Heather Gold

How come the only thing that’s ever duly is noted?

/day 13
#sentenceaday #joke

Who has been more useful to a power-seeker than a person with unmet, unconscious emotional needs?

/day 12
#sentenceaday #writing

What the hell is so demanding about writing out the word “sandwich” ?

/day 11

#sentenceaday
#joke
#comedy

Day 10:

The only thing I want from
AI:

A running count of how many minutes male podcast hosts spend listening and how many minutes their female guests spend talking.

Day 9:

I’d gotten gas not long ago.

MENOPAUSAL MISTAKE NUMBER ONE.

I trusted my feeling that I’d done something recently.

#midlifemanual
#midlife
#writing

Day 8:

birds
don’t fly
they just interrupt falling
over and
over again

#poem
#sentenceaday

Fat squirrels know where the starving rich sleep
They climb the boxes and poke and creep
Earwigs begin while still the people move
Counting their steps
Cursing their blessings
Getting Things Done.

Day 7:
Nothing is ever finished in w rich neighbourhood
The drillers drill and the trees just stood
Through coddle and remode
And weed whacker
And knock it down and do it all again
There’s space and Lycra walks
But crowded sounds of leaf blowing
Housecleaners giving baby some joy in the backyard >

Day 6:

My relationship to cars then was that they were things guys did and we were helped. This was also the way I got taught about sex by my classmates in grade 3.

#midlifemanual
#cars

Day 5:

Shade. The mink coat of California.

Day four:

The gay rights movement gave me something I never thought I’d have:

an ex-wife.

This thing I keep saying about the appeal of misogyny — yeah. Just, yeah.

Day three:

Coffee is an incredible substitute for confidence.

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador were beaten, kicked, robbed and denied access to lawyers wapo.st/3GZuXCW

Day two:

Tiny rattles are irritating. Irritations are there to show you what needs attention.

Day one:

Being offended is like sugar. Bad for you, unavoidable and pleasurable only in reasonable doses but never satisfying. You just want more.

So the secret police have secret lawyers now, cool cool cool.

different than the initial idea and ended up taking the client 10 years.

Her belief in me and my ideas was hugely helpful in making the shift but so was the example of so many

as a goal and not the publishing. When I was still focused on outcome first my agent told me a story about a wonderful book that ended up being v

A bonus of this last approach is connecting more internally and less externally. Going inside and going deeper is a practice that benefits from constancy. It becomes easier to do more quickly in shorter periods of time the more often you do it.

It also benefits from approaching the writing

One possibility is redirecting s.m. and blog writing time to the book project. Much more solitary but I’m finding it helpful and have seen a number of pals who publish books do it.

Years ago I saw Nan Talese talk about Gay writing 4-6am. That’s a common tactic too.

Read interviews and pieces by Grace Paley and many other women who did this for years and they did it while providing 100% of the home and emotional labour for children and their spouse and all elders. Paley sometimes wrote a sentence at a time on scraps put in her apron.

Food that sets itself on fire? #tesladiner

When the Threat Is Inside the White House What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security.

How the CIA took revenge on the Russians after they hacked the 2016 presidential election to help Trump win. The story is told in full, for the first time, in this excerpt from THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century -- out July 15!
foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/11/c...

oh I’ve no doubt of the effort to do so but I’m not helping accepting everything these shmucks want is a done deal before it’s done. I also don’t think Musk and others wd be bothering to fight Congressional races if they were already done deals.

oy vey

Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

The Problematic Politics of Trump’s Bill: More Lower-Income Americans Are Voting GOP The class inversion of the two parties is making it trickier for Republicans to cut the social safety net.

Republicans just voted to gut benefits to their own voters & states

They are trying to build a kind of “war economy” narrative, as the Kremlin has done over the past decade — you must sacrifice to win the big war (own the libs) & the now war (invasion of Ukraine/ICE)

www.wsj.com/politics/the...

“…making ICE better funded than the third largest military in the world, to deploy against America”