Feels like fall in the Pacific NW. Love those variegated colors.
Historian, writer of historical fiction. Retired museum educator. Garden, books, and bird lover. Skills: can churn and wash butter, write in 19th century cursive & wield beater and froe. https://www.jloakleyauthor.com/
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Feels like fall in the Pacific NW. Love those variegated colors.
I'm glad you did some research. I knew the clothing was from the 1940s.
Totally AI.
Nice article about writing #historicalfiction. Oh, the rabbit holes. Good times. www.chantireviews.com/2025/08/14/t... @chantireviews.com
I have strong roots in Kansas. My great grandparents homesteaded in the state from the 1859 on. The Parkers taught at Shawnee Mission, the Savages, abolitionist from Vermont came the same year. Joseph Savage went with the Hayden Expedition to Yellowstone . My dad was born in Lawrence.
Like a ballet dancer.
A very good representation. I wonder how the historic myth behind this hoarding became part of a dragon's DNA. Human examples?
Atmosphere: "Study on non-exhaust emissions in road dust," Brake dust is radically different from tire wear. Greater penetration of EVs is changing urban air quality in a second beneficial way which has nothing to do with eliminating tailpipe emissions.
Honey, if you are interested in American history not being woke, what kind of bread do you think pioneers ate? Sour dough, natural yeast capture. There's no baking powder, no real baking soda, except saleratus.
Oh, boy. Sharing grief from the writing trenches.
Don't forget Vance will be President. Will MAGA Johnson become VP? Next in line.
So far, free of this.
what about kids playing hop scotch? Chalk is required.
That's nazification. Autocorrect!
No lying in state in the Capitol Building that he desecrated.
Good grief. Just a reminder that teachers went on strike in Norway in 1942 against the notification of the schools.
2) He was trained at the University of Michigan (1859) and later at Rush Medical in Chicago (1860) Was a country doctor, then joined the 11th PA as their assistant surgeon. First battle: Gettysburg. Fast forward. All the scientists are leaving the CDC. Quakery is back on the table.
1) At the start of the Civil War, a doctor could get appointed to the Union Corps if he had politician to recommend him. Many were highly unqualified. Then Johnathan Letterman came in. Looked for trained docs from medical schools. Invented triage on the battlefield. My granddaughter was one.
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I hope CA sets up its own CDC with maybe help from New England states who know the value of science and medicine.
Congrats, Marian. You are really rocking the mystery world.
Was it Denmark who just made anyone's face and voice belongs to the person who is it & can't be copied?
Check out what we did in Whatcom County, WA State. We were able to eradicate them by scientists attaching a tiny responder? transpoder? on one. Went right back a huge nest. www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/u...
Every bike park should have a Big Foot tunnel for littles. He is indigenous to the Pacific NW after all.
That’s greatly nice. I haven’t put a lot of grasses around my house. I have scented geraniums and ferns on one shady side of the house, lavender, roses and peonies on another. I’m working on a little library garden in front of my house. Backyard has a great enclosed veggie garden.
That's how I can watch BBC shows.
The 2025 Gertrude Warner Hall of Fame for Middle Grade Fiction The Gertrude Warner 2025 Hall of Fame is here! Check out these amazing Grand Prize Winners, including the newest member who will be promoted for years to come!
I got sick of the constant updates, emails that I didn't want. I left several years ago.
But science...
RFK Jr was not chosen to preside over US public health and science because he had any qualifications. He had a famous family name and Trump needed his endorsement and supporters. We saw it happen live in this call. That’s why we are here.
Congratulations.
May you sleep well #bluesky friends. Don’t lose hope.
I saw a similar wasp in Hawaii drag a huge cane spider to its burrow.
This is what Hitler did concerning Norway. He hated the modern style building’s created after WWI. He wanted Norway to celebrate the traditional style found in the countryside. I think they did this in a couple of places, it not fully executed.
Time to clutch my pearls. Wait. I don’t have pearls.
I'm looking forward to this. I might be a bit late, but hope to catch it.
Happy Birthday to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Inspiration Behind Chanticleer’s Late Historical CIBA Category Happy birthday to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German writer, renaissance man, and inspiration for the CIBA Goethe Division for Late Historical novels!
Always exciting. Now get it done.
I always thought the movie was a WWII resistance movie.
Great talk on internment camps in Norway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNEr...
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
So nice to see fellow writer Kevin S. Moul on this list.
Dear Leader. I bet Fox News never show this because some people know that it really means.
Very true. Wind storms in the Pacific NW often take down lines.
I'm proud to have won Goethe Grand Prize for The Jossing Affair & Hemingway Grand Prize for The Quisling Factor. Do enter. I've been well taken care of since then.
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Interesting how this scene from Game of Thrones resonates today.
Absolutely shameful. I have friends who serve in the Guard.
GOP totally complicit.
I'm reading it now.
For our veterans voting abroad.
It's what has separated us from autocrats.
A temperature drop of 30 degrees and 70 miles an hour.
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I'm glad you got back in time. Best wishes. I'm due for one.
Congrats!
What an insult. Who voted for this cartoon? Oh, people.
Wow. How timely. With weasel Vance.
I'm excited about this topic for #Norway Week @ww2tv.bsky.social I met Bob on a WWII in Norway chat when the internet was so new and the rest is history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDAt...
Nice to see my audiobook of The Brisling Code here. Narrated by the wonderful Chris Humphreys. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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The coup is real. Right in front of our eyes.
It was great fun.
I met Kathy many years ago. A lot of fun ensued with her sister and mom.
A great list. #writersofbluesky
Such poise. 10+ score.
Funny, I'm writing about how Norway worked hard to restore their democratic form of justice after 5 years under German occupation that favored only the few. She smacks of Fascist justice.
Research is the baseline for writing historical fiction, but all writing requires some research. Here's some tips. www.chantireviews.com/2025/07/10/t...
Who is this Todd?
Too late. He rode a garbage truck and that didnt hurt him.
Such a beautiful place.
I wonder if FOX or NEWSMAX will say anything about it.
That time when whales took to the sky.
It closed down in my WA town. A Trader Joe’s occupies their space now.
LOL. The next best thing is to go and see where it was filmed.
She must be talking about her oath to Trump.
I think I have that one.
Nailed it. Fox N is wondering what's going on with tourism in Florida.
I have an original copy on my shelf.
I wish I could go. Traveling is becoming difficult in many ways. Maybe virtual.
And my late husband, son of Swedish immigrant. He served in the jungle with many black and brown soldiers.
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I’m happy to know this having started out with you. Is our log in the same.
Yesterday, my smooth flight home from Boston was interrupted by an escaped cat in the main cabin.
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The sweetest smell, too.
Ugh. Sadly, this is reality.
The guy in the seat in front of me watched Fox “News” the entire flight from Boston to Seattle. The flat out lies about Trump winning finding peace when THE world knows the leaders were there to check him and support zlensky . Like it was his idea to have that little gathering.
Even this white woman knows it’s old Jim Crow. The failing state of Texas showing its old roots.
My hero growing up in Pittsburgh in the late 1950s.
Poor girl.
Me, too. Excellent script and acting.
This wasn’t just a security breach, documents obtained by NPR from a hotel guest who found them on a printer revealed something even more disturbing: a planned luncheon in honor of Vladimir Putin. The menu literally read, “In honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”
Whenever I go to see my brother in Harvard, MA, I seek out the grave of Othello the African the “faithful friend” of the town’s founder. He died of old age in 1790. I always remember him with a flower or even a leaf. This will probably the last time I can do this.
Whenever I come to visit my brother in Harvard, MA I always seek out the grave of Othello, the African, the “faithful friend” of the towns founder. I always make sure he is remembered with a flower or even a leaf. He died of old age in the 1790s.
I left a couple of years ago. I got sick of all the updates and endless emails.
I was a stipend student at the Smithsonian in the 1960s, later a volunteer in the Anthropology Archives. Making history to fit a particular story is fascist. Straight out.
Libraries are the best.