Alice Orr
@aliceorr.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Encourager. Visit - Grandma and Grandpa Go West - at www.aliceorrbooks.com. Keep on writing whatever may occur.
Mom was mentally ill. Her dis-ease manifested in many devastating ways. Noone said a word about any of them. aliceorr.substack.com/p/talk-truth...
January 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Mom was mentally ill. Her dis-ease manifested in many devastating ways. Noone said a word about any of them. aliceorr.substack.com/p/talk-truth...
I tried marriage. Grandma said, "Not for you." Then I met Jonathan. aliceorr.substack.com/p/speaking-f... #LoveStory #MarriageStory #CaregiverJourney #CourageousAging #dementia #MemoirWriting #SubstackWriter
December 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I tried marriage. Grandma said, "Not for you." Then I met Jonathan. aliceorr.substack.com/p/speaking-f... #LoveStory #MarriageStory #CaregiverJourney #CourageousAging #dementia #MemoirWriting #SubstackWriter
Oh No! I'm a Caregiver. A story of Love, Dementia, Living Well, and Never Too Late. aliceorr.substack.com/p/oh-no-im-a... #GrandmaandGrandpaGoWest #CaregiverJourney #DementiaCaregiver #CourageousAging #MarriageStory #MemoirWriting #SubstackWriter
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Oh No! I'm a Caregiver. A story of Love, Dementia, Living Well, and Never Too Late. aliceorr.substack.com/p/oh-no-im-a... #GrandmaandGrandpaGoWest #CaregiverJourney #DementiaCaregiver #CourageousAging #MarriageStory #MemoirWriting #SubstackWriter
I turned down a top NYC literary agent over sushi. Embarrassing? Yes. Heroic? Also yes. Here's why. aliceorr.substack.com/p/you-are-th... #YourWritersStory
September 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I turned down a top NYC literary agent over sushi. Embarrassing? Yes. Heroic? Also yes. Here's why. aliceorr.substack.com/p/you-are-th... #YourWritersStory
You Are the Hero of Your Writer's Life Story. Find out how and why and what to do about it. aliceorr.substack.com/p/you-are-th... #MyWritersStory #WriterHero #HeroicWriting #WritingJourney #writerslife #writingcommunity #writingwisdom
September 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
You Are the Hero of Your Writer's Life Story. Find out how and why and what to do about it. aliceorr.substack.com/p/you-are-th... #MyWritersStory #WriterHero #HeroicWriting #WritingJourney #writerslife #writingcommunity #writingwisdom
Sometimes anger energy is what we need to get through a prickly patch or a bad day. Learn more here. aliceorr.substack.com/p/write-it-r... #writingcommmunity #MentalHealth #writerslife #authenticwriting #expressivewriting
Write It Right About Anger
Joy Writing with Alice Orr
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August 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Sometimes anger energy is what we need to get through a prickly patch or a bad day. Learn more here. aliceorr.substack.com/p/write-it-r... #writingcommmunity #MentalHealth #writerslife #authenticwriting #expressivewriting
Lifelong Creativity – Never Too Late to Write www.aliceorrbooks.com/lifelong-cre... #WritingCommunity #WritingCareerAdvice #KeepWriting #WritingTips #JoyWriting #WritingWithAliceOrr
Lifelong Creativity - Never Too Late to Write - Alice Orr Books
Lifelong Creativity - Never Too Late to Write. Prompts and exercises guide you from struggle and silence to story. Never Stop Writing.
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July 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Seashells to Story Pages – Make Summertime Writing Time. Set your summer storytelling on fire. Try the writing prompts and exercises at www.aliceorrbooks.com #WritingCommunity #writingtip #storytelling
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Seashells to Story Pages – Make Summertime Writing Time. Set your summer storytelling on fire. Try the writing prompts and exercises at www.aliceorrbooks.com #WritingCommunity #writingtip #storytelling
Never Too Late – Joy Writing. Never Too Late – Joy Writing Hey Writer. When your well of creativity empties out. Get back to the page. www.aliceorrbooks.com/never-too-la... #WritingCommunity #WritersOfX #Storyteller www.aliceorrbooks.com/never-too-la...
Never Too Late - Joy Writing - Alice Orr Books
Never Too Late - Joy Writing - Time is limited. Imagination is not. Get creative. Stay creative. Let your imagination fly.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Never Too Late – Joy Writing. Never Too Late – Joy Writing Hey Writer. When your well of creativity empties out. Get back to the page. www.aliceorrbooks.com/never-too-la... #WritingCommunity #WritersOfX #Storyteller www.aliceorrbooks.com/never-too-la...
Excellent real life story. Still very timely today. Give it a read.
LGBTQ Pride.
Radclyffe Hall and her master work “The Well of Loneliness”, a lesbian novel, 1928.
#LGBTQHistory #GayBooks #BookSky
Radclyffe Hall and her master work “The Well of Loneliness”, a lesbian novel, 1928.
#LGBTQHistory #GayBooks #BookSky
June 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excellent real life story. Still very timely today. Give it a read.
Family Fuels Fiction – Joy Writing. Storytelling bounty begins at home. Mine those nuggets. Then fictionalize - fictionalize - fictionalize. This post tells you how. #writers #writingcommunity #writersoflinkedin #writingtip www.aliceorrbooks.com/family-fasci...
Family Fuels Fiction - Joy Writing - Alice Orr Books
Family Fuels Fiction - Joy Writing. My family was conflicted. Is your family conflicted too? Turn that struggle into powerful fiction.
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May 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Family Fuels Fiction – Joy Writing. Storytelling bounty begins at home. Mine those nuggets. Then fictionalize - fictionalize - fictionalize. This post tells you how. #writers #writingcommunity #writersoflinkedin #writingtip www.aliceorrbooks.com/family-fasci...
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Yes, this has been the Meta plan since at least 2020, as @monikab.bsky.social and I reported www.motherjones.com/media/2020/1...
April 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yes, this has been the Meta plan since at least 2020, as @monikab.bsky.social and I reported www.motherjones.com/media/2020/1...
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Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who was killed in 2021 after his Tesla crashed and caught fire near Dayton, Ohio reut.rs/3GmgksP
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who was killed in 2021 after his Tesla crashed and caught fire near Dayton, Ohio reut.rs/3GmgksP
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It’s publication day and the blog tour begins!
On the blog today is my book review of Down in the Sea of Angels by #author @khanwong.bsky.social
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Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong - #bookreview
Left on the Shelf Book Blog Book Reviews Book Information Recommendations Writing Reading Books for Children Books for Adults Books for Teens Fiction
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April 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s publication day and the blog tour begins!
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Happy Pub Day to @mjerkins.bsky.social!
April 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy Pub Day to @mjerkins.bsky.social!
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Oh come ON. Laura Loomer, the racist conspiracy theorist, is dictating who should be on Trump's national security team open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... @doktorzoom.bsky.social on @wonkettemedia.bsky.social
Oh, Laura Loomer Is Now Running The National Security Council. IS THAT FINE?
Why wouldn't it be fine? It's TrumpWorld! Anything goes!
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April 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Oh come ON. Laura Loomer, the racist conspiracy theorist, is dictating who should be on Trump's national security team open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... @doktorzoom.bsky.social on @wonkettemedia.bsky.social
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Thread.
For your friends/former coworkers/soon to be former coworkers/neighbors-Research local resources they may be unaware of / distraught to think about (food banks /job opportunities/free activities for children/elders in their lives etc)
Offer w kindness/dignity if they are open to hearing.
For your friends/former coworkers/soon to be former coworkers/neighbors-Research local resources they may be unaware of / distraught to think about (food banks /job opportunities/free activities for children/elders in their lives etc)
Offer w kindness/dignity if they are open to hearing.
A lot of great people doing important work just lost their jobs because the most destructive, bigoted, willfully ignorant people in the world have targeted them. Here's what you can do to support yourself or anyone you know who lost a job. Please add your own advice at the end of the thread <1/n>
April 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Thread.
For your friends/former coworkers/soon to be former coworkers/neighbors-Research local resources they may be unaware of / distraught to think about (food banks /job opportunities/free activities for children/elders in their lives etc)
Offer w kindness/dignity if they are open to hearing.
For your friends/former coworkers/soon to be former coworkers/neighbors-Research local resources they may be unaware of / distraught to think about (food banks /job opportunities/free activities for children/elders in their lives etc)
Offer w kindness/dignity if they are open to hearing.
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Folks who are still employed, welcome coffee chats and be ready to make some connections for folks who lost their jobs, harness your network. Now is not the time to hoard connections.
April 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Folks who are still employed, welcome coffee chats and be ready to make some connections for folks who lost their jobs, harness your network. Now is not the time to hoard connections.
Amen to all of that. Not your fault. These dudes are monsters. You deserve better. Give yourself time and heart space to grieve. The day to come back resilient will come and you will do so.
i have a whole series of conversations with folks who have been fired, but i think the big thing to keep in mind is that it's REALLY NOT YOUR FAULT. workers deserve WAY better. take a hot minute, allow yourself the grief, it's real. and do not blame yourself, certainly not with THESE monsters.
Canned: Conversations about Getting Fired
It's time to think differently about getting fired.
cannedpodcast.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Amen to all of that. Not your fault. These dudes are monsters. You deserve better. Give yourself time and heart space to grieve. The day to come back resilient will come and you will do so.
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3. Create 1-2 independent/volunteer projects in your field to keep your skills sharp. Open-source analysis, community science, tutoring, whatever
4. If you are fortunate enough not to need a survival job, get a leave-the-house job
5. Professional fellowships can provide a lot of needed community
4. If you are fortunate enough not to need a survival job, get a leave-the-house job
5. Professional fellowships can provide a lot of needed community
April 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
3. Create 1-2 independent/volunteer projects in your field to keep your skills sharp. Open-source analysis, community science, tutoring, whatever
4. If you are fortunate enough not to need a survival job, get a leave-the-house job
5. Professional fellowships can provide a lot of needed community
4. If you are fortunate enough not to need a survival job, get a leave-the-house job
5. Professional fellowships can provide a lot of needed community
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I would also add that every county or city across the country has free employment services for unemployed individuals. They likely can’t place folks in specialized jobs but they may be able to help people find work to tide them over. Look for WIOA career centers or One Stops.
April 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I would also add that every county or city across the country has free employment services for unemployed individuals. They likely can’t place folks in specialized jobs but they may be able to help people find work to tide them over. Look for WIOA career centers or One Stops.
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April 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I've been meaning to write a "So You're an Unemployed Scientist" guide for early-career folks right now. Big ones:
1. Survival job & unemployment filing, ASAP. It's a means toward freedom even if it doesn't use your brain
2. Take contract work where you can get it. Hold those self-employment taxes!
1. Survival job & unemployment filing, ASAP. It's a means toward freedom even if it doesn't use your brain
2. Take contract work where you can get it. Hold those self-employment taxes!
April 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I've been meaning to write a "So You're an Unemployed Scientist" guide for early-career folks right now. Big ones:
1. Survival job & unemployment filing, ASAP. It's a means toward freedom even if it doesn't use your brain
2. Take contract work where you can get it. Hold those self-employment taxes!
1. Survival job & unemployment filing, ASAP. It's a means toward freedom even if it doesn't use your brain
2. Take contract work where you can get it. Hold those self-employment taxes!