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Heard an unfamiliar bird call approaching and rushed to turn on the microphone in my identification app, but it was in fact a fussy baby coming down the street in a stroller.

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Delivered just in time for this afternoon's* event! (*afternoon where I am, that is)

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Ok yes I will get to work soon but the way cottontails are coming and going this morning from a busy thicket of bushes across the street, I'm sure something exciting is going to happen and I don't want to miss it.

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Sat down to write about alewives and herring runs, wrote about maple tapping instead. At least I'm keeping up with the hot topics on the minds of today's readers.

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I agree about this very good book. I also have the @influxpress.bsky.social edition but have given this one as a gift, and the code here is a great chance to do that.

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If you're curious about but intimidated by Scrivener, this is a great chance to learn from someone who knows how to get the most out of it.

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@simonguy.bsky.social Looks like the portal is starting to open

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A terrific book. That does seem a long time ago, though!

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Art imitates life imitates art

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Had an encounter with the Lady of the Lawn

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I had a great time talking with Brad and hope you will all read BUZZ KILL ❤️

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My writing tip? Do all your drafting in the five minutes, give or take, of every third day when whatever project you're working on isn't the worst idea ever.

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Sade driving a steamroller over fresh pavement Sade cranking sheets of pasta through a press Sade ironing the wrinkles out of laundry Sade flattening masa into tortillas Sade operating the hydraulic press, nodding in satisfaction at the results

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the smallest possible thing to write a novel about vs. the smallest possible thing to publish a novel about

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For want of a boat

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Getting old is like climate change, but it's just you.

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LOL

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Sunday morning, Monday morning

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“The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last” — Moby Dick “Oh yeah?” — pickup truck around the corner

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Delighted that an extract from my new book, Lifelines, has been published at the wonderful @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social this week. In this short section from the intro I write about the seasonal return of pelicans to the mountain lakes of Prespa in Greece. www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/juli...

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Godspeed to whoever has cast off this yoke

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Trees playing the long game

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Okay, longshot here but: is anyone going to Building Book Labs at UIUC (aka the #Skeuomorph shindig) traveling from U-C to Chicago on the afternoon of the 21st? I have a 9pm flight from O'Hare and overestimated the transit system from central IL to Chicago. (Reposts welcome)

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Title track from the excellent new Mayflies reunion record

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increasing the default font size in my browser settings like a boss

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Matt was kind enough to let me guest write his newsletter; I go into detail about one of my favorite assignments to give to creative writing students, and thinking about how one should articulate what they want their writing to look like

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Lovely Q

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🎵Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my online flock! Send me a kiss by grok, baby my heart's amok! If you reply me, honey AI me, so I won't feel alone, oh baby Smart phone, tell me I'm pwned! 🎵

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Excellent idea, joining this. See you there!

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For Cleaver Magazine, I wrote about the importance and value of writing personal essay & nonfiction about the mundane, and how to tell interesting stories about the less spectacular moments in our lives. www.cleavermagazine.com/in-praise-of...

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I'm selling or giving away copies of "Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?" about as quickly as I make them so I'm producing another small batch this morning. You can get this for $3.00 from www.halfletterpress.com, or find the HLP/Temporary Services table (Q17) at the LA Art Book Fair this weekend.

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“Logan airport has the highest concentration of Snowy Owls in the northeast that we know of” A cool short documentary

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Positive Larkin They help you out, your mom and dad They really mean to, and they do They pass on all the skills they had And add some extra... they love you!

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As I prepare to leave a university for the nonprofit sector for the third time in my career, I will say again that expecting professional staff in universities to work under a fundamentally different and worse set of rights and responsibilities than tenure-track professors is stupid and wrong.

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Someone came along and stomped on a whole bunch of snails in the same spot where I enjoyed watching them yesterday morning and I can only ask why, when the world is so hard already?

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