John Newmark
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John Newmark
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Writer, Research Admin, Father, Husband, Geek

Banner: Famous cloned sheep, Dolly. Stuffed and on display at National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Photograph taken in 2023.
“There’s another.”
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Converting a poem by Robert Frost into a #limerick … May I be forgiven
September 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Goliath beetles
With genes for razor sharp teeth —
where scientists erred.

#science
#haiku
#poetry
#beetles
September 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you see this, post a Marvel cover you love

(For its graphic simplicity, and I have fond memories of the New Universe comics)
July 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

31/31
Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking

The year I attempted to go vegetarian I purchased this cookbook. I recall the lasagna turned out particularly hideous - but it tasted good.
March 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#30/31
Dark Hearts & Tattletales
Jane Gwaltney

I have the privilege of being in the same writer’s critique group as the author so I read several of the stories prior to publication.
March 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#29/31
Murder in the Supreme Court
Margaret Truman
March 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#28/31
The Deer Leap
Martha Grimes
March 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#27/31
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
March 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#26/31
The Accidental Demon Slayer
Angie Fox
March 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#25/31
Maud Martha
by Gwendolyn Brooks
March 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#24/31
City of the Beasts
by Isabel Allende
March 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#23/31

The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
March 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#22/31
George Washington’s Breakfast
By Jean Fritz

I read over 1,000 books in first grade in a reading competition. This is one of only a handful I recall reading 50 years later.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#21/31
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
March 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #EvenInAustralia

#20/31
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - by Judith Viorst
March 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #ComicsCount

#19/31
Birds of Prey #67
Sensei and Student (part 6 of 6)
July 2004
by Gail Simone
March 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#18/31
Star Trek: TNG - The Devil’s Heart
by Carmen Carter
March 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#17/31
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
March 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#16/31
The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins
March 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#15/31
Are You There God?
It’s Me, Margaret.
By Judy Blume
March 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#14/31

By The Pricking of my Thumbs
Agatha Christie
A Tommy & Tuppence mystery
March 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#13/31

Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?
March 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#12/31

Wise Blood - by Flannery O’Connor
March 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge

#11/31

The Mummy by Anne Rice
March 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM