Good News: My application for health insurance through the IL marketplace was approved. I even found a plan that covers both my doctors. Bad News: Because my application was not approved until April 1st, my coverage does not start until May 1st. 😬 Excuse me while I wrap myself in bubble wrap.

So, the antisemites have been given permission to collect a list of Jews . . . for the supposed purpose of fighting antisemitism. I’ve seen this movie. It never ends well for us Jews.

The Best Book I Read This Month:

You have my attention.

I love this friendship. Once again I ask, “Picture book when?”

My Sunday: laundry cleaning housekeeping Passover prep His Sunday:

Love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.

What she said.

Ten years ago today (3/28), I brought this scruffy boy home. His rescue name was Fable. I cleaned him up and renamed him Duncan. He became my soul dog. He passed unexpectedly in May 2024. I still say goodnight to him every night. I hope someday he’ll find his way back to me.

Went to my local No Kings protest this morning. A few hundred people showed up. Not bad for a smallish red town The vast majority of protesters were GenX or older. We had far more honks of support than middle fingers of disgust (and there were plenty of those!) #NoKings

Introducing . . . the feline martini glass

The sun is setting, which means it’s time for me to log off for 24 hours. Shabbat Shalom, friends!

Re-upping for the evening crowd. #HistoryTeacher #HistoryEducation #SSChat #ITeachSocialStudies #Edusky #PrimarySources

Without the structure of a job, I’m struggling to keep track of the days and what I need to do. So I took advantage of Michael’s clearance aisle, and we’ll see if any of these work.

Purging my office of the Job That Took Over My Life and found this buried in my (now dismantled) work desk. Clem’s always there when we need him. #UglyDogs

#HistoryTeacher friends, I have materials to rehome. All of them are primary source inquiry activities. They are free to a good home. Let me know if you want any of them! I am happy to ship them anywhere in the US at my own expense. #iteachsocialstudies #sschat #historyeducation #edusky

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Fuck you, IOC. You just lost my viewership. No more Olympics for me.

Tired but happy after a day at day care

One of my goals for my sabbatical is to get back to writing. I miss it. So I’m starting here: ten minutes a day with my favorite prompt book(s)

Thanks for hosting another great #WriteStuff chat!. Check out The Horror Zine now while the March issue is still live. The April issue goes up in a few days. I'm Media Director. Enjoy! www.thehorrorzine.com

"A Widower's Gift" is a Christmas romance about a widowed/single father who owns a popular bookstore and his love interest, a woman who visits the hometown she hates so much. Complicated, but still very loving. #WriteStuff payhip.com/b/EsAtQ

#WriteStuff #Shameless #SelfPromo Not the dinner party I imagined, but when in Lewiston...

Dear #NCIS, I needed a warning before that gut punch.

Say hello to my little friend.

My employer health coverage expires 3/31. I am trying to enroll in a plan through the IL state marketplace. To verify my income, they need my final paycheck—which I don’t get until 3/30. Which means I have to wait until the last minute to apply for coverage. **cue week-long panic attack**

Happy National Puppy Day from Baby Penny, Little Me, and Baby Pepper (my first dog)!

A gift from my pen pal. Maybe you need this too.

Me, when I enter any room:

Snowball, Esquirrel! Acorny Bourdain!

Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge on May 1st! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ffc

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My new motto, courtesy of Emma Southon:

Putting this on my TBR

Salem’s Lot

Calling @weratedogs.com!

Shut my work laptop for the last time. If I didn’t have to go to the grocery store tomorrow, I’d spend the whole weekend curled in a ball.

Seconded.

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

It tastes like peanut butter, right, Chester?

This has me deep in my feelings for so many reasons. 1) Blair is a fantastic writer who crafts words in ways that always make me sob. 2) Since I first encountered Blair and her dogs on Twitter, I have found so much comfort and joy in their adventures. 1/2

I’m getting the Senate candidate I want. My House district went the other way. The one candidate I absolutely did not want—Melissa Bean, the Obama-era Democrat backed by the Dem establishment—won that race. 😡

YES! I got the Senate candidate I wanted. THANK YOU, my fellow Illinoisans!

The bots aren’t even trying anymore.

🎶Doo, doo, doo, looking out my back door🎶

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 📸: Wee Little Paws Inn

I grew up in SoCal, so our big field trip was to Mission San Juan Capistrano in fourth grade (the year we studied CA history).

Name a movie starting with the letter "P" ("The" can be silent.)

Loved this in the movie and love it on the stage.

Seeing an uptick in military recruitment ads. That does not bode well.