#1stLinePit #A #M Golden Girls X White Lotus X Jawbreaker: The cruise reception was a plastic surgeon’s wet dream. There had been enough filler and Botox used on the faces in this room to iron the wrinkles out of an elephant’s backside.

This weekends #Satsplat theme is poetry. Write and/or post your poetry. All genres welcome. Song lyrics count. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

I've been creating new designs for my vampire series set during the Klondike gold rush. ##amquerying

This weekends #Satsplat theme is dimensions. Write and/or post pieces that somehow incorporate dimensions. Interpret the prompt as you wish. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

I grew up in a haunted house, but I was never scared of the ghosts. For the most part, they minded their own business. But, the spiders... They were everywhere. To this day, I still can't stick my hand under a lamp without worrying about encountering a web. #satsplat

What are some of your favorite stories you've ever read, seen, played or heard that somehow incorporate Phobia? #Satsplat

This weekends #Satsplat theme is phobia. Write and/or post pieces that somehow incorporate phobia. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

Replica of Benjamin Franklin's Armonica at the Benjamin Franklin house in London #writingresearch #horror

This weekends #Satsplat theme is Villains. Write and or post pieces that somehow incorporate Villains. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it! Much love and respect to you all.

This weekends #Satsplat theme is music. Write and or post a piece that somehow incorporates music. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

This weekends #Satsplat is reunions. Write and/or post pieces that somehow incorporate reunions. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

Incredible view of Denali on the flight north to work today. #cometoworkwithme #womeninstem #Alaska #arcticcircle

This weekends #Satsplat theme is love and romance. Write and/or post pieces that somehow incorporate love and romance. All cross genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

This weekends #Satsplat theme is the 1980s. Write and/or post pieces that somehow incorporate the 1980s. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

Spring may be just a few weeks away, but we're still in a deep freeze up north at work. #arcticcircle #arcticadventures #womeninstem #writinginspiration

"So shiny," Liz whispered as she walked across the room, #enchanted by the gilded mirror hanging against the wall. She slapped the glass with her palm, leaving a smear of gore. "Show me my reflection, stupid!" she screamed, hitting over and over. #vss365 #Vampire

Roasting tomatillos and Anaheim peppers for tonight's dinner of pozole. Happy Valentines day! What are you doing for dinner? #ValentinesDay2026 #pozole

This weekends #Satsplat theme is poetry. Write and/or post pieces of your poetry. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

They called it “exposure.” A term that sounds clinical, maybe even benign—like sunlight or fresh air. But in practice, it meant this: a newborn baby, often a girl, carried outside the city and left alone in the wild to die. In ancient Athens, this wasn’t considered murder. It was routine. A matter-of-fact part of life. People talked about it openly—as if it were no more controversial than choosing when to plant crops or how to balance the household budget. It was framed as economic necessity, sometimes even responsible parenting. The decision belonged to the father. The law backed him up. So did tradition. And it wasn’t equal. Not even close. Girls were abandoned far more often than boys. A son could carry on the family name, inherit land, perform sacred rituals, and care for aging parents. A daughter? She came with a dowry, couldn’t inherit in the same way, and was seen—across all levels of society—as a financial liability. Wealth didn’t shield her. One ancient writer said it plainly: “Everyone raises a son, even if he is poor. But a daughter? Even the rich expose her.” There was no illusion of mercy. No comforting story to soften the cruelty. Some babies might have been taken in by strangers or trafficked into slavery, but that was a fluke—not the plan. Most died, slowly and alone—of cold, hunger, or animals. And everyone knew it. The practice didn’t just thin out the population. It carved a deep message into the cultural bedrock: that female life was optional. Conditional. Disposable. Generations were raised with that belief quietly embedded in their worldview. Mothers? They had almost no say. Once the baby was born, it was laid at the father’s feet. Literally. That was the custom. He looked down and decided: raise or discard. It’s a part of classical civilization that doesn’t show up in the gleam of marble statues or the echo of great speeches. While Athens was laying the intellectual foundation for democracy, philosophy, and reason, it was also drawing a hard line—before a girl could even cry out—about who mattered and who didn’t. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

This weekends #Satsplat theme is Outer Space. Write and/or post pieces that somehow incorporate outer space. All genres welcome. I'll drop the discussion question soon. Let's do it. Much love and respect to you all.

On this day in 1941, the 99th Flying Pursuit Squadron, an all-Black American unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen, was formed.