#Seattle based #ExecutiveCoach #SuccessCoach #Writer. #Designer. #Photographer.
#Kayaker. #Runner. #Humanitarian. Co-owner of a successful #marketing and #communications company. Certified Technical Communications Professional Certified Fundraising Executive Former #nonprofit executive and fundraiser. Current nonprofit board member and Chair. Member of the Intl Coaching Federation and Nat’l Writers Union I discuss #WomensRights and #EqualRights often, but I also share pretty photos.
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Last Notes npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I had a dream last night (nightmare, really) that I wrote and published a book that had no punctuation, capitalization, or formatting. For an English and Education major, that was my horror story - as I kept trying to explain to people why I did it that way. Apparently, I just wanted 'to be different.' 😂 :yikes: npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1lrv…tth9 This is terrible! Sound Publishing has been a cornerstone of Washington’s local media. Grrrrr. Why did they sell to these parasites? npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1swy…snpj Hey birthday Queen! Celebrate the hell out of this one! 🥳🎂🎉🎈 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/593/388/853/442/159/original/e296968b8c9a31d4.mp4 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt Reboot! Reboot! (It’s called a “weekend”) 😉 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Americans, ready your #milkshakes! #USPol #USpolitics #Farage #Trump #milkshake https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/561/202/388/031/380/original/770e9d22a5666685.mp4 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Happy #SilentSunday Table for one…and a ghost. This is a favorite table at a favorite restaurant from my youth. I used to go here with my college boyfriend and we’d always request this table. I went back decades later, long after he died unexpectedly, and this is how they set the table without knowing our story… 2 settings, 1 chair. #photography #art #PNW https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/549/078/867/663/306/original/f7ccb2fff4b7c827.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1lrv…tth9 Wishing you everything you want from your ASU retirement, Dan. Thank you for bringing attention to our tenuous democracy. I’m glad you’re here! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1ept…jcl3 Trying to muster up some sympathy. Nope. I'm coming up with nothing. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1thd…h8wc Medicare Advantage hastened my mother's death last year, giving her only hospice as an option because pancreatic cancer treatment was too expensive. They throw away the elderly. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1ffl…tv7d Baby hands. 😂 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Shout out to @npub1v2s…mqq5 for doing the heavy lifting by reporting this first #Trump #trial on #Mastodon so I/we can get the pertinent news without having to actually watch it. 👏🧡👏🧡👏🧡👏🧡👏🧡👏🧡👏 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Wishing you a peaceful #SilentSunday. This is an older photo. I was staying on a friend’s sailboat docked on Lake Union, #Seattle. The UW women’s crew team woke me as they rowed by. Nothing quite like waking to a beautiful city just getting the day started, while sitting on a boat deck wrapped in a blanket, sipping a cup of coffee, and having all the feels. 🌇⛵️ #photography https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/270/170/088/948/284/original/be4e1f5d8d93e532.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ DO NOT use FileYourTaxes.com no matter what the IRS tells you about it being a preferred service provider. Once you create an account you cannot delete it, nor any of the financial data you provide. What's more, no 2-factor login. The website is awful and all you'll get are form letter responses from an unmanaged email address you're given to request account deletion. None of this is disclosed until you've created the account. Beware! Avoid! #taxes #enshittification #enshitification npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I found this beautiful #handmade honey pot at a thrift store for $6. Perfect condition. 💙 #ReduceRecycleReuse #pottery https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/259/323/290/166/956/original/562850b9261923e1.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I propose we DON'T cover #OJ any more now that he's dead. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Moving on... npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Dammit. I think I’m going to have to run for an HOA seat. These old farts are making decisions like it’s 1989. Or maybe ‘79. ‘69? npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ This is ChatGPTs depiction of the grave injustices done to American women by American men in power. I suggested something showing that she's prevailed over them. I did not specify race or ages. Does this look like she's prevailing? 🤔 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/243/078/588/967/036/original/a8114d0357c5dd8b.webp npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1thd…h8wc Juan sees where this is going. Whoopsies, Juan. Too late! Women voters are going to sink the GOP's Galleon. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Long chat with a neighbor, who was high ranking govnt personnel working in war zones, now retired. We discussed Gaza and Biden’s military support for Israel. S/he conveyed that we can’t expect Biden to abandon Israel over possible war crimes because they backed us in the Iraq war - and they know our hands were not clean under Bush/Cheney. S/he basically suggested that because of Bush II’s war in the ME, the US cannot demand a cease fire without risking exposure of our own closeted skeletons. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1c5c…644a I agree that reading is way easier. Spoken in a dialect, even at reduced speed is like 😵💫 for me. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ My husband and I used #Duolingo to (re)learn #Spanish. I lasted a year then dropped off. He’s going into 2 years of daily practice. Yesterday he picked up Mexican takeout at our favorite local place and the owner asked him a few questions in Spanish. My husband came home upset that he had little idea what he was asked or how to respond in Spanish. Sorry folks. After age 10 your brain’s ability to learn new languages is severely diminished. Immersion is really the best way to learn after that. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1ffl…tv7d They likely see an opportunity to fuel a supply chain crisis that they will blame on Biden. Hopefully enough voters will see through this tactic. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Leaving you with a peaceful photo of the Salish Sea and the San Juan Islands, #Washington. #photography #PNW https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/168/975/476/473/977/original/fcec6e1cd4a3bf11.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I'm done here today. I don't need the lectures on how wrong I am for sharing my feelings of deep disappointed in our justice system. If you don't like what someone else shares, you're free to disagree in your head and scroll past. But don't expect a mea culpa out of me. In my opinion, many Americans are not angry enough at the raging unfairness of our laws and justice system. Complacency contributes to a loss of human rights and shows your privilege in ways you may not realize. Carry on. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Logged onto Mastodon to see if Trump’s properties were being seized. Nope. He wins at the long con again because there’s always someone who’ll jump in to save him. Ten more days to come up with 1/3 of his bond? I’m sure you and I would be given the same deal, right? And Netanyahu is throwing a temper tantrum over being asked to stop genociding. Score two for the devil today. 😈 Anything else I miss in this morning’s news? npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I’m boycotting #NBC #MSNBC now, and they were pretty much my last tv news source. Want to platform an election denier and Donald Trump apologist? You’re no longer welcome in our home. #boycottNBC #boycottMSNBC npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Living in the mountain forest has its ups and downs. This morning we discovered a half eaten deer in our back yard, which means we likely have a mountain lion passing through. Time to get an outdoor cam and not wander our garden after sundown, I guess. 🥺 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I now have to go stand in front of the most ridiculous HOA in America and explain why we need to build a new deck to replace our rotting wooden deck (built 36 years ago) and hope they will approve our plans. Wish me luck! Sidebar: I was once called a "City Slicker from Boulder" by a ranch owner in Durango, CO at a town board meeting, because I asked him to give us an easement for affordable Habitat for Humanity housing on a part of his land he didn't utilize. So, this is nuthin'. 😊 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I wonder why so many Mastodonians share screenshots here from people posting on Xitter? Are there not enough interesting folks on #Mastodon to share? I guess I understand if a post from a celebrity or media personality is being shared, but why go through the effort of screenshotting Susie from Scottsdale to share here? 🤔 hmmm… npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1zh2…7965 I’m reading Ecotopia right now. It’s escapist fiction, but I occasionally need to take my mind off reality. My former father in-law was a German-Jewish Holocaust survivor. Everything he warned us to watch for is happening right now. He would’ve told us to run at this point. He and his parents and younger brother crossed into France 2 wks before the border closed. They went to Bolivia, then Argentina, then the US. Most of the rest of their family were killed by Nazis, save a few who hid. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1zh2…7965 😂 Gimme a few more years and I’m sure I’ll be more jaded. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1zh2…7965 Sad, but true. I hold out a glimmer of hope, while also making alternate plans. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ The neighbors. 😊 #wildlife #LivingInNature #PNW #animals https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/095/204/137/746/927/original/ec8e66102a6af99b.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1zh2…7965 Well, he was before my time so I can’t speak much to his philosophical thinking, but I still like the idea that we can overcome greed and the desire for power (by taxing the hell out of billionaires and reining in their power over our political system) and raise up others with the money we claw back. Power is given. I’d like to believe we can take it away too. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1zh2…7965 Love of power is a psychosis. Are you saying a musician can’t be a philosopher nor understand the human condition? npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ #peace ✌️ https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/090/986/259/565/325/original/2a52b71650a864fa.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ My Adobe Creative Cloud plan was about to increase to over $60/mo and my renewal date is in a week - so I went to cancel it. #Adobe immediately offered me $20 off the monthly subscription price. I still opted to cancel my plan (which I've had since 2017). Then they offered it to me for $30 less - so I took that deal. Why do #tech companies treat their loyal customers this way? It's so dumb. Want a good deal on subscription #software? Go break up with them and they'll sweeten the deal. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Tell your parents and retiring family members... the #GOP is coming for their #SocialSecurity and #Medicare. #VoteDemocrat npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I was on Wayfair looking for a plant stand (judge if you must) because I haven’t been able to find one that works for what I need in 2 years of popping into local stores. I’ve seen some very nice $1000+ versions at galleries, however. Anyway, scrolling through reviews and user photos I came upon this room… https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/068/225/522/682/849/original/972a180952efc838.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1swy…snpj https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/tucker-carlson-consider-testicle-tanning-end-of-men Tuckems is very worried about his shrinking manhood. @npub1mmf…eknq @npub1urf…jtvm @npub1teu…w5lp npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1mmf…eknq I thought the Cybertrück was the vehicular equivalent of this… 😂 @npub1urf…jtvm @npub1teu…w5lp @npub1swy…snpj https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/066/898/210/903/349/original/45fea5fbb939268e.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ #Alabama come get your hilariously dramatic and sappy influencer. No one’s taking her seriously. 😂 OMG I can’t wait until #SNL riffs off this speech! #SOTU #SOTUResponse #GOPIsABadJoke On edit: Tho she appears to be of millennial age, I don’t think they should have to own her. Deleted from description. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ That was the #SOTU speech we needed. #Biden made #Republicans look like the craven, evil bastards that they are. He delivered both hope and retribution. Loved it. Five stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1xr8…3q0g Same. I have a kettle ball that doesn't strain the shoulder so much. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1xr8…3q0g It's crazy that it never really heals. I tore mine 10 years ago. Still hurts like hell doing certain things. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1xr8…3q0g Well, that's true - until you tear your rotator cuff lifting weights (or in my case, pulling down on them). npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1xr8…3q0g Ha! I love it! Arms days don't get a boost? npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1xr8…3q0g 'Splain the leg. Bend the knee? npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Show me your most used emojis. Mine are… 🙄😂😏😘😳😐😢❤️🩹🥂🍾🎉 I need to work on being more interesting by finding ways to incorporate the obscure emojis. 👁️🗨️🀄️🔱🧺🫙🫚 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt It’s lush, not trendy. Those counters will stand the test of time. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt Gorgeous! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1zh2…7965 Rhapsody in Blue is majestic. I danced my 🍑 off at last summer’s Earth, Wind & Fire concert. Nice mix. 💙🧡 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Our view right now… ❄️🌨️🎶 You’d never know it, but there’s a whole forested mountain in the distance. (Yes, we have eclectic music tastes. Our playlists are ridiculous. Earth, Wind and Fire was followed by Tom Petty.) https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/028/652/201/257/497/original/5d30f836bc5fdf0b.mp4 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ The word for the past decade is GREED. Everything we’ve lost, we’ve lost to greed. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ That’s wonderful @npub1u3t…c6ug! Congratulations on receiving this valuable endorsement! 👏👏👏 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Tornados, wildfires, droughts, floods - all happening in the same period, and this is only going to get worse. We’ve destroyed our only home. 😢 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I’m a guest at a good friend’s home in San Diego. We’ve been eating out a lot, so tonight I made a caprese salad with heirloom tomatoes, fresh, locally made burrata, fresh basil, and Meyer lemon from her tree. We toasted some baguette, drizzled some olive oil and balsamic and voila! Dinner! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/995/583/675/942/964/original/3921c17548887c81.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Happy #SilentSunday! #photography #beach #SanDiego #California https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/993/098/756/202/996/original/cafa675a2737cf01.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Last one for tonight… the ultimate #California #beach shot. #photography #sunset# ocean #nature https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/984/544/741/477/641/original/50da74e92b1dbf9b.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Nautilus. I could not get enough of this shell. I may have 30 photos of it. Low tide exposed it, so I gently walked it out to the water and placed it where it was at less risk of being disturbed by dogs, kids, and gulls. It was quite a work of art! #seashore #beach #shell #art #nature #photography https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/984/419/937/186/349/original/fa9b115e30f270e4.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/984/420/346/451/562/original/ca95a21888bdbdb5.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I had the greatest of days! #DelMar, #California. #sunset #beach #photography #nature #art #beauty https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/984/331/231/319/405/original/35ae56edf0fbe04d.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ There’s a woman on my airport shuttle working on her laptop and talking on her phone. In the past hour the driver has asked her 3 times to keep her call brief, which he announced at the start of the ride, “Keep your calls brief and your voice low.” On his third request at a passenger stop he came up to her and basically told her to get off the phone or get off the shuttle. She said she’d hang up. He went back to driving and she continued talking on her phone. Why are some people like this? npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I want to know, if unfertilized embryos are “children,” do they count as tax deductible dependents? Can I bring a jar or embryos in my car and ride in the Alabama commuter lanes? Or didn’t the idiots in the Alabama government think this through that far? Nikki Haley said she agrees with Alabama. Fuck you Nikki Haley! You’re a traitor to women. Turn in your tits. There are far better women than you who may need them. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ When we talk about raising the price of something in order to decrease demand, just remember… the only demand we’re decreasing is among those folks who can no longer afford said thing. Increase the taxes on fuel and you’re making it harder for lower income folks, not the wealthy who can pay any price you demand. Demand may decline, but it may also be punishing to the people just trying to get to work, not the jet-class. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1pmn…7cwg What a nice memory! I remember when it was Ivars’ fanciest restaurant. My mom remembered when it was the tallest building in Seattle when she worked on ‘Pill Hill.’ 😉 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ The top of the Smith Tower on the edge of Pioneer Square, #Seattle. This is the white building in the last photo of Seattle I posted. The top was a restaurant, then a private residence, now a swanky, cool bar. The views are pretty nice. Drinks were delish but $$.🤑 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/948/292/407/636/191/original/60f634cfff71ae3f.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/948/292/937/079/748/original/4b7a79bd46d5216f.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ That time my hubs and I went to a Kiss concert in #Seattle, but obviously failed to dress properly for it. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/948/045/312/843/133/original/b59cb29bc5b5228d.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub189n…satx Seconded! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub14ka…um78 Ha! I had to read that twice. I spent 15 years in Colorado trying to keep 3 kids together on mountain trails. We only encountered a mountain lion once. We saw more of them in our neighborhood! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ When your #Colorado backyard is adjacent to open space, your neighbors just hop the fence to take a stroll along the path (btw, this path is used by children to get to school). https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/925/414/369/103/403/original/209db943d228caca.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Something my mom would say… “If the #CDC told you to jump off a bridge, would you?” #RIPCDC 🦠 😷 💉 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1gmx…atcq I’ve been surprised by the number of Garland apologists here who drop into others’ comments just to defend him and suggest he has some deep, dark master plan. It’s a weird flex. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Love Joy Reid calling out MIA Merrick Garland in (not) dealing with Donald Trump’s criminality. She always says the stuff others in media are afraid to say. Do you think Biden will replace him after he wins a second term? I’m guessing he stays with the horse who brung him. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Are there incentives to convert Mastodonians over to #BlueSky? I feel like I walked onto a used car lot this morning. Please stop evangelizing another Jack Dorsey product. We know where to find it. If you love it, good for you. And hey, we’ll see you on your return trip when he sells it to one of his billionaire libertarian friends! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ The trumpeter #swans were out! #PNW #birds https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/870/705/075/884/556/original/bed265d9fac66827.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/870/705/316/256/726/original/d770f1c1ab8c1ac5.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/870/705/514/891/918/original/a77b04f034146777.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1zh2…7965 Times were very different for old Ben. Education was a luxury reserved for white men and generally the wealthier among them. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt Yeah. We stayed in that hotel 1 time 3 years ago. Today is the first email I’ve gotten from them, just hours after having that convo with my husband. I didn’t search anything. Just a “private” conversation. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Out of nowhere I got an email ad for a hotel in a town my hubs and I were talking about visiting tomorrow. 🤔 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1ecp…59pq I fear we’re turning into a society that’s just a breath away from putting our seniors in oar-less rowboats and casting them out to die because they’re not useful to the capitalist machinery any longer. @npub13fd…pkcz npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ #Education is our weapon and our salvation. #books #bookstodon #learning https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/863/109/455/783/605/original/8ffded13865b648d.png npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1ecp…59pq Pretty sure medicare advantage shortened my mom’s life… pancreatic cancer left untreated for a year, then straight into home hospice care that I provided. The only thing covered was to make her death less painful. @npub13fd…pkcz npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub132h…f594 Quick! Somebody go view his website history. They always tell on themselves. @npub136v…rn0g npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1g2d…l2nh Beautiful work, Olga - and you are beautiful too! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt Right. In the meanwhile, make a plan and put yourself out there as an expert. What can I do to help? I'm a marketer of all things. ;-) npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt It is January darling. So a year from now?? Heheh @npub1z00…zz79 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt You're in a very niche market. Any thoughts of where you could branch out? States? Govn't agencies? Writers are woefully underpaid. Whenever I sign up for writing only gigs, they are always the lowest paid/highest maintenance jobs. I could make some intros if you're looking for fill-in work. @npub1z00…zz79 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1sfl…gczt I recently refused to do this without pay and they hired me anyway. We skipped the 'test.' Don't play the game if you can help it. @npub1z00…zz79 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1fal…x5g3 @npub1gmx…atcq My daughter, a K-8 teaching assistant at a private school, was COVID positive on Saturday morning after a co-worker revealed a positive test on Friday. Four others tested positive. They are all returning to school tomorrow, except my daughter - who still has a fever and other symptoms. She decided to wait out the weekend, without pay. Everyone else decided to return, sans additional testing, because they are forgoing pay while out. This is a serious problem. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ When you’re on a forest walk with friends and encounter a giant wooden troll. #PNW #Seattle #Issaquah #art #sculpture https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/840/500/165/679/681/original/fa8d4138fc3b13f7.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/840/500/470/621/782/original/9c63a0e083c100db.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/840/500/705/284/463/original/ee3e0dcdca3b2e5a.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub132h…f594 You go first, Missouri Republican. Show us how its done. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub18lj…80hq And he and his wife divorced. My hubs knew them both. He said John Gray and Barbara DiAngeles had each been married multiple times and they were equally whackadoodle. He knew Marianne Williamson too. Lol LA npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ My son is on winter break from grad school. He decided to take a road trip from CO to what he believed would be warmer weather in southern TX so he could go rock climbing. He was very surprised to learn that it snows and freezes in El Paso - and with a chewy AQI of 186. Just because the hotel is cheap doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your research. 😣 Mom isn’t happy she had to book him a better hotel in TX, where I swore I’d never spend another dime. He got bed bug bites from his cheap hotel. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I'm such a nice wifey. I just bought my husband a new MacBook Air for Christmas - and upgraded the memory and storage capacity so I don't have to listen to him yell at the beach ball of death slowing him down any more. Kind of a gift to myself too. lol npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ I love interior design and home remodeling, so I watch more than my fair share of HGTV. I just wished they'd be honest about how a 28 year old, single woman with a $50k/year job can afford to remodel and restore a 125 year old, runned-down house purchased for $90k that I know cost her at least $200k to restore. Trust fund? Big bank loan? Related to everyone doing the work? It's a dishonest depiction of those good ole' American bootstraps we keep being told to grab on to and it really irks me! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1ctz…d0jk @npub19fc…ay3c Former 15 year affordable housing exec here. It’s the poverty. Single parents did just fine raising their kids after being moved into homes they could afford. Kids did better in school too. Funny how having a quiet bedroom to study in makes such a difference. I watched parents train to get better jobs too, because they weren’t afraid of losing their govnt subsidies. They could finally afford to let them go and take jobs like EMTs, nursing, office managers, legal aids… npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ When one quarter to one third of the country doesn’t believe in democracy - and we hand a bunch of them power, our #democracy is certain to face grave danger from the inside. It’s up to the rest of us to disempower and remove them. Vote out the #GOP #fascists like democracy is on life support and will die if you don’t. 🗳️🚑 #fascism #USpol #elections https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/596/943/143/607/690/original/53b5b2d86683de3f.jpeg npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1grx…uxfe We called and got Fox removed from our cable package a year ago. We also paid out of pocket to run a pro Net Neutrality ad campaign that lasted months before the FCC’s Pai tore it down. Progressives who take action exist. 😘 npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ @npub1200…aqy2 Wow. Advertisers should NEVER get to decide content. That wall that existed when I was selling ad space for print media has been foolishly torn down. We’d get those requests, along with page preferences, and we’d immediately tell them we don’t do advertorials except as promotional inserts, which is what those deals are. I’d have been fired for even suggesting an advertiser have a say in content. What a terrible position to put journalists in! npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ Latest from my daughter in Maine: The police scanner indicates they have someone surrounded in an abandoned house in Bowdoin. Reports are the shooter’s brother used to own the house. npub1zptqm00cp60thlh90h8ruz2hwlq47xz56p9qckcq45l6dkr9gajs24qlaw Kat ♾️ My daughter was walking to the King Soopers grocery in Boulder, CO as it was being shot up by a gunman. Her dad called her to make sure she knew it was going on. That call turned her around and she went home and locked down. She moved to #Maine a few years ago. I texted her now about the Lewiston, ME shooting happening. She didn’t know. She’s 20 mins from #Lewiston - not close, but not far enough for me. Another angry white guy with an AR. #America She’s ready to leave the US. 😥