INSHAMNIA (noun) The inability to sleep due to the replaying of awkward conversations, dumb decisions, and failures to act.

Squeaked it out. Go Birds.

Your Facebook feed is filled with photos of families smiling, but if your heart may hurt because you are missing someone, estranged from a family member, or anticipating a loss, you are not alone. Be the light. Text someone who doesn’t expect to hear from you on Christmas. Merry Christmas.

I will never understand Photoshop layers.

A scene from Stand By Me that Rob Reiner brought to life.

FIFA stands for Facilitating Idolatry For Assholes. #FiFA

Couldn’t convince my boys to get haircuts before our Christmas card photo. Oh well. In case you aren’t on my list, Merry Christmas! Thanks for being in our lives. #MerryChristmas

Please don’t wait until your family member is on hospice to make peace. Keep trying. Once you get the phone call, you’ll do anything for five more minutes to say what you need to say.

“Hey, it’s that Elf’s dad?” -My son, watching the Godfather for the first time

Wow

Watching my youngest on Find My Friends. On his way! Please be careful on the roads today, everyone.

Trump: Quiet, Piggy! American Women: Oink off and get your finger out of my face before I bite it.

You Can’t Be Fully Clean Until You’re Zestfully Clean and Other Lies I Believed in the 80s a memoir

I talk too much.

Best New Yorker cover ever!

Checking in to see if any of my followers are my age.

Did you know Longfellow wrote a poem about this pretty Main Line church?

“Goodbye, Maria. You’ll make a very fine nun” is my favorite snarky line of all time. What’s yours? #WritingCommunity

Do you have any one in your life you want to enrage for no particular reason? Tell them to watch All of Me.

Boo! #writingcommunity

How your email finds me.

How did you quit Twitter?

A good elevator joke works on so many levels.

This is the cutest thing you’ll see all day. Stop looking at pictures of the bloated orange guy, watch this, and go outside.

I can’t resist. Sorry.

The fireflies are putting on quite a show these days. Tempting to watch them instead of going to the fireworks tomorrow.

Dropping your child off in a city far away for his first full-time job is completely different than dropping him off for college.

You can get ice from a hotel bucket or you can be a fan of #TheOffice. Can’t have it both ways.

Rough day. Going to bed. Please send stupid jokes, dog pictures, or happy thought I can wake up to.

Unfollowing all the parents groups after your child has graduated from college.

Who wants to play?

Free on-line class at Harvard. *giggle, giggle pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...

It’s like the food is huddling together because it’s afraid.

Unless someone like you cares an awful lot. Nothing’s going to get better. It’s not. - Dr. Seuss

Looking for an Audible book that will keep my college kid and husband’s attention on a long drive. Any suggestions?

Before you say something about how tired you are of Lily Pulitzer, make sure you aren’t sitting next to someone in a Lily Pulitzer shirt.

I have to go to something wearing “Derby Attire.” I’m not buying some horrible hat. What do I have to wear? As long as it’s floral, it’s “Derby?” Help!

Barnes and Noble is back in Bryn Mawr, but let’s continue to support Narberth Bookshop, Main Line Books, and Children’s Bookworld. Who’s with me?

Why can’t I quit Twitter? So much nicer over here.