Karen Sandler
@karensandler
True blue Dem & Dodgers fan. Soy hispanohablante (no nativa). Novice Taiko drummer. I ❤ science. She/her/hers Tankborn Liberation series:
Any recommendations for how to get up from your chair when you have a perfectly curled up cat in your lap? It's like there's a warm, fluffy vortex keeping me anchored.
Cat as art. Bronze by Bennett Sculpture, photo by @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social #caturday
Isabo is telling me I don't need to step on the scale, and weight is just a number, and I'm beautiful just as I am.
I was gobsmacked to see one of my photos, taken on Liberty Island, used in this Texas Public Radio piece on immigration. www.tpr.org/podcast/the-... The photo is posted on Pixabay: pixabay.com/photos/statu...
I saved an itty bitty baby praying mantis from the net bag prison it was sharing with an unripe pluot. What great great did you achieve today?
Not as gorgeous as your photos, but I caught this hitchhiker clinging to my mare's lead rope in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Polyphemus moth?
Yes, that's me at the computer, writing words from my actual brain without the assistance of AI. No prompts needed, just my own creativity, decades of writing experience, and hard work (Oxford comma--never leave home without it).
Gorgeous. I'm having trouble getting that nice color on my loaves. They look kinda pasty.
My favorite photo from Mexico City. Taken at the Museum of Anthropology.
We just got back from a week in Mexico City. As an author, the sign on this building caught my eye. It's the equivalent of the Library of Congress in the US, i.e., where you submit your work for copyright.
I'm a technical person and worked in IT for several years. But as someone who has had six full-length novels stolen and used to "teach" AI, I'm not a fan of that particular technology. So I've signed on to #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com
I did not know a cat could do this. The bare part is her belly where she was shaved for her spay. Her front feet and back feet are going in opposite directions. Does she have a swivel somewhere?
Very excited that the second book in the Tankborn Liberation series, Pheno's Treachery, is now up for pre-order. It releases on March 1, 2026. For those that might have read the YA sci-fi Tankborn Trilogy in the early/mid-2010s, the Tankborn Liberation series is a spinoff of the trilogy.
As disgusting as Tr*mp's calling a woman reporter "Piggy," it also annoys me because pigs like this mini are really sweet and very cute.
It takes a lot of cooperation for Alani and Zak to cram themselves into a bed only made for one. But they manage it. If only Congress could get along so well.
I have encountered many praying mantises in my time. They are one of the coolest insects. What I've never seen is a praying mantis eating an insect. In this photo, the mantis is eating a bee, and another bee has flown in to take a look. Wow.