finished a new sweater today!!! took about a month and a half ✨✨✨ I’m still very much at the early stages of my knitting journey but am very proud of this lil garment 🧶

the sun is setting at 4:30 pm and that makes my soul shrivel up. but on the bright side more time for me to be cozy core and work on my wips like this lil sweater

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

✨✨✨✨ huge news!!! breaking one might say!! local bookworm finishes sophie hood! after weeks of counting and anguish and wondering what the next multiple of six is and when (if ever) this project will be done!! it is off the needles and on my head and I am very proud of it 🔵🧵🐳

small joys on a fall day ✨

My second #WorldKidLitMonth post at #SCBWI: The Blog. A look at taking translated #kidlit on a book tour! 🙏 @pageonem.bsky.social, @japansociety.org, @kalyanisaxena.bsky.social, @katemilford.bsky.social, @authorgracelin.bsky.social, @vromansbookstore.bsky.social scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...

me every time I buy a massive amount of yarn for no reason: yes this will fix me

local girl turns pile of yarn into first knit sweater!!! ✨💚☘️🌿🌱

started work on my first knit sweater this week!! mistakes galore but look at that gorgeous green texture 💚🍀

An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

hi friends! excited to share with you some new reporting that’s been in the works for months. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

of course the yarn store is closed when I want to start a new project! time to buy a sheep and do it myself 🧶

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

uh oh someone let a silly goose loose in the newsroom ✨🪿🗞️

What a pleasure to discuss The Village Beyond the Mist with Sachiko Kashiwaba and Kalyani Saxena at @thecoolidge.bsky.social, thanks to @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social!

Had a lovely evening chatting with @averyudagawa.bsky.social and Sachiko Kashiwaba about The Village Beyond the Mist - translated in English after 50 years! Thank you to @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social for having me!!

breaking up the doom and gloom with these pictures of my latest project! a pink crochet bonnet in honor of all my favorite historical romance heroines 💖📚🎀

In Boston on Tuesday, June 24, at 6 p.m., Sachiko Kashiwaba and I will converse with @kalyanisaxena.bsky.social of @wbur.org at @thecoolidge.bsky.social, in an event cosponsored by @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social and followed by a screening of Spirited Away: coolidge.org/films/spirit...

be our intern job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

chaotic crafting is back! picking up work on my silly goose sweater and making a knit back panel because why not 🧶

be cool be cool be cool be- AHHHHH your girl’s been published in the @nytimes ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ what an absolute dream and honor to review 10 wonderful folklore and mythology inspired fantasy reads for @nytbooks 📚🦄✨✨✨

learning to knit as a crocheter 🥲😩🧶

I've produced over 700 stories for @hereandnow! taking a moment to be proud of that accomplishment and all the radio I've made over the years 📻💕

messed around and “graduated” 5 years after getting my degree ✨🎓

while we’re on the topic of summer reading lists….here’s mine for the @washingtonpost.com!!! I promise you I read all these romance novels and blurbed them all myself with the contained glee of a small romance gnome. happy reading! ✨📚💖 www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

while we’re on the topic of summer reading lists….here’s mine for the @washingtonpost.com!!! I promise you I read all these romance novels and blurbed them all myself with the contained glee of a small romance gnome. happy reading! ✨📚💖 www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.

got my dad a kindle and he just finished his first book in like two decades. and it was a book about Indian suffragettes?? icon behavior

they need to give whatever juice the hunger games franchise casting director is on to the rest of hollywood

spent my morning matching my crochet sweaters to some of my favorite books ✨📚💖

the conclave fervor had taught me that if there’s one thing our society hungers for its a sense of dramatic tension

sinners truly film of the year!!!

working in news and understanding the rammys behind every headline

wait I literally manifested this!! variety.com/2025/tv/glob...

spending another day on god’s green earth thinking about the winning combo that is chicken and potatoes

listening to billy joel. man that dude made some wistful sounding tunes

I’m a big fan of spring. huge one might even say. however I do not enjoy that one tree with the flowers that smell funny. you know the one

✨so in one of the most giddy moments in my audio career thus far I produced this interview with Joe Wright the director of Pride & Prejudice my favorite film of all time!!! ✨ www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

entered the next stage of adulthood today because I bought my first dutch oven!!! 👩‍🍳 help me put her to good use and send your favorite stew/chili/soup/gravy recipes ✨💖

fully did not realize people were getting killed on white lotus. I just thought it was a show about rich people on vacation

idk much about severance but I’m not sure we should be saying innie and outtie so much outside of the context of bellybuttons

my kingdom for ayo edebiri as the lead in a rom com 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

mumbai meri jaan 🥹💖

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

I’m on vacation and trying desperately to stick to my low news diet but oh my god

no frustration quite like trying to digitally fill out a form that is also a pdf

I love to say I’m beating jet lag and then immediately be humbled by a three hour nap

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...