Vicki Madden
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Vicki Madden
@vlmadden.bsky.social
Teacher, very slow writer, lover of libraries & trains. Words in A Public Space and The New York Times. Rewilding my 1/3 acre garden, mending and darning socks and my little corner of the world

Also I help school leaders.
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But David Brooks said not to pay attention...
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Haha I have some actual news articles in my novel, and readers say the language isn’t realistic!
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Who is the one trying to start a crypto-empire with their own justice system in the Caribbean?
December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Such a good book to understand the aims and strategy and operational realities is Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement by Thomas Ricks.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What we did to the earth,
We did to our daughters,
One after the other.

Marie Howe, Postscript
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
He brags about being a badass killer until he gets in trouble, then backtracks and points fingers at enlisted men.
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I used to teach my students that .gov were reliable sources while Wikipedia was not. The work has really changed because it’s now the opposite.
November 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thank you for posting this. In 48 hours, Sanebox has made me much saner.
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM