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I write weird words well (alternative poetry)

Christopher Cook — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:07:27 +0000

Apple pie rules my life, I write about everything else.

Website:
https://www.instagram.com/snowrider1980/

Contact:
Snowrider1980@gmail.com
(206) 948-6972

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Holly Thorpe

Holly Thorpe — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:44:50 +0000

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Kickass Teacher

Jamie Johnson — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:41:00 +0000

“I am enough! I am good at what I do! I make a difference! Jamie gave me the permission and validation I need to believe I do enough, even though I cannot do it all!” — Julie Wysocky, Middle School Teacher

Did you know that teachers have among the highest rate of urinary tract infections because we literally don’t have time to pee?

Who is this “Kickass Teacher?” And why is she swearing in school?!! Jamie is the kind of girl who smuggles a kitten home from Indonesia and lays out at the pool of the Hilton without noticing there’s a toilet seat cover stuck to her backside. She loves adventure and the lessons learned from misadventures that come with it.

The mistake Jamie used to make as a teacher was believing she HAD to do it all. She has dedicated over 17 years of research and practice to learn the art of letting shit go and writing about it to support current educators under the oppression of overwork and overwhelm. Now Jamie serves her global community through writing, art and speaking. She currently works as the Curator of Education at the Wenatchee Museum and you can catch her there at one of the many programs she develops and directs (she has a call out for local writers right now)!

Jamie is the Founder of Kickass Teacher where she has worked with over 1000 leaders and educators internationally. She is the author of “Teach & Still Have Time to Pee” and was named one of the top 30 life coaches to look out for in 2022 by Distruptor Magazine! In her book, she shows us how to let go of major sources of overwhelm, to instead, focus on what matters most.

Jamie knows that we educators don’t need “fixing.” We are already enough. We need the kind of support that improves quality of life because…

There is no curriculum or training that will impact students the way happy teachers will!

Read more at: www.kickassteacher.com and view her photography at www.photosbyjamiej.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVENSZ601tk

Website:
https://view.flodesk.com/emails/658bb7ddbdc3227ec3f4f43e

Contact:
jamie@kickassteacher.com
(509) 557-8793

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Corey Oakes

Corey Oakes — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:53:58 +0000

I am an abstract artist working mostly in movement and color. I have been a traveling artist for the last few years working in smaller venues and online. I have been working in the arts in various capacities for 20+ years. Traveling and interacting with all kinds has helped to solidify my approaches to bringing beauty to those who need it.

Website:
https://instagram.com/@oakescorey

Contact:
theabstractnomad@gmail.com
5094503350

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Dan McConnell

Dan McConnell — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:49:44 +0000

Because of the current state of the world, and maybe because I’m a topical political cartoonist most days of the week, I thought I would take a personal trip back to the process of painting large canvases in oil for my current series of paintings, My work aims to express the raw emotions of war through abstract expressionism and the symbolism of how ordinary things get rendered useless and brought to their bare bones through the destruction of war. War has always been a paintful topic for me: from the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars to the current war in Ukraine. My paintings are metaphorical depictions of those atrocities. I use the car as a symbol to depict war’s savagery. My goal in this series of paintings is to convey the emotional impact of war through line, shape, paint application, color and composition. These are not hopeless paintings though, because as seen with the Ukraine people, they’re tough and through grit and determination are rebuilding what has been destroyed.

Lately I’ve had a regular gig on weekends in the Wenatchee World. In the World, I do local and sometimes Nationally focused political cartoons. Sometimes I do caricatures of local and Nationally known people in those political cartoons. I do some teaching of cartoons and basic drawing and painting here and there around the valley. You can find my gag cartoons in the back of the Comet magazine, most of the time. I’m married with two adult children and two nearly adult grandkids.

You can see my work on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/dan.mcconnell.art – Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/cartoonydan/ – BlueSky – https://bsky.app/profile/cartoonydan.bsky.social –

Website:
https://nationalcartoonists.com/author/dan-mcconnell/?v=f24485ae434a

Contact:
cartoonydan@gmail.com
(509) 630-9092

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