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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I live in an area that doesn’t see much sun in the winter and our high temps for the last week have been below freezing. This is lovely 💜

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

And differing political views is not a small thing today. My husband and I are different and twenty years ago that wasn’t such a big deal. I’m very glad he hasn’t bought into the MAGA bs and really just hates politics all together.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The goal of the GOP must really be to keep people dumb. Michigan’s GOP legislators just introduced a bill to phase out property taxes earmarked for education. How does that help educate the children of our state??

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I’m so glad my state health dept has already announced they’re using recommendations from the associations for pediatrics and family practice.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I’ve never heard of the movie that was #1 on my tenth birthday so 🤷‍♀️

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

So funny! We drive through as fast as the troopers will allow. We live in Michigan but my husband’s family is in Pennsylvania so it’s a necessary route.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Our church is doing an advent series and devotional on fear. It’s been so wonderful.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The summer that I turned 9, my dad took a sabbatical to work there. I remember how beautiful it was up there and a few times mom drove us up to eat lunch with him and enjoy the view.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So true. My dad is the middle of 7 and his older brother died last year-the first of that generation. The realization that this next generation of my family was going hit really hard. Hugs to you.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Please continue because we’ve got folks that keep saying “we’re finally being respected again after four years under Biden.” They’re so delusional.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So true! And those people expect a 3 mile long project to be done instantly. Find some patience people!

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

My neighbor is one of those. Thank God she’s retired. She’s also against chemo as a cancer survivor so I don’t know how she squares her whole existence.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Yeah, we’re in the middle of a two year project on a major road near me. The amount of whining is unbelievable! I can’t turn where I want to. The plows are just going to tear up the barricades. The salt is going to kill the plants. Etc etc

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They’re a nice addition in minestrone soup

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My memory is very visual so yes, I can’t find things when they change the way they look. I would color my anatomy diagrams and remember that the orange muscle was the deltoid etc.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Also, I’d want to know why we’re pardoning convicted drug traffickers. This is all so bizarre.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Sometimes cranking music helps and sometimes setting a 15 minute timer. Or both 🤷‍♀️ I also set Monday as laundry day so no matter what, I at least get started, even if not all the loads get finished until Tuesday.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

How wonderful. Those specialists were some of the kindest docs to consult on my patients.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Pasties are very much a thing in certain parts of the US. If you travel to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, you’re obligated to have one. I’m told it’s because a lot of Cornish miners immigrated to that area.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Way to wave hello. Hug your loved ones close today.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Please pray today for the school that I aide at-the staff and the students. We are remembering a preschooler that was hit by a truck and killed. The funeral is this afternoon and we’re struggling. Also pray for her family and the neighbor who hit her and his family. One moment of looking the other

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

millage was fierce and it failed. We have a lady trying to organize volunteers to read to students under the guise of improving literacy so she can make sure they’re not reading woke books. We’re on the edge of slipping backwards so I’m not convinced that this lesson has taken hold.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It’s good but I think it’s overestimating the pendulum swing. I live in a district that’s pretty rural but becoming suburban as the city spreads. Our state rep and state senator are Republican. Last year 1 of 3 school board members voted in was far right. This year the opposition to the school

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It is terrifying the give RFK Jr or someone similar that much power. He’s already wreaking so much havoc.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

If they’re going to make the seats smaller and the leg room shorter, I’m going for comfy. I was also told once that you shouldn’t wear heels or flip flops on planes in case you must evacuate down the slides.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

That looks so good! I usually do my aunt’s raisin sauce with a ham, but this would be a great change.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

do visit, they come for a shorter duration and make sure we don’t have many things going on. It’s like they can’t handle the chaos of a busy schedule anymore. When they finally came to see us before she left for college, it was only for 4 days over Labor Day weekend.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We started talking to them about it last Christmas, had the date picked out for a couple months, gave them the option of coming for the ceremony or the party and they chose neither. I think the thought of being around so many other people was too much for my mil. I’ve noticed that when they

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Loved my local health dept’s PSA

Picture of a turkey with the text Don’t make Black Friday brown, cook me to 165 degrees

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This issue was from last May-thank you though. I think it was really an anxiety issue for my mil. She doesn’t seem to be doing well with things out of her normal routine. My daughter is pretty laid back and shrugged it off. They did come for a quick visit in September before she left for college.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I have them but there’s no way to dim them. I’ve tried!

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I’ve been wanting to make scalloped potatoes for a while and those look delicious!

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My younger brother has those bright blue eyes too. We learned very young to say both our grandmas had blue eyes because my parents, sister and I all have dark brown.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

She’s the oldest and my kids are the only grandchildren so that was my thought too.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

You’re probably right. I think my mil has anxiety and it’s getting worse. She now refuses to fly and only vacations to the same three locations. I had to take over the week of meal planning and Christmas dinner this year at her house. She’s probably afraid of a crowd and the unknown.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

plans yet for where they want to go. They’re considering going to a place they go every year or two. I find this so selfish. I’m not sure how/if I respond and I’m waiting for my husband to get home from work so we can discuss. Any advice?

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I am so angry with my in-laws after they sent an email this afternoon saying that they wouldn’t be coming to my daughter’s high school graduation party. Why? Because they need to celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary which occurs more than a week before the party. They don’t even have…

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I think mine were separate pretty early on but they’re very different personalities. I think one had cars and the other dinosaurs so it was easy to get them back to the right one.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

But these MAGAs can’t tell truth from lies. I have a lady across the street who used to be a nurse but is now anti-vax. You can point out facts until you’re blue in the face but they won’t believe you.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I usually keep it pretty basic. We have a raised bed that was my husband’s Covid lockdown project. Pole beans, tomatoes, peas, a couple squash/cucumbers, bell peppers, some greens. Last year, I did a bunch of herbs to use up old seeds.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I just killed a mosquito. Like, how?? We had snow last week.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I lucked out. Only one kid and my husband liked them 🥴

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I often have my teens text me things for the shopping list since they inevitably ask when I’m in the middle of something. Tonight I was driving, so I asked someone to text me that we need margarine since I keep forgetting to add it. The text I received: add margaritas to the list. Cheers!🍹🍹

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

That’s so depressing. Anyone working in healthcare knows women and minorities of all types are understudied. We’ve finally been making up some ground and it all goes *poof*

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I keep wondering, if this is the “small group,” who’s in the “large group?”

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 27/03/2025

#USA: the decision to end support for Gavi puts millions of children’s lives at risk. It's estimated that more than 1.2 million children may die as a result of this political decision. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-de...

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US decision to end support for Gavi puts millions of children’s lives at risk

It's estimated that more than 1.2 million children may die as a result of this political decision.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Both adorable but I’d choose the goose. It reminds me of Beatrix Potter.

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Katherine @hollek12.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Thank you for sharing these and your descriptions of each! They are so helpful.

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