Debra W Kahn

Pink and green lights in the sky over houses and trees.

Northern lights last night from my front walkway. A beautiful light show free for everyone to see!

Years ago, a couple of my intro to lit students (theatre majors) caught me after class to accuse me of being Canadian because of the way I sometimes pronounce “about.” I grew up a U.S. military brat. Had a Canadian babysitter as a toddler, though, according to my mom.

Miss this beautiful place already!

This

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Sorry that I missed it! Here is my FB post from 4 days ago on the same topic. In the 1970s and 80s, they blamed “cold” moms for autism. So the mom/blaming has been going on a while.

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I’m not advocating that others do this now. By all means, keep all of your given names. What I’m amazed at is the pushback women are experiencing now due to one party’s ill-conceived and cruel crusade. Ridiculous!

When I married over 40 years ago, I dropped my given middle name and took my maiden name as my new middle name. (I never told my mother!) I then applied for a reissued SS card (same SSN) in my new name, supplying my marriage license to them. My passport has always had my new name, as do my IRS files

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We all could use some mercy now…

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Cognitive dissonance. 😂 Are they invisible or visible? 😂

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This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.

ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

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Content Creation in the Time of Disinformation: A Pathway to Trust “Easy to process equates to easy to believe.” These words leaped off the page as I was rereading David Dylan Thomas’ book Design for Cognitive Bias recently. They apply to deliberative content as w…

Use five proven techniques to build trust in your content in this era of disinformation:
- Storytelling
- Fostering an evaluative mindset
- Using plain language
- Following a code of ethics
- Putting guardrails around AI
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My thoughts exactly!

Symone Sanders-Townsend on MSNBC tonight after running a tape of tRump denying knowledge of #Signalgate - “Who’s running the country?”

And, of course, we are scrambling to protest the administration’s attacks on our own rule of law. So many fronts have opened up…we are jumping from fissure to fissure.

Thanks for sharing. I share the same side-eye concerns expressed in the first comment on the NYT article.

Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It. (Gift Article) Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.

I think the administration’s abandonment of Europe has not yet hit many Americans. We are still reeling from its abandonment of our own poor and its threats against our neighboring countries. The role of social media in all this needs to be better understood. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

Yep!

A decidedly anti-immigrant and weirdly pro-misogyny rant. 🙄 Is he preparing Europeans to reject Ukrainian immigrants? Please be assured the resistance in the US (outside of DC) grows in numbers every day. My former boss posted on FB for the first time in months today—a strong anti-tRump/Elon rant.

I do that, too. On long trips, I now I use compressible packing cubes. Still hard to repack for the return trip!

The Art of the Unsaid: How Negative Space in Writing Boosts Engagement What if your writing could be more powerful precisely because of what you don’t say? I’m talking about leveraging negative space—not in the sense of page layout or white space, but rather in the se…

I’m thinking we should all start being a bit more allusional in our writing. Be like Hemingway and let folks discover the “iceberg” beneath our words.

But I might have over-explained this idea in my blog post about the negative space in writing: bit.ly/413qgPD

Thoughts?

#WritingCommunity

We’re in the Mad Max Thunderdome but no one has the cool costumes. And where is Tina Turner?

Done!

Fight Against Elon Musk’s Government Takeover ⭑ 5 Calls UPDATE (02/02/25): Musk and his DOGE team of personal allies have also now gained access to classified material including high-security intelligence …

I called my U.S. senators and congressman today to protest the invasion of computers at the OPM and USAID and the potential compromise of data there. I leveraged guidance from the @5calls.org script. You can find it here: 5calls.org/issue/elon-m....

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