Nina

Laine has long dreamed of making an apple pie, only apples are extinct.

Why should the political party matter?

Nashville, TN 3/13

Nashville, 3/6/26

We have become the bad guys.

I have a dog whose mother was a hound, and I think her father was a trampoline. I guess dog chow gives the most energy of all.

How did we get here?

Nashville,TN

The novel I'm pitching had me learning what plants are wind pollinated. Every time someone ate or drank something, I had to figure out if it would still exist post bee-extinction.

I channel my inner Dr. Seuss.

For all the northern transplants about to experience a first southern snowstorm: do a conversion like you would for dog years. Maybe not quite 7 like for dogs. Figure each southern snow inch is four northern inches, and act accordingly. 3 TN snow inches = 12 New England inches. #snow

I-40, Nashville, TN 1/20/26

Nashville,TN Over I-40

I found a desk under all that stuff!

Frozen dairy dessert is a reflection of everything that is wrong with capitalism. #capitalism #icecream

I watered and covered the rosemary, but forgot about the kale, which is not in sight of the house. Hoping it survived the temperature plunge. It did last year, but there was snow then, which buffered it. #gardening

I run an IRL writers group that is open to the community. Today, an elderly woman showed up and started a discussion about using chatGPT in the middle of the meeting, like she couldn't tell we're a critique group. We're all going to get old and mixed up someday. It's awkward. #writing

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#art #copperenamel I was cleaning the copper strips that pile up next to the bench shear, when the light hit them just right to turn them into art. Enamel makes the pile permanent.

Not sure what to call this one.
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How that be an emergency appeal? It's an emergency that the Government is supposed to fulfil its obligations?

The people who crave power, the ones who want to hold office, are the opposite of the people who should.

Back after a long hiatus. I didn't get deported or arrested. Just stepped back for a bit.

Have you ever heard of wind phones? They're for "talking" to people who have died.

I haven't, but I wrote a story for my father after he died. He liked my stories when he was alive. I knew he couldn't read it, but I missed him. Then I got serious and rewrote it as a novel. I'm querying it, trying to find an agent.

I used to watch CBS news, then switched to NBC, and now I don't watch any of it. I read the NYT and 1440, but I feel cut off. Looking forward to the post Trump era.

I made mozzarella cheese! #food #cheese

We might have to count on another country to liberate us.

Oh yikes

Most of society is intertwined. I would never vote for Trump, but I'm still going to pay more for everything. Off grid sustenance farmers won't be affected so much, but the rest of us will.