Every day when I chip away at the ice with a garden spade, my FitBit tracks it as “Sport”. Like, I see your heart rate is in the zone and you keep repeating the same motion, but no idea what you are doing. Sport? #DMV

I mean, why build a program when you can buy JMU’s.

The most unbelievable part of #StrangerThings is that you have a bunch of working class kids from small town Indiana, and not one of them goes to Ball State at the end?

My comfort binge watch has always been Househunters International: Americans Want Large Appliance. But I just watched a Life Coach who did Astrocartography, and I don’t want this. I want corporate relocations to Asia, military deployments to Germany, and broke grad students.

Thanks a lot, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Instead of going to bed, my six-year-old is asking me SO many questions about why King Louis’ head was in a basket, and I’m trying to remember who was in charge at each stage of the French Revolution.

Instead of increasing your own #PublicMedia contribution, consider gifting a membership to @npr.org or @pbs.org to the grandparent of a congressional staffer. Have Nana ask the kid what they’ve been up to while using their new tote bag or coffee mug. #SavePBS #SaveNPR

While dropping my daughter off at camp, I got a twig in my hair. Which was discovered two trains, a security check, and one hour at work later.

The Better Bus Service would be better with timetables so I’d actually know when the bus leaves the stop. Feels like a critical ingredient, @wmata.com

YES, CHEF!!!

My daughter went from reading inside her head to writing Harry Potter-Chronicles of Narnia crossover fan fiction with alarming speed. #Kindergarten #SummerReading #SummerWriting #BookSky

Bugsy Siegel / Sudsy Beagle

Has #ChicagoPope ever broken a finger playing 16” softball in Grant Park?

If you read “Careless People” right after “Little Bosses Everywhere”, it’s really going to make you question how American businesses are run. Do it anyway. #BookSky

Reading “Careless People” while my daughter’s gymnastics meet is evacuating to a hallway during a tornado warning by very very very careful people. #Booksky #CarelessPeople

I’m sure y’all are busy right now, but find some time for Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America”. I can’t believe that a book on Multilevel Marketing companies might be the best explainer for America in 2025, but here we are. #BookSky #MLM #Blessed

I have read my first Glennon Doyle book. Not my jam. If you find her inspiring, I will now ask for citation to specific passages. #Booksky

I know I’ve been super excited about #ChicagoPope (not just Chicago, Chicago HEIGHTS), but a pizza place in Homewood is claiming that he eats pepperoni on his pizza. Why? Why would you do that?

#ChicagoPope names sausage as the best pizza topping.

#ChicagoPope takes the train. Why mess with parking?

#ChicagoPope doesn’t need a hotel room in Springfield. If you leave at 5am, you can make the trip in one day.

That’s a man who’s put lawn chairs in a parking spot in February. #ChicagoPope

Every time Pope Leo gets his morning coffee, he tells the server “It’s time for the percolator.” #ChicagoPope (I know the timelines don’t align, but don’t take this from me!)

The true miracle: Southside Cubs Fan. #ChicagoPope

That’s a man who once got a single chocolate at the Fannie May counter from his grandmother. #ChicagoPope

That’s a man who totally did stuff in Wisconsin. #ChicagoPope

And which Jewel did he shop at? #ChicagoPope

He’s on a mission from God. #ChicagoPope

What is the Pope’s stance on ketchup on hotdogs? #ChicagoPope

Next burning question… is the Pope a Cubs fan? #ChicagoPope

DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS

CHICAGO POPE!!!! (Not even Catholic, but super excited.)

A woman who reads racy novels “must in her soul be a prostitute”. -Rev. James Fordyce (1766) quoted in “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” by Rebecca Romney. That’s a one sentence recommendation if I’ve ever seen one. #BookSky

That six-year-old singing “Old Town Road” at the Georgetown French Market? Mine. #LilNasX

[pours coffee, hums] “we got a great big conclave…”

Talking to six-year-olds about their educational goals is a trip. She wanted to go to UMD Global Campus instead of in-person because she didn’t want to “play games” in college. After explaining that most students don’t play sports, she now wants a Ph.D. in Math from Princeton.

This is bad. Ft. Wayne bad.

Look, for over a year, one brave Cassandra was warning you that massive tariffs were coming and that they’d wreak havoc on the economy. But no one listened to Donald Trump.

Now economists know how scientists felt when he said “inject bleach”

Who knew that my knowledge of 19th Century trade policy would be relevant? Dropping facts about Chester A Arthur in casual conversations, so be prepared if you see me IRL.

I put the Libby App on my phone where social media apps used to live. I finished reading my 30th book this year. Obviously, I need that Ron Chernow biography of Mark Twain to drop. #BookSky

Received an email so dumb that I went to a coworker about how I’d rather be writing historical fiction and then came up with a plot off the cuff and I guess I now have a book to write.

Anyone else use economics terms around their 6-year-olds? When she asks why and I launch into Econ 101, there are no follow-up questions.

Just hit the part of Richard Powers’ Playground where he perfectly describes a PAR dorm room, and I’m 18 again. #Booksky

Another picture of #FosterKitten Squeakball while I crank Chappell Roan and try not to let #WMATA ruin my day.

Commuting in the DC area is full of surprises. The surprises are never good, though. #UnSuckWMATA #LifeInDC

In case anyone needs to see a kitten right now, here’s Squeakball, our 8-week-old foster. #FosterKitten #RescueKitten #AvailableSoon

Since I put the Libby App next to my social media apps on my phone, I’ve finished 6 books in under a month. So the mindless scrolling was a REAL problem.

Waking up every day this week like: Pattern 🧵 🪡 tinyurl.com/5mwxhwff #stephxstitch #crossstitch #stitchsky #craftsky

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over