COVER REVEAL! 🌊 A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Available on Aug 11, 2026. https://t.co/PdTsvTFNzL @fsgbooks

4/4: It is esp crucial to support rural stations, as they often provide communities with their only local news and life-saving weather and emergency alerts (mine are @ncpr and @KASUradio). https://t.co/kW26DsIO30 Please, if you're able, help now.

3/4: It's the model I've tried to live up to ever since. I see lots of quotes of @TimothySnyder's first rule of defeating tyranny ("Don't obey in advance."), fewer of the second ("Defend institutions.") Public media in the United States is an institution worth defending.

2/4: Watching college students and community members rise to the occasion, sleep on studio couches, caravan down to LA to cover the aftermath firsthand, and getting information out to a community hungry for factual, accurate, humane stories made an indelible impression on me.

1/4: I got my start in public media. I still remember when the Rodney King verdict came down my first year @kzsc. We had a remarkably good public affairs department.

Also, read everything @mcgowankat has written for NPR on caregiving!

"In the early 20th century, disabled and older people who needed help were relegated to almshouses, which were public institutions of last resort." No matter what I write about, I always end up back at poorhouses.

Excited to see this new film... "Caregivers are on their own--and...spend an average of $7,242 out of pocket each year. According to a recent DoL report, they also miss out on an average of $43,500 in income due to the demands of adult care." https://t.co/pJBO8BK9vt

I'm at the stage of editing this draft where I have to think deeply about things like: Is it Jell-o? Jell-O? JELL-O? #amwriting

Vous connaissiez Virginia Eubanks @PopTechWorks pour son enquête sur les technologies de l'État social américain. On en discute sur @AOC_media, avec l’actualité américaine et un témoignage sur son expérience de proche aidante et sur comment le soin pourrait être réinventé.

Finally made the move to Instagram. Follow me over there if you'd like to know more about new writing and adventures in wilderness survival. https://t.co/U390pdAiOZ

I’m so excited about OUR RIGHT TO CARE conference in April—at @pennlaw & Crossroads Women’s Center. Honored to co-organize and co-keynote with so many amazing activists, scholars & caregivers.

As Meta announces the end to professional fact-checking, please -please- accept finally that social media is not a viable way to get factual information. It was a noble experiment. It failed. Traditional journalism, while imperfect, is the way. Please pay a little bit and use it.

This class is going to be great.

3) For "point of view": Joan Didion, “Insider Baseball,” The New York Review of Books, October 27, 1988.

2) For "setting": Chris Offutt's “In the Hollow,” (Harper’s Magazine, November 2016, https://t.co/2bAP1JNNDu...)

Here are some of the other stories going on the syllabus: 1) For "character": Jennifer Gonnerman, “Survival Story,” The New Yorker, August 31, 2020, https://t.co/JhQDMdxSc4....

Putting together my Political Storytelling syllabus and trying to find an example of a longform journalism story that has particularly excellent pacing. Like, just-can't-put-it-down pacing. Any ideas?

4) "Healing is a kind of time traveling; stretching before the inciting harm and beyond the moment of acute crisis. What Jamison and Herman offer is a true measure of the long tail of surviving survival, that awful and awe-inspiring post-intermission journey of the scathed."

"Herman locates the origin of much trauma in tyranny... Tyrants don’t work alone. They cannot rule without bystanders, whose cynicism, indifference, collaboration, and silence—while generally born of fear and exhaustion—can feel to survivors like a deeper betrayal."