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leahplotz.bsky.social
I write 🤍 mainly letters. Also some poems and fiction. I love reading memoirs and books on the fringe. Iowa raised 🌽 living in Norway🇳🇴 https://leahplotz.substack.com
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Communities can be reborn. Connection can be reignited. Now more than ever:

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I scrapped the newsletter I had planned to write about Bezos and the “liberties” of the market lyz.substack.com/p/whose-libe...

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Sound familiar?? From my shockingly relevant book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE.

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Thing is, I do this all the freaking time. 😵‍💫 I know talented people, dammit! Will #recruitment at ‘progressive’ tech companies ever believe that diversity = profit?

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Want to spread joy in this excruciating reality of a dumpster fire we live in? Send a letter of inspiration. Love you, @ruthrostrup.bsky.social #letter #writemoreletters

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Want to project love in this insane world of ours? Send a letter, or care package. Tusen takk, kjære @missatrain.bsky.social

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Books, an attack on books On something so innocent. Librarians carrying torch for knowledge are of course the victims.

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She's here 😭 I wrote 'Mor(e) than Motherhood' when I was in the depths of postpartum depression. I'm so proud of her. And me. 🤍 Shoutout to @mldesigns.bsky.social for the beautiful new cover. #BookCover #BookSky #IndieBooks #Poetry #Motherhood #Writer #Author #HappyDance

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My grandpa’s Royal typewriter (early 1900s) was used to send angry letters to people in gov snd John Wayne, bills to people who owed him money, and fan letters to Sinatra. I was allowed to use it under close supervision.

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Ok, here we go— my first Samantha Irby book. Wish me luck, #booksky ✨ Thanks to @oliviacampbell.bsky.social for the final push to just bloody do it already.

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I’m not sure how to move on from Jacinta Parsons’s book about life with #crohns. People with chronic illness are just as ‘unseen’ by society as the disease they try to cover up and pretend doesn’t exist. So honored she shared her story, one I kept nodding and crying to. #chronicillness #booksky

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Last night I took my “niece” (21) to a live gig and I could see it spark the same joy I felt when my brother-in-law would take me (teenager) to gigs 💛 #livemusic #sharemusic

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Lihkku beivviin, liksom — www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/inne...

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Today I got #writingadvice on how to “fix” a section: to remember how I want my story to end. Now, how does said section relate to the end? And I said “💡!” (The headache is still there, but that’s ok)

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Østlandets Blad.

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Low Threshold Book Club update: #Feminasty is USA anno 2018, which suddenly makes the issues way outdated...and ironically (?) still are issues 🫠😵‍💫 (Maybe we should have gone with Poe?) #booksky #bookclub

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Honour Black authors by reading their books not just this month but every month. #BookSky #BlackHistoryMonth

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I’m on my last brew of seven seeds coffee and tomorrow I might struggle to get out of bed.

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Drag that blessed notebook out from its purgatory #morethanmotherhood

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➡️ Low Threshold Book Club is reading Feminasty by Erin Gibson, and it’s either the worst pick or the perfect fit “for these times.” #bookclub #feminasty

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For et nydelig og viktig ressurs skrevet av landets beste ☺️ #morskap #barsel

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Once, I wrote a thank you card to a teacher who had sent me a thank you card for my thank you card. It was peak #letterwriting lifestyle: leahplotz.substack.com/p/long-time-...

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The Spencer Street End is back this weekend. Join Jacinta Parsons and I as we try and build and maintain a little oasis at the end of the line. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/about

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Yo, Substackers, count me in. 🎲 I’m gonna be sharing old letters and the stories around them. It’s a pretty unique window into, dare I say: very human connections. 💛 first post SOON #substack

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Song of the day by the dreadfully gorgeous music of Siv Jakobsen 🌞 🌖 ⭐️ open.spotify.com/track/1xDdCV...

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Well, that didn’t last long 🥲💛 #wheetbix

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My letters to friends usually end with «and I just thought that you should know that.» Write more letters. #writeletters

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Organizing a couple of tired mama friends for our own Low Threshold Book Club. One of the first suggestions: The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. That’s low threshold, right? #booksky

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She got Bluesky 💘💘

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Underkjølt regn. Et fantastisk begrep! Og ganske så beskrivende i dag 😶‍🌫️

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A poem for tonight because I cannot handle the smiles of politicians' who have been aiding this devastation for so long, now acting like they give a crap

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If Iowa decides to censor the words “climate change,” can we also stop pretending that Iowa-grown corn ethanol is good for the climate?

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