I can't stop watching this! The twirl in front of the mirror!!!

snowy day with snow covered trees. a small pony takes shelter under a big tree while two blanketed horses over the fence look on.

Perfect day to be working on my MG novel, The Frost Pony. #wip #kidlit #writingcommunity
(Yes, little Penelope, after visiting her neighbor friends, prefers the shelter of a tree rather than her stable with a giant mound of hay. Meanwhile my big horses are all under cover tucking in on said hay.)

snow falling on stable and goat house at Fox Song Farm

Snow falling on horse pasture at Fox Song Farm. Evergreens and horses.

March is doing its lion-thing, but in the softest, prettiest way.

No kidding! I'm getting a flood of these right now. Spam filed and blocked, they are! #writingcommunity

Oh, my. Such a powerful PB. It's like an intricate miniature of our history ... traveling our street, our timeline. Amazing book. Thanks for sharing, Karen Krossing. #kidlit #writingcommunity

So many phenomenal picture books this evening at the CANSCAIP PB event! I got those beautiful story shivers with this one ... thank you for sharing tonight, Laura Alary 🔦 #kidlit #writingcommunity

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Wow ... shades of today. Really sad that we are repeating history.

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A chaos garden with Dalmatian pointing at a hidden cucumber. in the foreground, a metal colander full of freshly picked tomatoes and basil.

Fable has mad skills as a cucumber pointer. A must-have helper in the chaos garden when Greek salad is on the menu!

I love this wildly productive time when the garden is going mad with flowers and fruit ... and I'm flinging out words like zucchini! #writingcommunity #kidlit #amquerying

Wow. They must really be afraid of 'the Libs' ... what did 'the Libs' do to them??! Asking for a friend.

"It's just wrong to require grown people to get a permission slip to roam about freely. So, I resisted, I objected, the only way I knew how."

TX State Rep. Nicole Collier on why she will remain locked inside the Austin statehouse chamber until the House reconvenes.

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Okay. Officially having an attack of 'Writer's Kalopsia' 😆Suddenly fascinated by the wonderful word 'nor' ... 'no' plus 'or.' NOR Amazing! 🤣😂🤣 #writingcommunity #wip #kidlit #amquerying

Just saw this! Yeah, kinda, but I actually ping off the horse's bored, or interested reactions ... probably based on my own inflection and energy, but they do react in different ways to my verbal wanderings!

Bay horse forehead and ears, smoky orange sky above with hidden sun.

smoky sky treeline with orange encircled sun

smoky orange tinted sky above goat pen

Golden egg plums hanging in the tree

Smoky skies over Puck's head. Horses are now inside with hay, and I'm on my computer. No plum picking for now.

Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

Good memoir and essay (like this) may save our history from this escalation in whitewashing. LOVED THIS. open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

sun dog effect on cosmos pink flowers

Not sure whether to pick that flower or worship it ... Strange alien communication? Making my tinfoil hat now! (okay, anything to avoid working on this next chapter.) 😉🤣😬👽#wip #writingcommunity

I tell the story to my horses. Literally sit on a mounting block surrounded by my horses and tell them the story. Then I wonder out loud with them. Somehow, in that horse discussion, the story moves!

We all have that same choice: the choice to STOP homophobia.

I love this idea ... I've not seen a Venn diagram poem before. Great job!!!

Honey the goat standing beside a wrecked dog 'igloo' or pod, and a tattered sun umbrella.

Berry standing on a second dog 'igloo' or pod, starting his attack on it, too.

Berry, Destroyer of Worlds, with his evil genius sister, Honey. They've taken out one pod and one umbrella and are now ready for breakfast. It's a good day. #WIP #BerryDestroyerofWorlds #kidlit #amquerying

apricot rose and rosebud against a weathered wood porch railing

Every bloom reminds me to pray for nurses. It's a tough profession. Stay safe, keep burnout away, my colleagues! Thankful for a wonderful class of nursing students who gifted me this lovely plant when they graduated a few years ago. #nursing #caregivers #nursesky

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disgruntled goat "Berry" in a green hammock.

Berry, Destroyer of Worlds. #wip #kidlit #writingcommunity

Teens flock to companion bots despite risks Nearly three-quarters of teens have chatbot friends, according to a new survey.

74% of teens use AI for friendship. Half talk to their AI friend EVERY DAY. One-third report the AI has said something that makes them uncomfortable.

AI friendship bots are a freight train headed for our kids. It's malpractice not to protect them.

Yup. Impostor syndrome doesn't care about any past success ... it's kind of like that Jack-in-Box pop up that scares the heck out of kids the first 101 times they play with it. Then, it doesn't. You just sort of realize it's going to happen! And carry on. 😄

Miniature appaloosa horse standing in front of an old red barn, waiting for her hay.

Penelope waiting for her hay. "I get it, Penelope," she said, rechecking her email again. #amquerying #kidlit #writingcommunity #writesky

In the creative summer time, summer is still best done with friends. Thankful for my writing friends and partners! #writingcommunity #kidlit #writesky #booksky #creatives