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New post on the SpecFic Writers blog by yours truly. All about submitting your stories for publication! #amwriting #writing #submitting
Submitting Your Stories for PublicationWhen I was a new writer, I had many questions about how to submit my work, where to submit it, how often, etc., and I made a lot of assumptions and guesses that turned out to be wrong.specficwriters.com
7 mo into Covid-19 after grueling 24hr caring for child with the disease, who survived. Showered at hosp, returned to office & informed staff, wasn't retiring the next mo, as had planned. Photo of that moment. This is my "diary". Nobody can change the reality of pandemic for those who lived it...
#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.
The weekend starts here! Here's an oldie from one of my favourite mountains in #Iceland - Eystrahorn. There were some weird and wonderful clouds overhead that day back in Oct 2023.
Preliminary report for the Knowles fire entrapment that killed four wildland fire fighters in Colorado. 23 minutes from their call for evac to shelter deployment. 50mph winds. Burn index 94-99 percentile. Some echos of 2003 Cramer on the Salmon-Challis. So damn sad.
Research shows that humans who adopt their cats from shelters and rescues, rather than buy them from breeders, are 10 times smarter and better looking. The researcher:
That Trump is a fountain of lies is troubling, but that about 40% of the public loves each and every lie is even more troubling.
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
Silver City is now in "ready" evacuation stage. :( territory-mag.com/articles/a-g...
A Ghost Town No More - TERRITORY MagazineIt’s a story told throughout the West. At one time, Silver City was the Owyhee County seat and the center of mining in southwest Idaho. As the minesterritory-mag.com
After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather, who considered themselves “pro-life,” were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.” (Published May)
She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.www.propublica.org
The biggest question I get from random strangers open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
The biggest question I get from random strangersAnd my answeropen.substack.comThis isn't all that rare in Central Idaho #IdahoFire due to the conditions in which large fires thrive and conditions they create. It's not every huge fire, nor every season, but certain fires and seasons you might see it on big run days. Absolutely *insane* in France...
Kelcie Moseley-MorrisPARIS (AP) — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said.
In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.
In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil FuelsTogether, wind and solar generated 44 percent of Germany’s electricity, while fossil fuels generated roughly 43 percent, according to data from the Energy Institute, a think tank based in London. The figures represent a major milestone for the German “Energiewende,” or “energy turnaround,” a national push to ramp up renewable energy and phase out gas, coal, and nuclear power. e360.yale.edu