Made serviceberry muffins from the tree. Clipped first indigo plants back to encourage growth and fullness; first shoots drying on a cookie sheet ahead of late June class I'm taking. Tepache a success. Today: embroidery. The house is so quiet with the kid away.

Tepache is a success!

Further crying in Baltimore transit. This is commuter rail timing, not hugh frequency bus. And yes I know it is a Saturday but cmon.

I encourage the state Democratic Party to re-read the title of the event, which includes the words "fight" and "win."

As others have noted, the website lacks a master schedule and the pictorial schedules are difficult to read (and maybe impossible for screen readers). To see what's happening you have to click on every individual venue

And if it isn't land, then it is the ocean. University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an HBCU and land grant institution has a coastal aquaculture/estuaries focus for fishing and shellfish. They have an enormous oyster hatchery.

Cries in Baltimore transit. A "high frequency" line with a 30 min wait. Alternative route might be a 3 min. Or maybe 37.

Ideally in a storage idea but barring that having lived in apartments: parking garage, balcony, outside securely chained and covered (double heavy locks). Grocery shopping: foldable attached basket. Groceries into reusable bag, bag into basket. More than 1 kid: trailer, seat extension, etc.

ALL of this. And: (1) TWIGs is awesome but you have to know about it, audition and schlep to BSA. (2) TWIGs is open to all city kids including those in private school. I have feelings about that. (3) A single after school arts program is not a solution to a dearth of district wide arts education.

Working part-time for myself (~28 hrs a week) with the remainder spent on textile arts, gardening, and tending to my person with exercise.

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

As a former fed subject to Ethics disclosure: this is some bullshit. I'm a nobody and I had to list every mutual fund and student debt and holdings for retirement accounts and gifts for me, spouse and minor kid. Rules for thee indeed.

Okay, only about 20 mins. But outages make me anxious. Having to clean out my fridge and dump food four times in five weeks is not a memory that fades easily. Outages started just like this in 2024 and worsened all summer.

The power is out in Harwood. Again. Two years ago this was a regular thing and BGE promised to fix it. baltimorebeat.com/after-a-summ... First hot day and it is out. Again. Cc @odetteramos.bsky.social @baltimorebeat.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com

That's like a century of funding for the BPD. Like 7,000 renovations of City College. $120k for every person in Baltimore. In 60 days.

I'm at Gunz of Steel. This might be the most Baltimore thing I've been to this year. It is every theatre kid grown up. (Complimentary)

Made an orange cheong. Started an attempt at tepache today. Crossing fingers it works. Indigo seedlings in (some from Bluelight Junction, some I started from seed). Husband got me dyeing stuff for my birthday. More hobbies, less doom scrolling (or trying so).

Kubaneh take two with Iraqi date syrup from the Punjab Market on 33d. In back is in-progress citrus cheong.

Whatever the tax code looked like before Reagan took office in Jan 1981.

Hi @thebaltimorebanner.com @sararuberg.bsky.social is the Pride Parade on Charles or in Druid Hill? Because Baltimore Pride website says Druid Hill with a block party in Mt Vernon the day before.

Bologna Italy.

Annual reminder that Mother's Day is a fraught, complicated, bittersweet day for many of us.

I don't write about this a bunch on here but: I had very serious and not particularly well treated postpartum depression and anxiety. Two decades on, with another hormonal upheaval I had a relapse. I was determined not to miss my life, esp last years with kid at home. Antidepressants are miracles.

Not today; bsky.app/profile/mtam...

Hi, hello, but folks thought it would be exactly this bad and worse. Because many of us are women we mostly were tarred with labels of doomerism and hysteria. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Last day of K-12 school for the kid. Their high school experience at BSA has been so excellent (and challenging!). My relationship with Baltimore City Public Schools has been rocky, in part because I see the truly wild differences between schools and the opportunities for young people.

Kubaneh success.

Avocado dyeing

@lizbowie.bsky.social @baltcityschools.bsky.social is City Schools weighing in on the possible loss of the bus lane here? Gold is MAJOR E/W route for young people going to Bard, Connexions, Douglass, Coppin, Dunbar and transferring to the Silver for City or Mervo, Light Rail to Poly/ACCE/Western

Is this all a precursor to overturn Olmstead? My heart and brain cannot take any more but I worry very much about where we are headed in with institutional v HCBS care.

Brief bird TV interruption.

We must tie our children to this sinking ship, otherwise they will never know how to sail.

Maryland Sheep and Wool, sunshine and a strong bang game

The kid went to prom last night. We walked over to the pocket park at 26th and Guilford; a bunch of families were taking photos. These small green carless spaces are so important.

I know is FlowerMart but what the heck @mtamarylandalerts.bsky.social? An HOUR wait for the next bus? Three cancelled runs? Cc @mdotmtaholly.bsky.social

Three weeks since major surgery. Overdid it a little today -- the weather was so lovely -- and my body let me know. Sofa and resting tomorrow. Still remarkable that three weeks on I'm walking every day and not in pain and generally feeling well.

Going to see my kid's last in-school show tonight. They're the lead sound person (having been the lead costumer this fall).

First, RFK remains A Bad Person. Second, Medicaid *already* pays for transport, an example he cited, via NEMT. Third, paying family to keep their loved ones out of very expensive institutional placement is good!

Handsome pets of Baltimore, part 1.

Using my recovery to get in some joy-making activities. Indigo seeds sprouted and doing well. Gallon freezer bag full of avocado pits and a jar of dried marigolds will become a dye project as soon as I get some alum to use a mordant.

Look wistfully in Maryland. The General Assembly could have, but didn't, because of our Senate majority leader.

Baltimore,.if you want some heartwarming news about the amazing young people in our city, go look at BSA's class of 2026 and college counseling feeds on IG. College and conservatory acceptances here and abroad, many with major aid. Get your good dopamine hit.

Post op appointment: got to see so many pictures of my insides. Love my doc, truly. She was happy to nerd out with me as we went thru the pathology findings..

Philly folks on here: would welcome information about our incoming CEO of city schools, Dr Dawson who currently serves as your deputy superintendent. Looks like he's had lots of shorter stints in Philly, Birmingham, Atlanta, Orlando, Jacksonville. EdD from Northcentral U but no diss online.

Raised a whole adult. They requested mango lassi cake. I improvised: Cardamom cake with mango/yogurt curd and yogurt/cardamom/cream whip.

Yup. From Baltimore you could ferry to the Eastern Shore and then take the train to the beach!

I'm in Baltimore and I wish our school board could/would have an honest conversation about end-of-year grades push. The intense pressure on schools (and by extension principals and teachers) to pass kids is *intense* Grading policy out of the window, lots of pressure to let kids make up work /1

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Week 2 of FMLA thoughts: laparoscopic surgery is kind of a miracle. Participated in a clinical trial as part of surgery and found out I was randomized into the treatment group. Had an all-women team (doc, residents, nurse anesthetist, nurses) and everyone was so kind. Good pain management.