Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯

If you’re looking for proof that magical places still exist, I ask you to simply walk into your local library.

I am now at the caregiving place where all meals that Mom is given must be on the "Good for Dogs" list.

Recap of my morning: While our caregiver was here, I picked up Dad's 80+ YO violin & 1 of my ukuleles from the luthier, quick shopping trip, & risked fingers to start the first of 3 cheese boards. Trying to wrap my head around the geometry needed to make more. I'm a humanist! Math is hard!

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

When everyone knows it's probably Grandpa's last Christmas so everyone makes a big deal about him

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

I don't even care about the no wrinkles, just give me a fucking break.

this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased

Why it matters

I lived in my car part of the time I was teaching undergrads.

Murders love to talk about how many people they saved by murdering

I got a perfect score. PS: some of these I still do

whomst amongst us

In case you’re keeping score, this is the publisher of children’s picture books condemning a tweet by the U.S. Secretary of Defense that depicted one of its characters killing people. Because that’s the world we’re in right now.

I made cream cheese corn for Thanksgiving dinner. Turned the leftovers into corn chowder. Mom loves corn, cheese, potatoes, and soup. Winner! Winner! Soup dinner!

Curbside dresser got a make over. $150 for a wine bar/tv console. The plant shelves were made from a fence picket I had in my scrap wood pile.

A friend brought me a gift today. Does he know me or what?

I'm thankful for friends and family.

Mama has some sort of viral infection according to the doctor. She has the same thing last year. I hate it when she feels bad. 😢

I need to find a luthier in my area. I want to have my Dad's student violin repaired. It doesn't have to play, but I would like to hang it up as decor and remembrance.

Making blackberry merlot ice cream as one of our contributions to Thanksgiving dinner.

Found a new-to-me sofa at HforH Restore for $135. Gave it a deep clean. The covers come off, so those went into a hot wash & dry. It came out looking beautifully.

I found this early-20th-century wood chest of drawers on the side of the road. Yes, I had to pick it up. No, I couldn't lift it, I rolled it to my car, & a lovely man pulled over to help me. No, I haven't figured out a way to get it out yet. It smells like maple syrup. What do I do with it?

It’s really very simple:

What I planned to do today: Sunday morning breakfast out with Mom, laundry, finish up holiday shopping, & wood working gift projects. What I did instead: got Mom up really late, breakfast for lunch, deep cleaned the living room, laundry, ordered groceries, refilled meds, & installed a bidet.

Strung hammock season out until soup season. I like when a plan comes together.

Strung hammock season out until soup season. I like when a plan comes together.

These plants needed to come in the house because of a freeze warning on Sunday. I quickly bundled them into one pot & stuck them on this unused table. This afternoon, I dug around my house to find some stuff to make it look more intentional. Cost? $7 for fairy lights. #shoppingmyhouse #thrift #diy

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

First, the federal government getting its economic data from DoorDash is a bit alarming. Second, people who use DoorDash pay an average of $63 for a meal from McDonald's. Sort of an odd place to look to gauge sensitivity to the cost of food.

Banks become richer, while people become poorer. Seems on brand for trump. A person who takes one of these mortgages pays 87% more in interest than on a 30-year loan. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/b...

I would rather we are majorly inconvenienced by air travel as long as people keep their healthcare and SNAP benefits.

Mom and I have been stuck in the Atlanta airport for 7 hours now. She has been I trooper. I, on the other hand, am exhausted and cranky.

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

Everybody is so desperate for that interstellar comet to be an alien ship, what if it's just cake?

The importance of down ballot voting.

Please don't be Tampa! 🤞 Shit!

“If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.” — Howard Zinn

WHOMST AMONGST US TBH CASE CLOSE

Me picking up Mom at the door of the hotel: Me: Hey little girl! Want a piece of candy? You just have to get in my car. Mom: I'll take a piece of candy. 😂 Me: Mom, you're not supposed to take candy from strange people. Mom: Michele, it's candy!

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WTAF

Mom's travel walker fits in airplane overhead compartments and under the seat. It fits under a two person restaurant booth. Amazing flight attendants and restaurant hostesses. Best $125 I've spent for travel.

I do not agree Oz. No part of it has passed. People are still dying of acting infection. People are suffering with Long Covid. People have no idea what this has done to our bodies for the rest of our lives. And we have never collectively mourned. And look at us now. Oz, you are wrong.