"Your armpits are balding, aren't they? They were a little more lush when I met you." - my husband, observing my progression deeper into middle age 👵

I asked my dad what he’d like to do for Father’s Day and he said he’d like to go to the movies. I’ve since been informed that he’d like to see The Devil Wears Prada 2.

I got caught in the rain and now my hair looks stupid so I should probably cancel all my sessions and go home.

I’m troubled by how quickly I went from “I can read more comfortably with reading glasses” to “I can’t read a goddamned thing without reading glasses.”

This is how I became an oral surgeon.

Just drove down Baxter Ave and saw a two-car accident in which one had flipped over (!) and then not a block later I watched a woman hit a parked car, swerve out and then back, and hit another parked car. Louisville, what are we doing?

I have a new story out, a strange love story, about…an ant. Thank you to @variantlit.bsky.social and to editor @suzyeynon.bsky.social for including me in their gorgeous summer issue! variantlit.com/the-peony-ant/

ok, this place has the juice

I would love to read an anthology of essays by therapists about why they became therapists. Not “I just wanted to help ppl” BS but “this is how my role in my family brought me here.”

Great, now do the cops who killed Katelyn Hall.

Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!

Reposting this comment I made about mosquito control last night since people seemed to find the info helpful. Safe for other bugs and critters!

Why, in the year of our lord 2026, do I have to go to the county clerk in person to pay the tax balance on the car I traded in, or pay an urgent care bill by mail or phone? I only know how to use the internet!

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

Problematic!

happy pride everyone🙏😊

Last month I replaced my 15-year-old car and this month I am replacing my 9-year-old laptop. I'm relishing the feeling of Nice New Big Things since I apparently won't feel it again for another 10-15 years.

Louisville friends, I have some purple coneflower seedlings up for grabs. The lovely @elenaexisting.bsky.social has claimed two, but I have five more. I’ll deliver within reason. Let me know!

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Not me outside in my kaftan at 11:00 pm with a flashlight and a butter knife scraping slugs off my plants. Definitely not me. I’m FINE.

I have yet to figure out the vagaries of my executive functioning. Sometimes I’m really on top of shit and sometimes my husband is like “Why do you have at least one pair of shoes in every room of this house?”

I went outside to check on my cactus, which I had covered and surrounded with diatomaceous earth. It was still covered in diatomaceous earth… and more slugs than ever before.

Slugs have infested my prickly pear cactus and I am big mad about it.

Think I’ll be raiding my father-in-law’s rhubarb patch tomorrow!

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My evening appointment slots are in high demand and I wouldn't be able to keep seeing a number of my clients if I got rid of them, but GOD they keep me from attending so many events I'd like to go to!

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

If Walgreens does not fill this Diflucan prescription in the next hour I'm going to lose my mind. (iykyk 🔥)

I took this stuff so seriously when I was in grad school, even though I was just writing papers for classes and never intended to publish any of them. I was in the library hunting stuff down, requesting ILLs, *reading.* I thought it was sacrosanct. This whole discourse has been shocking to me.

To every woman who has been harmed by Daniel Grossberg, this victory tonight is for us.

You love to see it

sums it up beautifully

Sure, because Dem leadership did such a great job holding him accountable the first time around. Two sides of the same bullshit coin.

A rare bit of good news for women's health.

Strange but true: my ex-husband's wife is super hot. I just saw a selfie on Instagram (because we follow each other) and thought "Damn, girl!" They are really just both goddamned delights and I love that they found each other.

Hear them out:

A thing I love and hate about my marriage is the frequency with which we argue about what is and is not jazz. I love it that I married someone who has opinions on this matter and I hate it that his opinions are so wrong.

Goddamn if this skeet didn't just knock me out of the little writing rut I've been in. And I do feel better.

I recently mentioned in passing to an acquaintance who’s a PT that my dad has Parkinson’s. He told me about a special type of PT for Parkinson’s called LSVT BIG. I looked into it and I think it would really help. WHY DIDN’T HIS NEUROLOGIST MENTION THIS A YEAR AGO WHEN HE WAS DIAGNOSED?

Words to your mother.

A couple months ago when I was fucking around with Adderall and didn’t yet have my own prescription in the correct dose, I spent an entire day building a website for a new business that I had just, that moment, decided to start. 1/2

Some people yearn to have a mayor who they don't refer to as 'this motherfucker.'

"You need to have someone agree to sponsor you, and if they won't, that's it, you can't do it. You're stuck. You can't become an auctioneer." - overheard in the hallway at work

Louisville: St John Center is slated to lose $117,000 in the FY27 budget. I know better than anybody what this would mean. PLEASE take time to email your council person and ask them to restore funding. Sample language is below and you can find your council person here: apps.lojic.org/metrocouncil...

Husband: Sometimes you seem horny and sometimes you seem agitated. Me: Are those my two moods? Husband: Here lately!

very powerful statement from Emma here, one of the brave women who has come forward about what Grossberg did to her. if you or anyone you know are in Buechel West Buechel Newburg Watterson Park Okolona Bon Air Petersburg Klondike you need to vote this creep out May 19 or in early voting

I know this is not everyone's experience, but I'm pleasantly surprised by how often my trans clients come out to their conservative/religious family members and are met with unexpected levels of acceptance. It makes me hopeful.

When I first started trying to publish in lit mags a few years ago I had a brief run of beginner's luck -- the first thing I ever submitted was accepted -- and it's been downhill from there. I try not to take any of it too seriously and I know rejection is a big part of the process, but damn!

Husband, receiving notification from FedEx app: What’s this coming from Direct Native Plants? Me, a terrible liar: I have no idea. Him: Did you order a cactus?? Me: Goddammit!

I made these yesterday and they are SO good. “How did you get them so chocolatey??” - my husband