Sarah Gunning, Ph.D.

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Pearly gates rose

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Americana rose

October blooms Maryland

"Grandpa, what was 2025 like?"

"You know that feeling when you go down stairs in the dark and you think there's one more step but there isn't? Like that."

I can’t stress enough that if you’re writing anything longer than a couple of paragraphs, spend time thinking about formatting, layout, readability and design.

The amount of work it takes to get to “compelling and professional advocacy” from “unhinged rant” is ten minutes of using a style sheet.

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

Tenzing Norkay had been on more Everest expeditions than any other man when he reached the top, in 1953. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/05/tenzing-of-everest

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Here is the founder of Antifa:

these are my people 🖊️

This will be 4 😅

@sharonbeckerphd.bsky.social we adopted this nugget today!

collecting all the random black cats in October due to Halloween, witches, shelter capacity, etc

she is cute huh @jeans2123.bsky.social

there is a little black kitten named English Muffin that M showed to me this week at BARCs, and I want to go get her. Housing 6 animals is crazy, but 7 animals is "silly," and we need more female gender representation in Harmony House

The Making of “Adaptation” When your quirky book becomes a quirkier movie.

At first, Susan Orlean was hesitant to sign on to “Adaptation.” Then she changed her mind. “I began to feel as if I had been offered a ticket for a very strange amusement-park ride, one that I might later regret not taking,” she writes.

The Country Girls trilogy was so cutting, had to read her memoir

This Family’s Home Has Stood for a Century — in Four Different Countries As armies and revolutions came and went, neighbors became foes and families spoke different languages. Here’s how one small town stood at the center of history.

As armies and revolutions came and went in Portorož, a seaside village in what is now southwestern Slovenia, neighbors became foes and families spoke different languages. Here’s how one family managed to live in four different countries while remaining in the same house generation after generation.

go Maryland

spiraling

now I want to read your research! 😀

The Best GPS Running Watches A dependable GPS running watch provides training-enhancing data. After putting thousands of miles on 40 different watches, we recommend the Coros Pace 3.

I think I was expecting more of this: www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

I just don't think I am a podcaster's audience, even if the topic is interesting to me. But my H loves them!

I do like listening to my Ss' VoiceThread responses.

Secrets to Cheap Travel from NYT’s Frugal Traveler Frugal Traveler columnist Elaine Glusac shares smart, practical tips for finding cheaper flights, hotels, rentals, and travel deals year-round.

I don't normally listen to them (I think its maybe a neuro thing, the voices: they grate on me) but I had seen one on travel that I tried out, reading the transcript. And I guess I only wanted the main points? rather than any banter. It was this one: www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Etosha NP, Chobe NP & Skeleton Coast 😍

this trip is 21 days! I am geeked 🙌

ah, wise. Ok, I will pack it up and test it out. I would love to go less than 15kg!

@abucasey.bsky.social backpack question! Do you know what weight of stuff you tend to bring in a 50-55L bag for a week+ trip? I have read 15kg/33lbs, does that sound right? I have a 50L Osprey…

remember Franklin Covey stores where you could get the individual refills for your DayMinder❤️ 7th grade me was in heaven

Locals call it San Jacinto College, pronounced w a hard J 🥲
in fact, it's more common to hear it called "San Jack"

i cannot read transcripts of podcasts 🫠