Kate, always with the wisdom. I love you and your writing so much! ♥️ @kdrabinski.bsky.social whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2025/11/02/f...

tinyurl.com/5n6my48p “The majority of our members are working-class people...Many of them live paycheck to paycheck. These reckless actions are disrupting and destroying the lives of everyday working people who are constantly being used as bargaining chips.” AFGE Local 2883 President Yolanda Jacobs

living in the bizarro world where employers send out what is "permissible" and "impermissible" for programs and activities and how we must be in "compliance with legal and regulatory anti-discrimination requirements." what a time to be alive.

I am so excited for Wally Lamb's new book!!!!

The White Place in Sun https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158752/

🤣 when the new therapist tells you she saw your eye roll

I'm a big fan of mindfulness exercises but let me tell you, there aren't enough for the onslaught of thoughts I have about -gestures wildly - ALL the things.

having a hard time today. <insert Taking Back Sunday lyric>

Hopping on to brag that I am on #PeonyWatch2025 and it is marvelous. My plants are super tall this year and there are so many buds. I AM SO EXCITED.

"Life can't be reduced to whether we breathe...all the ways that we do to collect our pasts, to collect our ancestors, is what turns out for many of us is life giving, life sustaining." - @marthasjones

my favorite bartender told me something when 'he who shall not be named' won the presidency that I can't stop thinking about. He said that we were about to enter "another 4 years of Mondays" and it's so accurate - a sensation that we can all recognize -

In moments like the current one, UMBC needs our support more than ever. I'm proud today to contribute to the History department, the Honors College, the Women's Center, and Special Collections! 🖤💛Thank you for shaping me into the human I am today! #BlackAndGoldRish #UMBC

probably not the best time to read the incredible Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," but here I am...

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Two good blogs I read this week: @kdrabinski.bsky.social's reflections resonate & make my heart feel better: whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2025/02/11/c... and Tracy's run recap, reminding me of the highs/lows of running thoughts & what bodies are capable of: poetsthatsweat.com/2025/02/09/t...

depressed, depressed, what's a girl to do

yes please BGE tell me about what less electricity I used this week while trying to protect myself from the world careening to its end around me. love those emails. 🫠

I don't mean to be unfaithful to what community we can build here, but I'm not digging the ways connecting only online makes me feel. I need face to face. I've been on a social break for a bit and logged on here today to see all of the harm already done...it's a growing list and I need to step away.

The work continues...