my week in a nutshell (rash not pictured)

Call your people or send them videos or voice notes just telling them you love them that’s it that’s the tweet

if you’re gonna be my bf you’re gonna need a disguise i said

when i met him he could barely play checkers and now he handedly beats me. he learned exactly how to take care of me and he does. he reminds me to churn my creativity into words and songs. he adores my kids and they adore him

flannel szn be hot this year

am i going to play a sound clip of the author saying his name before book club so i don’t have to hear it 12 incorrect ways? yes, yes i am

i couldn’t be a christian because i couldn’t promise to not have fun. and, quite frankly, i wasn’t interested. the singing was cool and also the foosball. ok and playing hangman on the eraser board before youth group was fun too. but by and large the church didn’t do anything for me

how he’s a little of all my siblings—same age as my older brother, he sings and does puzzles with me like my sister, and he makes jokes and laughs with my like my younger brother

oh why do i live this way (hey must be no money)

sorry if this makes me terminally uncool but i really like that one fall out boy song

going back to therapy bc i hit my deductible. time to trauma dump on someone new!

oh shit maybe we don’t want to know

seek app but for rashes and bumps

my friend is teaching my son how to 3d print; i love knowing librarians

the feminine urge to quit your job, learn the piano, make quilts for all the beds in your house, sit down and read whenever you pass by a book, attempt to grow tomatoes again, maybe make a scrapbook or at least send a few letters

taking some liberties with the word poem here storytime book

took my son to the mall for his first pair of converse somehow i always knew this day would come

you ever just collectively lose your mind with the people you work with? great bonding activity

i’m back to going for a walk after dinner and telling the boys they better be done with their homework and chores when i get back because we all win

last weekend aarik and i got stoned and bought a bunch of games and it’s paying dividends

i love audiobooks bc it means i get to listen to a story and play pvz at the same time

i think leading baby storytime has permanently altered how i act in the world

sorry i got so cranky 42 years have passed

my friend and i high fived each other after we finished leading a training course lol i love librarians talk about a profession that gets shit done but doesn’t take themselves too seriously

we spent five hours driving through a midwest storm and at the end the rain slid from the windows and the sun made color from what had been gray and everything looked like water

it’s truly wild that the pharmacy was going to charge me $130 for my meds and then i just showed them a code and it hey dropped the price to a third like this is all a scam just give us the right price to begin with

we own a pet cemetery—ten acres of rolling hills and vista views—we live at the top of one of the hills. at night the ghosts of people’s pets we buried visit us and its like we have a hundred different cats and dogs. we listen to old radio shows and mix mocktails and call them strong. we act drunk

scenes from today

he sleeps in while i stim

what he didn’t say is that when i asked him what it’s like to date holly pelesky he answered it’s like the scene in the November Rain video where Slash comes out of the church with his guitar and a cigarette and plays that guitar solo in the desolate church yard while the wind picks up

scenes from today

me at the end of tonight’s writers karaoke

you’re a chef and sometimes i come into your restaurant while you’re in the back, you can tell it’s me by the order that comes through. you make me dishes no one else has ever had, come deliver them to the table, sit down with me and drink a bit of the cocktail i ordered for you. on nights i don’t

omg this guy keeps requesting to follow me on ig and i keep denying him. his bio says “never give up” lol

*still thinking about that playlist he made last night*

the clouds are so close today that if you have a sunroof, you can reach out and grab one, drag it into your car and rest your head on it, smell the air, understand what it feels like to be hung in the sky

he’s a masseuse and i’m his client and the music he plays is quiet but it isn’t calm, it’s a boiling pot in that room can’t you feel it how time and space constricts and expands so you’re everywhere and nowhere at once

i wanted to remember watching the sky like capturing time-lapse photos, the color changing by the second, the cool air falling onto my skin while the clouds shaded in darker and darker until i couldn’t make them out at all i just felt night

look who’s high tweeting now 👀

had a dream i went on a date with someone who wasn’t aarik and it was awful and i immediately told him all about it

if you have questions or curiosities about public librarianship or MLIS degrees, my DMs are always open

*shepherding future librarians into the profession one caring person at a time*

i just told my bf i’m having fomo. about him going to hyvee and with the boys.

still one of the best picture book centerfolds

i want to give him every good and extravagant thing he’s ever wanted; i know he would appreciate with the proper wonder

i can’t imagine being a high school girl and having a crush on a boy named hunter who rides an electric scooter

filling each day with a little poetry, a little fresh air, a little documenting of something beautiful. i think it will work

this evening was lovely

discovery was the most pleasurable thing that she did these days with her life —hour of the witch by chris bohjalian

don’t tell my son what i got him for his half birthday he’s gonna freak out it’s nearly perfect condition