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Ryan F. Love
@rflove.bsky.social
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HS English teacher who does some writing (unpublished histfic novels, some shorts, some poetry), dad. he/him
www.ryanflovewriter.com
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So this was a fun wedding reception.
Standing behind a yellow line in an olive suit, with my gray beard nearly trimmed and a boutonniere on my lapel. I hold up an axe in my right hand with a target in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Just warm enough this morning to enjoy my toast, coffee, and historical horror anthology from @coyhall.bsky.social in the autumn air.
Anthology "This World of Vile Wonder" on a glass patio table next to wheat toast, a green coffee mug with coffee, and a bowl of red raspberries. Bare tree branches reflected on the table surface.
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Breathing autumn air, sipping coffee with toast, writing.
Good morning, all
My laptop on my glass patio table next to a white plate with rye toast, with a Ulysses Bloomsday cream colored mug behind it and a bowl of blackberries. A brown fence and still mostly green trees behind.
October 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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About to watch my wife play the role of a sleazy, criminal aunt, and very excited.
Here's to community theatre.
Program for Kimberly Akimbo, with the title printed in white on an orange creamsickle
October 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Writing on this early autumn morning after a too long layoff. Hoping to dash off the last 700 or so words of this chapter draft before other duties call.
Good morning, all.
My green coffee mug with orange interior filled with coffee next to a French press on a glass patio table. Brown fallen leaves rest inside the brown fence in background
September 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Teaching duties are occupying most of my time these days, but I'm still pecking at the novel. Two hundred words here, a hundred there.

#writer
A glass plate with wheat toast centered on a glass patio table, with laptops slanted in the left foreground. A bowl of grapes, French press, and green mug with coffee before a brown fence with green trees in background.
September 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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September Sunday walk by the lake. It was a pleasant afternoon.
Morkie Toby in shaded grass with the lake behind, green hills in distance. Big white clouds, blue sky. A dock to left. Tall brown grass with a couple skeletal trees at right. Blue sky and white clouds. Just a glimpse of Lake behind.
September 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Toby cuddles.
Our small fuzzy gray morkie Toby lays on top of me and the gray sheet I'm under.
September 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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First Friday of the school year.
Beer and writing.
Cheers.
My laptop on my glass patio table next to a glass of beer and a berry monkey sour fruited triple can that is blue. Green trees and brown fence in the background.
September 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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First day of school. I survived.
#teacher
My customary first day of school fit, a brown Tweed jacket over a light khaki shirt. I am pictured from pocket upward in front of green leaves beside the edge of our gazebo. I have brown hair and glasses and a beard that is more gray than red.
September 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The puppies offer moral support from their sunbeam.
Norton and Toby laying side by side among Dead leaves on the brown deck with our green siding to their right. Norton is a brown and black beagle, and the much smaller gray. Toby is nestled next to him. There are a couple of wiffle balls attached to him because he is small enough he could potentially squeeze out between fence posts.
August 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Two mornings to go of my writing on the deck routine, and then back to school.
Laptop beside a plate of toast and a bowl of blueberries and a tan coffee mug on a glass patio table, with brown fence and trees beyond
August 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Mini golf with the fam.
Wishing a good Labor Day weekend to all who would celebrate labor.
One child in shorts putting on the green while another stands beside a waterfall feature. Wife sits on the edge of a bridge behind. Green trees to left, blue sky and clouds to right.
August 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Had the opportunity to tour this place with my fam yesterday. It's as beautiful and impressive as its reputation.
Fallingwater, the F.L. Wright designed home in SW Pennsylvania. The tan concrete terraces and waterfalls among trees - the angle you've probably seen if you ever saw an image of it.
August 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Four chapters to go in the novel, and I'm about to start drafting one of them. I report to school in two weeks; shooting for two more chapter drafts.
A pleasant morning to all. May we make some hay while the sun shines.

#writer #teacher
Glass patio table with my laptop, green mug of coffee, toast in a plate, a bowl of red raspberries, and a French press. Brown fence and trees in the background
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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One more morning of lakeside editing.
A good and peaceful morning to all.
A glass patio table with an umbrella shaft in the center. It holds my shadowed laptop, a red plate with toast and a pastry, and a mug of coffee. Leaves from a tree to write are reflected on the table. The shimmering Lake beneath Blue sky and the silhouette of Keuka lakes bluff in the background.
August 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Last night on Keuka.
Listening to waves and crickets.
A dog bit with blue lights extends into the water, and a boat board at a neighboring dock is 30 ft away at the same angle. Leaves in silhouette frame. The bluff that divides the lakes branches. Some lights are visible on the distant shore. Everything is tinted blue.
August 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I usually edit my writing with coffee at hand.
But not always.
My laptop on a dark wooden table. A delicate looking wide rimmed wine glass to its right. A bottle of Taylor flat gate 20-year-old tawny Porto is a little further back to the right. A sliding door with a tree outside in background.
August 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Paddling on a perfect morning.
I love Keuka Lake.
The bluff on Keuka Lake, with views down the West Branch and East Branch. The bluff is covered in green trees. White clouds in the blue sky are reflected in still but rippling water. The orange orange side of my kayak and my foot in a blue water shoe are visible with the lower right hand corner.
August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Does not suck.
A glass patio table in Shadow with Keuka Lake and its bluff in the background beneath hubby white clouds. The table contains a plate with cheese, I'll loaf of bread, a glass of wine, and a hardcover copy of The godfather, which is thoroughly mediocre but I've never read it and I'm a fan of the film.
August 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Sad beagle would prefer not to get vaccinations today.

#dogsofbluesky
Norton with brown face and black body laying on a tan linoleum floor. His eyes make a silent appeal.
August 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Eat muffins.
Follow me for more valuable writing tips.
Muffins (cranberry orange) on a plate beside my laptop on a glass patio table with a gray chair behind. My Ulysses bloomsday coffee mug, cream colored with a minimalist portrait of Joyce is behind the plate. Trees and brown porch fence in background.
August 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Hiked, got blueberry/lavender ice cream at Spotted Duck Creamery, watched the ducks.
Fun afternoon with the kids.
Several brown ducks and a white goose around three plastic troughs with drinking water beside a barn with aluminum siding. Some ducks stand on a board, some in the dirt. To the right, yellow flowers that look kind of like sunflowers? I don't know anything about flowers.
August 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I would call this photo "Still Life with WIP and Breakfast," but Toby dashed off to chase a bumblebee immediately after I took the picture.
(I am pleased to report there were neither insect nor canine injuries.)
Good morning, all.

#writer #dogsofbluesky
My laptop in a glass patio table next to a glass plate with three croissants, a bowl with cherries behind and a French press and mug of coffee to the right. Brown and black or gray morkie Toby is on the brown deck among two gray chairs. Brown fence and trees in background.
August 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A lovely day for a paddle.
The nose of my orange and yellow kayak in Keuka Lake. A long Green Hill slopes to the water in the distance on the left.
August 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM