What was margarine?

I was looking for the aurora the other night, but I got a Thomas Kincaid.

How I took Miles’ advice on a 43 degree day: walk 2.5 miles, say good morning to everyone, get a donut.

Don’t blame me, I voted for McGovern.

Having epilepsy is a constant riddle: Is this a leg cramp or the start of a seizure? Is my face starting to go numb, or am I cold? Am I nauseous or am I about to get a migraine? Am I dizzy from meds or an aura? Flow charts please, neurologists.

Read the NYT Style Mag feature on Gen X, and they totally left out ‘80s metal. No mention of our awesome big hair, and our stone washed jeans. Fine, whatever, I don’t even care. I’m going to the Headbangers’ Ball. #hairmetal #GenX #NYT

Sometimes, people get way too close. I do not enjoy it. #epilepsyawarenessmonth open.substack.com/pub/staceycu...

The alarm system is about to go off and tell everyone to get out of the street in Salem. October is over. Good night. #halloween #salem #Massachusetts

Did not come up with my highly scientific two heavy pumpkins, three clothes pins, a rock, and tucking the metal stand under what feels like wood rot keep-this-ghost-standing-system just to face 36 mph winds on the day of the big dance. #salemma

The lack of fall foliage so far, at least down here on Derby Wharf in #SalemMA, is a wicked bummer. #Massachusetts #october

The beauty of a historic New England town in the fall is unmatched. #SalemMA #Salem #fall #foliage #dunks

Undocumented immigrants aren’t taking away healthcare, Trump is. A few months ago, I wrote about the cruelty of Trump’s Medicaid cuts & the impact on gun violence survivors. I wanted to tell the story of the real harm on real people, brought to us by Trump. #MomSky open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...

Look at this bug. It is perfect. It flew away because I tried to sneak around it, but I’m a clomper.

If you try brain altering substances, for medical or recreational purpose, you may understand. #epilepsy open.substack.com/pub/staceycu...

Are you just about to get up and go to the bathroom? Do you have a cat? Somehow they know your intention and want to thwart it. I hope you have teacher bladder like me because you owe this animal at least 15 lap minutes.

I have never watched “Dancing with the Stars” but you better bet that every time they announce a new cast, I need to see who’s on it.

We are your potted plans and yes, we played dead for two weeks, but we are back baby! The 4 lisianthuses that once shared these pots rotted and disintegrated, except the one in the second picture that I moved out front into the chaos of the pollinator front yard. But baby, that one has ascended.

Just saving money by making coffee at home.

Yes, it’s August 20th but if I wait until even September 20th, they will be gone. I’m just getting prepared.

I barely tell you anything Spotify, but here we are, connecting deeply:

If you try to pluck a chin hair even one day too soon, it’s going to resist, and the more you try to tweeze it, the more it’s going to curl up like gift wrap ribbon. Get the timing right.

We used these as seaweed water balloons as kids, and the only reason I didn’t belt someone with this was not adult restraint, it was because I was alone.

I just tried to take a pic of the basement toilet medicine cabinet and they both came out like this. Not trying again.

We are driving through Manchester-by-the-Sea and I still marvel how they managed to get us all to add that preposition, just so no one would dare ask them if they were from Manchester, NH.

Mike Huckabee is a gobshite.

Today I am dressed like Maude, if Maude had access to Old Navy.

it is #DonutDay, so I'm resharing my essay about my complex relationship with them. Happy Donut Day! open.substack.com/pub/staceycu...

So are they besties again next week?

Decorated the house meticulously, but every May-October we are like, “F#*% it, this is fine.”

Has anyone ever had a garden hose that actually fits the spigot and doesn’t shoot water every where? Does such a thing exist?

As weather worsened in MA today, it became obvious that last Fri, when the sun was out, one of you put beach chairs in the car, put away the winter coats, pulled out the flip flops & got a pedicure. Only hubris can yield such wicked conditions. Taking my shovel out to break this spell. #noreaster

Life here on MA’s North Shore is just so randomly amusing. Started my weekend talking to a pirate. Watched the National Park Service hustle to stop people from dangling too close to wharf water. And then today, we witnessed this joy. #nahantbeach

Good luck getting a Real ID now, Bob Francis.

My oldest daughter is a middle school teacher. She just asked me to send a baby picture of her for the school yearbook. I think I sent her 25 pictures. She was so cute, and this is the exact reason new parents take so many pictures. This is my moment.

Pictures of last night, and now it’s raining again. Weekends in MA can only have 15 hours of sun over two days collectively.

HRT patches sticking to your fingers? HRT plastic getting staticky and clinging to your clothes? These little adhesives got ya down? Spice them up with some nostalgia! (or just tuck a pic of JBJ in your pants) #80s #GenX #HRT weeklyhumorist.com/how-to-add-g...

I wrote about looking for a friend and sent it to the internet. I want to hang out with someone else who can’t ride the rides. #meningioma #epilepsy open.substack.com/pub/staceycu...

Haven’t been going in the last few years, but if I knew this was an option, I’d have considered it. No, I’ve never ridden a horse but I feel a marathon is a good place to learn. #bostonmarathon

I’m on Substack where I also have few followers, and I also think I’m funny. (Tell me if you are there too.) substack.com/@staceycurra...

Pickleball sucks, and so does the person who wrote this. I hope all your pickleballs get flat and that you never “win” a match again.

This is too many movie plots at once, 2025. Too many. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

I’ve always loved Maine! See you this summer Vacationland. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Consider becoming a member if you can. There is a $35 option.

I‘m getting old so I wrote about Jim Morrison & Val Kilmer ofc. And then I found this in my attic when looking for something else entirely, so either of, or both of them, are haunting me. open.substack.com/pub/staceycu...

April is National Stress Awareness month and I’m trying to think of an April Fools joke but nothing seems outlandish enough to be funny any more, and now I’m stressed that I can’t think of anything, and that the world is like this. So yeah, Happy National Stress Awareness month. He he lol

Nice still life painting, talented artist. I’m most interested in where you got that bread though. #peabodyessexmuseum #salemma

Yes, this replaces the MMR vaccine. But what about Dtap? What then Dr. Bucky? I suggest doing the Electric Slide and swallowing someone else’s chewed gum. That should work.

I don’t take the train often, but when I do, the person next to me is going to talk loudly on the phone the whole way.

This combo is the perfect dinner