Picture shows mossy tree roots and a small fern with a rocky creek bed in the background.

Another photo from our hike last weekend. We skipped rocks on Walnut Creek. Rufus waded but was not allowed to swim.

Picture shows two striped acorns nestled into fallen leaves, all shades of brown.

Acorns off the Greenway Trail in Asbury Park

Tall tree trunks with sparse yellow leaves. The ground is covered in autumn leaves.

We went for a hike in Asbury Woods today. This is the head of the trail.

Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert

I think this is my number! I have not read Hoffman’s books but will look them up!

I had an amazing time at Confluence (SF, fantasy, horror convention in Pittsburgh)! It felt great connecting with friends *in person*. I don’t do that often enough.

Stupidly, I didn’t take a single picture. :(
to make up for it, I’ll be posting links to books by the amazing people at the con.

Second half is more bleak.

I did go on. An amazing piece of literature. One of the best I’ve read.

I’m halfway through Service Model and it is fucking amazing. The most fun I’ve had reading since… Starter Villain.

“And there was this mighty clear sky full of stars that made you stop and look up, your head empty as a ladle as you tried to locate yourself inside an immeasurable universe.”

Behold the beauty!!!

I was a First Reader for this anthology featuring women antiheroes. Can’t wait to get my copy of the final selections!

The first of 2025!

Beautiful

Currently about halfway through The Emperor of Gladness.
My heart is already broken; I’m afraid to go on.

Live your freedoms while you’ve got them!

I have found this to be true as well. In person, people are mostly kind.
Perhaps some of it is white privilege, in my case, but I certainly fly my freak flag openly.

We went fishing yesterday, and I caught and released this lovely sunfish!

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

Erie is a sanctuary city for refugees. And city officials assure us the local PD are not supporting ICE. Still, we’re all nervous.
Want to start an ICE watch program in your neighborhood? Here’s dome real advice. There is a handbook link in the article.

www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...

@bookshopghost.bsky.social this one is for you:

We’ve got lovely yellow irises that crept under the fence from our neighbor’s garden.

Vinny(7), slowly falling into the crack between her bed and the wall: Help me, Mama!
Me, calmly: Where are you going?
Vinny: Into the abyss…!

#earthday

This looks like fun!

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO Johnny Cash - Hurt

As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate:

Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...

I had a teacher make us turn in our notecards first!
An exercise in boredom.

Congratulations!!!

Panel 1: character crying at a desk Text: this IS hard Panel 2: character is now drawing determinedly Text: but I can do it

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

A good book may get several days. Or maybe I’ll read nonfiction for a bit. I try to get my thoughts in order and right a brief review.

Square dancing.

If *I* was in Bladerunner, I’d carry around an ancient book on how to butcher livestock and try to convince my friends to make lamb chops.