Pride
Writer, editor, iPhonographer (sorry).I may occasionally promote my book or someone else's book. But promotion is really not my thing. Just because I follow you, don't assume I want a conversation with you. NO DMs!!!!!!!!!
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Pride
Almost forgot to let you folks know - I'm doing a giveaway for my latest novella (published in June) through Goodreads. US residents can sign up now, until Sept. 15, for a chance to win a signed paperback copy! #BookSky #fiction #historicalfiction #writing #amwriting
My god. It is hard to swallow. That such idiocy actually garners support. You'd think all historians and scientists hate America, which begs the question (one of many), why do historians and scientists go to war to save America?
“I’m one of those people who love to work,” Rather said. His bearing & his voice remain strong, if a bit raspy, & his Texas twang is more pronounced than during his 44 years at CBS News. “And I love the work that became my life’s work.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b... #GiftLink #DanRather
Somewhere in Iceland.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Early morning; late summer.
I was hoping the National Guard would be there to escort me. So many people out shopping, enjoying restaurants, jogging, walking. So dangerous
apnews.com/article/npr-..., NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled government funding cuts
By the time Lassie appeared in 1943, the movies had gone to the dogs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/m... #GiftLink #DogsInFilm #Dogs
Camouflage
Such a dangerous city. 🙄
Chicago - Nikon F100 with a Rokinon 14mm f/2.8mm fisheye lens and @ilfordphoto.com Kentmere 400 #filmphotography #streetphotography
“Conservation is a fight against the less scrupulous side of ourselves.” ― Elliot Connor
Wanderer by Innerfields in Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪 A mural that shows a modern wanderer gazing at a capsized ship as a distant cathedral rises through the mist, blending romanticism and catastrophe.... #art #streetart #murals
I call it depressing.
Pensive Oliver. #Caturday #cats #photography #portrait #OnlyBeautifulThings #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
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The consistent soft-selling of climate catastrophe makes science itself an existential threat. Antarctica’s collapse isn’t “difficult to stop”—it’s unstoppable. Pretending otherwise isn’t science; it’s denial. www.cbsnews.com/news/abrupt-...
How Jolene and Simon have been sleeping while we are in temporary safe housing. Happy #Caturday. #cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato
Amid rising repression of climate science domestically, researchers from universities around the country are lending their expertise to an international effort. insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202... #Climate #weather #science #expertise
Thanks!
She is an amazing human being. I wish we could clone her.
For “Caught Stealing,” Darren Aronofsky needed a feline that could manage a New York City set and hit the necessary marks. Enter Tonic, a seasoned pro. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/m... #GiftLink #acting #Cats
Birds are more interesting than people, these days.
This just infuriates me. Our Republican-led legislature is as sloppy as it is cruel, and this is one of the best examples of it. If a teen hasn't died as a result of this, it's only a matter of time. We can do better. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
2) we also savored it, allowing 4 days to go the 100 miles which gave us time to hike to a lot of cool lookouts.
I get that. On the other hand, you might not want to break in a new rig on it either. 😳 Years ago my friends & I traveled together with our 2 rigs. Theirs a Subaru, mine a Kia Sorento. It went well for us. We had a full array of emergency gear/tires. Didn’t need all that, but it was insurance.
It cuts through the heart of stunning country. Be sure to be back country prepared, especially for the western third or so.
Good morning, my little sweet pea.
This one fell far from the tree and kept rolling till it was in another orchard.
Here is a better edit of my favorite storm photo from this year. :) I'm pleased. #weather #Monsoon25 #stormphotography #stormchaser #SouthwestStorms #Photography #EastCoastKin #ArtShow
Wow. This has a little of everything!
Exactly. And why do they so desperately want to hurt trans kids? Oh, I know. They think they might "catch something" from trans kids. Gee, if only there were an anti-LGBTQ+ vaccine.
When the dust settles on federal cuts to public lands, can we create an agency worthy of Wilderness? In the best of times this would be a heavy lift. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/w...
Or perhaps I smell so rough that even the bear couldn't stand me. 😂😂😂
If you’re so tough on crime, why did you pardon the 1500 criminals who desecrated our big beautiful capitol building
Every day there’s a new “thoughts and tariffs” story. Let’s see if people who are affected will vote differently next time
Trust #IdahoLegislature to make lives better/safer. 🙄 “We can hear a little bit, then we say, ‘we can’t continue the conversation unless you have a parent there who can give consent,’ then we’d have to end the call.” #MentalHealth #988 #SuicidePrevention idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
The bear and I To reach the destination of my recent Idaho Trails Association (ITA) work project based off the Magruder Corridor road in Idaho, I had first to travel to Montana. Yeah, the roads through these mountainous western states are often circuitous. After a long day of driving, I located a…
I remember The Cub because I delivered mail there. Personally perspective. 😊
Correct!
Bar Gernika, formerly the Club Tavern. It marks the start of Boise's Basque Block. (And serves some mighty fine Basque food, too.)
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
My little tenants hard at work on the property. #BeaverLife #NatureConservation #WildlifeWonder
With public lands facing the greatest threat in his lifetime, Mountain Home-based filmmaker Andy Anderson is setting out across the West filming a documentary about public lands and the people who love them. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/28/a... #PublicLands #Resist #film
"Have you no respect? I'm taking a bath, dammit."
When I spoke to the jrhs principal the other day, we talked about the fear of gun violence. He thinks about it every day. I’m typing this choking on tears because it’s my biggest fear right now while we’re dealing w one of my child’s schoolmates threatening her. Everyone has guns here. It’s Idaho.
Could it be part of the plot to upend public education? Is this happening in private schools, too? #MassMurderOfKids
#nightmusic 🇫🇷 Born in Brittany. Piano at 4. Violin at 6. Then electric guitar. His film scores include Good Bye, Lenin! and Amélie. “We’ll be [touring Europe] in unconventional spaces, sometimes for free...we believe music should not revolve around profit.” Night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytba...
Chicago, a beautiful, safe city.
A photo from almost 10 years ago when I gave star trail photography a go in south-east #Iceland.
I sure hope this works for the tribes. A new funding sources is greatly needed. Shoshone-Paiute tribes sign ‘first-of-its kind’ agreement for mine planned for Owyhee Co. boisedev.com/news/2025/08... #Mining #Indigenous #Idaho #DeLamarMine #IntegraResources
Boise
Been in a funk today but couldn't figure out why, then it dawned on me that I dropped off my first grader at school and returned home to news that someone else's children were murdered at school because a majority of federal lawmakers are morally bankrupt cowards
I guess this is a way of life in this "Christian" state with high family values. 🙄
Subway will limit the size of their sandwiches before Congress limits the bullets in magazines.
Danke schoen!
How can we make driving feel less “inevitable” to people who don’t normally bike, walk or ride transit? This seems like a fundamental part of a paradigm shift towards multimodal transportation: questioning the inevitability of driving for every single daily trip
"Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. 👇
It finally arrived in the TV. Good, long soaking rain.
In a state barely ticking over 2 million residents, 9,000 K-12 students experienced homelessness during the 2023–24 school year. That number is astounding. #Idaho #poverty #homelessness #Obstacles2Success
My dad (in front wearing my grandfather's hat) and his brothers in about 1943 - my Uncle "Shorty" on the left was a tail gunner on a B-17 - my Uncle Bill on the right was a bombardier on B-17s the next year. My Uncle Chuck (in the middle) died in 1944. Nazi haters and killers and damn proud ones.
Holding together
I'm not burning my dictionaries. OR my maps.
Love this. 🤍
My Mom and Brother have stated that they would “shoot and kill someone if they saw them burning the United States Flag.” Burning the United States Flag is not only a protected Constitutional Right, it is also the proper way to retire a worn Flag.
The new patriotism😡
My gawd there must be a ton of extra cash sitting around, based upon the daily barrage of solicitors just itching to send $$$ my way. #RoboCalls #RoboTexts #scams If I needed dough, I'd go to the bank not to some slimeball who invades my phone.
In my post today, Rabbit Trickster takes us down the rabbit hole & covers a lot of ground, from #Nike N7 shoe launches to hoop dancing to skywalking. godspeed.ghost.io/how-a-shoe-l... #athletes #nativeamericans #indigenous #MMIW #shoes #sneakers
43% of social welfare recipients are White. 11 of the top 12 most dependent states are red states. Alaska is the most dependent on federal aid while California (49) and New Jersey (50) are least dependent, contributing far more than they receive. #RedStateMoochers
Much needed perspective
Step 1: Create predictable budget crisis. Step 2: Resolve artificial crisis by repealing voter-mandated Medicaid expansion. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit? The GOP leaders in Idaho don't care what Idahoans want. Maybe it's time we replace them with people who do. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/25/i...
Young entrepreneur starts mobile ice cream business in McCall. Owner/CEO of Fudgie Wudgie, Marshall Curtin, created the business as a summer hustle to help fund his passion to play sports, specifically hockey, and to have some “fun money.” valleylookout.com/2025/08/15/4... #BoiseDev #Idaho #StartUp
While Trump initiates his military invasion of Chicago.
"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You're neither wanted here, nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties – and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy." Governor JB Pritzker
Just watched this entire statement from the governor of Illinois...well worth 15 minutes of your time:
And thank YOU for the word, my friend.
And proud flesh, btw, is just as icky. Exuberant granulation tissue of a wound, is tissue that grows too much and stalls the healing process by preventing the skin from closing the wound.
It's horseshit. I was there 3 months ago. Single woman, walking alone, at night, no trouble, no sign of crime, as safe as my own smaller town.
Desert petrichor!
That may happen, if their children grow up. I fear a suspended state of adolescence overtaking our country.
It's true.
Good lord. Who doesn’t, anymore? 🙄
Wildland Firefighter died on the Bivens Creek fire near Virginia City, MT yesterday. Apparent heart attack. Reminder that the Boise based Wildland Firefighter Foundation is an excellent organization worth supporting. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/bivens-...
Just 3 mos ago I walked all over downtown Chicago, alone, and at night. I encountered NO crime. Are there pockets of crime in the city? Of course. Every city in the world has its pockets of crime. #Chicago #CrimeInTheWH #PoliceState #bullshit!
Don't miss this opportunity. It's a delightful read.
By the way, crime statistics are not difficult to look up. The most dangerous city in the US isn't Washington DC or LA. It's not Chicago or NYC. It's Memphis, and it's not even close. If reducing crime was the goal, that's where you would start.
I am in awe of wildland firefighters. All firefighters, but those in particular. They deal with inhuman conditions on a daily basis.
"no results"
Unbefukinglievable
Somewhere on Dartmoor. #Dartmoor #dartmoor #nature
I ❤️ liminal spaces
“On social media, influencers are telling people to be fluoride-free and to do oil pulling where you swish your mouth with oil,” Slot said. “They’re not giving advice based on science.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... #DentalHealth #flouride #science
Bingo
Well said.
These are men and women who put their lives on the line to fight the most vicious of natural disasters. These warriors are true American heroes. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/25/b...
Agreed!
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