The times we live in: I dare to eat a peach, but I’m not sure that I dare open the news app.

Moon over Lake Ida

OR you can be a believer in 2nd and sometimes 3rd breakfast!

I'm starting a new blog series, "Intelligent Artifice," on how to think wisely and well with, around, despite AI. It's on hastac.hcommons.org. I won't stop also offering anyone who wants a brief respite a daily ocean photo. #SeaScrolling #Breathe. These are not incompatible moves . . .

A reminder that fighting the good educational fight is worthwhile.

An English major is one of many AI-proof majors! apnews.com/article/ai-a...

Turned in page proofs and index today. It’s happening!

A thread well-worth reading—and appreciate the first-rate High Holiday humor thrown in.

Team Science!!!

If only that were possible!

English majors, this means you! “But as the information landscape becomes more saturated, the ability to tell a story out of it — to take a ton of text and turn it into something people want — is more valuable.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

English majors, this means you! “But as the information landscape becomes more saturated, the ability to tell a story out of it — to take a ton of text and turn it into something people want — is more valuable.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

Happy birthday to my book!!!!!

My recovering fractured elbow does not appreciate the keyboard work associated with indexing.

In honor of #BlackMaternalHealthWeek (which should be every week!), I’m re-upping my review of Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee‘s important documentary AFTERSHOCK lilith.org/2022/02/a-te...

My Bluesky feed

A responsive book production editor is worth a price above rubies. Let’s celebrate all those who do crucial behind-the-scenes work to turn our manuscripts into beautiful books. It truly takes a village.

Pathetic. gift link wapo.st/4ccudpF

Tonight’s respite from the news.

Page proofs arrived today!

Such a smart, honest piece by @frankabruni.bsky.social. Crucial insight: “a blurry future isn’t the same as a bleak one. It just asks today’s college students to be especially nimble & patient.” Why I wrote ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK

I confess that we’re at the stage of Passover when I covet my neighbor’s bagel. BUT I eat kitniyot, so I have no reason to kvetch.

Good advice not only for our writing lives but also for our lives in general. 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/pep-talk-f...

SO excited to see ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK featured here ahead of publication. Thanks @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Two-tone sea

Last call for chametz

Our broken world could learn a lot from these two.

Me ogling a good looking marble cake in a local Jewish deli: is that kosher for Passover? Clerk: it’s for Passover but I’m not sure if it’s kosher 🤣 Another guy came out & gave me the tour of what’s kosher for Passover. And yes, reader, she bought the Kosher for Passover marble cake!

Amen

Next on the agenda

as for the gender that does not know how to ask, you must begin for her. take her hand, hold her tight, and help her see that she doesn't have to stay in this masculine corpse that's killing her. come with me, you tell her. you're going to be alright.

IYKYK

For all who have had the privilege of being guardians to senior canine family members.

Public humanities for the win and the joy.

OUR BODIES OURSELVES was a revolutionary gift to my generation and beyond. May the memory of Paula Doress Worters be for a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

As a childfree but dogless writer, I really appreciate this article. 🐶🐕‍🦺🐶🐕‍🦺 The Best Writing Tip? Get a Dog. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

NYC peeps: @bradf0rdr.bsky.social documentary RABBI ON THE BLOCK will be showing at New Plaza Cinema this weekend. Highly recommend! lilith.org/articles/chi...

Delighted to share my review of @rlmaizes.bsky.social smart novel A COMPLETE FICTION lilith.org/articles/met...

Was just invited to submit a paper on dairy food products because of my article “Got Jewish Milk: Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History”

PSA: Fighting for religious pluralism is part of the fight for democracy. No place in this fight for Islamophobia or antisemitism. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Real men read literary fiction and make peace.

A reminder that punctuation and grammar are tools that allow clear thoughts to be put into relationship with one another. Clarity and logical relationships are at odds with regimes that gaslight and manipulate populations with disinformation, propaganda, and hatred for others.

Checked my local Whole Foods online to see if they have Lilly’s hamantaschen. Here’s the first item on offer: (IYKYK)

Profound thx to @georgeanders.bsky.social for his endorsement of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK “Inspiring, timely, and immensely practical. Meyers shows a new generation of English majors how to open door after door in the modern-day career world.” www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...

Don’t put your energy into contributions to edited volumes pre-tenure. You have no guarantee that the publication will come out before you have to apply for tenure.

What a kind, charitable take from @effinbirds.com

Pups playing in the snow—perfect timeline cleanse! (h/t @oboistaalli.bsky.social)

The beautiful cover designed by David Kessler for ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS is now on @rutgersupress.bsky.social site. Turned in the reviewed & corrected copy edited ms on Friday. Like writing, book production is a process! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...

Frigid beauty