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Sheila Liming
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
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reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator

Champlain College (Burlington, VT)

HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
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A little slice of something pretty
A red barn with a glowing holiday wreath on its blue door, beneath bleak skies
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving from me and my pal Vincent
Photo of a poem, “Thanksgiving Dinner,” by Edna St Vincent Millay, which reads: “Ah, broken garden, frost on the melons and on the beans! Frozen are the ripe tomatoes, the red fruit and the hairy golden stem; Frozen are the grapes, and the vine above them frozen, and the peppers are frozen! And I walk among them smiling, —for what of them? I can live on the woody fibres of the overgrown Kohl-rabi, on the spongy radish coarse and hot, I can live on what the squirrels may have left of the beechnuts and the acorns . . . For pride in my love, who might well have died, and did not. I will cook for my love a banquet of beets and cabbages, Leeks, potatoes, turnips, all such fruits ... For my clever love, who has returned from further than the far east; We will laugh like spring above the steaming, stolid winter roots.”
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Not sure what she tastes like yet, but she’s the prettiest little dessert in the whole wide world.
A bright red cranberry curd tart on a white marble countertop
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Played a venue last night that looked and felt exactly like The Muppet Theater from The Muppet Show
Red velvet curtains closed over a stage Brick-walled backstage area with wooden stairs Person (moi) sticking her face through red velvet curtains covering box seats
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The “journey” in question is me updating my account details in Oracle.

Could we maybe just call things what they are not be all corporate-twee about it?
Screenshot of an automated Oracle email that says “Journey Assigned You have a new journey 2025 Year-End Journey You have a new journey to go on. Start journey.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I asked if they had a room where I could warm up my pipes.

THIS WAS THE ROOM THEY GAVE ME.
Person in a pink kilt holding bagpipes and standing next to a taxidermied polar bear — jfc, what a thing to type
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Live update from Robert Louis Stevenson’s former bedroom:
Person wearing a green coat and plaid scarf taking a selfie in a antique mirror with creepy Victorian furniture all around A typewritten note that reads: “RLS smoked many cigarettes. He used to set them, lit, on the edge of the mantel, where they scarred the wood,” on a wooden, cigarette-scarred mantel
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Just sitting here in the first rank of the car ferry, like I don’t have recurring nightmares about being trapped in a car that’s landed in water
View of car dashboard and hood with lake in background
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Hello darkness (at 4:30), my old friend
Snowy trees and bushes through windows
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The leaves aren’t even off the trees yet. Just feels kinda rude.
Brick Buildings in snow with trees and lake in background A yellow-leaved maple in a field of snow Fir trees covered in snow with sidewalks and brick buildings
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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My new hobby is attending random choral concerts by myself so I don’t have to speak to anyone and break the spell that has been cast upon me by Tallis or Gibbons or Pärt or whomever
Concert program held in someone’s hand, showing a list of pieces and their composers
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Who wants to pay me, a woman who wrote a book about offices, to tell Ross Douthat that he is, once again, completely wrong about everything?
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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It me, I’m the live bagpipe music at the Robert Louis Stevenson birthday celebration happening in Saranac Lake, NY next week.
Screenshot of article from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise that reads, “most lively Stevenson Society event since the 1920s,” said Trenton Olsen, Society president and Stevenson scholar. New York Times bestselling author Tim Rowland will give a presentation titled “Treasure Island: The Unexpected Riches of the Stevenson Cottage and the Family who Saved Them.” The event will also feature a dramatic reading from Pendragon Theatre, live bagpipe music to honor the Scottish author, and toasts by Olsen, Historic Saranac Lake, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. Stevenson-themed refreshments will be served, including birthday cake, and RiverTrail Beerworks will provide Treasure Island Ale.”
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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teaching Woolf is going great, as you can see
A whiteboard drawing of Marge Simpson as Mrs Dalloway, done in red pen, with text that reads “Mrs Dalloway”
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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After several long years, I am thrilled to have this review of @dandipiero.bsky.social’s wonderful book, CONTINGENT ENCOUNTERS, finally appear in the African American Review
Title page for a Project Muse archived journal article — a book review of Dan DiPiero’s CONTINGENT ENCOUNTERS that was published in the African American Review
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Galadriel except make it bling
Close-up of person dressed as a wood elf, wearing elf ears, a crown made of deer antlers, and a green velvet cape
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I made a haunted house and Dave made, uh, an “eye of Sauron”
Two jack-o-lanterns: one vaguely anatomical looking, and the other with a spooky tree and haunted house
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Forgot until just now that the sunrise was glorious this morning and that I got a photo before it faded to solid cloud cover
Houses, trees, and distant blue mountains, suffused with the pink light of sunrise
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Finished up my VT Film Fest experience with last night’s showing of THE SECRET AGENT (2025) — tense, disturbing, profound, and wonderfully acted.
Still from a movie showing a man (Wagner Moura) holding a telephone beneath the hood of a yellow payphone booth, with the wall behind him covered in black and white photos Still from a movie showing a man (Wagner Moura) in a green shirt in the center of a group of people
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I love shopping for whiskey while wearing a kilt, which always make me feel like an accidental piece of viral marketing
Reflection of person’s face in a glass display case containing bottles of whiskey
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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About once a year I get really upset about Horace Greeley’s neckbeard
Old gross man with an old gross neckbeard
October 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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You guys, I am over-the-moon for BLUE MOON, which I saw the VT Film Fest last night.

Proof that a) Linklater’s still go it and b) movie viewers, contra Hollywood, still have an appetite for *well-written* films that are mostly just TALKING, but finely tuned talking
Screen grab from the movie BLUE MOON showing a blonde woman talking to a short balding man in a bar
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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This whole article is fabulously smart, but this line, in particular, is its crowning glory.
Screenshot with highlighted text: “Like every other boomer, artificial intelligence owes its success to massive public subsidization in the wake of World War II.”
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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How to stay focused on teaching when this is the view from the classroom:
View of Victorian-style buildings with lake and mountains in background and slate terrace in foreground
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM