My son’s essay about why he doesn’t want to be on a farm.

Today’s 8 @marchxness.bsky.social essays have me seated and sad as hell with TWO asterisk power-pivots by BRITTNEY UECKER (“Max and I had a tumultuous, isolated relationship”) and KATIE MOULTON (“I wrote all this before.”) Katie’s “before” in italics!

Yikes! These essays are so fucking sad! @marchxness.bsky.social

*soft knocking* Hi, BlueSky. It's me, Caro. Can I come in? I want to discuss March Sadness @marchxness.bsky.social

I’m sorry, but I’m the woman who writes “Knock it off!” with an exclamation point, in serious emails, when my feathers get ruffled.

Afternoon shift poeming while people wait at Chicago Artisan Market!

i love pnc lmao... they're onto something... why does banking and everything have to be all gussied up nowadays

the ultimatum… scotty??? Yikes

asking for blurbs = sending handwritten notes to my favorite playwrights and authors and playwright-authors @clashbooks.bsky.social

He’s placing the Parmesan rind into simmering sauce like Nara Smith and I’m stepping out for a cigarette like Lucky Blue

no worries just utterly fucking SLAYING Xmas shopping while my car is in the repair shop

Update: I am sitting at it. How could I not

a single two seat bistro table at the Starbucks in jewel osco is killing meeeeeeeeeeee overlooking the produce pretending to be a European aperol bar OMG it’s so earnest

I have to get drug tested regularly for my medication and I’m happy to report I’ve been given a secret password from the lab supervisor to be seen immediately whenever I go. Feels like a promotion!!! The password includes the word banana which makes it even better

I know I’m missing The Point but the romantic chemistry between Lilly Phillips and Josh Pieters is insane

Merriam Webster this is SMUT

My son makes / films a LOT of puppet shows. then when he’s at school and I watch them, i feel myself looking straight into his soul

I would argue there are cases in which spaghetti is better cold

I went to a stationery store and was nice to myself

I'm not here to judge people for their thirst posting decisions, but some people are posting truly wild things under their actual government names

literally me

bestie has my location and I love when she shows up at my house and vapes over my shoulder and talks shit passively while I diddle on the computer

Former grinch reporting back with full-chest Christmas spirit — reader, it is true: softening with age

Conspiracists think aliens exist… but real conspiracists know it’s a staged alien invasion that’s been in the works for many decades to unite people in slowly conditioned fear to make them malleable

Seriously. no one on my feed is talking about dumping old bananas into their rose bushes and I’m pissed

I get it I get it the writing community is here and it’s nostalgic but can anyone point me toward : is gardener twitter also here ? Find me

How do you guys all get followers on stuff? Like I don’t understand lmao

Poeming While People Wait at @bloomingdales.bsky.social !

Signing a book for someone I don’t know who likes boxing: Dear Eric, Merry Christmas ❤️ I heard you like boxing… there is no boxing in this book… ❤️❤️❤️

My son and his friends blowing down the door on a Friday and setting up UNO like it’s poker night

Tomorrow from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm at @bloomingdales.bsky.social at 900 N. Michigan Ave! Get a hot fresh holiday Poem While You Wait from @caromacon.bsky.social & Heather McClelland & yours truly! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7691221...

I wish they’d just leave us there. We have a sick setup

my husband requested a lewd and I’m like bro it’s 25 out I’m in so many layers

I watched WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN one time in 2012 but it’s one of the films I’ve thought about the most since then

Horse 🐴 girl 💅 fever 🥵 love all of Kevin’s writing can’t WAIT

lips so chapped they’re bleeding, body getting swept away in the wind like a dandelion. Chicago is HERE BABY

Oh no god stop me. Now I’m sending so many people voice memos about juice wrld. I must break away from this

OK re: Juice WRLD. I googled just now that I learned I’m his biggest fan and this article came out TWO DAYS AGO about his immortal avatar resurrection www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/a...

in case you ever think I’m an enigma, know I spent hundreds of minutes listening to this youtu.be/cr82wSBZeeQ?...

Much soul-searching happening here, the most significant being that my number 2 song is Armed and Dangerous by Juice WRLD 😂

Damn The Strand ordered copies of the Dick Knife book. 👍

YOU GUYS. I'M EXCITED. For my composition class at Loyola, my curriculum for their major research essay surrounds the ins and outs of controversies within child network TV. This semester, theses are EXTREMELY juicy. Selfish moment looking at outlines. Hooked! Can't wait to read!

so many glam holiday events, so few glam holiday outfits

Field trip chaperone-ing

So many reposts today of beloveds out with new pubs

❤️

Congrats to my boo

"There are lots of ways to give rhythm to one’s life, one’s art, and to keep showing up and being awesome in a world full of shit." I got to write about the beautiful Wim Wenders movie PERFECT DAYS for the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar! www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...