My focus word moving into 2026 is:
COMMUNITY
Valuing and creating it

Duh

New travel post from our trip to Spain in September: Oh, how I loved San Sebastián! iamallwrite.com/2025/12/18/s...

I feel as though good and evil are in a desperate race for some quickly approaching finish line, and they are neck and neck.

Spain 4: We visit Zaragoza, and “Hemingway’s” Pamplona Travel date: Monday, September 15, 2025 Some of the destinations on our Trafalgar Tour of Northern Spain seemed more incidental than essential. This was probably true in part because I was not ther…

We visited Zaragoza and 'Hemingway's' Pamplona in September. #Spain iamallwrite.com/2025/11/27/s...

A Very Small Essay 1.

Sometimes one is inspired to write a short something. Free. marywwalters.substack.com/p/a-very-sma...

Just noticed for the first time in my life (I think) how Leonard Cohen spelled Lady's Man (as in Death of a). #downsizing

Spain 3: The Abbey of Santa Maria in Montserrat and the “Black Madonna” Travel date: Sunday, September 14, 2025 Traces of sunlight through mist and fog put the magical final touches to this excursion. At first we were disappointed to drive into low-hanging clouds as we…

Amazing Montserrat and the Benedictine Monastery there, which we visited in September. iamallwrite.com/2025/11/09/s...

I think the Dems should vote to get rid of the filibuster and let the Republicans decide what to do when it is suddenly all on them.

Spain 2: The Sagrada Familia, and we meet our travel group Travel date: Saturday, September 13, 2025 One of our most eagerly anticipated destinations in Spain was The Sagrada Familia, the basilica in Barcelona that was designed and partially built under th…

Our September visit to The Sagrada Familia (which today became the tallest church in the world)
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TTC Line 4 at 10 p.m. when the Blue Jays are playing in the World Series. #Toronto
@TTCnotices.bsky.social

I want to live long enough to find out what Putin has on Trump -- and then for another thirty years or so after that, so I can thoroughly enjoy it.

It is! No one there seemed to look back on the Franco era with anything but horror.

Spain 1: Arrival in Barcelona, and Park Güell Travel date: Friday September 12, 2025 Last month we went to Spain. Now I’m going to tell you about our trip. It may take me a long time to do all the posts, because the longer I draw out thi…

Start of my Spain Travel Blog iamallwrite.com/2025/10/13/s...

Republicans saying they'll negotiate on health care right away if the Dems end the shutdown reminds me of how Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown.

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

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Mary W. Walters: Book Reviews a once-in-a-while blog

I wrote a book review #SevenMoonsofMaaliAlmeida @ShehanKaru marywwaltersbookreviews.wordpress.com

Nothing helps you kill your darlings more effectively than a funding application with word limits and a deadline. #writerspeak #grantwriting

Maybe that was an excuse. Maybe it is also intended to make sure the White House has strong military protection on an ongoing basis.

If they're talking about Bolton, they're not talking about Epstein.

Amazing article. Thank you.

A grasshopper just flew into my eye. (Neither of us was harmed.) That's an omen of good luck, right?

Abertillery (In August, 1999, I took a one-day excursion from my first-ever visit to London England to visit the town in Wales where my father had been born. He died when I was 2 and I knew very little about h…

"Abertillery." A personal essay. #Wales iamallwrite.com/2025/08/03/a...

Happy No Kings day. Long may it rain (in DC).

Double.

The internet isn't what it used to be. Half of what I see horrifies me and makes me sick and fearful for humanity, and the rest of it I don't believe because it looks like it might have been generated by AI. And yet, like the moth to the flame, here I am.

He also sounds like he’s just phoning it in during his shows these days