My home. 🙏🏻

Sleep well, everyone.

Children, google “Pinochet.”

Flu shot done. Yay science.

"Memoirists bear a creative responsibility to the story they are trying to tell, to the characters who appear in it (including themselves, as narrator), and to the craft it takes to get there." Writing about the dead, with a few craft words on Elizabeth Gibert’s All the Way to the River.

Bay Area friends: Join me tonight at Book Passage in Corte Madera at 6 pm for a conversation about Permission, and the stories we are and aren’t “allowed” to tell—now more then ever. Rumor is that there will be a Lamott sighting….

A brief note on how tariffs are going to impact authors: a large majority of illustrated books (cookbooks, children’s books, text books, etc) are produced overseas. If you’re a cookbook author and your gorgeous book about Italian food is coming off press in China…..good luck.

The Diary of Anne Frank? Removed from public library shelves in Florida? And these morons simultaneously use anti-semitism against universities?

With grateful thanks to @longreads.com ❤️

My essay in @bittersouth.bsky.social about the 24 guitars I’ve owned since I was 4, and the cross-hatching of lust, sorrow, and music.

I am physically ill.

45 minutes to get to an elderly person’s apt in NYC? Really???? @nyfd.bsky.social

Fergus is helping me write my next book.

To you nice folks who told me I was crazy when I said that voter registration lists were next, FU. Also: take one afternoon and read William Shirlee’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, volume 1.

Dinner last night: Hetty McKinnon’s pad Thai salad—so good.

I tried to cook healthy the other night but manicotti showed up.

Monsters. Absolutely every one of them. It’s like the last scene in Body Snatchers, with Donald Sutherland.

Day 2 out of 3 racing to NY from CT to try and reverse Village Care Max’s negligent and abusive decision to cut my 89 year old mother’s aide service despite the fact that she is 100% housebound, can’t walk unassisted, can’t transfer, etc. This is legalized elder abuse. @elderlawadvocate.bsky.social

It’s never a good day until @verizonofficial.bsky.social accidentally locks you out of your account and then disconnects your chat. Three times. Morons.

I have a profound need to sit on a beach in Truro and stare out at the water. For maybe a month or so.

This is emotional warfare. Not policy failure, not debate. It’s about showing that compassion is weakness and dominance is glory. They want a world where no one is safe from their resentment, not even the most defenseless.

I so enjoyed talking with @bookcougars.bsky.social about Permission -Have a listen, below.

Current situation. Also, we have two Subarus.

Officially not-quite-summer.

Imagine, if you will, Biff Tannen from Back to the Future. Introduce the process of cloning. As an experiment, create an entire village of Biff Tannens. Put all of them in public office. Give them the keys to the kingdom: exec office, HHS, SS, Medicare, etc etc etc. What do you think will happen?

If you watch it on mute, it's like he's auditioning to play Vincent Gardenia's role in the Ogunquit Playhouse production of Moonstruck! The Musical.

401(K) down 10%. 😵‍💫

The world may be falling apart, but it’s still beautiful. Tonight, from my front porch.

He seems nice. 🙄

Everytime I feel like the world is coming to an end, I watch this and I feel better. youtu.be/t8tdmaEhMHE?...

Anyone else remember the movie Missing?

Journaling is not for the faint of heart. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

As one does. 🙄

Perfect day for a migraine. 😵‍💫

Neal Allen and Anne Lamott are holding another amazing retreat in Costa Rica in July, with Neal doing daily workshops on taming your inner critic, and Annie on writing. On the ocean, in the rain forest, monkeys on campus, yoga and nightly 12 Step meetings. www.shapesoftruth.com/costa-rica-r...

Of course he doesn’t. He’s an NPD, lifted straight from the pages of the DSMv

He’s the Baghdad Bob of the current admin.

October 19th, 1987. I watched as it unfolded. I was 24, in my second job, with very little saved. By day’s end, I had nothing. If you don’t know what happened on 10/19/87, look it up.

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October 19,1987. I was there. It was not pretty.

Every time you look at the news and say to “OMG, I can’t believe he did THAT,” do yourself a favor—educate yourself about the borderline personality disorder that is NPD. Everything that he is doing is textbook NPD. 1/2

Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.

This.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

I’m just going to put this out there: in 2017, after the Women’s March on Washington, 45 claimed that he was delighted to see so many women out there in support of him. This is what NPDs do. So let’s wait for the spin on today’s marches…….

Nevah! Not even after a margarita brunch!

How charitable and kind of them.

"What if joy is not only entangled with pain, suffering, and sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through these things," wrote Ross Gay. What if. Until then: mind your hearts.

Pinch me please. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻