When #JimmyCarter first entered hospice, @readersdigest.bsky.social asked me to write this article. I spoke to families who'd benefited from his tremendous work with @habitatforhumanity.bsky.social I'm resharing that article today. www.rd.com/article/jimm...
If 1930s cocktails, salvaged sailboats, and windswept beaches are your thing, you can follow along with my writing adventures on Instagram- samanthafacciolowrites.
#amwriting
Congratulations to the four fellow writers whose works, along with mine, were selected as winners of Novel Slices’ Spring 2023 Contest. Many thanks to @NovelSlices for choosing my novel excerpt to appear in Issue Six, now available at https://www.novelslices.com/issues.html....
Could Jalen Carter’s suit at the #NFLDraft2023 be a nod to Jalen Hurts’s winning outfit and attitude at the NFC Championship game?
Welcome to Philly, Jalen!
#FlyEaglesFly
Opened my Sunday @nytimes and what did I see? Two @NYUCWP luminaries staring at me! Congrats to @RavenLeilani and Sigrid Nunez for being interviewed in today’s @tmagazine feature, Legendary Female Artists on the Younger Women Who Inspire Them.
Today, on #MarathonMonday and the anniversary of my grandfather’s passing, I am deeply touched and thrilled to see my words in print in @nytimes Tiny Love Stories. Many thanks to @yayamilee
#BostonMarathon @LLSusa @teamintraining @NYUCWP @bostonmarathon...
Thrilled to share the stories of four of the 4,390 families touched by #JimmyCarter and his 39 year commitment to @Habitat_org for @readersdigest
https://www.rd.com/article/jimmy-carter-housing/
@HabitatDenver @HabitatNash @SJCHabitat @CarterCenter
A rollercoaster of an essay about grief, uncovering childhood secrets, and the simple foods by which we remember those we love by @kittenwithawhip @foodandwine...
@DebHarkness
“The unfettered exchange of ideas is essential to the preservation of a free and democratic society.” @ALALibrary Read my latest in @readersdigest to learn how you can fight #BookBans
https://www.rd.com/article/banned-book-club/
#booksunbanned @BKLYNlibrary @BannedBooksWeek...
Here’s your #MondayMotivation Be inspired by these teens fighting #bookbans by starting their own banned book clubs. My latest for @readersdigest
@ALALibrary @nprpolitics @nprbooks @BKLYNlibrary @AuthorsGuild #BooksUnbanned
https://www.rd.com/article/banned-book-club/
For @readersdigest I spoke to teens fighting #BookBans and the article was featured in @lithub Daily. Need a pick me up? Read about these incredible, inspiring teens!
https://www.rd.com/article/banned-book-club/
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-august-12-2022/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/stick-shift-manual-transmission-cars/671078/
The disappearance of manual transmissions is one more in a long line of moves leading to the automation of culture and separating humans from processes and understanding. @TheAtlantic @ibogost...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/opinion/teachers-guns-schools.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/opinion/teachers-guns-schools.html?referringSource=articleShare
“If we educators find ourselves nose-to-nose with a mentally ill child wielding an AR-15, it might look as if we’re the first line, but that’s only because all the other lines have lain down.”...
My favorite “special occasions”
childhood drink has been elevated to the realm of adult beverages, just in time for summer! @KendrickWorks...
Please read and share my latest- a teacher’s perspective on how we can all take action to prevent school shootings for @readersdigest
#GunReformNow @Everytown @sandyhook @GiffordsCourage @bradybuzz @utmbhealth @DrJeffTemple @essentialprtnrs
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“Let’s supplement thoughts and prayers with concrete steps, based on nerdy evidence-gathering, based on hard conversations with people we disagree with, to reduce gun deaths so that elementary schools need not be graveyards.”@NickKristof #GunReformNow...
My 2018 opinion piece on school shootings rings as true and urgent today as it did when @PhillyInquirer published it in 2018.
Angry? Despairing? Support orgs working for #GunReformNow
@Everytown @sandyhook @bradybuzz @GiffordsCourage...
After #SandyHook the police chief came to a staff meeting. Our best defense against a shooter? Arm preschoolers w/ blocks. Congress sanctions assault rifles and teachers are handed toys. Mass shootings are preventable. Support @sandyhook @Everytown @NewtownAction #GunControlNow
Ocean Vuong (paraphrased) on connecting generations & dreams: My ancestors lived w/ heads bent over the nail salon desk so I could live w/ my head up. Today, I write at a desk w/ my head in that same posture so I can move forward w/ wonder & thriving. @NYUCWP #writingcommmunity
