Best series of the summer!

My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.

Excited to see @hannahbessross.bsky.social on the cover of the Reader this month!

One of the best things I did in 2025 was getting a reader’s card @newberrylibrary.bsky.social — looking forward to returning in the new year!

Same, Peter, same

May I just say WHEW

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire Gift 🔗

As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules by @mizamudio.bsky.social publicintegrity.org/environment/...

The Cheers + Marie-Helene Bertino mashup I didn’t know I needed: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fict...

Respect to Frog for doing what writers fear doing: confronting your personal cliches instead of pretending you have none pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can donorbox.org/save-the-chi...

Bruce’s talent! Museum quality American crafting.

Perennial fav

Flood watch from the current storm hitting on the anniversary of last year’s flood is pretty deeply uncool

Mazel to @juliaheney.bsky.social in the New England Review!!

The capital of Vermont and hasn’t had a post office since July. Now a carrier has retired, leaving residents with no delivery and no place to ask for mail. Elections are in a month, 30% of residents vote by mail but showing a total lack of urgency, a USPS spokesperson says there are no updates.

Can’t stop listening to this album, lovingly blame Nina

Cool cool cool

Climate anxiety index: very high https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/10/as-montpelier-braces-for-major-flooding-residents-urged-to-evacuate-low-lying-areas/

This series looks incredible! And it’s free, all ages, in a dreamy park. See you there?