I am a writer obsessed with time. A public librarian turned freelance book editor. Bicycling through life with my bike named Gidget.
Rhode Island, USA
Joined December 2020
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Jessica Faye D'Avanza retweeted
“I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.” — Virginia Woolf
Jessica Faye D'Avanza retweeted
“People are afraid of things they don’t understand”
Joni in conversation with Hege Duckert in July 1988.
My partner shared this with me yesterday, and today I want everyone to want a bakfiets! @notjustbikes youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWC…
I've become obsessed with thinking about cause and effect. In 2020, we ditched our 2nd car and I learned to bike commute. Effect=I started to write again. In 2021, I wrote this essay. Effect=I remembered why I must write. plateofpandemic.com/solace-i…
@ribicycle & @BikeNewportRI & @BikeLeague you all have mentions in this essay! @PVDStreets you might be interested in this narrative of one tiny woman on a Giant bike in PVD. 🚴♀️
This is the bike lane on Allen's Ave (northbound) in Providence. It's littered with industrial debris from the trucks at the port. It gets even worse near the l-95 ramp. @PVDStreets and @ribicycle who is responsible for street sweeping? The @CityofProv?
Excited to be one of this month’s contributors to @TheSunMagazine Readers Write section on the theme of “Cooking.” Shared a tale my grandmother, Marie, told me often enough that I’d memorized it! She’s smiling from above. thesunmagazine.org/issues/55…
Who has read this book? Thank you @sashacagen for the reading suggestion! I'll never forget my breath again 🫁#breath #jamesnestor – at Providence, RI
Jessica Faye D'Avanza retweeted
There are a gazillion important reasons to #CancelStudentDebt, but today I've been thinking about how challenging it is to create art in the face of precarity.
It's the moment I've been waiting for... my CMOS doorstop is here! #copyeditor #chicagostyle #cmos #17edition #grammar – at Cranston, RI
Worth the read! I don't own a Peloton, but as a female who took up bike commuting during 2020, I've been curious about those who ride indoors. This piece raises important ?'s about brand loyalty and body sizes. – at Attleboro, MA
Just thrilled to have @WendyRMonkey on Culture Study, writing about Peloton, or more specifically, Loving a Company That Doesn't Know How to Love Me Back:
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What a lovely evening @riffraffpvd with author @annie_hartnett who signed my copy of Unlikely Animals and shared her process for the writing life. I haven't been this excited to read fiction for months! And it's set in small town NH! – at Providence, RI
I'm thrilled to be one of the readers this Fri night with @whatcheerclub. I'll share an excerpt from my essay, "Solace in the Saddle" which celebrates the joy I discovered whilst learning to become a bike commuter in RI throughout the first year of the pandemic. Register to join.
This Friday, April 22 at 7pm Rhode Island writers will be sharing stories, essays and poetry inspired by, or in conversation with the natural world. Join us online this Earth Day by registering here: eventbrite.com/e/earth-in-ve…
Libraries and bicycles. Such a perfect pairing!
Do you like books?? Bikes??
Then join us on Saturday, April 23rd from 2-5ishpm for a literary city adventure visiting two of the @9librariespvd and lots of little free libraries along the way!
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Thank you @DearRhodeIsland for my new penpal! It's been 20+ years since I last had one, and I'd forgotten the thrill that is receiving a handwritten letter and writing one in return.
Super excited to attend a cookbook author event with @Powells for The Forest Feast Road Trip by @eringleeson on 3/28. Her cookbook series is an artistic & vegetarian delight! Event is free & on Zoom. powells.com/events-update
I've been told I didn't have this skill, but I think it was hiding in plain sight! Do you have this skill? Find out in one of my fave substacks...The Most Important Skill a Writer Can Have, by @kate_mckean katemckean.substack.com/p/th… @sashacagen this is for you!
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I've spent an awful long time stumbling towards it; the beam of my flashlight felt disorienting at times. Until all at once, as if I arose from a twenty year dream on the fourteenth of March, to find, that it was here all along.
Join me at my library for this free webinar for emerging writers with local author @elizabethsplai2. 10/5 at 7 pm via Zoom. Register below.
Register for Lessons From a (Probably Should Be) Committed Writer on Tuesday, October 5 at 7 pm. Perfect for would-be-writers and featuring national writing contest winner @elizabethsplai2
While growing up, my dad was always referred to as "that clock guy." Our house moved to the hum of "tick tock." His work takes him up inside clock towers around New England. Let's go inside a tower in episode #57 of @RhodyRadio with a tour by "the Clock Man" as he says goodbye.
On the latest episode of #RhodyRadio, come and hear the sound of a happy clock, on this tour of the inside of a clock tower with "The Clock Man,” a.k.a. Philip D’Avanza. Listen and subscribe anywhere you find podcasts! rhodyradio.org/podcast/episo…
ALT Photo of a brick clock tower. At the bottom is a logo banner for Rhody Radio featuring the text "Rhody Radio" and an illustration of Rhode Island with headphones on.