Jan Lee

Love this ! Thank you.

And no one has ever asked me in the succeeding 30+ years what my grade was in Expository Writing 103 (or whatever the course name was)

I wrote a final term paper on the short stories of Isaac Asimov on the very morning of the already-extended-for-me due date (deadline 9 am). Put it in the wrong mailbox and got a zero (D for the course). But D or not, I became an expert on that topic. I LEARNED.

Well, this is ... something.

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Thank you! I'm just creating a character now who needs a bit more back story than "she was born and then grew up." She's the Secretary of Migrant Affairs for a small nation. She's a little bit prickly, and now I'm thinking maybe that's because people are always underestimating her.

I write fiction. What stereotypes should I avoid when writing about blind characters?

4 panel comic ending with a gravestone of David Jenkins. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/how-i-was

@david-jenkins.bsky.social Did @zachweinersmith.bsky.social make this comic about you? If so, why?

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Hardcore was Discover magazine in the 1980s. Cannot tell you what it meant to open the mailbox and find that a new issue had arrived.

We Are Here : Writings by Afghan Women Archives - Usawa Literary Review

"Where are the feminists?" From all of these - I'm not using this word lightly - haunting pieces from Afghan women deprived of rights, of information ... that's the line that is going to stay with me. It's from the piece "Losing all hope" by Nigin. Thank you Shikha Lamba. usawa.in/category/we-...

Wine Industry Meets Climate Threat with Innovative Approaches Portugal's winemakers, distributors and retailers have come together with initiatives to improve sustainability in the wine industry.

Wine Industry Meets Climate Threat with Ancient Techniques and New Tech

Gosh, it sounds dreadful for both parents and kids! It's clear that there was a big and universal transition, and I have been trying to figure out what had caused it (in general, I mean). Thanks for giving some insights!

Oh, that explains some of it. And there's no option for a direct bus from your area?

I've been confused this whole time - didn't Comey essentially win the election for him the first time with his "we're still investigating her emails" bombshell days before the voting started?

The rapid change of norms, within a single generation, from "everyone takes the school bus" to "everyone has to be dropped off and picked up by the parent-chauffeur" astonished and horrified me when I visited the US after a few years abroad. I was basically that Paul Rudd meme.

UN Climate Chief Calls for Climate Action Ahead of COP30 UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell called for faster implementation of clean energy shifts while remaining cautious on AI’s role. 

UN Climate Chief Urges Countries to Step Up Climate Action, Finance Ahead of COP30

I like the part where it's implied that someone would only have to have the intelligence of a schoolchild to understand the greenhouse effect - and that a denialist therefore is less intelligent than a child.

13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …

ICYMI: "13.1 Septillion Pounds," flash fiction by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social:

I'm trying to work out whether I can call this a work of climate fiction. I think I can. Either way it's fantastic.

How is this pronounced? Does it rhyme with ponies, or does one pronounce it in Latin or ??

When you say, "Don't underestimate Macau" my first thought was that Macau was causing the typhoons LOL. But then again, is there any proof that they aren't?! They're capable of anything, those Macanese!

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I once happened across a Cosmopolitan magazine from 1976. Apparently, the standard word at that time for a boyfriend you shared a place with was "live-in lover". Like, "Jenny and her live-in lover are looking for a spicy vacation spot." Why have we forgotten this amazing phrase?

Sea background. Covers of 2 books Fairhaven and Defying Futility

Is it too late to change history? If anyone happens to be in Lisbon next week, catch my book talk at the wonderfully named bookstore Livraria Snob at 18:30 - 20:00, Wednesday, September 24, 2025.

If there is any Kirk whose legacy I'd like to embrace I'd probably go for Captain James Kirk.

I believe your book is going to change minds. But even if it only changes one, that's already a success.