J.S. Lampe

YouTube video by MS NOW ON TAPE: Federal immigration agents have repeatedly shot at drivers

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Or “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

Beautiful! SGI is one of my favorite places.

Oh how I wish I could feel the crushing weight of 2 months off work. That must have been really hard.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Just a reminder that there are tools that make contacting your members of congress so easy.

It’s the power WE THE PEOPLE have at our fingertips EVERYDAY.

I use Resist Bot and 5 Calls regularly. You can exercise your rights too!

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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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From @hcrichardson.bsky.social this morning. Peaceful protest is powerful.

I also encourage writing or calling your members of congress.
- get back in session
- negotiate to re-open the govt
- confirm Adelita Grijalva

They work for us. Not the other way around.

how do you guys get these calculations? Are you only tracking registered protestors? I personally went with 6 people who did not register. I was the only person in a group of 7 who actually registered… do you think 7 million is a conservative estimate?

You know, if my gym played their crappy music just a tad louder it would almost cancel out the really great music on my noise cancelling headphones.

I’ve become one of those women who stashes a pair of reading glasses in every room. The trick is to have glasses so pretty they look like decor. 🤓

#MidlifeMusings #WomenInMidlife

I interact with real world friends in the real world. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This ALL DAY! 👆🏻

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

Don’t know which is a favorite, but my mom says almost all of these. 🤣

Why does every picture of Bill Barr always looks like the bad guy who Scooby and the Gang are about to rip the mask off of?

5/5 and last, only because I loved that when I read about her, the description said “…she may be regarded as a late bloomer. The publication of Jumping the Queue in 1983 was THE BEGINNING of an intensely creative period of Wesley's life.”

Mary Wesley
Novel: Jumping the Queue
Age: 70/71

4/5
Hank Phillipi Ryan
Novel: Prime Time
Age: 55

3/5

Hilary Boyd
Novel: Thursdays in the Park
Age: 62

2/5
Alka Joshi
Novel: The Henna Artist
Age: 62

Fell off the 10 female authors who published their first novel after 50 because I was under the weather for a few days. So, today on my birthday, I’ll finish the list. The last 4 are below… 1/5

💙📚 #booksky #femaleauthors #WritersOfBluesky #BookishThoughts

Fr David Gierlach.

Day 6: 10 Female writers first published after 50

Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 54
Novel: Secret Life of Bees

*published memoirs in her late 40’s
**bonus points for also being a nurse

💙📚 #booksky #womeninmidlife #writersofbluesky #nurse

A cover of the book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. This is a special edition in blue with the periodic table in the background and the book title and author’s name in embossed gold

Day 4: 10 Female writers first published after 50

Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry
Age when published: 65

💙📚 #booksky #writersofbluesky #femaleauthors #WritersOfBluesky

Day 4: 10 Female writers first published after 50

Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing
Age: 69

Cover of the novel black beauty. Image of a sleek black horse’s neck and head with a verdant green paddock in the background and white fence in the foreground and surrounded by a brown and gold border with gold lettering.

Day 3: 10 Female writers first published after 50

Anna Sewell: Black Beauty
Age: 57

💙📚 #booksky #womeninmidlife #writersofbluesky

10 Female Authors first published after 50.
#2 Annie Proulx
First book: Heart Songs and Other Stories) came at 57
She the Pulitzer Prize for The Shipping News (one of my favorites) and also wrote Brokeback Mountain.

💙📚 #femaleauthors #writersofbluesky #booksky

I love the beginning of the book where she details the daily life and work of her homesteader parents. It’s absolutely fascinating especially when compared to how most people live today with nearly everything available to us at the click of a button.

In anticipation of my 50th birthday in 10 days (and celebration of my writing efforts), I am featuring 10 female writers who published their 1st novel after 50.

Name: Laura Ingalls Wilder
First published: age 65
Book: Little House in The Big Woods

💙📚 #booksky #femalewriters #writersofbluesky

When my grandmother was a child during the Great Depression her father died leaving them in deep poverty. My great grandmother would make egg soup for her 5 young children so they could all have a little bit of the eggs that were available. I think about that every time I see the price of eggs.