Jeannine Hall Gailey

On the blog this week: Welcome to August: Broken Molars, Garden Parties, Cats and Cutting Flowers: webbish6.com/to-august-br...

Aw, what an little fox adventure! Maybe this new cat is auditioning? Also, how are these guys getting in? Cat doors? Skylights?

Some days are great. Some days, you wake up with a broken molar, spend the day at the dentist attending to the tooth, fall asleep at 4 PM and wake up wide awake and in pain at 2 AM.

My infusion center listening is 100 percent murder mysteries. Hospital stays too. I had a nurse ask if that was appropriate. I said "It goes with all the screaming!"

Are you sure it wasn't the fox in disguise?

On the blog this week: A Change in the Air, Lavender Festivals and Melancholy: webbish6.com/a-change-in-...

On the blog this week: New Nature Writing Conference in La Grande, Oregon, Wildfires, Ecology and Hope, Plus Being Grateful to Be Home: webbish6.com/new-nature-w...

The French have much more advanced and safe techniques for storage, but still nuclear waste will last longer than the human race as it is. We don't need more of it - trust from a girl who still glows in the dark ;)

Thanks again for including me. A lot of nuclear talk this week which was also on my mind at the nature writing conference, driving past Hanford.

Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

Thank you for including me. Happy Bastille Day! (Cue "La Marseillaise" )

FLARE Magazine logo of matches and heart flame, "Best of the Net Nominees For FLARE Magazine," arrow with "Swipe to the Next Slide"

red background: Poetry: "Return Me to the Womb" by Alicia Swain (issue 1), "Skygazing" by Muheez Olawale (special issue 1), "No Sun Summer" by Oisín Rowe (issue 2), "my therapist is breaking up with me" by Sofía Aguilar (issue 2), "do you?" by Skye Saul (issue 3), and "There's Something Wrong With Me, She Said" by Jeannine Hall Gailey (issue 3) Arrow

red background: Fiction: "1 p.m. on a Sunday" by Alice Lyon (issue 2), "Scales" by Laurie Doyle (issue 2); Creative Nonfiction: "The Privilege of Independence" by Chelsea Gerow (issue 1), "Am I a Spoonie?" by Wendy Kennar (issue 2), Arrow

red background: Art: "Untitled" by Mario Loprete (special issue 1), "Ernogh the Goblin" by Ellen Forking (issue 2), "The COVID Nightmare" by Donald Patten (issue 3)

FLARE is excited to announce our Best of the Net nominees! You can view the pieces on our website under the "Nominations" tab. Congrats, everyone! (1/2)
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AI has been around since the seventies- I myself played as a child with a DARPA AI named ELIZA (still exists!) This new notion of AI - worth killing the planet over (nuclear plants to support AI centers? really?) - and who can kill people with no oversight and replace human workers? Not so great.

I mean, unless you're a child and you can't work, or you're a caregiver and can't work, or you're already working at Amazon and/or Walmart and still don't have enough money for food, rent and healthcare. That's a lot of people. I live in Amazon's town, and a LOT of their workers need food stamps.

Or disabled people. The disabiilty application process is the worst and most difficult process I've ever had to deal with and I've had to do a LOT of red tape stuff in my life.

On the blog this week: It's Disability Awareness Month and I'm Writing Essays About It, The Big Bill Spells Disaster, Plus a New Poem in Cave Wall: webbish6.com/disability-a... #poems #bigbilldisaster #disabilityawareness

Beach background with beach balls, shell, starfish, flamingo floaty: Author Spotlight: "There's Something Wrong With Me, She Said," "Before Going to the Infusion Center," and "After an Appointment With a Disability Therapist" by Jeannine Hall Gailey, Poetry

Author Spotlight #3: Jeannine Hall Gailey (webbish6.bsky.social) and her three poems.
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Thanks again Dave, for putting this together and including me.

On the blog this week: New Poems in Flare, Upcoming Appearance at a Nature Writing Conference, Not Letting Fear Make My Decisions, More Lavender and Hummingbirds: webbish6.com/new-poems-in... #fear #naturewriting #poems

I moved back to Seattle but even we are not immune from wildfires.

And they are hampered by a lack of water sources. I really wish the state would do more for agriculture. It's so sad to go by dead dry trees and probably contributes to wildfire risk. It needs a new management strategy, especially southern CA. (My apartment in Carslbad burned, then my apt in Napa.)

3 Poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey There’s Something Wrong With Me, She Said But her parents ignored her. The doctors did tests and shooktheir head and said she’d be dead by thirty.She’d never get out of her wheelchair. There’…

hanks to Flare for publishing three poems of my poems about disability and chronic illness (but hey, they're still fun!) here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/3-poems-by-j... #poems #flare

A difficult solstice this year, Dave, for sure. Thank you once again for including me, and for including so many diverse voices.

On the blog this week: Solstices, Memorials and Waxwings, a Poem in the New Shenandoah, and Lavender Farm Openings: webbish6.com/solstices-po... #lavender #shenandoah #solstice #memorials

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2 Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...

Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary double issue just dropped! www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#poetry Amazing poems by @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @carlosaglive.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @casswhit.bsky.social @darleneanitascott.bsky.social 1/2

Literally had this discussion on the phone with my mother this morning and we were trying to out-the-history-of-chili each other. A lot of origin stories.

Thank you for including me. Always a good read, way better than the daily news from non-poets these days.

On the blog this week: The Full Strawberry Moon, First Swallowtail Butterfly, American Anxiety and More Goldfinches on the Wing: webbish6.com/full-strawbe...

Facts. Washington State, too. We give like three times to the government what we get back.