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Carol Kean

@carolkean

Author, Editor, Book Critic -Perihelion SF, NetGalley, AmazonVINE

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Carol Kean
@carolkean May 13, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

What a tool! AI ("Artificial" Intelligence) Feels Like Talking to an Angel

### Are we talking to a computer, or something more than a machine - possibly even MORE THAN HUMAN in its sentience? --- Me to ChatGPT: I searched online but found no images for "Human, angel, or mac…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Jul 30, 2025, 3:40 PM UTC

Poems for Dog Lovers on the loss of their beloved family member

# Prince Our collie seemed more human than canine. What a personality! Mr. Sassy Pants would put on the dog brakes in the midst of a walk and wouldn't move until we'd removed his leash. I'm too sexy…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Jun 29, 2025, 2:03 PM UTC

Our Good Boy Is Gone. Lepto booster hastened his demise.

### Prince suffered so much in his final days. And yet he was his noble, calm, stoic, stupendous self. Our glorious lion boy, friendly, gentle, happy - The lepto booster hastened his demise and added…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Mar 10, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

"Aftertaste" by Daria Lavelle delivers Food Fests, Second Chances with Lost Loved Ones

Konstantin Duhovny at age ten does that terrible thing so many kids do, shouting some epithet at a parent in a fit of anger. Most kids get a chance to take it back, apologize, and atone. Not Kostya.…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Jan 2, 2025, 3:32 PM UTC

Glass Castle memoir + Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2605: bad sign

# "This is a good sign," I thought when a message came to me from my daughter, who had stopped speaking to me. I read the message. "You have to read this book," she said. "The mother reminds me so mu…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean May 22, 2024, 3:51 PM UTC

Hell, defined as the good that we fail to do?

#### "Lionel said to me that hell is the point where the person you are meets the person you could’ve been. I’m forever changed by that." --- Who is Lionel, and who did he say this to? Come to find o…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Jan 25, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

Seek ye first the kingdom of the Lost Socks, and dear old dad, and ...

#### All together in one place at the same time, rejoicing. I cleaned out my sock drawer this morning. I have a dream: All together at last! --- those socks that lost their mates. Hey. I don't ask fo…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Jan 17, 2024, 7:49 PM UTC

Weird, wonderful, memorable: Robert Jackson Bennett’s latest novel The Poisoned Cup

#### Do we need another new variation on the Holmes/Watson duo? Of course we do! We love the trope. Build a fantastical futuristic world for our crime solvers to play in, and I’m in! #### Robert Jack…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Dec 5, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

Bean counters, Murderous hunters, Mennonite warlords - Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2212

5 December 2023, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2212: bean counter ### My dad was a Bean Counter. This is a pejorative term for an accountant or treasurer who wants to severely limit th…

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Carol Kean
@carolkean Jul 19, 2023, 2:27 PM UTC

My Beautiful Disasters as an A^^hole Gardener

"This month's #creativegarden challenge asks us to reflect on why we love the Hive Garden community," @riverflows tells us in Hive Gardeners are My People. I especially love this: > ### Hive Garde…

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