“Mommy, look at all these snakes!!”

Something I forgot from when my dad died is how much paperwork there is! My mom didn’t have much money but she sure had a lot of accounts 😬

An interesting article from NYT abt Western scientists’ tests that are showing why Chinese acupuncture works. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s funny we’ve just dropped the “tv” part of “reality tv star.” (Someone just sent me a link about a “reality star” running for public office.)

It's nice that a library worker affixed the little paper label *just so* to make a good spot for the "CANCELLED" stamp (my copy of a book by Elizabeth Coatsworth) 📚

The thing that drives me absolutely nuts about this fad, even more than your baby chewing on plastic, is WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO WITH IT WHEN THE BABY OUTGROWS IT. People make enough plastic junk for religious practice as it stands.

drat

this is the best chapter of the whole book, and might also be the only chapter of MD on theme for Mother's Day 🐋

a #smallpoemsunday offering about a recurring mom problem

"Thunderbolt [the itinerant wild turkey] was welcomed as a hero into the Harvard flock, which had already captured two graduate students, sixteen professors, and one ukulele-playing street performer for sacrifice at the nearest temple, which towered over the public green." 😂😂😂🦃‼️

From Google's NotebookLM home page: a story summary of Joyce's Ulysses-the paradigmatic case where LLM use would not help and would cause the user to miss out on the whole point of reading. Sure it's hard; most of the references go over my head. Let the language seep into you and see what happens.

The essay, about this now-closed museum, is free to read on our website.

“You don’t look old, mommy.” - my favorite child

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Today I have written about the delights of J. H. Prynne, the grand old Cantabrigian late modernist who died recently. (And a bit about his close contemporary, Geoffrey Hill.)

Weird but totally sincere question: do people photographed for stock images know how their images get used? Like, do they get an update? Or even advance notice?