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Writer, fighter, nail biter. Books include Cyclops of Central Park, One Small Hop and This is Just a Test (w/ Wendy Shang.) Day job in affordable housing.
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Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

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Creativity. Connecting with friends. Caring for others. Those are my plans for today. You?

Thread: I went to Scotland over the holidays and all I got was 10lbs of records! Lots of great record stores in Scotland, as you might imagine. Here are my favorites:

If you are seeking #snaredrum music (or even if you are not) please give this a look/listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDZx...

Even though my personal faves didn't get a shoutout (Mmm Clams, I'm Keen on Kugel, Nancy's in the Neighborhood and Gnarly Gnomes, for those of you keeping track) I am over-the-moon happy to see Cece's masterpiece covered in such an incredible way in the NYT!

Happy #bookbirthday to Cece Bell and ANIMAL ALBUMS FROM A to Z. This book is for music lovers. This book is for animal lovers. This book is for art lovers. This book is for YOU.

The School of World Building is open... www.instagram.com/p/C3iguD9vpQq/

I love #WorldReadAloudDay! So grateful to the teachers who worked around my day-job schedule. Great questions, great students. Have fun, everybody! #wrad

Here's an easy #TuBeShevat #TuBiShvat activity sheet I made a few years ago. For use in your classroom or as a centerpiece for your #TuBeShevatseder:

Controlling the things I can...

I wrote an essay about my experience thus far with traumatic brain injury. It took a very long time to write, and required a lot of naps, but I'm pretty proud of it. I hope it might help someone else who is experiencing something similar. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This weekend we honored the memory of Mary Crockett Hill, #ya writer, #poet, mom and a million other things. Enclosing both her obituary and a gofundme as we try to make things easier for her family. www.johnmoakey.com/memorials/ma..., www.gofundme.com/f/assistance...

Watched Stop Making Sense for the first time and need to know who burns more calories during a show, Byrne or Springsteen?

I think maybe the central problem with the current (baffling) discourse about copyright is that most people don't understand how authors are actually paid, or that this is how we feed our families. The hostility towards this feels kinda nuts, frankly. Art is labor and labor should be compensated.

I read every word of this story from the NYT on Dungeons & Dragons on Death Row. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...