Banana and mayo sandwich sorry guys

Dang I don’t know what went down on laclede west of grand but a whole lot of police are headed there. Fast.

I did take my medicine and it’s still distressing.

1638-72 S VANDEVENTER AV, ST LOUIS, MO, 63110

random allusions to whales

Update: I forgot to take all my medicines today as well.

2016 S JEFFERSON AV is on the tax sale list

There‘s only a handful of shows that I have sat down and watched on purpose and very few that I watched while they were first on the air. “On the air”… I am so old.

Sometimes my dual roles as school board member and education grad student just conspire together to make me really depressed.

🎶 “The missing piece that ties together the whole history of African sacred music in America.” — Robert M. Marovich Carolynne Hitter Brown’s SINGING THROUGH STRUGGLE reveals how postemancipation Black churches used music to nurture identity and resist oppression. #SacredMusic #BlackChurchHistory

I think Roy just recommended K Pop Demon Hunters from the pulpit [music stand]?? Prayers requested.

Luke 8:31 And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.

H O L D hold that line!

Living the dream.

Update: there is a Journal of Leisure Science.

Update: I have not found the papers I am looking for but I have found enough random stacks of papers to start hating myself a little. (I’ll get over it)

I did a seven day free trial that I will probably forget to cancel to read this but it is worth it. Anyway, I have raised four kids (17-11yo) and would say what kids need is not “you are good,” (I am Presbyterian after all), but “you are LOVED no matter what,” is far more important.

‘Absolutely devastating’: Rural schools say $100K visa fee could make it hard to hire teachers www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/01/t...

I won’t adopt this as I am not a leading scholar and want my articles to get published, but this week I’ve been wanting to use “Black y otros” instead of “people of color” or BIPOC Mostly this week I have been reading about Black and Hispanic teachers and our need for them + the barriers to that

So St Louis. Landscape maintained… but not the house.

I’m pairing this with that actor guy (I think he has three names) from an interview I read screenshots of yesterday where he basically said “I have four kids I don’t have time for despair or denial” ( —same, man) but what does that mean across this stratification?

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social says, hope is a discipline.

Uk folks, if we called her Sally Mullally (affectionate) would it rhyme like it does in my head?

This is so good and also explains why I perpetually break off a piece of Roy’s heart by not wanting to move in to so much uncertainty. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Y’all my friend Wendell wrote a song (or made music for the Psalm) that is really good. I’m sad I didn’t find it before the Rapture was supposed to happen. music.apple.com/us/album/our...

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The mayor can do that in NYC? Anyway, that gets my endorsement.

I’m just pessimistic about the people who design the technology.

Is this a guy currently living in Mississippi or one who left the state? Because I have a lot of questions.

Proud (and slightly terrified) mom of a 17yo!! She’s so great.

One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social

Ooooh

DARVO is a psychological concept that describes how perpetrators of gender-based violence react when they’re confronted with the harm they caused. It’s an acronym that stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.

I still think we should do reparations, y’all. Because all the current Black entrepreneurs and homeowners don’t make what happened in the past right. …posting from St Louis University which still has some of its own work to do.

Y’all there’s a class at on SLU’s ed dept (school, sorry) that is called “Principles and Methods of Catechesis” and I want to take it so much but it would not help me graduate… and since it’s for Catholic-school teachers, I am not the truly the right person… but so tempted.

We could also make this a real conference if someone with executive function wants to hop in.

CFP! (For the conference that is only in my brain): American studies piece on “Delmar Boulevard” as a thing in its own right (I don’t know what I mean here but I know I want answers) Policy piece: is it possible to measure the effect of Sunshine Laws on school/student success? If so, what is it?

🎶 NOTES: THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION calls SAME OLD SONG “a persistent reminder that innovation and respect for tradition feed each other in popular music—from Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis to hip-hop sampling and Janelle Monáe.” #SameOldSong #PopularMusic #MusicHistory

What’s the difference between “your goodness is running after me” and “taste and see that the Lord is good”

This is fun, lovely, and possible. Thinking about getting our church to do a goth Sunday during Lent.

Well poop.

“Democrats think 45% of Republicans support partisan murder, 20 times larger than what data show. Similarly, Republicans think 42% of Democrats support partisan murder, which is 25 times larger than reality. Americans have a fundamentally incorrect understanding of support for partisan violence.”

Tatyana Ali just said we should consider the environmental consequences of AI; Karyn Parsons just said “AI is plagiarism, it can’t take risks.”

Here at literacy for the Lou.

But here is an artist.

A small Texas charter network has paid its superintendent up to $870,000 annually over the last three years. Board members have voted to increase his pay or other financial benefits in 14 of their 24 meetings since 2021. (Published March)

BREAKING: Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts has been detained by ICE, the school district confirms. Here's what we know: https://t.ly/rT4Nu 

Scholar friends I hope you know that when I see you show up in my research I get really excited.

Y’all I found a perfect new term.

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