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2026.01.31
I'm reading Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood. [ 20% ] 📚
This book deserves a weirder status update than this, but it’s all I’ve got at the moment: I’ve previewed, preordered, started, stumbled, and restarted this book a couple of times now, but this time it is taking and I’m sure I’ll continue…
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2026.01.26
I wrote a letter to one of my senators, John Curtis, thanking him for calling for an independent investigation into the ICE shootings in Minnesota and urging him to go further.
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2026.01.25
I read The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller. 📚
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2026.01.24
I've been listening to Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers by Various Artists. 🎵
“…what the meaning of this border line that’s been forced into my mind…everybody talk about it like it’s the greatest line that humans could ever draw…”
– Lonnie Holley, from “A Border is Just a Space Between Two Lines”
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2026.01.21
I read King of the Neuro Verse by Idris Goodwin. 📚
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2026.01.19
I read The Forgotten Teachers: How Nature Wrote the Story of Life by Written by Brian Isett, Illustrated by Claudia Biçen. 📚
Genre: creation story, mythopoetic science writing, psychedelic illuminated manuscript, nature, life, ecology, Earth, picture book for teens and adults…
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2026.01.18
I'm reading 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children’s Books by Melissa Stewart, Marlene Correia. [ 37% ] 📚
Another book I’m happy to read for a PD book club at work.
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2026.01.17
The long-haired chihuahua stood on the armrest of the passenger seat and gazed at me serenely through the window of the white minivan, an actual American flag draped behind it, shrouding the entire second row of the van.
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2026.01.16
I'm reading Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K–12 Settings by Ashley Hawkins, Emily Ratica, Sara Smith, Julie Stivers, and Sybil “Mouna” Touré. [ 38% ] 📚
I suggested this title for a PD book club at work and they actually took me up on it!
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2026.01.12
I watched Stranger Things 1 (2016). 🎥
