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Cary Barbor

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Reporter for WGCU-FM in Ft Myers, FL. Recent MFA grad from Randolph College.

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When Queenie finishes her memoir this will be her author photo. ❀️

04.08.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

EXACTLY ARRRGHHH

30.07.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please look at what my foster dog did to my beautiful signed copy of Toni at Random that I didn’t even read yet. 😒

29.07.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Highest Law in the Land by Jessica Pishko: 9780593471319 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Award A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book| Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times A leading authority on sheriffs investigat...

In my book, I take pains to point out how right-wing sheriff movements are, in fact, inextricably connected to modern-day sheriffs. It now applies to most law enforcement, as we see.
Anyways, please check the book out bc it has lessons for today.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263...

25.07.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Not leaving the house except to walk the dog!

25.07.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Soooooo sick of summer and it’s not even 1/3 over and the worst is yet to come. 🌴

25.07.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll be rounding up some of my favorite 2025 memoirs for Time later this year. I’m doing my best to track forthcoming books and request galleys, but it’s easy to miss things β€” book people, you’re welcome to pitch me (especially fall titles!) at nicole.sc.chung at gmail

24.07.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

It attempts to ID the breed of dog or cat in the photo.

20.07.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social can you help me boost my foster dog Falafel (Chattanooga TN, we do out-of-state adoptions) cause look at her

19.07.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6
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I have a new foster named
Queenie and she is a love!

19.07.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just sat down between two old-timers at a pizza place in my small town and they are slinging the stories. It’s a journalist’s dream.

17.07.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s one of those (disgusting) Florida days when both the dog and I each have a cloud of mosquitoes hovering around us.

17.07.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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F.D.A. Panel to Reassess Hormone Therapy Warnings

F.D.A. Panel to Reassess Hormone Therapy Warnings www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/h...

17.07.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s Queenie! ❀️

15.07.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Picking up a new foster dog today. Squeeeee! 😍

15.07.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It definitely does! Not to mention lots of snacking and staring out the window.

14.07.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Considering a residency until I read that the studio has large windows on the main street in town so your process is on display all the time. 😬

14.07.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So true.

14.07.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG Andrea Martin is in The Gilded Age! πŸ₯°

14.07.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay for Izzy!!!

12.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for helping the animals! 😍

12.07.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Me neither! Criterion is 🎁.

12.07.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Really want to go to the movies but all that’s playing is superhero dreck. πŸ˜’

11.07.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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GCL Book Club: Michelle Huneven, Bug Hollow We discuss a gripping novel that traces the effects of a death in the family on the generations to follow.

Michelle Huneven’s latest on the WGCU Gulf Coast Life Book Club! 🎀
www.wgcu.org/show/gclbook...

02.07.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s Maxine! 😍

28.06.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh nooooo

26.06.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Take it off!’

26.06.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I bought and read the scary/necessary ones and I will certainly buy and read the SANDWICH one. Congratulations!

24.06.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

movie tickets?

17.06.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just realized i’ve been conflating Kiley Reid and Taylor Jenkins Reid. Oy. πŸ“š

11.06.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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