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I dunno, folks. Thoughts for today…for what it’s worth my prayers are with the people of southern Cali, the people in Gaza, the folks on Israel’s border, people in Ukraine, people in the Congo…the list is never ending.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

A rare perfect moment of peace, enjoyment, lack of guilt, & a chance to just be alone in public.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Migraine is 15. The never ending cold is 12. Today.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

I’m back on my podcasts…not sure when to laugh, when to cry, and when to switch to music &/or a book.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

What’s your go-to news source? Just curious.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Starting a thread of things that most people don't realize the Federal Government does for them that will go away in the "after times". Bank regulations limit your loss to $50 if someone steals money from your account with your ATM card.

submitted 89 days ago • 21 comments

Is it The Dark Months? Is it depression? Is it chronic migraines? Thank god for cats and good friends.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

@heatherdryside.bsky.social Woo & Hoo!!!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Home. Home home home. To nap. To rest. To sit on quiet. Home. To cat. To hurt less. Home. Safe.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

I like coming here, scrolling, liking and reposting or quote posting. It’s why I liked 🦤 app at first for the same reasons. Then…well, we are all here for reasons.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

This is a good reminder. Reading comprehension for the win.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

May God forgive…took a migraine nap & woke up to “Day 1399: A terrible precedent” part of @wtfjht.bsky.social newsletter…I’m genuinely worried about potential bullying or as some people like to call it “joking” about the potential deportation issue. 1/4

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Racist assholes have stopped me on the street, all my life, to tell me to “go back where I came from.” Every Asian I know has experienced this. Now racists will feel even more empowered to go after ANY Asian, with the government’s blessing. Be careful out there, folks.

submitted 103 days ago • 64 comments

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

submitted 105 days ago • 986 comments

Honestly, a quarter of my to reads come from here, a quarter from Mary’s Mob, a quarter from friends & fam & kiddos…I live stories much too much. I need to retire just so I can read more…but if I don’t teach who will be stuck learning about stories and context and subtext? Faux-Adult dilemmas.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

To wake up in the middle of the night from pain is awful no matter the cause. Mine is from migraines—it can be a hell of a way to notice weather changes or force lifestyle changes bit by bit. I admire the people who fight through worse and keep swimming. That’s really the goal every day—keep going

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

submitted 315 days ago • 785 comments

Boo. Yah.

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The good news: my migraine is finally fading. The blah news: so many notebooks and finals to grade. Ah, procrastination…

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Morning to all. It’s the dark months. Here’s to the rain.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Y’all are a stunning group.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Can I have a new brain? Mine is totally defective and I’m so tired of this (current) migraine. I will not cry. I will not throw up. I will not cry. Sleep. Sleep come to me. And there goes my tiny screen time. Godspeed & good luck.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

It’s been a very long time between sparse posting. In honor of the familiar who died six years ago today, I’m going to try to do better at connecting in this way…I’m not big with social media. Lately, I’m not big on anything, but my sorrow for the sorrows of those who are grieving. I still miss her.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

At least the last canon of 2024 just fired. Now I just have to shudder at New Year’s and the 4th. #LetErBuck

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

A little late—but proud, spinster, cat lady…

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Too many people in the news right now are getting away with doing shitty things to people they were supposed to love, or raise, or govern—most of these people seem to not care because their money or fame or office protected them. I suddenly understand in a visceral way the burn it all down crowd.

submitted 226 days ago • 0 comments

Two more days of summer school. Then I have to figure out how to be ok for the rest of the summer…no set routine, a history of not much…be in the moment, read, purge the house, walk, touch base with my friends…I can do this. I hope this finds you each as well as can be. Try to keep faith…

submitted 242 days ago • 0 comments

This seems like a strangely safe place to start with my better self bs—be in the now instead of in my head; walk every day; keep up with life…hashtag summer blues (being an old on purpose)

submitted 254 days ago • 0 comments

Brie and chicken on a triscuit is perfection. Add apple slices and it’s a super solid meal.

submitted 308 days ago • 0 comments

It’s so cold out tonight & getting colder…is it weird to worry about people finding shelter while worrying about the pets or former pets out there too? There’s so much bad in the wide world…I supposed taking small joys and small tragedies is all some of us can deal with… #chillymeditation

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