Storyteller, writer, mom, Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University. I ❤️ Pluto (the planet)
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“Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what.” ~Erma Bombeck
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Thank you to the CocoNuts robotics team from Coconino High School for visiting my office today!
We enjoyed hearing about their 2024 FIRST Championship Impact Award and induction into the FIRST Hall of Fame.
Check out this great article highlighting their success: signalsaz.com/articles/cocon…
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Sad you missed what turned out to be a truly excellent MIT Mystery Hunt? Well I've got good news for you - the public version (with solutions) is already up!
two-pi-noir.agency/
u: public_access
p: public
(more on some of my personal favorites later)
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How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.
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The Wright Brothers made the first sustained flight by a heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft #OTD in 1903, in Kitty Hawk, NC. A bit of fabric from their craft is on NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which made the first powered and controlled flight on another planet.
ALT Black and white photo of the first flight of the Wright Flyer on Dec 17, 1903: 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright is at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright is running alongside to balance the machine, has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. Photo from Library of Congress
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The flight that changed it all.
#OTD in 1903, the Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot.
ALT Historical black and white photo of the Wright Flyer, the first powered airplane, during its flight at Kitty Hawk. A person is visible running alongside the aircraft.
Let me settle the argument. I live in Arizona and we have permanent STANDARD time. It's wonderful. It's perfect. I wouldn't change a thing.
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This went insanely viral in 2018. It was spontaneous. Her mom recorded it. It is timeless and beautiful.
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🎈 Happy 99th birthday to the legend that is Dick Van Dyke 🎈
New, shorter version of the ALL MY LOVE music video we made with him out today.
Watch now, at youtu.be/pSeaHfkd3M8
Goya painting of Englightenment writer Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos. This is how I look after reading a draft of my novel.
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After a very busy semester as a professor with two teenagers, I'm FINALLY focusing on my writing and getting ready to query agents again. Please follow me if you're on the same journey! (I follow back) Also, let me know if there's someone I should be following #amwriting
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📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
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Jon Stewart on election night: "We're all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world to the place that we prefer it to be." #DailyShow