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Part 1 of the book? ✅
Part 1 of the yard? ✅
A yard with 1/3 of the leaves raked.
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I should be raking, but I’ve never read Ken Follett before. And it’s actually pretty warm. Who knows how many porch-reading days are left?

…Also: it’s a book club book that I’m late on. 😬

#BookSky 💙📚
#CurrentlyReading

Ken Follett
Eye of the Needdle
A hand holds the book eye of the needle. In the background, yellow leaves are all over a yard. There is a wicker chair on a screened in porch visible.
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Please read.

#BookSky
A screenshot of an intersection in Lancaster, Pa where the Conestoga Indians were slaughtered. There is a placard in the picture. Text above describes.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Game!

Give me a word to see if I’ve ever put it on my quote board. The more people that play: the more fun it is for me. ANY word.

#challenge
#BookSky 💙📚
#MusicSky
#QOTD
A whiteboard with a thought bubble on it, and a quote inside that reads, “ I still hope your name don’t appear in some obituary. I know it’s so unclear when you’ve begged so long on bruised knees… couldn’t feel… couldn’t convince myself I was real. … cause it’s not the way that you…. … it’s what they want to see…” ~Hoping You’re Doing Okay ~Greg Mendez A whiteboard with a thought bubble on it, and a quote inside that reads, “We seem to be bored with thinking itself - we want to instantly know. And knowing is, of course, the sensation of thinking.” ~Maria Popova To the side of the whiteboard, there is a painting of a man with a mustache wearing a bowler derby. A whiteboard with a thought bubble on it, and a quote inside that reads, “Is everyone really crazy but me?” ~Shirley Jackson ~ The Lottery and Other Stories ~ Colloquy The whiteboard is hung on a cinderblock wall painted cream. In front is a man whose picture was taken with a double exposure. There are two faces both of him. He is bald. Behind is a painting of a man in a bowler derby. A whiteboard with a thought bubble on it, and a quote inside that reads, “ between stimulus and response. There is a space. In that space is a power to choose our response. In our response, lies our growth and our freedom.” -Victor Frankl, psychologist & Holocaust survivor (as quoted in “A World We Might Have Built” by J.E. Misz
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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“I still hope your name don’t appear in some obituary… I know it’s so unclear when you’ve begged so long on bruised knees. Couldn’t feel… couldn’t convince myself I was real. …Cause it’s not the way that you ARE… it’s what they want to see…”
- Hoping You’re Doing Okay - Greg Mendez

#MusicSky
#QOTD
A white board with a thought bubble, and the Quote of the Day written in it in light blue dry erase marker.
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#BookSky 💙📚
#CurrentlyReading

Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
The book of lessons and chemistry shows the outline of a woman’s face with glasses, and a pencil holding her hair in a bun. It’s an orange book cover. In the background, a black cat sits on a white couch, looking out at orange fall leaves. A lamp is on on a table.
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Someone please tell me they get what I’m doing here. 😂

I just hit a 2112 day streak on #DuoLingo today!

I mean, hoy.

#MusicSky
A screenshot of my 2112 day streak, with the band Rush superimposed on the top.
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Beloved by Toni Morrison

#BookSky 💙📚
The book cover of Beloved, by Toni Morrison. It’s a red cover, with gold font.
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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My new Instantaneous Traveling Machine. A bed.

#GoodTimes
A bed knobs and broomsticks movie cover shows five people flying through the sky in a bed, with a moon in the background. There’s a bunch of weird stuff on the cover, too. Like a cartoon lion, a rhinoceros dressed in maybe a tutu? Some sea creatures that are forming a band. Stuff like that.
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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😭😭😭

Freaking America!!!!

😭😭😭

It’s not on the app, either.
Safari Spotify screenshot error reads, “Page not found.”
October 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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It’s been a while since I’ve put together a challenge, but I’ve been thinking about this one for a while.

Use the #

#LocalJams
#MusicSky

October only. Post a song or album from a local artist. Local = anywhere you’ve lived.

Looking to show appreciation to smaller less credited artists. 💙🎶💙
Jars of homemade sour cherry jam. The hashtag #LocalJams is written in white on one.
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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“I think we too should make a habit of asking ourselves, ‘Could it be that I’m one of them too? What illusion about myself do I entertain?’”

Epictetus
Discourses and Selected Writings

#BookSky 💙📚
#Philosophy
A quote board shows a thought bubble around the following quote, “I think we too should make a habit of asking ourselves, ‘Could it be that I’m one of them too? What illusion about myself do I entertain?’” Epictetus Discourses and Selected Writings A hand holds the book in front of it. The top of a bulletin board is visible beneath.
September 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Four 📖 Faves: Stephen King

Happy Birthday, King of Horror, 9/21/47

*The Stand
*It
*Carrie
*Cujo

I came to King late, which is nice - because I still have a lot of great books waiting for me. Even so, this was tough. Easily 10 others could have made the cut.

#booksky 💙📚
The title stands out in bold, gold lettering: THE STAND. In the foreground, a man in white with a sword battles a creature in black with a scythe. A crowns, creepy, red nose, and red smile with gleaming white teeth stands over the title written in black, “It.” Stephen King‘s name is written underneath in the same red as the nose and mouth. The book cover of Carrie is mostly red with half of a girl’s face showing. Steven King’s name is written at the top in big letters. A more modern cover of Stephen King‘s Cujo, shows the head of a black dog with white eyes, snarling. There is a grain background.
September 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Help! I’ve got a lot of writer and editor friends on #BookSky 💙📚- what’s a better ending for this joke? I workshopped it for 12 MINUTES before posting.

Keep: “First they came for the comedians, but I did not speak up. Not because I’m not a comedian, but…”

The best one will be read on air. 😂
Screenshot of a Facebook post that says, “First they came for the comedians, but I did not speak up. Not because I’m not a comedian, but because. SOME PEOPLE don’t laugh at my jokes, even when I’ve repeated them four times.“ There’s a comment below written by the author that says, “Yeah … no. We heard you.”
September 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This was one of my favorite posts from when we were on Twitter. Sometimes the cost of deleting every single tweet and then deleting the account seems so high…

But fewer bots, and more books over here…
Brick from “The Middle” wearing a hoodie and peeking out from behind a bush. The caption reads, “ you better lose yourself in the music the moment you own it you better never let it go…”
September 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Starting work on another Tuesday.
😬😬😬

I forgot: you’re in Australia, right? If stereotypes are to be believed, I should be embarrassed to share my lack of grill real estate. But whatever: I’m hungry. 😂
Marinated chicken on a charcoal grill. Kingsford coals in the background along with a Two Hearted on a picnic table. Marinated chicken on a grill. Screenshot of Don’t Change by INXS being played on Spotify. Marinated chicken on a grill with room made for Italian sausage.
September 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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MUG CHECK
A mug with a bearded man in a blindfold smoking a cigarette sits on a glass top table. A plate with toast and tomato sits beside it. There is a bicycle in the background, along with an orange/brown couch.
August 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON IS BACK, BABY!!!!!! #CollegeFootball #ESPN #BigNoonKickoff
Screenshot of a text reading, “Please. Just undefeated national champions. That’s all I ask. Anything less than that is a bust of a year.” It has a laughy-face response. 😂
August 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Currently reading/ have you read it?

#BookSky 💙📚

All Fours
Miranda July
The book cover for All Fours shows a cliff at sunset with some trees. Mostly yellows. In white (paint?) around the edges is the author’s name and the title A hand is holding it. There is a drink in the background in a glass on a coaster. Red with ice. Croatian raspberry liqueur. Blue adidas are on the hardwood floor.
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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NEW GAME: #MakeMeSayIt

Give me a line to sneak into casual conversation on our podcast, and I’ll say it, no questions asked (keeping in mind we’re a family-friendly show)

I’m the only show host who posts to this account, so the other guys (Jacob and Nathan) won’t know it’s happening.

Make it fun!
This picture has nothing to do with the #MakeMeSayIt challenge. A friend started teaching at the school I used to teach at and texted it to me. It’s 9.5* teachers on the roof of a brick school looking goofy. Some are wearing lab coats and blond perm wigs. One is holding a globe and a photo of another teacher (who was coaching a track meet). Good times. Yeah… I just wanted to include a picture with this post. So sue me. *The point five is because the one teacher is just a picture of a teacher…
August 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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There are many ways to handle a flying sandwich. I think the late, great Frank McCourt did it best. Angela’s Ashes gets all the accolades, but for my money, Teacher Man is his best.

An excerpt from the intro, re: a flying sandwich. Link to where I pulled it online in the comments.

#BookSky 💙📚
Screenshot of an excerpt from Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man regarding the sandwich episode.
August 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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THANK YOU TO OUR LISTENERS!

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

We are averaging between 50-150 listens a month. Ad-Free. Just for fun. If you’re bored: check us out. If you want a shout-out on a show: let us know. Want to host an episode? … … Let me check with the guys. Maybe we can make it happen. 😂
A screenshot of our analytics showing that we’ve had 84 streams and downloads over the past 30 days.
August 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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My two daughters were practicing French and asked me how I am and I said, “Comme ci comme blah.” They didn’t laugh. Not even a little.

#French
Screenshot of the translator app translating “How are you?” and “Like this like blah” from French. It is VERRRRRY funny.
August 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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REM’s Michael Stipe… where are the tats?
August 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Queequeg shirtless and tatted up - especially on the face.
August 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM