Wisconsin Traveling and thinking about books and things

And the Wisconsin visit blog is up! notjessica58.blogspot.com/2026/04/wisc...

#travel #travelblogging #wisconsin #50states #cheese #boardgames

carton of milk labeled 20 min drive run out of milk? With none of those annoying walkable stores, you get to drive 20 mins. there's nothing more freeing than having to drive everywhere for everything. ROVÉLO CREATIVE

It's the inconvenience that I enjoy.

If someone showed up at my house with 2 tons of KitKats I would say nothing. I would invite them in. I would help them unload the goods into my basement. My neighbors would not say a word. The candy would be safe with me I’m putting this info online publicly just in case anyone needs to know.

I love when “giant pants winter” slowly melts into “slut shorts spring”

More details on the major win yesterday! Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered 1,042 full-time Voice of America journalists and staff back to work by March 23 and mandated the full resumption of broadcasting operations. Note: Contracted employees were excluded from the ruling.

Jones County Traveling and thinking about books and things

Short blog about my visit to Jones County. Just four more counties to go until I have covered all 100! notjessica58.blogspot.com/2026/03/jone...

#100counties #nc #jonescounty #trenton #notthattrenton #travel #travelblog

Comic reference to the Ides of March.

It’s that time again…

Onslow County Traveling and thinking about books and things

Catching up on my travel blogs with a visit to Onslow County (Jacksonville, NC) . notjessica58.blogspot.com/2026/03/onsl...

Of course, I found a bookstore ;)

#travelblog #blog #travel #nc #100counties #onslowcounty #jacksonville

Revisiting South Carolina Traveling and thinking about books and things

Catching up on my travel blogs with a revisit of South Carolina after a recent visit to Hartsville: home of the last Yogi Bear's Honey Fried Chicken

#travel #blogging #traveblogging #sc #50states #yogibear #hartsville

notjessica58.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme ✨

(unless it's writing, then you're probably screwed)

Thank you!

Excited to finally do a residency!

#weymouth #residency #writing #poetry

The stupid levels really are just too high. We should do something about that.

I love when someone breaks one of my rules 🤣

The costs of supporting Israel’s war on Iran:

- Dead American soldiers
- Dead elementary schoolgirls
- Over $1 Billion/day for combat ops
- Soaring gas prices
- Tanking markets
- Betrayed GCC allies
- Another constitutional crisis

…and growing.

The Evolutionary Basis of Autism YouTube video by SciShow

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mff... Interesting

#neurospicy

Pender County Traveling and thinking about books and things

Only six counties left to explore in NC as part of my #100counties #nc project! Checked Pender County off my list this week

notjessica58.blogspot.com/2026/03/pend...

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Lots of people seem to forget: It is Ramadan, which would affect the pattern of life of everyone in Iran.

When it snows, bones ache like the pressure will break them again. As stress rises so does the pain of every purchase. Unproductive moments scream like sin, idle hands spike with carpal tunnel. Broken promises hollow you out completely, heartless. Residual guilt floods, until there’s no recourse left, except to rupture.

I've been having massive fights with capitalization, punctuation, and line breaks lately. This may be done, or I may cut it to ribbons. Also no idea if it has a home in a project yet. Anyway, enjoy and best wishes 🤗

#wip #wipwednesday #weirdmicro #residualguilt #promptcombo #rupture #poem #poetry

It will be better this time It will be better this time I tell myself As I drive west fall leaves breathtaking colors mountains The Badlands It will be better this time there will be more; more - friendship, music, laughter maybe that love even if it is my own I'm different changed somehow It will be better this time 1 say - tearfully as it takes three days driving through Montana Icy roads, treacherous cliffs, Yet, the most beautiful snow-covered mountain peaks and white moon I've ever seen there will be happiness right? It will be better this time ~ Alison P. Birch

A poem from the B Side —
It Will Be Better This Time
~ Alison P. Birch
—It will be better this time
I tell myself as I drive west, The Badlands
It will be better this time, there will be more/I'm different —changed somehow/It will be better this time
I say—tearfully —there will be happiness, right?

Karoline Leavitt: "The president will be making a few new policy announcements to continue tackling the affordability crisis that Joe Biden created one year ago." (Joe Biden was no longer president one year ago.)

One of the things They don't tell you is that a lot of being creative involves wondering whether or not you're screaming into the void. And a lot more of it is realising that as long as you're screaming, that's the point. And a lot of the rest of it is working out if you're singing or screaming

Artist Bisa Butler creates quilted portraits of African American life YouTube video by Craft in America

Cool

youtu.be/EmCy62Oo_hI?...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

This means I literally could not teach my subject (African politics) at the institution at which I earned my PhD.

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested Andrew, who has faced scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, was taken into custody "on suspicion of misconduct in public office."

Former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested