Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Everyone should take at least one break from doomscrolling this weekend to connect with this swamp.

I fear that Puzzle Warehouse is the only brand that truly understands me.

People who desperately want to believe that Stranger Things is getting an Episode 9 must be too young to have ever had a show completely ruined by a horrible finale.

So many libertarians are going to spend today complaining about the administration they voted for after claiming they had no other options.

Won’t someone think of the parents of kids old enough to stay up to midnight, but young enough that they’re not ready for Stranger Things?

Bring on the NYE marketing email blasts, it makes it so much easier to get a head start on my new year’s resolution to unsubscribe to all marketing emails.

Honestly, watching a documentary about a jigsaw puzzle contest on the free library streaming app is exactly my speed for today.

Merriam Christmas

Pretty sure my eight year old’s favorite joke in this year’s Home Alone rewatch was this one.

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

I miss the brief sliver of time between bees being everywhere and everything I touch giving me a static shock.

Home sick and opened TikTok to discover that women my age are apparently giving themselves DIY facelifts using needles in their jawlines and necks? Like, I know us millennials like our DIY, but your face is not a thrifted chair that you can reupholster with a trip to Jo-Anns, YouTube and a dream.

Tonight in things I just found out my 8 year old knows that I don’t. (The answer is a 64th note.)

Stuck inside on a snow day with a kid with too much energy missing out on his education? I present to you, our current solution (100% self-imposed.)

It’s one bookstore, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars? www.bookmoonbooks.com

Apparently like Massachusetts, I only have two seasons and they are “Hammock” and “Puzzles.”

Me to my husband: “Hey did you know Northampton has a famous turkey?” Husband: “No” “I actually met him at the hospital a couple of weeks ago.” Husband: “Oh wait, I do know that turkey, he’s been outside our office and I just edited a video with him today.”

Pluribus has definitely taken its place on my mantle of favorite sad shows that are also funny shows.

Finally getting some real lights peaking out from behind the clouds

My 8 year old child and another 8 year old child are working out the logistics of starting a “kitty club” where they will facilitate Facetime calls between their two cats every Sunday.

Spending Halloween baleeting his emails.

Just realized we’re out of both cat food and ginger ale and it’s renewed my sadness that Dave’s Pet and Soda City no longer exists.

It’s all fun and games when you first download The Merlin app, not realizing you’ll eventually move on to studying bird migration maps.

This only happens to you once

Literally every time I’ve had the time or energy to move this suitcase since returning from a work trip 3 days ago, this has happened.

Every 30 and 40something cast that would have been making a raunchy adult comedy if it was 2015 seems to be making a comedic murder mystery instead. What’s going on in Hollywood that’s making execs believe that a midlife crisis with a body count is that much more relatable?

I can confirm I used Merlin this week. I still want to know why a mallard hung out in my yard all day on Wednesday when I’m miles from the closest lake or pond.

@kristenmulrooney.bsky.social was that you in the ad that just popped up on my FYP??? Absolutely magnificent.

As always, enjoying the severe Massachusetts weather transition from sweaty to cozy.

The reality of raising a Western MA Gen Alpha is that they rotate seamlessly between playing Roblox and playing their pan flute.

We did a “no screens” day in the Berkshires and by 2pm our child was bored enough to compose a song on a pan flute.

Spending this last “no camp” week watching Homestar Runner videos, eating Totino’s Pizza Rolls and playing Settlers of Catan because apparently my 8 year old is a millennial college student.

I’ve replaced my And Just Like That hatewatching with The Summer I Turned Pretty and at first I felt embarrassed watching a “teen show” but, honestly, the maturity levels of the characters on both shows are basically interchangeable.

To make this like a real election, my cat, who does not live in Somerville, should be allowed to run.

Realizing how small my bladder is by reading a thread in r/massachusetts on the creepiest bathrooms in MA and finding out I’ve used almost all of them at least once at some desperate point in my life. www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...

When I walk into a room with stagnant air I can literally taste the smoke particles.

I can tell that I’ve become completely desensitized to shock because learning that Katy Perry was dating Justin Trudeau makes a lot of sense within the context of 2025.

Ok, what is the thing I’m horribly allergic to right now that’s intense in Western MA? I’ve been trying to figure it out, but looking at allergy forecasts isn’t helping. What random Pioneer Valley flower is blooming right now??

Forgot to pack my blowdryer and hair products, but it feels era appropriate to have shown up at this Fastball, Sugar Ray @barenakedladies.com concert with wet hair scrunched curly with LA Looks.

I usually believe I spent enough time in online mom groups to not be surprised by much, but here is a PSA to all parents - if you buy your kid a rock tumbler, you should know that it takes about a MONTH of constant tumbling/noise to successfully tumble those rocks.

Son doesn’t want to do anything 4th of July related, including fireworks and, honestly, same.

2025 not letting us have literally anything that provides us with any amount of peace and security.

Wondering if today may be the day I finally have 4 showers within 24 hours.

So tired after 2 days spent doing touristy things in NYC that I just spent 4 solid minutes trying to find The Empire State Building in a photo I took. Then I finally remembered where I took the photo from.

Every 5 years I try recapture the feeling of being 16 by having a Mike’s Hard Lemonade and every time it tastes even more disgusting than it did previously.

Home ownership is an endless series of surreal questions such as “Who do I even call about this chipmunk hole? Is it the pest people or the foundation people?”

You know your kid is truly yours when he starts teaching himself to read runes on some potentially sketchy website and you casually pull a rune book out of your bookcase to have him use instead.

My son is deeply knowledgable about geography and constantly thinks I’m an idiot for not knowing, like, the capital of Macedonia, before I’ve had my coffee.