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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her)
@ephemerily.bsky.social
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I write cozy romantasy with protagonists who take time to get to know each other. Now querying contemporary romance! I’ve also published Bread Science and a bicycling memoir. I edit science papers and I live in fear of my cat. https://janebuehler.com
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Throne in the Sun... sounds like the latest romantasy novel 😆
Cat lying on several pillows in the sun in front of an open window
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The @swsworlds.bsky.social Holiday Extravaganza is coming up on Dec. 13. It's free, online, and filled with giveaways! Register: strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/party-2025.h... (I'm participating in the Quick Reads at 1 PM.) #SWSWQR
A banner for the event showing the name and date, with the organization logo showing three feminine silhouettes reading books, an earth, and holiday decor like a ribbon and lights
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Buzzard aerial show happening behind the Cup A Joe
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Thumbs up to Morning Fog in Andrews—super friendly and yummy (plus low-stress parking/seating if you get stressed out by crowds)
The front of a shop with a sign reading Morning fog coffee and eats, with a wooden patio around the door with tables and chairs Plate with a piece of toast with scrambled eggs on top with cheese, red pepper flakes, and parsley, and avocado behind it, and a paper cup with cappuccino foam and the morning fog logo on it
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Making the kitty rolls...
Two pans with bread dough rolls on them with hands and scissors cutting ears and making raisin eyes
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Both the humans and the woodland fairies are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Campbell Folk School!
Pole alongside a path in the trees, with a banner on the pole saying celebrating 100 years Tree with a opening at the bottom and small items around it like a small broom, and a bench, and some flags, and in front is a miniature version of a banner saying celebrating 100 years
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Talk to people too early in the morning? Or sit outside and have 19° breakfast?
Dish of yogurt and granola and coffee cup on a table on a screened in porch with morning sunlight
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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We're getting legit flurries!
A nighttime scene with leaves on the ground covered in white and a light with snow flurries coming down in front of it
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Extra baguettes from today's class. I decided to work on my presentation and distribute them from a basket.
Rustic looking basket with a cloth inside and four baguettes
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Will o' wisps? Or Folk School lighting?
Tall trees with the sky barely light behind them, and five bright lights line the path along the ground
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Now that's a bottle opener!
Hand holding a large black iron tool with a bottle opener on one end and a hook on the other end
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I love stormwater retention gardens 💚
A sign entitled "the journey of stormwater" with a picture of a garden absorbing runoff water, and the garden behind the picture with fall colors in it
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Does anyone else find it deeply gratifying to watch the vacuum truck suck up leaves?
View out window of a neighborhood street with fall leaves on the ground and a town truck with a vacuum tube is moving down the edge of the street where leaves are piled
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Refusing to accept the old 6 AM is gone
Cat staring at camera beside a bed
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Final day at #nekocon and looking forward to talking to more people about #romantasy today
View of a vendor hall with tables, taken from behind stacks of books including the fire apprentice, with the tagline "he's the blacksmith, but she's the one playing with fire" visible
November 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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All set up at #nekocon — come see me in the author alley to talk romantasy and/or bread-making!
Table with a row of books on it
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Today was the day! I took the morning off work to see Rebel With a Clause with @grammartable.bsky.social and it was wonderful. If you get a chance to see it, don't miss it.
The movie poster for rebel with a clause, showing Ellen sitting at a table with various travel related objects behind her, like a train, a cow, and a map, with a list of movie showtimes
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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With the reflections, I feel like I'm surrounded by fall! As an aside, the Joe van Gogh in Timberlyne has vegetarian breakfast burritos and they're crispy on the outside, warm and squishy on the inside, and very filling.
Coffee cup on outdoor table with a backdrop of trees and shop windows that reflect the trees
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The spiders in my backyard keep giving me joy. Like this little one whose web showed up after all the rain.
Tiny spiderweb lined with raindrops down low among blades of grass
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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For murky fall days and cold nights: The Fire Apprentice is a cozy #romantasy with campfires, blacksmith forges, fiery dragons, and only one hayloft 🧡 janebuehler.com/books/#FireA... #cozyfantasy
the book The Fire Apprentice, showing a woman in front of a fiery hearth who is leaning on an anvil and looking at a man across from her, on a window sill next to a pottery vase of mums and toad lilies
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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My annual brain delivery is here!!!
And Osage orange fruit, which looks like a large greenish brain, sitting on a front porch at the top of the steps, viewed from inside the house
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I've got a bit of a Shelob situation in my compost bin 😬🕷️
Inside of black plastic compost bin filled with oak leaves and bits of vegetables with a spiderweb in the back corner that is very thick with a tunnel hole in the center
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I have this from the Haw River Assembly (converted from PDF); I can't find this succinct version online, but similar info is on this webpage: www.hawriver.org/news/we-are-...
fact sheet about dioxane pollution from the city of Asheboro (blueSky will not allow the full length): Talking points • Asheboro threatens the drinking water of up to 900,000 North Carolinians in communities including Sanford, Fayetteville, and Wilmington, in addition to Harnett, Chatham, Brunswick, and Pender counties. Further, communities including Pittsboro, Holly Springs, and Fuquay-Varina will be impacted when they start buying water from Sanford. • Conventional treatment systems can’t remove 1,4-dioxane from drinking water. • Asheboro has discharged 1,4-dioxane at levels as high as 3,520 parts per billion (ppb). This is 163 times the concentration limit that our state environmental agency tried to set for the plant. The state of North Carolina has determined that the chemical is toxic and poses a cancer risk at levels above just 0.35 ppb. • 1,4-dioxane is a clear liquid used by industry and sometimes created as a byproduct of manufacturing PET plastics. • EPA has classified the chemical as a likely human carcinogen. Long-term exposure can also damage the liver and kidneys. • NC has some of the worst 1,4-dioxane pollution in the nation. In fact, North Carolinians are exposed to concentrations that may be more than double the national average exposure to the chemical. • In January, EPA confirmed that Asheboro’s 1,4-dioxane pollution must be limited and that the state environmental agency has the authority to control the city’s discharges. Now, Asheboro wants EPA to reverse course. • EPA must stand strong and reaffirm that Asheboro must control its 1,4-dioxane pollution. What is the history of 1,4-dioxane pollution in NC? For at least ten years, NC families have been exposed to high concentrations of 1,4-dioxane in their drinking water. The city of Asheboro’s wastewater treatment plant dumps 1,4-dioxane, a cancer-causing chemical, into Hasketts Creek, from which it flows into the Deep and Cape Fear Rivers and burdens downstream communities. In 2023, the NC Depar… Worksheet with this text: I N T R O D U C T I O N Start with your name, where you live, and if you traveled to be at the public hearing or meeting. Share who you are in your community. (ex: parent, grandparent, teacher, caretaker, business owner, student, health care worker, veteran, etc.) P R O B L E M Share a talking point or two that resonated with you. Explain why this issue is important to you or your community. S O L U T I O N Share how the problem can be corrected. Cater this toward the decision-maker that you're addressing - how are they able to help solve the issue? Examples might include: • “Stop the pollution at...” • “We need safe drinking water...” • “We deserve safe, clean green space...” • “We need your help to protect...” A S K Make a firm, tangible ask to the decision-maker. Examples might include: • “Grant the permit…” • “Deny the proposal…” • “Oppose efforts to…” • “Say no to…” • “Hold strong and require…”
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I am once again grateful for the Orange County "Fork It Over" program. 400 utensils did not go in the landfill after the farmers market event last weekend!
Plastic containers containing hundreds of metal forks and spoons
October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I am still hesitating to cut my favorite meadow. A mama spider used a baby oak tree to shelter her egg sack, and it has hatched but the babies are still there, and she seems to be hanging out with them!
A patch of long grass with a fence and shed in the background An oak sapling with several leaves pulled together and in the center is a green spider sitting on an egg case An oak sapling with the leaves pulled together to shelter a spider egg case with baby spiders all around it, and the mom spider is off to the side
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM