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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 04/04/2026

I'm not watching the video but I'm very invested in what it says about tuxedos. For - reasons.

Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 08/03/2026

You have to wonder what circumstances required the addition of the bottom sign that defines what "large" means. And did it have an intersecting point with Herds of Animals? I would very much like to see what the script is for the person answering the phone.

Sign from a road crossing in Ireland. The top sign describes that large vehicles and herd of animals must call before crossing. An additional sign on the bottom has extensive definitions of what large means. The signs are white with a red border and the top of the sign has two red lights.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 07/03/2026

Trees form veins against a cold sky. In the distance, the Atlanta skyline. In the foreground, a perfectly rusted tin roof.

Bare trees are dark lines against a cold blue sky. In the distance, an orange smudged line from the sunsetting. In the bottom left, a rusted tin porch roof is visible. Other houses are visible around the sides of the image.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 07/03/2026

See that sheet of plastic? Inside that is what used to be my kitchen but is now the skeletal remains. No kitchen since June. When I tell you I am growing despondent from lack of cooking - I've even lost that callous in the crook of your thumb from knife work.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 07/03/2026

I am this old. I have books about technology that are older than most people currently on this platform. Found this in my bookshelf when I was cleaning it out. So, when I say I have always been an early adopter, here's the proof point. My distaste for GenAI is not about being afraid of technology.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 02/03/2026

I know from being a publisher that some people just have an innate skill in being very chaffed by typos - and that extends to bathroom stalls. Whoever you are, irritated stranger, I hope you have found professional satisfaction in your abilities. #bathroomgraffiti #copyediting #eav

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 15/02/2026

I wish everyone could be blessed with a dog who wants only to lovingly watch you while you watch TV. Lucia found us as a starved puppy while we were on vacation in Spain. She's a complicated and difficult dog in some ways, but her love is as big as she is.

A large Anatolian mix dog named Lucia rests her head on a stack of white pillows. The pillows are in a bed with a wood frame made of fluted trim. Lucia is carefully tucked under a fluffy white duvet. In the soft glow of a Chinese pottery lamp, the dark brown eyes of the dog softly gaze at an unseen person. The dog has a creamy white body, large floppy brown ears, and a black speckled snout. She is content which shows in her relaxed posture laying on her side.
She is tired from barking at squirrels and at a pair of mating barn owls that have taken turns swooping at her from a giant oak tree all day.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 02/02/2026

If you'd like to know what the GA Secretary of State had to say, here's his newsletter from this morning. (I'm a GA business owner)

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 02/02/2026

For everyone not in GA and interested in messaging coming from the Secretary of State about the FBI raid of 2020 voting records from Fulton County, here's what was in my inbox this morning. Please note the absolute contortions to keep from naming Trump and this administration in any way.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 30/01/2026

We (my indie publishing company, How2Conquer) has a book by a Black writer coming out in the fall. We are currently looking for beta readers because my team is all white women and we're not qualified to give substantive feedback on this one. DM me if you're willing.

Announcement of new author Paul Lapido with his picture. He's a smiling Black man with a beard and he's wearing glasses.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 04/01/2026

One thing I did get done over the holiday was to entirely clean up the my phone pics. All 4,701. There were an unconscionable number of my cat, Jingle. And a very distant second were pictures from vacations in Spain and Buenos Aires. And then a smattering of security violations spotted in the wild.

Adorable tuxedo cat named Jingle snuggled into a green tapestry handbag.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 01/01/2026

Preeminent. Dang I will take it. I am an actual global expert on organizational resilience and 2026 is my year to own that instead of feeling like an imposter. Already started working on a book, even.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 06/12/2025

Not quite the same, but three of our very best dogs picked us by basically collapsing in front of us as starved strays. Literally out of no where. One was running down our street & suddenly turned into our driveway. Another was a puppy who came to our window, the third found us in very rural Spain.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 04/10/2025

Who doesn't love a fresh Target bag to cuddle into? #Caturday

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 27/07/2025

We're in the thick of a remodel and here's the thing about being in my no-fucks-given era - I could care less about designing for the nebulous "other" who might someday buy my house. I'm all about whimsy now. These scones are going to make me smile every day.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 02/06/2025

I really wish I didn't have a reason to leave my porch today. But it's ransomware tabletop exercise day for a client. We've been planning this exercise for close to a year and it's a BFD. So, I guess it's time to leave this sanctuary and go straighten my hair.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 12/04/2025

I've flown almost a million miles. And the only flight that ever terrified me was an aborted takeoff in Denver. So every time I takeoff from Denver I get this little residual tickle in my lizard brain. But I'm also grateful to see the vast prairie my ancestors came to as immigrants.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 12/04/2025

I'm not this kind of risk taker.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 22/03/2025

Yep. This is Jingle and she's judging me for feeding a stray cat on the porch.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 20/02/2025

Around 5:25 pm every day the setting sun hits my disco ball planter and turns my office into a party. The trick is to remember to look up from my monitor to see this magic since it only lasts about two minutes. It's a beautiful way to end the day before I head home.

Disco ball planter with green and purple plant in a setting where the sun creates a reflection of small points of light across a glass desk.

Close up of disco ball planter on white desk with reflecting points of light radiating out in concentric circles.

Reflecting points of light on a soft taupe wall with the shadow of a plant on the right side.

Reflecting points of light against a 1960s acoustic tile ceiling. An old schoolhouse light fixture appears in the background.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 07/02/2025

Highly recommend picking up an obsessive new hobby during these weird times. Mine's fountain pens, which means I go around every day with ridiculously stained fingers. Worth it because there's no AI pop up offering to write for me.

Esterbrook fountain pen and fingers stained with turquoise blue ink.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 03/02/2025

We rent offices inside an old church. Every day I'm grateful that I enter work through this quiet and meditative walkway because my work is serious and disquieting.

Walkway in the snow between brick buildings and an iron fence.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 24/01/2025

On a call just now with a new client. I'm not lead on this so I don't have much to say, but I did have a few comments. But maddeningly people kept talking over me. Until I realized Jingle had turned off my microphone when she stepped on my keyboard just before the call started. She's not sorry.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 16/01/2025

I just discovered I lied! (Inadvertently). I looked at the actual box the pen came in and it's a 144R! The label says, "made in W. Germany" which is such a trip! I'm amazed I kept all the packaging.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 15/01/2025

I find the inner workings of mechanical objects to be incredibly beautiful. This is my 27 year old furnace. It died in a blaze of glory on Sunday.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 10/01/2025

My mother arrived in Atlanta Nov 8th for a visit. She was supposed to fly home at 7 am this morning but no flights are getting into our out of Atlanta. We're all in edge.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 10/01/2025

Jingle has questions about Atlanta getting this much snow.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 21/12/2024

I'm sure everyone with a tall dog knows the microwave trick to keep food unmolested. Until the dog learns how to operate the microwave door that is.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 03/12/2024

The best part of Thankshiving has arrived - the turkey noodle soup stage.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 19/11/2024

Leaving the hotel and this very random CD was on a table. I'm guessing in a bid to entice a youth to pick it up? As if the youths would know what to do with a CD.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 08/11/2024

I guess we've given up on all standards in fancy resorts now. I mean, I don't expect a full heavy starch, but maybe just a bit more dryer time?

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 22/10/2024

My dog's bark is every bit as bad ass as you'd expect from this picture. It's her world, we're just here to refill her water bowl and open the treats.

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