Tiffany Leigh Rose 🖤🥀

Two propped up books: one is called We love you bunny and has a rabbit face made of flowers on the cover, and the second is titled If you're seeing this it's meant for you and has a rabbit on the cover.

Rabbit, Rabbit

Your writing is compassion and humor wielded with obvious skill.

How are you able to shake off receiving things like this? I know the sender is obviously a loon but it unsettles me just reading it ...

Random, because this is from a convo we had around 🎃 but did you ever get to How Bad Things Can Get by Darcey Coates? Curious what someone else thought of that ....

A lovingly horrifying illustration done in wispy black and white lines of a woman screaming in a field

"YOU HAVE IT!!"
(iykyk)

One of the lines from the 3-book collection of folklore and urban legend inspired stories, perfect to tell in a dark room with a flashlight shoved under your chin.

📚 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
collected by Alvin Schwartz & illustrated by Stephen Gammell

#BookWormSat

A small bouquet of pretty carnations and mums in a purple and gold glass and wrapped truffles in a heart-shaped candy dish sitting on a stove top

A photo of a fluffy tabby cat showing us three of her perfect white feets while she lays curled up on a rug in the sun

#Caturday offering of flowers, candy, and !!!!🌞feets🌞!!!!

He is a successful scammer 🥜🥜🥜

The cover of the book the Cure for Women by Lydia Reeder, the subtitle reads Dr Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever. The picture on the cover is of three women facing away from us all in Victorian dress two of them are examining a third woman.

Currently listening to this biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (very much recommend!) and the more things change ...

A photo of a very chunky, er I mean fluffy squirrel, sitting on a railing eating a peanut.

view outside my window of the squirrel who scams me out of peanuts every morning

Hope it ends up being an easy fix 🤞🏻

TODAY, January 29 at 2:00PM ET, we’re doing a free talk called “Experiencing King Arthur’s Cornwall” for The Great Courses! Register here:
www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com/liveevents

#greatcoursesjourneys #carterhaughschool #arthurian #folklore

A photo of a very cute tabby cat snuggled up in a blanket so we can only see her face and front paws

Tucked herself in

An example of why I believe Serwer is the most brilliant political writer of this era. If you don't have time for the entire article right now, at least read the last paragraph.

🐆Break
(They're in Den 2)

A Crisis of Confidence for ICE and Border Patrol as Clashes Escalate

The quotes from current and former ICE/DHS officials are notable and offer a glimmer of hope

Gilf link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Thank you for sharing this ❥

I'm so glad, that sounds like a wonderful tradition!!

Speech on the War with Mexico Lincoln introduced the Spot Resolutions, requesting President Polk submit evidence that the land where the battle occurred was American territory.

teachingamericanhistory.org/document/spe...

Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.

The game nights at your house must have been epic 🫡

The fluff protects them 😆

I love the picture with the bluejay 💙

I love this story, glad you shared it 🖤

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

I haven't been online much due to ongoing health issues & work deadlines - but I want to send my love and solidarity to friends & publishing colleagues in Minnesota, and their communities.

Below is a useful "How to Help" list compiled by sff writer Naomi Kritzer.
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ord...

Long, very worthwhile read ⬇️

www.bbc.com/news/article...

you can't reason people out of cruelty that they revel in

A photo of an adorable and sleepy tabby cat showing us how pretty she can curl her raccoon- looking tail

Perfect #Caturday TailCurl
🦝❣️

A book of dear dead women by Edna Worthley Underwood Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

🖼️Ferdinand Keller

Link to free copy of 📖
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75516

A painting of a path through a dark Forest where a silvery shrouded mysterious figure is standing.

When the silver lines grouped themselves into form and being, it was a if lustrous spirits danced airily a ghost dance of joy, now flashing for an instant into vivid life, now paling and fading into silver mist that still retained their gracious contours.

-Edna Worthley Underwood-
#PhantomsFriday

This looks wonderful, thank you so much ✨🌊🤗

Hungarian mushroom is another one of my favorites, but if I remember right you don't like to eat 🍄🍄🍄
Do you eat cheese?

I'm just winging it today with whatever odds and ends I need to use up, wish me luck 😆