What brought you there? The last time I was there, there was still a wall! And we're going to be in Frankfurt, Cologne, Lake Constance, Fussen, Munich.... no Berlin, I'm afraid. Trying to DuoLingo my 40+ years old German back.
Does that phrasing mean you are there?
Guessing Trump's stupid "war" is the reason Condor just cut its direct flights from PDX to Frankfurt by one-third. Just did a mad scramble to replace a flight only four weeks out.
Condor seems to have dropped from 3 flights to 2 a week from PDX to FRA for flights in four weeks. Mad scramble to rebook. Guessing I have Trump's stupid war to thank.
Screenshot of an online opinion article by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "The Texas gerrymander freakout," with the subheadline, "What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy." The publication date is August 20, 2025.
Screenshot of an online opinion article from The Washington Post by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss," with the subheadline, "The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.
Tessa is adopted and dreams of feeling like she belongs. But what if her biological father thinks she does belong - to him?
Please don't come back to Oregon, Lori.
Should clarify - he's also writing and is asking questions about writing.
Answering reader emails. One is from a 7th grader, but he's asking questions I don't think I thought about until I was in my thirties. Is it wrong to be jealous?
I'm hearing people are turning it off one-by-one and coming back to find it turned back on.
I have been a runner since I was a freshman in college. Never fast, but consistent and sometimes with the most incredible joy. While it's a myth that running causes arthritis, my knees will need to be replaced sooner rather than later. I want to make it 1 more year, to 50 years of running.
Does murder run in my blood? Good thing mine is only fictional.
aprilhenry.substack.com/p/does-murde...
Deborah from back in the day??
I'm committed to my new book idea - which is why I suddenly had a completely DIFFERENT idea this morning.
Years ago, I spent a day with a woman who graduated nursing school in 1919. Most of her classmates died from the Spanish Flu. She talked about the lawn of Emanuel being covered with patients. She also had crazy stories of caring for TB patients - they did things like inject wax in their chests.
What do you think of Ably clothes, which uses Filium® and says its PFAS free?
Star is clipped in preview, but it's there!
My friend Cindy Brown just a starred review from Booklist for her book ECHOES OF THE LOST!
I'm developing a sorely needed super power: the ability to DNF a book despite how much other people seemed to have enjoyed it.
Just one month until IN THE BLOOD publishes. Pre-order here: annieblooms.com/april-henry-...
It’s so good! You must buy it!!
Just 14 seats left for my play! If you or someone you know lives in the Portland area and wants to see new, experimental theater, my play and one other will be part of a Supernatural Saturday performance at HART Theatre tomorrow evening, 7:30 pm.
Tickets: hart.ludus.com/index.php?sh...
I still can’t smell burning or rotting which is not ideal.
If you still have smell loss in a few weeks, smell training helped. I still have some lingering smell loss from
getting Covid in 2021.
Love these books!
It's a ballroom. It's an essential national security feature, per WH filings. It's a slush fund. What can't it do?
They delayed my spring 2020 book by two months because I thought it would all be over by then
