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close-up photo of the head and part of the body of a black swan in blue water

Black swan photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash

This is a Now page, and if you have your own website, you should make one, too. Last updated on 22 May 2022.

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This site is my online home, my refuge and my “digital garden” of sorts, my anti-social non-network. Specially curated pages include:

Racial Justice: The work I am doing as a white cis woman in America to fix “what we broke and left broken,” in Corrine Shutack’s words.
Serendipity: My wee corner of wonderment and luck and good vibes and positive energy.
Analog: All about fountain pens, ink, stationery, and planners.

I enjoy the largely supportive and genuine Micro.blog community – long may it continue – and have a vested interest in making it more inclusive and accessible. So far, I have submitted these suggestions:

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For the past two years, my work has had three main foci:

Directing public library services amidst a global pandemic;
Developing our city’s response to houselessness; and
Increasing awareness and action around EDI and antiracism, both locally and in Oregon libraries through volunteering with the Oregon Library Association.

I was about to write something about being burned out, but instead I’ll link to Eve Ettinger’s “Have We Been Thinking About Burnout All Wrong?"

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I’m working on the final draft of a short story about virtual reality and identity, and the first draft of a creative non-fiction piece about my first experience in a flotation tank.