Color photobook Pages -Jeannie Lin
My teenage self scribbled swordfight travel adventures in notebooks and read books by Jayne Ann Krentz and Julia Quinn. Thanks to the Happily Ever After Society and Chandra Wicke — I’m in this beautiful book with my favorite authors. #whatisthislife? ❤️🫶🥹
Kitten: My teacher told us to stop everything and pay attention. I guarantee if I am not doing anything and looking at you, I am not paying any attention to anything you’re saying. My mind is somewhere else.
Me: ❤️🩹 I scribble on a piece of paper. It’s socially acceptable to write things on paper.
Jackie - that is a lot to come at you so quickly. Take care and know our thoughts are with you ❤️
I will be there speaking on Action Scenes and Love Scenes. Also unveiling a new talk: Raiders of the Lost Archives with @shawntelle.bsky.social
My twinsies both made Jazz Ensemble. I may have cake to celebrate. I told them mommy might not have had a great day, but her DNA had a big day and so there should be cake.
This is the clip. I still can't believe this is all he said.
gizmodo.com/why-jimmy-ki...
The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
My Little Sis requested this at the No Kings rally she attended and it reminded me that 1) She’s a badass 2) California and LA is in my heart today ❤️
It’s been too long since I listened to this: music.youtube.com/watch?v=LRt6...
The thing about human rights is that they belong to every single human being unconditionally
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
"Parents have struggled w/the heartbreak of having lost years of their son or daughter’s childhood, children have had to rebuild bonds with parents that were shattered & through it all, the federal govt has done little for these families compared to the immense & lasting harm it inflicted on them."
@eileendreyerauthor.bsky.social is our local Jeopardy celebrity. She met Trebek
Who has two thumbs and was accepted to the @communityofwriters.bsky.social Non-fiction/Memoir summer workshop? This girl! 👍👍❤️❤️🥰🥰
Step one: call a rep and tell them you want them to do something, on an issue you care about.
Step two: find someone to help in a concrete way: money, food, a listening ear.
Step three: get yourself something to eat, and take five minutes to read a bit or play a game.
Then, tomorrow, do it again.
Realizing I have autism made me conclude that ppl have autism completely wrong. And frankly some people are f#^*ing wrong.
Autism runs in my family. I have autism. Some are able to mask & uncannily navigate any system. Some of us cope & function independently w/ strategies. Some of us require a little support. Some of us require a lot more support.
We all have value because we are human. We all take care of each other
“fight against the theft of your soul”
The pattern seems to be that I teach a class and then go on a trip right when it ends. I’ve graded final papers while on vacation in Paris, on a cruise, in a hotel in Vietnam and if this isn’t living, I don’t know what is.
Romance II finals will be graded in Las Vegas during the HNS conference.
My inaugural online Romance Novel II class at UCLA extension starts this Wednesday (4/2). There are still a few spots open. 10 weeks workshop-based class. (Requirement: You have written the first chapter of a romance novel)
www.uclaextension.edu/writing/crea...
We didn’t make it to any big temples, but every street has a temple (wat) if not multiple temples dedicated to some deity with its own stupa and that, in itself, is a fascinating microcosm. We were lucky to be in Chiang Mai for the weekend because there were local markets that only go up on weekends
We will hold office hours tomorrow and Wednesday for those working on data rescues who want to ask questions: www.datarescueproject.org/updates-and-...
Second tip - Thai massage is not the same thing as Swedish massage. It is more akin to Thai boxing, lol. I enjoyed mine, but Little Sis said it was a bit rough for her.
The biggest tip is to try as many dishes from street food vendors as you can. There were not enough meal times to try everything we wanted to try
Jeannie with elephant at ChiangMai Elephant Nature Park
Jeannie and Sis on a day with elephants
At great-grandfather’s grave site which looks like a shrine
A visit to the Museum of Broken Relationships
It’s been a whirlwind week in Vietnam and Thailand. A trip that started as a research trip for On the Backs of Elephants and ended up being one where we connected to our ancestors and reunited with lost family. Wild trip of a lifetime
If you're feeling hopeless and miserable, I cannot possibly overstate how much it helps to just pick one thing you can do that helps people, and do it.
You only need to do one person's worth of work. That's all any of us can do.
You'll be doing what you can, and there is so much relief in that.
An I’m standing still yet undeniably moving through the heavens moment
On the Backs of Elephants tells of the Trung Sisters rebellion in ancient Vietnam where women banded together to stand up and fight for freedom while old nobility bickered & chose a policy of appeasement hoping they could just quietly return to previous levels of subjugation and I feel this today
