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Reach for the sun. Spring has sprung! #spring #sp

Reach for the sun. Spring has sprung!

#spring #springflowers #floweringshrub #floweringshrubs #whiteflowers #thankyougod #thankyougod🙏

Does your place look like mine yet? Azalea season

Does your place look like mine yet? Azalea season in the Carolinas. One thing I hadn’t considered about wearing a Covid mask is that it keeps the pollen out of your nose too!

#pink #azaleas #pinkazaleas #pinkflowers #pinkflowers🌸 #flowersofinstagram #springhassprung #spring2021 #floweringshrub #floweringshrubs #seenonawalk #thankyougod #thankyougod🙏

Nature rocks! Grow where you’re planted! #seeno

Nature rocks! Grow where you’re planted!

#seenonawalk #treesofinstagram #tree #trees #treeroots #roots #adaptability #bloomwhereyouareplanted #bloomwhereyoureplanted

Seen in the neighborhood, felt in my bones. Wear t

Seen in the neighborhood, felt in my bones. Wear the mask!

#covid_19 #maskup #goodcitizen

My Christmas cactus is giving me a series of spect

My Christmas cactus is giving me a series of spectacular single blooms. Don’t know why I’m not getting the profusion that the plant is known for, but these individual beauties really help me focus on their wondrous details, starting with the little fuchsia flecks at the end of the stamens!!!

This individual bloom brought me a message this morning. I remember when I was just starting out in the adult world. What people wanted of me was attention to detail—all the job descriptions carried that exact phrase so I dutifully put it on my resume without question. Sure, I have attention for detail. Hire me! As a junior adult I hadn’t the experience or self-awareness to know that the ability to execute on someone else’s master plan wasn’t my strength at all.

Now I go with my true strengths, which include seeing patterns amidst chaos, and thinking quickly and creatively. I don’t think “winging it” is a virtue in itself, but knowing that I can rely on my ability to flex gives me a feeling of security as life throws things across the path I’d planned.

This ability to change on the fly is why I’m so happy as a solo traveler, and what I’ll rely on this July when I set out to explore the Ohio River by motorcycle. I’m doing just enough research to make sure I hit the important stops, while leaving plenty of time to get to know people who come my way, and to follow my nose on worthwhile detours. After traveling from the Ohio’s headwaters in Pittsburgh to the Mississippi River in Cairo, Illinois, I’ll come back to my desk and write a book. Who knows what shape it will take? Only God.

Want to recommend a stop? Please do!

#christmascactus #christmascactusblooming #christmascactusflower #flowersofinstagram #enneagram7 #solotravel #solotraveler #solotravelerwoman #ohioriver #writer #writerslife

Is it just me, or is Bigfoot having a moment? #y

Is it just me, or is Bigfoot having a moment?

#yeti #sasquatch #bigfoot #bigfootsighting #spiritanimal #flamingo #justforfun #justforfun😂 #justforfun✌ #laughs #trafficfun

Saw loads of WWII memorabilia yesterday at a celeb

Saw loads of WWII memorabilia yesterday at a celebration of women in the military. This little gem had a foreword by Gen Pershing. My own book of historical fiction, “The Red Bird Club” is set in Detroit during WWII. It tells the cautionary tale of a teenaged white girl who was arrested on a vice charge for kissing a black man. Laws at the time allowed such arrests and encouraged local officials to send girls to reform schools as a way to “protect and rehabilitate” young women’s characters.

“The American Plan” was an umbrella term for laws originally enacted during WWI in communities near military facilities, with the stated aim of protecting servicemen from venereal diseases. Through public-private partnerships, states and localities kept expanding The American Plan after the war and used it to round up millions of girls and women until antibiotics were discovered to treat the diseases. Many such laws are still on the books. Technically men could be arrested under the laws but as you might guess, they never were.

Always blame the women. Race mixing as vice. American history.
American values.

#wwii #wwiihistory #wwiimuseum #wwiimemorabilia #memorabilia #americanvalues #americanhistory #miscegenation #racerelations #racialjustice #racialtrauma #racialprofiling #racialreconciliation #womenshistorymonth #womenshistory

Warriors and Warbirds event today. Lots of WWII me

Warriors and Warbirds event today. Lots of WWII memorabilia emphasizing the role of women in war work.

#wwii #wwiihistory #tinkerbell #sockmonkey #sockmonkeys #airplane

My photo-avoidant son Tristan turned 29 today. He

My photo-avoidant son Tristan turned 29 today. He’s a gentle soul who epitomizes the phrase that still waters run deep. Tristan, you’re a better man than I can take credit for producing. I thank God for the blessing of bringing you into the world and watching your inner and outer beauty unfold.

#momsandsons #happybirthday #birthdaycake #thankyougod #thankyougod🙏

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