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Sarah Stierch

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Writer, photographer, polymath. Hoosier x Californian. 🔥🙋🏻‍♀️🌮✊ My opinions are my own, not those of my employers. https://linktr.ee/sarahstierch

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Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 1d

"No Kings" demonstrators gathering at Miller Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Saturday morning.

#nokings #tennessee #chattanooga

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 3d

Enjoying a delicious NA beer with my buddy at Anakeesta in Gatlinburg.

Monday marked one year off the sauce for me.

I have a lot of thoughts about it, but right now...time flies when you're having fun and not hungover! 😁

#drylife #mysobriety #cheers

A person poses next to a large carved wooden bear statue dressed in lederhosen and a green hat, holding a beer stein, set against a stone wall and autumn foliage.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 5d

Back again in Corbin, Kentucky, at the birthplace of an American institution - Kentucky Fried Chicken. 😁🍗

#food #kentucky #roadtrip

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 6d

Alas, it's not. It's actually a Wisconsin-based chain. Perhaps the founders of the Culver Academy and the chain are related. I don't know! (I grew up in Indy)

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 6d

You know you're not in California when....

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 6d

Ate at @culvers.com's today. Cheese curds, ButterBurger and chocolate custard.

Midwest caloric deliciousness.

#indiana #food #midwest #eating #cheese

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 6d

"TRUMP ❤'s EPSTEIN" as seen along U.S. Highway 31
Greenwood, Indiana
Oct. 12, 2025

#epstein #trump #indiana

A street scene shows cars driving past a utility pole with a sticker reading “TRUMP ♥s EPSTEIN” in red letters, with trees and business signs visible in the background.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 6d

A few Hoosiers celebrating Halloween early.

#Indiana #Halloween

A red Chevrolet pickup truck decorated for Halloween carries two skeleton figures in the bed—one wearing a jacket and the other a hooded cloak—while stopped at a sunny intersection near a Walgreens.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 6d

Quick stopover in Indy before heading to Tennessee. Mom grabbed me a six pack of Sun King NA Sunlight and I can't be any happier.

Sunlight is hands down one of my favorite beers of all time and to find out they made a NA version...I was so excited!

I really wish we could buy this in California.

A can of Sunlight Non-Alcoholic Brew from Sun King Brewery sits on a table, featuring a bold red and white label with a stylized sun face design and text noting it contains less than 0.5% alcohol.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 11d

An examination room at Alcatraz Hospital
San Francisco, California
July 2025

#nationalparks #california

Empty prison cell with barred doors, pale green walls, a simple bed frame, and a wooden wheelchair positioned near a barred window.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 11d

An examination room at Alcatraz Hospital
San Francisco, California
July 2025

Empty, dimly lit room with mint-green walls, barred windows, and an old surgical table beneath a large overhead lamp.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 15d

🍦Post-TS "The Life of a Showgirl" soft serve at Foster's Freeze in Napa. 😁

#icecream #napa

A hand holds a vanilla and chocolate swirl soft-serve ice cream cone inside a retro-style Fosters Freeze with checkered floors, red booths, and vintage décor.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 16d

life of a showcat

#catsofbluesky

Person in a black hoodie holds a very large orange-and-white cat inside a room with green carpet and framed posters on the wall.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 18d

I can't remember, was the entire Census website white washed during the last #shutdown?

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 18d

I have misspelled shutdown as "shitdown" two or three times today.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 22d

Hard to believe a grown man was able to smush himself through that duct (which was hand chiseled to be widened) and into a utility corridor...and eventually off the island.

Three men escaped and were never found. They remain on the FBI's wanted list.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 22d

A ventilation duct used in the 1962 June escape from Alcatraz.
San Francisco, California
July 26, 2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_19...

#sanfrancisco #california

A small prison cell with a narrow bed, folded blanket, metal sink, shelves, and a hole beneath the sink in the wall, part of a historic escape scene.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 22d

Yes! That's when that campfire smell blanketed the Bay Area!

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 22d

Office in the dining hall at Alcatraz
San Francisco, California
July 26, 2025

#Travel #SanFrancisco #California

An old industrial office booth with green-painted concrete and glass block walls stands inside a worn factory space, containing a black filing cabinet, fan, and a copper fire extinguisher outside.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 22d

No major wildfire in the Sonoma, Mendocino or Napa counties. There a wildfire in Oregon that is to blame for the poor air quality.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 23d

'A breakfast appointment with MAGA leader Steve Bannon. A planned lunch with billionaire Peter Thiel. A mention of billionaire Elon Musk potentially coming to the "island," with the notation 'is this still happening?'

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Democrats release Epstein records mentioning Musk, Bannon, Thiel, Prince Andrew

The documents released by Democrats include parts of Epstein's daily schedule in 2014, 2017 and 2019 and a flight manifest from 2000.

www.usatoday.com

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 28d

BANG BANG!!!

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 29d

🙋‍♀️ Demonstrators hang signs reading "Yes on 50 Election Rigging Response Act" and "ICE raids are terrorism" on an overpass along southbound U.S. Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, Calif. on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025.

#sonomacounty #sonoma #politics #ICEraids #protests #demonstrations #california

People stand on a freeway overpass holding banners that read “YES ON 50 ELECTION RIGGING RESPONSE ACT” and “ICE RAIDS ARE TERRORISM.”

Reposted by Sarah Stierch

The Mendocino Voice @mendovoice.bsky.social · Sep 13

🪶 🚶‍♀️ The annual Nome Cult Walk begins Sunday in Chico, with dozens of Native Americans walking the 100-mile Konkow Trail of Tears to Covelo.

mendovoice.com/2025/09/nome...

#indiancountry #mendocinocounty #covelo #nativeamerica #chico

Annual Nome Cult Walk commemorating Konkow Trail of Tears starts Sunday in Chico • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA

Dozens of Native Americans will walk 100 miles to honor Konkow Maidu ancestors forced from their homeland.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Sep 12

🦆 Bird watching elevated to new levels in Sonoma today.

#sonoma #birds #california #roadsideattraction

A silver pickup truck towing a trailer with a giant duck statue parked along a street in front of a one-story building with trees in the background.