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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 20/04/2026

My floofreader is sleeping on the job...

small maltese dog sleeping with tiny head resting on a red book, atop two blankets, on a bed that holds another book and a keyboard

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 08/01/2026

I ordered something via DoorDash today and 😭😭😭

Messages with DoorDash delivery person:
DoorDash (DD): The Dasher is nearby but might be having trouble finding you. Send them more details to help them deliver your order.
Hey it's a big raccoon by your door.
me: Omg!!
DD: Yeah it's still there and chased me (laugh-cry emoji)
I'm afraid to deliver it
Me: I just opened the door and didn't see it

Me: I believe you though bc I hear them running on the roof sometimes!!
And I think it opened my trash bag
DD: Probably moved because it was chasing me (laugh-cry emoji)
me: Do you want me to come find you?
DD: I'll try again but I'm scared
Coming now

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 24/12/2025

I'm hearing talk about a baby? Just one? If this guy's on our side, we've got great odds.

Twitter exchange.
Liz Wheeler: So churches are not essential... but abortion clinics ARE essential. Got it.
crookedroads770: Yes because abortion is healthcare, glad I could clear that up for you vol_long: 600,000 babies a year would disagree with you
crookedroads770: I could easily win a debate against 600,000 babies

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 24/12/2025

weirdly this is something I've said to my therapist

Helen Kingston @kingstonwrites
I wonder if the Virgin Mary was ever like, you can just call me Mary there's no need

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 23/12/2025

I'd argue that there's a sixth type: "we're not sus I swear" hey what's up guys— uh *frantic whispers* SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME

BrendanCByrne:
the 5 types of xmas songs:
- look, snow!
- i want shit
- santa's horny
- let's all get schnackered
- the birth of christ has ushered in a new age and no man shall taste eternal death

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 23/12/2025

ok for anyone who likes to laugh, here's a random drop of Christmas posts I've saved

AndrewNadeau0 on Twitter
Mary: Well, I just had a baby... in a barn.
So, thanks to everyone who brought gifts. The gold, the perfumes. All things babies love
Also the child who inexplicably played drums, like, right in my face.
This.... this was great.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 16/12/2025

🫂 Not for lack of trying, but it helped to know I wasn't the only one trying it—and to find humor and comfort in that, when possible:

Four-panel comic showing person at church hearing pastor say "Love your neighbor as yourself." Outside her house, she greets her neighbor and says "hello neighbor, you fucking moron, you worthless piece of human shit"

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 10/12/2025

This is SO COOL and so full of character!! I realized a while back that screens are mini-environments I visit all the time, and personalizing/prettying them has been well worth it for the joy

ios screen with all custom icons in primarily pink and pastel colors and cutesy shapes

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 10/12/2025

I think about this comic all the time, especially for us publishing folks. @rowanauthor.bsky.social @diannalgunn.bsky.social

comic showing a T-rex advising a smaller kid dino
Rex: do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life
Kid dino: cool
Rex: but if what you love isn't profitable, your life will be very short.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 10/12/2025

I want SO BADLY to gift this (and have this gifted to me)—books we wrote, books we edited, books we love, books we imagine. #kidlitchat

miniature books, one of which is held by the tips of a few fingers

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 07/12/2025

Wikipedia's version of Wrapped has unintentionally captured my range of curiosity

You saved 7 articles
These articles included Rescue of the Danish Jews, Dave Matthews Band bus incident, and Salmon chaos. Each saved article reflects your interests and helps build a personalized knowledge base on Wikipedia.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 05/12/2025

inside you are two (gay were)wolves

comic with text "during full moon werewolves start to come out" showing a moon with a tiny top hat, a frog in a witch hat flying on a broomstick, and on the hills a silly werewolf saying "I'm gay"

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 04/12/2025

fun fact: singing this very quietly and reverently out of nowhere elicits curious smiles instantly followed by "WHY!!!!"

tumblr post from chlostars: “hark the herald angel sing/ glory to the newborn king” and “i know when that hotling bling/ that can only mean one thing” have the same number of syllables

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 04/12/2025

fun fact: singing this very quietly and reverently out of nowhere elicits curious smiles instantly followed by "WHY!!!!"

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 03/12/2025

my grinchly Christmas wish is making someone else think of this every time the new Wicked movie gets brought up

tumblr post from loveprideanddeepfriedchicken. A portrait of Isaac Newton is altered so his face is green, captioned "I think I'll try defining gravity"

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 02/12/2025

I've collected so many memes and posts that I'm pretty sure I could post a seasonally appropriate one for every day of December. ...Should I?

comic by worry lines

1st panel is person looking into black hole, captioned "staring into the abyss"
2nd panel is person holding gingerbread cookie and mug, and the black hole is decorated with holiday lights, captioned "staring into the abyss in December"

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 13/11/2025

@diannalgunn.bsky.social I'm trying to figure out my domain hosting and was getting rapidly more and more frustrated when I saw a familiar face—so cool to encounter your work like this!

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 08/09/2025

Jesus being helpful and technologically adept:

Excerpt from a printed copy of a deacon's script: One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, 'Which commandment is the first of all?' Jesus answered, The first is, "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength." The second is this, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself." There is no other commandment greater than these! I have these in a word document if that would be easier.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 07/09/2025

This poem changed my life, but very very subtly; I was sure my depression had reached a point of no return, but this was like a call from the other shore from someone who'd been where I was

The Wild Iris
by Louise Glück
At the end of my suffering there was a door.
Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.
Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun flickered over the dry surface.
It is terrible to survive as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.
Then it was over: that which you fear, being a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth bending a little. And what I took to be birds darting in low shrubs.
You who do not remember passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice:
from the center of my life came a great fountain, deep blue shadows on azure sea water.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 04/09/2025

Shared this to my close friends story, so why not all of bluesky

oops in my meeting with our researcher today
me: what happens if i make a mistake? researcher: it would depend on the mistake. what specifically are you afraid of?
me: like, i get a patient's consent. they just got their right arm amputated so they sign with their left hand. it's invalid be it's non-dominant, but i don't know that. a month later the FDA finds out, they're horrified, i'm fired, they audit the hospital, the dept is shamed, and now lifesaving research is on hold at a world-famous hospital. i'm banned from working with anyone ever again and soon i must exile myself somewhere my ignorance can do no more harm researcher:
me:
researcher: do you have a therapist

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 03/09/2025

I will take any chance to share this poem, which often comes to mind and brings quiet comfort.

Fiction
I think of the innocent lives
Of people in novels who know they'll die
But not that the novel will end. How different they are From us. Here, the moon stares dumbly down, Through scattered clouds, onto the sleeping town,
And the wind rounds up the fallen leaves,
And somebody-namely me-deep in his chair, Riffles the pages left, knowing there's not
Much time for the man and woman in the rented room,
For the red light over the door, for the iris
Tossing its shadow against the wall; not much time
For the soldiers under the trees that line
The river, for the wounded being hauled away
To the cities of the interior where they will stay;
The war that raged for years will come to a close,
And so will everything else, except for a presence
Hard to define, a trace, like the scent of grass
After a night of rain or the remains of a voice
That lets us know without spelling it out
Not to despair; if the end is come, it too will pass.
-Mark Strand

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 02/09/2025

Yes it is! We're in a pretty populated area so I have AirTags for both dogs

small white dog sleeping on a pillow wearing blue airtag collar

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 02/09/2025

Her name is Mimi! Loves to assert dominance over our editorial assistant, Momo:

small white dog resting his head on computer keyboard

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 02/09/2025

I have thousands of iPhone notes and whenever I tell people, they're like "oh you must have so many great ideas!" well...

short iPhone note that reads only: "modern communist manifesto titled the fault in our tsars"

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 02/09/2025

She's promoted herself to production editor. #StetPets

Small white Maltese dog in desk chair with bookshelf behind her

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 25/08/2025

I'm starting to learn that sometimes joy CAN be easy. I made a thing and it made me happy.

pink and yellow beaded bracelet on a wrist with m&m tattoos

pink and yellow beaded bracelet on a wrist

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 22/08/2025

Real-time shot of me finally sending out some work today after a week of crisis #WeeknightWriters

Tired-looking man in apron says "started making it. had a breakdown. bon appétit." to three smiling people

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 17/08/2025

Momo ran to the window, barking, practically in Mimi's face. Guess what she thinks of that?

small maltese dog barking toward window half a foot away from another small dog on a bean bag cushion, looking at the camera like Jim from The Office

close up of small maltese dog looking at camera, alert and with a somehow expressively blank face

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 15/08/2025

"keep on keeping on" makes me think of these two short poems that I turn to often. I couldn't decide which one to share with you so hope it's ok to share both 🫂 #WeeknightWriters

To Know The Dark
Wendell Berry
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

Go to the Limits of Your Longing
Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
Book of Hours, I 59

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 13/08/2025

Will let a librarian answer this:

reddit comment by setin-skyheart
In my system it works like this: Overdrive/Libby books are purchased for our digital catalog like anyone would buy an ebook. However it only allows us one key per purchase. Those keys are basically what's being checked out and why ebooks can have a waitlist. It's silly, but that's how it's set up. If it's unlimited than a different kind of key was purchased.
More annoyingly, depending on the publisher the keys can expire. It's the big issue in digital media that consumers (and by extension libraries) have to buy the same product multiple times largely because publishers can. Trust us, we're annoyed by it too. So if an ebook vanishes from a catalog, that's usually what happened and it's the same reason a physical book is weeded- it wasn't circulating.
As far as the cost goes, here's an industry detail. We never want individual patrons to worry about minimizing their impact on our budget. In most cases, everything but the millage is practically inconsequential in terms of financial impact. We have these things because we already paid for it all and/or set money aside for it to be used in "pay per use" arrangements like Hoopla.
In fact, patrons using the services less is usually what motivates budget committees to shrink said millage the next time it comes up for a vote. (In many public sectors, said committees aren't related to the library directly and instead are just seeing an abstract usage report when examining where incoming taxes should be distributed.)

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 12/08/2025

I never related to Mozart until I learned that he procrastinated so hard on an overture that he was still writing it the DAY OF THE PERFORMANCE, even though: - overtures require multiple players! and ideally rehearsals! - music had to be copied by hand, and his looked like this

sheet music handwritten by Mozart; the notation is substantial and crowded in a legible but frantic-looking scrawl

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 10/08/2025

Someone made this for their wife to read to her students in their camp-themed classroom and I'm 😭😭🩷

indoor wooden "porch" replica with an overhang, fake door, working lantern, and boxes of school supplies under the porch, in a classroom

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 07/08/2025

his perfect little spot!!

small maltese dog on a little footstool just tall enough for him to peek out the window

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 03/08/2025

I came across this in Lori Gottlieb's memoir and took some small comfort from it, so much so that I saved it to my notes:

I’d told Wendell again that my greatest fear is leaving Zach without a mother, and Wendell said that I had two choices: I could give Zach a mother who’s constantly worried about leaving him motherless, or I could give him a mother whose uncertain health makes her more acutely aware of the preciousness of their time together.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 25/07/2025

I started making tabs on Ultimate Guitar in January—checked my stats today and suddenly feel so moved

screenshot showing 931k views my tabs have gained worldwide, 24,988 guitarists added my tabs to favorites or gave 5 stars

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 19/07/2025

Just popping in to show you today's spotting! 🩷

hand in front of bookstore shelf holding a copy of Tanya Guerrero's book CAT'S PEOPLE

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 15/07/2025

This made me cry today, in case anyone else needs a good sob

ABC news headline: Family discovers newly adopted dog is biological father of pet who passed away
Side-by-side pics show Rufus and Ziggy, two adorable dogs who look very alike
Subheadline reads: Losing a family pet can be devastating. But one East Bay family discovered their newly-adopted dog is the parent of a furry loved one they just lost.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 15/07/2025

Rest in peace, Andrea Gibson. I wish you had more time, but I'm so thankful that you were in this world.

poem called WELLNESS CHECK by Andrea Gibson
In any moment,
on any given day,
I can measure
my wellness
by this question:
Is my attention on loving,
or is my attention on
who isn't loving me?

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 10/07/2025

I've been considering getting miniatures of my published books to carry around... AND, what if inside each "book" is a QR code to purchase it from a small bookshop? 👀

person's fingers holding a tiny replica of a novel, hovering above a plentiful assortment of mini books

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 08/07/2025

it's not Twitter itself I miss. it's the connections I found easily and often

Tweet from Stephi Cham
Draws to mind this poem: The Patience of Ordinary Thing by Pat Schneider
It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they're supposed to be.
I've been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things, how clothes Wait respectfully in closets And soap dries quietly in the dish, And towels drink the wet From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?

A reply from Sarah Schneider Kavanagh reads:
This poet is my grandmother. Seeing her poem scroll across my feed this morning is such a gift to me. She would have loved the idea of finding joy and gratitude in a the sight of a rack of drying dishes.

February 26, 2023

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 02/07/2025

text I sent: "oh you are going to be horrified when you see me I fear." for a good two hours I thought I had FA and was about to FO—so even though it's not the color I planned, I'm just glad my impulsive hair DIY did not end in the tragedy I thought I'd set into motion

asian woman with dark pink hair in black dress, white sweater with hearts

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