Rae Finnie

wife, mother, daughter, literacy-coach, self-taught carpenter, crafter... lover of food & wine

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@JaxTheo1016 @andyserling Same!

[Kentucky Derby @KentuckyDerby]

Mage wins the Kentucky Derby!

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@HorseToWatch This is why we ❤️u

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@andyserling @NTamm1215 @HorseToWatch What in the world !? Who’s doing that!?! #enormousamountstooffer

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@JustinRColon Only if a favorite is basically all of them 🤣

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@failedtomenace @andyserling @TheNYRA @OutrunTheOdds Woooohooo!

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@philywheel @TwinSpires @LindaRiceRacing @jose93_ortiz I wasn’t saying they shouldn’t have made the call… that was def the call to make. Just asking for #consistency and bringing awareness 2 male/female bias but obviously happy for @LindaRiceRacing and @jose93_ortiz b/c they were my TP & deserve #allthewins b/c they’re 2 of my faves

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@TwinSpires @LindaRiceRacing @jose93_ortiz But at least @LindaRiceRacing scored one for the gals ! She’s one of my faves!!

[Jacqueline Woodson @JackieWoodson]

Yup. I said what most Black authors are thinking:

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@Horseplayer1011 @andyserling It really was amazing!!!!

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@HorseToWatch Yeah- what just happened !?! Like what was that

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@ukHolloway91 Boom!

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@HorseToWatch I had the 6 in my picks … ❤️🙂🙃

[Leta McCollough Seletzky, JD 🐳 @LaSeletzky]

My 14yo and I are sitting out on the deck doing our homework (writers always have homework, I tell him), but I make sure this video *just happens to be playing* when we get started.

He overhears it and gets curious. “Is she crying?” he asks. 1/

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@NSA_Library @funkyjenn This one ☝🏽 put me over the edge … let’s call librarians names and then sue them 😳… it’s disgusting and embarrassing and yes, EXHAUSTING

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Just an ordinary day… me and a giant giraffe stuffed-animal reading zoo books to my son and his class … before their zoo field trip! 📚❤️ 🦒 🐘🐒🦘🦛

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@NSA_Library Yesterday my 3rd grade son (5th GR reading level) said “I need 1 + Piggie & Elephant 📖 to add to our 📚📚!” I started 🎤him about his brain and challenging himself and then I 🛑 and “you know what, you’re ✅ let’s get it📖… I’m an adult reader and I ❤️to read picture books.

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More past weekend vibes with @yuyimorales a beautiful human with an amazing soul

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So something happened this weekend…I got to meet one of my MOST FAVORITE AUTHORS in the UNIVERSE! One of my friends says I’ve never met a book that I don’t like… but🤫 … a gal can have her faves ❤️ @JackieWoodson my heart is ever so full! #icon