# look forward (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover look forward. Page: Feed: --- ## [Poetry Event: Storytime for Caregivers with poet Meg Leonard at Portsmouth Book Nook](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poetry-event-storytime-for-caregivers) _2026-08-21 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ See you in Portsmouth, NH! ## [Poetry: Workshop through Politics and Prose](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poetry-workshop-through-politics) _2026-08-20 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Join us online in January! ## [Poetry: Reading in Portsmouth, NH, with Meghan Sterling](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poetry-reading-in-portsmouth-nh-with) _2026-08-19 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Hope you can join us! ## [Poem's Origin Story: Robert Tobias](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poems-origin-story-robert-tobias) _2026-08-18 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Where does a poem begin? ## [The Writing Jar: Submissions](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/the-writing-jar-submissions) _2026-08-17 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Writing Together ## [Poetry Reading: With Elizabeth Hazen at Kramers](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poetry-reading-with-elizabeth-hazen) _2026-08-13 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Wednesday Sep 23rd, 2026, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ## [Writing Coaching: Free Consultation](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/writing-coaching-free-consultation) _2026-08-12 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Fall scheduling with new clients ## [Poem's Origin Story: Burgi Zenhaeusern](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poems-origin-story-burgi-zenhaeusern) _2026-08-11 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Where does a poem begin? ## [The Writing Jar: Organizing Writing Time](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/the-writing-jar-organizing-writing) _2026-08-10 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Writing Together ## [Fall Brown Bag Lit Poetry Workshop: One Seat Open](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/fall-brown-bag-lit-poetry-workshop) _2026-08-07 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Join us to write and read poetry this fall ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8KCdtTvYYsrr) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Poetry: Sealey Challenge](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poetry-sealey-challenge) _2026-08-06 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Read a poetry book a day for the month of August ## [Reading: In Conversation with Shasta Grant](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/reading-in-conversation-with-shasta) _2026-08-05 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ Join us at Politics and Prose on Friday, August 14 ## [Beyond the Picket Sign Workshop: Writing & Illustrating Your Story Into a Zine](https://chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/beyond-the-picket-sign-workshop-writing) _2026-08-04 · Chloe Yelena Miller · Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher_ For kids in 4th - 6th grade and their grownups on Sat., Sept. 12 (10 am - 12pm, at the Writer's Center ## [Sports books coming later in 2026](https://allsportsbookreviews.substack.com/p/sports-books-coming-later-in-2026) _2026-07-28 · All Sports Books · All Sports Books_ Plenty to look forward to over the rest of the year ## [Weeknotes 2026 // July 13-19](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/weeknotes-01/) _2026-07-22 · untangled · amanda untangled_ Trying out this weeknotes thing! I’ve seen more than a few people I follow talk about it in the last couple of weeks, and while I’m a sucker for trying new things, I’m skeptical about how well I’ll keep up with it. Weekly is pretty often and I feel like I have a pretty good cadence going. but I also would like this to be a place where I can just drop some logs and who knows, maybe someone will… ## [Re: Revival of Independent Physical Video Rental Shops](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/indie-video-rental/) _2026-07-11 · untangled · amanda untangled_ Thanks to Paul from Defiant Sloth for bringing two more video rental shops to my attention—I literally just learned about The Video Shop Mpls yesterday. And thanks to Robert Birming for encouraging the JulyReply challenge. — My husband was laid off from his job eight months ago. Money started to get tight. Non-essential items, starting with streaming services, were getting cut from the budget. We… ## [Life without Google](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/life-without-google/) _2026-07-02 · untangled · amanda untangled_ I said goodbye to Google yesterday. I’ve had Gmail accounts for as long as I can remember (at least since 2008ish, as I was heading off to college) and it feels weird to not have it. Two years ago I completely switched over to iCloud email, and still I hung on to my Gmail accounts. Because what if I needed it? Ugh. I wasn’t getting a ton of mail there anymore, but anything that did hit that inbox… ## [Not Dead!](https://skullandweasel.com/not-dead/) _2026-06-11 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ Was just absent due to a combination of being ill (twice), school holidays, my desk (and the area around it) being an off-putting mess, and life just doing its thing and randomly throwing shit at me. Gonna make this post a bullet-list of general updates and thoughts, as my daughter's due to wake up from a nap soon. ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ 🔸 Was mine and my husband's birthdays, back in April. I turned the… ## [Physical vs. eBooks](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/physical-books-ebooks/) _2026-06-09 · untangled · amanda untangled_ I’ve become more and more disenchanted with ebooks these days. I know, I’ve posted about this before. But bear with me because my brain has been buzzing about it lately. On the one hand, I like having a book with me wherever I go. On the other hand, I hate that I don’t actually own those books. And yeah, I know I could go through the effort of getting Calibre and removing the DRM and getting a… ## [Make Email Fun Again!](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/make-email-fun-again/) _2026-05-13 · untangled · amanda untangled_ I don’t know when the transition happened. Email used to be fun and exciting, like you’d actually look forward to seeing that you got a new email, rather than annoyed by whatever marketing email you accidentally signed up for five years ago. These days, most of the emails I get are shipping notifications (alright, those are okay…), emails from my child’s school, a couple of substack articles, and… ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/82ZBSJqwyinc) _2026-05-13 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Apr \>\> May](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/apr-may/) _2026-05-08 · untangled · amanda untangled_ Writing to you from a feverish state, but saw Peige’s monthly reflection over on Pretend Typewriter and was inspired to look back on the month of April. Yes, I know it’s May 8. + The first couple of months of my new job have been really good! I planted potatoes, beets, carrots, cilantro, and dill in my garden. My little tomato starters are thriving! :) Met with one of my Booksta buddies. The trees… ## [Can You Reverse Brain Rot?](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/brain-rot/) _2026-04-28 · untangled · amanda untangled_ I’ve been following Cal Newport for some time (known for his book Deep Work and Digital Minimalism ). I’ve come to look forward to his weekly podcasts on attention, focus, and life without social media. Today, he dropped a podcast titled “How Do I Build Cognitive Fitness?” (Alternatively, his YouTube video with the same content was titled “How Do I Reverse Brain Rot?” , so I’m curious which one… ## [Bye, Substack.](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/bye-substack/) _2026-04-24 · untangled · amanda untangled_ I quit Instagram in October 2025. It’s been a weird and winding road getting here (and honestly the last six months have been weird to begin with, a story for another day), but I finally feel like I’ve found a virtual home. When I quit Insta and Booksta, I had the best intentions. The plan was to go all in on my Ghost site, tell my friends on Instagram that I’d be writing my book reviews over… ## [March's Books](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2026%2003%20March/033126) _2026-04-06 · FireFairy_ The books I read in March 2026 ## [Tardigrades](https://skullandweasel.com/tardigrades/) _2026-04-01 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ This is for The Grizzly Gazette's Bear Blog Carnival , which, this month, is You're Favourite Unconventional Animal hosted by Oracle of Sages . ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ I can't remember when I first learned about tardigrades, but when I did, it was love at first sight. I mean, just look at 'em! All that cuteness concentrated into a near-microscopic squishy little sack. Bless, it looks likes an inflatable… ## [Five sports books with an Irish connection](https://allsportsbookreviews.substack.com/p/five-sports-books-with-an-irish-connection) _2026-03-25 · All Sports Books · All Sports Books_ Recent and upcoming books about Irish sport or written by Irish writers (or both) ## [Happy Spring! (And Other Tidbits)](https://skullandweasel.com/happy-spring-and-other-tidbits/) _2026-03-21 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ Yesterday was the spring equinox, and thankfully I'd just gotten over a really grim cold that made my sinuses feel like they were full of molten lava. So, yay! Happy Spring! Friday is my dedicated gym day 1 , but I was also itching to get a start on tidying the garden, so I decided to have the weather determine how I spent my first day of spring: wet would be gym, dry would be garden. Dry it was.… ## [Screen Time](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/screen-time/) _2026-03-16 · untangled · amanda untangled_ My personal screen time has been on the rise again. The numbers creep up and my anxiety goes up along with it. But then I look at the breakdown of where the time is going, and it suddenly makes sense. I finished an ebook recently that had me glued to my phone, so the minutes allotted to the Books app were very high. Should I stop tracking the screen time on my phone if I plan to continue reading… ## [Ownership](https://untangled.bearblog.dev/ownership/) _2026-03-14 · untangled · amanda untangled_ It’s funny how the perspective on ownership has shifted in the last 20 years. My perspective, anyway. From Spotify to Netflix, we had been sold the idea that we don’t need to buy movies or music anymore, we can just stream or borrow them. We don’t need the clutter of discs or DVD cases. Full access to millions of movies and songs for less than the price of takeout. In 2013 I digitized my DVD… ## [Smells Like Teen Spirit (Re: Demoting Deodorant)](https://skullandweasel.com/smells-like-teen-spirit/) _2026-03-11 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ I came across Forking Mad's post, Demoting Deodorant , and at the end, he asks, "Am I in the minority?" Now, I haven't the slightest clue as to the percentage of people blessed by the pit gods, but I can confidently say, "You're not alone." My husband, too, received their blessing. Once he had come of age, the gods looked down upon him and smiled. They chanted their heavenly incantations and… ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DGIO82u5FvQr) _2026-03-11 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [My First Bandcamp Purchase](https://skullandweasel.com/my-first-bandcamp-purchase/) _2026-03-06 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ I recently ditched Spotify 1 and made a Bandcamp account, last month. Unfortunately, I found out about Bandcamp Fridays the day after the last one, so I waited for this one, to start my collection on. (It was a test of patience, at first, but then it became nice to have something to look forward to. That, and it made buying the albums feel more special.) Since there won't be a BF next month, I… ## [Re: CM's Les Misérables (2012) Post](https://skullandweasel.com/re-cms-les-miserables-2012-post/) _2026-03-05 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ Oh...my...god... I just saw this post by cinematicmoments , and talk about a blast from the past! The first computer I remember my parents owning was an old IBM Personal Computer , with a monochrome monitor. No idea what my parents actually used that computer for, apart from playing games, but that's all little me ever did with it. We had a few games for it, but the two I played the most were… ## [March Update](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2026%2003%20March/030526) _2026-03-05 · FireFairy_ A look at what lies ahead of me for March 2026 ## [Mucking About with the Theme](https://skullandweasel.com/mucking-about-with-the-theme/) _2026-03-05 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ I wonder how many times I'm going to mess around with this blog's theme, before I finally feel it's finished. Especially when I keep changing things only to change them back again and then repeating the process several times over. I think I'm at least settled on the background. (We'll see how I feel about it, at a reasonable hour of the day, and not at nearly 2am.) Have a pic of my weird,… ## [February's Books](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2026%2002%20February/022826) _2026-03-03 · FireFairy_ My reviews of the books I read in February ## [A Random List of Silly Things I Love](https://skullandweasel.com/a-random-list-of-silly-things-i-love/) _2026-03-02 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ I saw Syl's blog post and then Nick's , and I wanted to join in with the positive vibes, as well. When you randomly catch a scent that hurls you back to a very specific time and/or place, and you get hit with a wave of good feelings and happy memories. 1 Bumblebees. The bigger the better. Love the sight of a good roly poly bumble tumbling out of a large flower or landing on a small one and the… ## [A Quiet Sunday](https://skullandweasel.com/a-quiet-sunday/) _2026-03-01 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ Not been up to much, today. Went out to top up the bird feeders. (Neighbours prolly think I'm a bit mad, as I always talk to the birds when I go out, greeting them, apologising for letting any feeder go empty, and wishing them good luck with their day.) As I poured out some seed mix and replaced the hanging fat balls, a familiar rotund shape landed on the fence next to me. Loxley, our resident… ## [What a Gloriously Sunny Day in... Britain?](https://skullandweasel.com/what-a-gloriously-sunny-day-in-britain/) _2026-02-24 · skullandweasel · ⭒ SKULL & WEASEL ⭒_ Hard to believe it, but it's true! The sun is actually shining! (Honestly, it was getting to the point where I was looking at photos of last spring and pining for the sun's return.) A sunny day, last spring. I look forward to being able to hang laundry outside again. (I'm aware this makes me sound like Boober Fraggle.) Not only has the sun decided to come out, but so too have the crocus and some… ## [February Update](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2026%2002%20February/020526) _2026-02-05 · FireFairy_ an update in February ## [January's Books](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2026%2001%20January/013126) _2026-02-02 · FireFairy_ My reviews of the books I read in January ## [Goodreads vs StoryGraph](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2026%2001%20January/012026) _2026-01-20 · FireFairy_ A subjective comparison of the features between StoryGraph and Goodreads ## [A Look Forward](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2026%2001%20January/010826) _2026-01-08 · FireFairy_ A look ahead into the New year ## [December Books](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2025%2012%20December/123125) _2026-01-06 · FireFairy_ My book reviews for the books I read during December ## [The Magic of Playaways](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2025%2012%20December/121725) _2025-12-18 · FireFairy_ a look at some cool library technology for audiobook lovers ## [Monthly Update](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2025%2012%20December/121425) _2025-12-15 · FireFairy_ A month in review and a look forward ## [Sports books coming in 2026](https://allsportsbookreviews.substack.com/p/sports-books-coming-in-2026) _2025-12-13 · All Sports Books · All Sports Books_ So many great sports books to look forward to next year ## [Monthly Book Dump](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2025%2011%20November/113025) _2025-12-08 · FireFairy_ Book review dump of all the books I read in November ## [Práctica de Español 4](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2025%2011%20November/112825) _2025-11-29 · FireFairy_ Práctica de escribiendo de Español cuatro. ## [Great sports books of 2025](https://allsportsbookreviews.substack.com/p/great-sports-books-of-2025) _2025-11-20 · All Sports Books · All Sports Books_ The best books I've read this year and some on my to-read list ## [Reading Check-in](https://firefairy.neocities.org/BlogPosts/2025%2011%20November/111925) _2025-11-20 · FireFairy_ A mid-month check-in on what I've read and am reading this month