Ready for spring in upstate NY!

A gentle reminder: please help to spread the word about this resource for refugee writers from Ukraine: docs.google.com/document/u/0/d…

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it... They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. - Maya Angelou

I do not have the heart to tell my sweet, compassionate child to stop feeding the bugs she finds in the house.

Anchored by intellectual rigor, compassion and fortitude, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joins the U.S. Supreme Court and the annals of history. We are grateful for service that brought her here and the work yet to come. Congratulations, America! #KetanjiBrownJackson #SCOTUS

Thanks so much to colson whitehead for an incredible talk, and for coming through to inspire these student writers despite health challenges! This was a night to remember.

#cancelstudentdebt. To address the I worked my as* off so why can’t you crowd— nope— your issues are beyond the help a tweet can offer. Give yourself a hug. Tell yourself you deserve better, too.

Read a thread on FB mom’s group about “where to deliver.” Each woman’s advice began, “I delivered.” Fried rice? A dinette set? Please mamas, can we not normalize dehumanizing language to represent birthing a child. Geez, it’s like we’ve been conditioned to fear our own power.

Black women owe a disproportionate amount of the $1.7 trillion student debt burden. Canceling student debt is a matter of gender, racial, and economic justice. With the stroke of his pen, President Donald J. Trump can transform their lives and better our nation. washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

Dying… 😂🤣

The news is sounding more like subpar fiction every day.

Thanks so much for giving a home to “Games for Heartland Girls, 1984” To all my 80’s latchkey kids…

Boosting my magmate's work about the devastating push-pull between making a living and dreaming. I feel this so much. "Over the car’s deep breaths, I shout, 'Hey, I can hear it!' but my boyfriend is gone, the place that once held him now lost to negative space."

These line, these lines: "There are no actual questions, only things left unsaid. Somehow, growing up, I understand it a bit. Maybe when you observe something over time, you only ever notice when it dips and thins, not all the other times it steadies. I must've missed a lot."

I just signed the The Authors Guild's Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders calling on them to compensate writers fairly for the use of copyrighted materials in their AI programs. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/auth…

Reading at Kenyon Review Writers. Wow. What a week! #krww

Agreed. And cutest photo ever:)

Hiking plus writing! What could be better. So glad to be back at Sewanee.