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Sassy Nik
@nikkigastineau.bsky.social
Raised in Kentucky but have called SE Michigan home for 30 years. Genealogist, wannabe writer, and fierce dissenter.

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I went on a hunt to find out more about my 5x g-grandfather. What I found was a polygamist with two wives and 16 children. Meet Dillion Blevens Asher ya’ll.
#familyhistory #genealogy
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Dillion Blevens Asher: Early Kentucky Pioneer, My Five-Times Great-Grandfather and...Bigamist?
The photo above is the title from a 1995 issue of The Kentucky Explorer .  Dillion Blevens Asher is my five times great-grandfather. And whi...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
One hundred years ago a Gastineau cousin was unalived. His brother became suspect #1 when it was revealed that he was the beneficiary of $100k in insurance. Oh, and the pair were also bootleggers. This story is 100% true. #genealogy #truecrime #kentucky
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The Murder of John Gastineau: An Unsolved Crime
Granny Gastineau knows that I love digging around in genealogy and history. A couple of years ago, she asked if I had ever read anything abo...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A little over a year ago my cat puked and it kicked off a chain of events that will lead to a hysterectomy this week.

She has my eternal gratitude.

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I’m Yeeting My Uterus Thanks to My Cat
I’m having a hysterectomy and I owe it to my cat. Two years ago at my annual checkup I mentioned to my doctor that my periods were gettin...
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September 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our trip from Inverness to Thurso had me falling madly in love with Scotland and developing a love/hate relationship with gas station washing machines.
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Scotland Road Trip Day 3: Inverness to Thurso
The day dawned gray and a bit chilly. We ate breakfast and headed for the launderette located on the outskirts of town. The high capacity ...
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August 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
We recently road-tripped our way through Scotland and I’ve created a blog for each day complete with lots of links and photos. Follow along? Maybe? #scotland #pitlochry #falkirk #thekelpies #scottishhighlands

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Scotland Road Trip Day 1: Headed to the Highlands
A few months ago, my husband Drew and I decided to extend a visit with family in England to include a trip to Scotland. We read guidebooks, ...
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August 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: A sea of protesters have gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a “No Kings Day” rally against Donald Trump (Video: WXYZ-TV)
June 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Motherhood is hard. Take the small wins. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms!

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It’s Mother’s Day, Please Give Yourself Some Credit (For Once)
My Momma and My Daughter
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May 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I’ve been in fight or flight mode for weeks. Yesterday, I watched rabbits before a storm and they taught me an important lesson that I’ve taken to heart.

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Rabbits Before the Storm: Nature’s Way of Telling Me to Chill
Yesterday afternoon I sat outside as a storm was building in the west. Three squirrels and three rabbits were running around frantically…
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April 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I don’t mean to be weird and dramatic but I just want to scream my brains out and eat everything and fight everyone like God’s angriest little seagull, but also just go live on the bottom of the ocean like a flounder with a little peanut brain and everything is dumb and I hate it
April 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Telling the truth of our country requires telling the whole truth.

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Trump’s Executive Order and Telling the Whole Truth of our History
I read this week’s Executive Order (EO) called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” with an ever-growing knot in my stomach. If…
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March 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Buttercups have always held a special place in my heart. They mean even more now.
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Buttercups and Other Ghosts
My grandfather died three years ago. Even though he was 90, his death was sudden and traumatic. He went out on a spring morning for a…
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March 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I really hate that a thing I started writing eight years ago is even more relevant now. sassynik.medium.com/narrowing-ou...
Narrowing Our Minds One Gutted Agency at a Time
I wrote the story that follows in March of 2017 when, in his first administration, Trump was threatening to gut the Corporation for Public…
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March 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I grew up in Kentucky and was known for being sassy. Even when I didn’t speak, my face was sassy. I came by it honestly. Here’s why.
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Generations of Sass
As a child, I was frequently warned to “watch my sassy mouth” and discouraged from “sassing” my parents. Sass is, generally, considered to…
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March 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A few weeks ago my parents gave me a toolbox that belonged to my g-grandfather. Last week, @drewdodd.bsky.social picked a folding ruler out of the box and said “we’ve got to do something with this.” A few days later he sent me this photo while I was at work.
November 24, 2024 at 9:56 PM