Day socks doing double duty as Halloween socks thanks to black cat 🐈‍⬛. Chemo reading today: some French mystery/detective short stories
Feet in green striped socks with a leprechaun black cat on them. Book is Rue des Degrés by Didier Daeninckx
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Another #caturday rolls around. Another meeting of the Mutual Ambush Society
On a red pattered carpet, a calico cat in a box and an orange cat outside the box face off
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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For spooky season, I present this self-portrait-as-a-bat inkwell sculpted by the Divine Sarah Bernhardt, better known as an actress but also a damn fine visual artist with a penchant for the macabre
Bronze figurative inkwell with the head of Sarah Bernhardt and the wings of a bat
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This morning of #NoKingsDay at the San Francisco Jazz Center, family matinee, Andre Thierry’s band. A festive mood, fantastic music, and a lot of people in the audience brought their protest signs for the march afterwards. I love my adopted city🌺
Band on stage, accordion, drums, bass guitar, washboard…
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Couldn’t think of a clever sign. So I just clipped this to my purse
Defend our rights
October 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Pretzel getting herself ready for amother #Caturday
Orange cat on blue blanket. She’s licking a front paw and one of her back paws juts out at an angle
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Today’s chemo socks and today’s chemo book. So I was both comfy and well entertained. Shout out to @authorlevai.bsky.social for making the time pass more quickly with this tale
Two feet in multicolored striped socks flanking a book: The Night Library of Sternenbach: A Vampire Opera in Verse by Jessica Lévai
October 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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National Shrine of St Francis of Assisi, North Beach, San Francisco today. Annual Blessing of the Animals. 💕I think the young woman here had bunnies to be blessed. My cats had to make do with my agnostic but heartfelt benediction once I returned home
In front of the church a priest peeks into a parishioner’s pet carrier to greet the animals (couple of rabbits I believe) to be blessed
October 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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My collecting cartons for library donations (yes, I have Too Many Books™️) has been a bonanza for the Mutual Ambush Society. Here, charter member Wolfie with two Charles Shaw containers, earning her the name of Two Box Chuck #Caturday
Calico cat and two empty wine boxes
October 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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France in the 1880s, Jules Ferry on the knee-jerk delusive patriotism of Boulangism: “a noisy, despicable creed that seeks not to unify…but to set citizens against one another…If one believes its spokesmen, love of country belongs to one party alone or to only one sect within that party”
Cover of For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus by Frederick Brown
October 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Today’s perfect chemo socks paired with today’s perfect chemo read. Also I had a really nice chemo nurse (bilingual, put me and my Cantonese speaking chemo neighbor equally at ease). Now I am home in the tender care of my cats, providing I feed them.
Feet in blue socks festooned with yellow duckies. Cover of Helene Hanff’s 84, Charing Cross Road
September 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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How my evening is going. A) Reading about devastating social and political crises of the past and B) observing the latest plenary session of the Mutual Ambush Society
Cover of: For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus by Frederick Brown Orange kitty and calico sizing each other up
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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#vendredilecture
La rueé vers l’or.
Ici à San Francisco tous les personnages sont représentés par les noms de rues
Blaise Cendrars, L’Or
September 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM