I was wondering if I could become a neck scarf person but I just tried one on and my husband said I looked like a stewardess, so maybe not.

All power to the people

WOULD SOMEBODY THINK ABOUT THE HORSES.

WHAT

Sichuan House is one of the best restaurants in Louisville.

FYI you yelling YOU MUST WATCH to any form of murder video or any violence to total strangers is a sign of your mental health deteriorating. We do not have to subject ourselves to trauma porn. Watching innocent people die on repeat will give you PTSD. Log off and call your therapist.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

All the cool kids are going to be there!

I know this is corny to say but this is the real America, man. This is what it’s all about. This is what those freaks are trying to destroy & we won’t let them

I joked a while back about buying shoes from orthofeet.com after I turned 45, but I've been having a harder and harder time finding shoes that fit, so I decided to try a pair of their boots. I just received them and they are a revelation! So supportive! So roomy in the toe box! And cute!

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

I'm trying to write about a lovely man I know in real life and finding it virtually impossible to do without making him sound like a stereotype. Italian-American from New Jersey with the expected accent, only has one eye, smokes cigars, had some trouble with racketeering charges a while back...

I've been self-employed for years and yet I still feel like I'm doing something wrong when I wear jeans to work on a day that isn't Friday.

I joined @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness even though I don't write a lot of flash because I wanted the structure, accountability, and community. This shit is hard! What was supposed to be a 400-word micro is now 819 words and still not finished. Whoops!

Congrats, Becky!!! This is going to be such a tremendous help to so many people, including me!

This. Read books. Join a choir. Invite your friends over for dinner. Paint a mural on your neighbor's garage with a bunch of kids and use it as a backdrop for the play your other neighbor wrote. Take up knitting. Give a sweater to someone asking for change. Socks too. Plant a garden. Spread beauty.

Scientists say the cure for depression and existential terror is making out with someone cool. Scientists said it. I don’t make the rules.

Love this New Year's Eve poem by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social "Let me listen to the rain's one note and hear a beginner's song." Rain, New Year's Eve, published in Good Bones, 2017 bookshop.org/p/books/good...

I thought 2025 was done with its nonsense, but here I am waiting for an endometrial ultrasound and possible biopsy. Come the fuck on!

♫Shout Shout I’m short and stout This is my handle and this is my spout Pour on I’m tipping for you Pour on ♪

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I recently lost my election to a third term as treasurer for the chorus I’d been singing with. I was really hurt and angry when it happened but I just handed all the stuff over to the new treasurer and the sense of relief is incredible.

Jeremy Radin

Husband convinced me that In Bruges, which I'd never seen, is a Christmas movie, and that we should watch it on Christmas. 🫠

Merry Christmas from my mom, her gingerbread people, and… this guy.

"I did not hit her, I did NAHT. Oh hi Grimace!"

1993 vs Wednesday. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree or something.

1993. Was def wearing this shirt with olive green corduroy shorts, rust-colored tights, and Eastland bucks.

I had to rearrange my office to accommodate this damned monstera. I’m going to have to spend the next two weeks processing this change with unsettled clients.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Cologuard’s assurance that my stool sample “doesn’t have to be perfect” implies the existence of a perfect sample, and this gives me anxiety because I have to be good at everything. How can I excel if I don’t know the criteria? Can I get a rubric maybe??

the polycule is a wreck, a coyote therian fucking vored our outdoor catboy

This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”

Shopping for insurance on the marketplace and Anthem has a plan called the Catastrophic Pathway. Points for transparency, I guess?

Writing documentation is the worst thing about being a therapist. But I will never ever ever ever let AI listen to my sessions and do it for me. I may end up 100 years from now as a disembodied brain doing therapy in my android shell, but I'll still be clicky clacking these notes out by hand.

I am bravely forging the path into middle age for my friends.

One of my goals for 2026 is to create more local writing community for myself. If you're in Louisville and want to meet for critique, writing together, talking about writing, etc., let me know!

One of my goals for 2026 is to create more local writing community for myself. If you're in Louisville and want to meet for critique, writing together, talking about writing, etc., let me know!

I wrote in my little Substack for the first time in a long time.

Did I pay a little extra to get the bi pride legal pad assortment? You know it!

HAPPY THANKSGIVIG - dashare.zone ADMIN

There is only one reason to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and that is the @rockettes.bsky.social. I’ve waited long enough and I need the Rockettes to start my holiday season already. I sat through all of the nonsense and musical acts that I’ve never heard of. GIVE ME THE ROCKETTES!!

So here for the parade discourse this morning!

Just shopping the Black Friday sale at OrthoFeet.com, as one does when one is 45.

I just registered for AWP. I'm a literary almost-nobody but I honestly just think it sounds like a blast. I hope I get to hang out with some internet people there!

This has been the shittiest birthday in recent memory, but since we no longer have a dog we just booked an impromptu trip to Pittsburgh to look at art and eat food. Give me recs if you've got them!

I was about to give the last bite of my PB&J to the dog and then remembered she’s not here. I really can’t wait to move past this part of the grieving process, it fucking sucks.