"Papi! Papi! Papi!" 💗 👨‍👩‍👧

Here, kitty, kitty.

Marigolds in November!

Christmas gifts for your favorite Jane Austen reader!

I say we bring back the twopence.

Trying to choose between my interesting, edgy friend or my goddess of all that was, is, and ever shall be in English literature.

Got a little something in my eye.

PLEASE SHARE: The Call for Papers for the 2026 JASNA AGM is open through Nov 30. The conference will be in Tucson, AZ, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2026, focusing on Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. 1/4

Did women ruin the workplace?

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

Will trade editing for chicken soup.

You could read a NYT op-ed about how women make workplaces worse, or you could read an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Child Neurology about how women -& diverse people, generally -make medicine better: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (didn't think I would need to write this in 2025)

Lady Catherine de Bourgh as president. "Elizabeth saw, with admiration of [Darcy's] taste, that [Pemberley] was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of [Lady Catherine's] Rosings." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Tired of the Hounds of Sauron stealing Tolkien's names? Here's the perfect antidote.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I have a very bad feeling about this...

And note that half of little George's eight brothers and sisters had already died. Let's not go back to the 19th century, are we agreed?

We had some pretty gardens at the White House. I was also rather fond of the democracy.

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

This stone is actually at the FDR Memorial. Even so, I hope the next lawfully elected president, should we ever have another, pursuant to and in accordance with a statute duly enacted by a functioning Congress, should we ever have another, will have it permanently displayed in the Oval Office.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

wow, which common vaccine was it?

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

This House was your House, This House was my House, From the days of George Washington, For democracy, The House of the People, The House of Freedom, This House was made for you and me.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

A controversial #JaneAusten statue is finally unveiled. www.deborahyaffe.com/post/unveile...

“They want to let people in power know: That’s me too. I stand with wiener dog, I stand with giraffe, I stand with frog army.” { gift link } wapo.st/4nfuWKj

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Got your plan for No Kings Day on October 18?

No Kings since 1776!

"Moral as well as Natural Diseases disappear in the progress of time, & new ones take their place. Shyness & the Sweating Sickness have given way to Confidence & Paralytic complaints …" - Jane Austen

Thank you, Hyacinth, for a lovely time. We'll always fondly remember your teas and light refreshments served in your Royal Doulton cups with the hand-painted periwinkles. From Hyacinth Bucket to Alan Bennett’s muse: Patricia Routledge’s utterly unique TV career www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

MR. DARCY'S SUIT.

Verify and then don't ever trust. They're like giant evil termites burrowing under America's foundations while wielding flamethrowers. I hate this movie.

Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. You taught us that kindness is a form of strength and that respect for life in all its forms is the truest measure of humanity. You will be dearly missed.

"There's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence."

Are we citizens or subjects? 🚫👑 in 🇺🇸.

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

This doesn't bother me much more than movies with actors playing Austen. It's a poppet, a simulacrum. It's the Holodeck imagining a living Shakespeare: A moving image of a flat caricature of a full human who exists now only in our hearts and imaginations. What do you think? I do love the smile.