Melissa Ostrom

Elle! Thank you!!🥰🙏🩵

Pat!😍🥰🤗🙏🩵☕️

Aww, thank you! I appreciate that!🥰☕️💙☕️

Leslie, that’s so sweet! Thank you!🤗☕️❤️

Aww, Pat! Thank you!!🥰☕️❤️

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Sarah! Thank you so much!🤗☕️❤️

🤣 We’ll wait until April! Hopefully some warmer weather will return by then!🤗🌸🩷

Thank you so much, Erin!🤗☕️❤️ Let’s meet for a walk by the lake soon!🩵💙

Maria! Thank you!🥰❤️☕️

Aww, thank you, Sylvie!🤗🩵💙🖤❤️

Ronita! Thank you!🥰🩵💙❤️🖤

Thank you so much!🥰❤️💙🩵

Susan!!🤗📚🌸🩷🐶🩷

It’s wonderful!!💜

What a stunning collection, Susan!!😍🥰🐶🤗💜📚🌸

Experimenting with some glaze combinations. Here are two mugs, one in stormy blue & fog, the other in satin black & stormy blue. The handles really showcase the way the glazes run together. #pottery❤️🩵🖤💙☕️

“In times like these,/ choose wisely. In times/ like these, it’s me/ crossing the river. It’s me/ not knowing I’m dead.”

Mocha and I are spending our morning with @susanlleary.bsky.social’s new collection, MORE FLOWERS, and wow. It’s so good! Check it out, poetry lovers.📚🐶🌸

The Plough and the Stars by Sean Thomas Dougherty - CRAFT What did I know of being a man, back in another century, as I sat in that bar off Massachusetts Avenue, with the older men talking about the Red Sox, and so-and-so’s wife passed on, the saint she was,...

I am very honored to have a new flash essay and craft note up at Craft. Big gratitude to Jacqueline Doyle and staff for their fantastic edits. The essay is about my days as a young man at the Plow & the Stars bar in Cambridge, MA.

www.craftliterary.com/2026/03/11/p...

America seriously needs to heal to past the point where the only concerns when it comes to illegal and butcherous wars are just gas prices and the loss of American lives.

Punk Noir Press The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

Punk Noir Press's online series, "Find what you love and let it kill you," kicked off today with wistful, witty, memorable stories by some terrific authors, including @carlottadale.bsky.social and @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social. Don't miss it!!

punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

wish 🌱

I love this poem by @susanlleary.bsky.social.💙

But meanwhile, you might want to snag a copy of Becoming Altar. DM for a signed copy or go to asterismbooks.com to order.

A friend from my hometown in NJ now living in Kyiv wrote this book with his wife. Would be grateful for any shares.

#booksky

@christianbauman.bsky.social x

Accidental Ukrainians: The Russian Invasion Through American Eyes - www.kyivpost.com/post/42590

Aww, thank you, Elle!🤗🐶🌸🤍

Aww, thank you, Jeanne! And yay!!🥰🌸💕🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

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Yes!🤗🌸🤍

My pleasure!💚💚💚