Gillian F. Barnes

Snowflake cut outs of sugar cookies on a cutting board with a roller pin and cookie cutter.

Sugar cookie decorations in a bunch of bowls on a cutting board that says “Home Sweet Home The Barnes’s Kitchen” — one cookie is being glazed.

Sugar cookies and decorations in a two bowls on a cutting board that says “Home Sweet Home The Barnes’s Kitchen”.

Some cool weather activities with the small one.

Welp, my child knows how to use the eff word contextually and it’s 100% my fault 🤦‍♀️ #parenting

Why is a #ColdTake considered obvious or the norm when cold burns much worse than heat?

a man is loading a briefcase into a red chrysler convertible parked in front of scranton business park Alt: a man is loading a briefcase into a red chrysler convertible parked in front of scranton business park

I am so sick of parking a million miles away from people to avoid jerks and then walking back out to find yet another jerk parked INCHES from my car.

Top view of a large pumpkin on a step with a yellow/red leaf on top near the stem.

#Fall is too short, which is why I always take pictures of the palette 🍁

Poor you!

winnie the pooh is looking at himself in a mirror Alt: Winnie the Pooh is exercising in a mirror

I just had a #realization today: I am exactly like #PoohBear. I only exercise to improve my appetite. Also, I remain “stout” no matter what. Oh, bother.

Pan seared chicken cutlets in a cream sauce on the stove with a wooden tool in front of two candles.

Welp, I set off my #FireAlarm for this. Worth it though 🍋 🍗

Joe Hill with a microphone on stage at a book launch.

I feel highly validated. Tonight @joe-hill.bsky.social said, “I believe outlines are the tools of the devil.” and that “Every fiction is a thought experiment.” Given I feel exactly the same ways about #writing, I suppose I will continue descending into my own chaos.

Two girls making mock horns on the side of author Joe Hill

Two girls making mock horns on the side of author Joe Hill

A boy making mock horns on the side of the Black Phone 2 poster

Just a horny 😈 night with @joe-hill.bsky.social (and Kara, and #BlackPhone2 earlier with @brentonbarnes.bsky.social

I am forever reminded how small the world is. So many of us have strands tied to others that we only become aware of randomly, but maybe if we really looked, it would’ve been obvious all along…

This.

The wondrous nook where I once read books and dreamed so many somedays was now dust-covered and tarnished. It may have always been that way, but I had never noticed. So entranced was I that imaginative transportation took me far from reality.

#SenseWrds Prompt 130

So fun @crystalvicious.bsky.social — I can see you wearing this!

@brentonbarnes.bsky.social is currently being forced to reenact basically all of #Encanto for our sick daughter in the vain hope that she will close her eyes.

#Parenting

The tiny notes of anxiety that spike constantly ever since I heard the news have become a sort of calming element, letting me know my heart still beats. But that is the sole benefit of these small heart attacks.

#SenseWrds Prompt 128

Balls on stems, green much spikiness

Cool shaped peppers in red and orange

Purple flowers, kind of like lilies without the Lilly pads

Why is are #plants so freaking cool?

I want all of this, please!

How I thought I’d look at a witch (cool looking Meg with a pointy hat and wand) How I look as a witch (Meg Meg is doing a ritual, holding back her cat duck and digging through her basket of herbs - “where is my mugwort?”)

Comics about being a witch 🧹🐈‍⬛✨

A little blonde girl in a jean and cream dress walking a spiral of rocks in front of smoke stacks (decommissioned).

A little blonde girl in a jean and cream dress walking across half dead grass through a row of small trees on a blue sky day.

A little blonde girl in a jean and cream dress walking across half dead grass next to a water trench on a blue sky day.

My girl in magical places 🌳

A picture of a pan of unbaked Ratatouille in black and white (spiral pattern).

A picture of a pan of unbaked Ratatouille in color (spiral pattern).

Do you prefer your in-process #Ratatouille in black and white or color?

Four friends being silly together

Three friends flipping off a camera with another laughing at them.

Got together with good friends today and this is us collectively telling Cancer to take a hike after a yummy brunch 🍳 🥯

I’ve always been agnostic, but these days I’m leaning more atheist. I wish I found solace in prayer.

I don’t understand how anyone can believe in a loving creator when good people keep having truly awful things happen to them.

Same—it killed me!

A messy hand painted wooden skeleton on craft paper with paintbrushes

A messy hand painted wooden skeleton on craft paper with paintbrushes and a toddler hand.

Hand painted wooden pumpkins, cats, and ghosts on paper towels, drying.

It’s never too early to get a little #spooky 👻 🎃 💀

A view of a row of pick your own apples with a sign that says “Luda Crisp” and “Sweet Zinger.”

This orchard didn’t come to play. Take note, this type of apple is called “Luda Crisp” 🤣

#Ludacris #Luda #Applepicking

I know I’m not the first person to say #MakeAmericaReadAgain, but dear gawd, I tried to tell a pretty accessible #literary joke tonight and BOMBED 💣

For the record, the reference was from #CatcherInTheRye and I was talking to a 20ish-year-old 😢

So here it is…

I went out to buy some seltzer tonight and wanted a bag. Said bag was behind a counter and the guy, Holden, didn’t hand it to me. I explained that I didn’t want to reach behind the counter as that would be rude. He said, you totally could’ve. I countered with… well, with a name …

This is how extinction begins.