JFW

@middleageunicorn.bsky.social

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she/her 📚 Reader: mystery, true crime, sci-fi, reading diversely 🎨 Art journaler and former poet 🔮 Tarot card collector 🦄 Perimenopausal mom & educator still figuring my 💩 out

It's me, a proudly middle-aged lady with a short, reddish brown, curly bob. I'm wearing a multicolored blouse with an "I Voted" sticker. I'm smiling and wearing big sunglasses.
Cover image of The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives by Jonathan Malesic
I'm holding a glass tumbler with a wooden top and plastic straw. It has hand drawings of bookshelves with books, plants, candles, and potion bottles. The bookshelves titles depicting tropes in smut & romance novels: Bad Man, Forbidden, Morally Grey, Banned, Fairy Smut, etc.
Q from Star Trek:Next Generation in a black and red judge costume. It includes a ruby and gold necklace, gloves, and a jaunty cap.
A close-up of a discarded blonde Barbie laying on her side on a white rug. She is wearing a glittery pink and blue leotard. Her groin and things are closer to the camera and a little blurred while her face is in focus, but at the top of the frame.
Left side of a 2-page spread in a Dylusions art journal. The page is layered with book scraps, gesso, and smeared and drippy blue, purple, and silver paint. In the lower right corner, there is a scratchy white space that has two shadowy shapes behind it. In the upper left corner, there is a black + white picture of a blonde porcelain doll face. The page is bordered in dark blue.
Storygraph mood graph for the books I read in November: 3 books, 646 pages, average time to finish was 5 days 2 books were challenging (white) 2 books were adventurous (green) 1 book was tense (fuschia) 1 book was mysterious (brown) 1 book was dark (dark gray)
Things Fall Apart - Chinia Achebe
The Project 2025 monetary policy proposals include: 1. Returning the U.S. to the gold standard (commodity backed money). 2. Elimination of the Federal 3. Reserve’s dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability replaced with a focus solely on price stability. 4. Reduce and limit Federal 5. Reserve purchases of financial assets, including federal debt and mortgage-backed securities. 6. Limiting the Federal Reserve’s lender-of-last-resort function, which offers loans to banks near collapse. 7. Exploring alternatives to the Federal Reserve System, including elimination of the Federal Reserve and the implementation of “free banking”.
Noah Wyle is a sad-man doctor who doesn't sleep, or have time to pee, talks in a soft ASMR voice, and mourns every patient's situation, while still looking fine as hell in scrubs and a scruffy beard.
Writing Talk: Paragraphs and short Essays with Readings by Nathibh C. Winkler and Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell
Memoirs of a Beatnik - Diane di Prima
Close up of my art journal page. Layered on top of orange and red acrylic paint is a vintage map of the United States. The map has zones marked with prices listed each zone, getting less expensive from West to East. The map is outlined in black pastels.
Cover image of Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Book 1 of the Xenogenesis series. A Black woman bathed in gold light leans against alien-looking plants.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration- Isabel Wilkerson
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Picture of my laptop keyboard and screen. On the screen is an ASMR video showing a dark forest clearing. The silhouettes of 6 cats surround a bright white crescent moon lying in the grass. There are sparkles of light drifting up, and you can see pairs of cats' eyes glowing in the distance.
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
This is how Capricorns apologize : honestly I just hope you learned from this This could have been a costly lesson. I hope you understand me better now.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Thr House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Meme Wars - The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in the United States by Jean Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg
Gig - Americans Talk About Their Jibs Edited by Jihn Rowe, Marisa Rowe, and Sahin Streetwr
Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
The cover of my Dylusions journal is a primary layer of white gesso, with a light sketch of a woman's face dominating the cover. The face is covered by an orange star and oval pattern. Red polka dots cover her eye diagonally. The "here" in all caps and black font is on the lower left corner. It's circled in red.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
A Dylusions hardcover journal spread open, so you can see both sides of the cover. The first layer of book paper and white gesso has been added. It sits on my paint splattered art table.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems 1927-1979
Screenshot of a weather app, showing a high fo 6 degrees (F) and a low of -13 degrees (F). With the windchill, it currently feels like -14 degrees (F).
Poster for the original Beetlejuice film
Inspiration Sandwich: Stories to Inspire Our Creative Freedom by SARK
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey, Founder of the Nap Ministry