This Memorial Day, I’m honoring my uncle Harry Doyle, who served on a navy submarine in WWII. Whenever I asked what he did, he didn't want to talk about it. What Harry did like to do is garden & drink beer, preferably Miller High Life. He was a gentle man, one of the kindest I've known. I miss him.❤️
❄️ The winter was full of snow & freezing temperatures in Tahoe, but that didn't deter this Incline surfer & his dog! 🐕
(Photo by Tom Doyle)
#surfing #snow
💖Happy Independent Bookstore Day! 💖 I'm celebrating my local Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore, a gorgeous, light-filled place filled with ways to get & stay inspired! 🌠🌻🌠
#booklovers
🌱🪻Our Mar. 14 Babylon Salon features 5 fabulous writers:
⭐ Charlie Jane Anders
⭐ Grant Faulkner
⭐ Mark Ernest Pothier
⭐ Grayson Thompson
⭐ And our very own Lauren Johnson!
Bay Area friends, come on out to The Sycamore @ 5:30pm. As always, our shows are free! ❤️ www.babylonsalon.com
⭐️How amazing to see Maxine Hong Kingston & her husband Earl alongside me at Sat's No Kings protest! Hong Kingston wrote 1 of my favorite #books in the world, WOMAN WARRIOR, soon out in a 50th anniv. edition. All of us have been protesting insane wars & rogue presidents since the '70s! 🔥🔥
#writer
This past Fri, when I saw 4 #astronauts - incl. a #woman - splash safely down, I cried. Our times are eerily like those of 1969 when the 1st human landed on the #moon: the country's hugely divided & we have a #corrupt president waging an unwinnable war. #Artemis II showed us the good in humanity.
💥 How wonderful to be surrounded by authors & books at the Bay Area Book Fest last weekend! I caught up w/Vicki DeArmon, publisher @sibyllinepress.bsky.social, which will be publishing my novel in April, & Celeste Chan, fellow member @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social. Great way to start the summer! 😎
💥💥Look what fell out of a book when I was organizing yesterday! The Rolling Stones “Bridges to Babylon” ticket at the Oakland Stadium (as if was called in 1997), for all of $65. The Stones were more energetic and less wrinkled then -- an amazing concert, esp. the encore “Brown Sugar”!🎶
🔥 Tomorrow (4/18) marks the 120th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the deadliest in U.S. history. 3000+ people died & 250,000 (1/2 the city!) were homeless. Yet afterward, eyewitnesses said the air was filled w/a holiday-like spirit, maybe b/c people were happy just to be alive! ✴️
💥Excited to see my story "Voices" published in Ginosko Literary Journal's new issue! Many thanks to Editors Robert Paul Cesaretti & Ben C Davies!
Read this story on p. 50 💥💥
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#author #writer #story
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