Roland Barthes (from THE NEUTRAL) — talking about the demands of being a public intellectual — but I think this applies to so many things (being a parent, being “nudged” continually by notifications and pings on your phone, endless emails pouring over the transom)

THOUGHT-FORMS www.gutenberg.org/files/16269/...

I love the depiction of rapport & affection shared among these siblings — the sister grinning up at her older brother, their tangled hug, the brother’s leg raised up as if being half-carried or playfully fought with — as if they won’t stop their perpetual horseplay even for a formal portrait

I love this approach (to writing poetry) from Selima Hill in a 2002 interview: "Nobody gives you the power – you just take it (or nobody gave me the power, I just took it)." lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/selima_hill....

I 👏 love 👏 sending 👏 things 👏 through 👏 pneumatic 👏 tubes 👏 at 👏 the 👏 bank 👏

No, I haven’t seen BARRY LYNDON, but I HAVE seen Biz Markie’s music video for JUST A FRIEND

Last night I had the interesting experience of reading my quasi-epic-length feminist poem in front of a crowd who happened to include a group of inebriated misogynists. The legacy of Jack Kerouac lives.

Today I have one coil of hair hanging down longer than the rest & my interior thoughts all day have been like Emily do not cut your hair Emily it is not really a good idea to cut your own hair Emily no!

Me trying to get my most helpful & capable friend to burn me a CD of a playlist I want. But she refuses!!!

I need a grandson. A grandson who is a teenager in the year 2000

If there is someone who could burn me a CD of a playlist I have, I would be forever grateful. Sadly I don’t think I know anyone like that! 😩🥴😅

“Moonlighting” is an awfully romantic way to describe having a second job

I want to go back to calling everyone by their titles. Mr, Mrs, Dr, Professor. I want there to be a barrier of respect and respectful distance between us.

Publishers, please don’t print your books with soft matte texture

Authors, please don’t let your publishers print your books with a soft matte texture 🙏

Me talking to the dental assistant: I want to point out an issue with my fangs Dental assistant: Your canines? Okay

I asked my parents if they would consider dating someone who had a large collection of big game taxidermy and then said, “maybe, it depends” & I asked them if they’d date someone who had a messy car & they said, “dealbreaker, absolutely not”

Can I still use Word to write poems? 🧐 When it’s offering to refine or rewrite them?

Monet’s home. Truly an example of treating life as art — lemon yellow chairs, lemon yellow walls — like standing inside the morning’s first beams — home design approved by no one, sold by no one, invented by the self and dreamed into existence

I was trying to be very stern with Hera, and she asked, “Am I in trouble?” “Yes, you are in trouble,” I gravely replied “Are you going to make me walk the plank? 😁”

Passing through the pelvic bone as if the moon is a circle or a crescent that symbolizes your childhood forever hanging in the sky excerpt from the poem THE PELVIC BONE, from my book RICH WIFE

On Instagram if you send someone the prayer emoji it turns into an animation of the hands slowly coming together over & over & it looks like a sarcastic slow clap

Something I love & miss are the questionable nachos they used to sell at skating rinks, bowling alleys, & the movies

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As soon as I saw “very English experience” — & before reading the rest — I remembered when I witnessed a fight break out at a movie theater in Richmond bc some people hadn’t sat in their assigned seats

The Popcorn Inlet. The Popcorn Isthmus. The Popcorn Archipelago.

It’s so hot that even my eyes feel hot

I’m in the market to buy a rug, so I contemplated stopping into one of the many rug merchants I drive past all the time — & I think they’re out of my price range 😌

Go see this movie! WEAPONS. It was great

Carrots are controversial

WEAPONS is like HAROLD & MAUDE but THE SHINING but THE VIRGIN SUICIDES but THE PENGUIN but THE SWIMMER by John Cheever

When I had gestational diabetes, I had to take this nutrition class with a dietitian & during the class she said “Carrots are controversial” which is what I think about every time I eat carrots

Trying unsuccessfully to convince my friend that lavender is a neutral

One minute into SHE’S ALL THAT: Freddie Prinze Jr is a goober, come on, be serious 15 minutes into SHE’S ALL THAT: Freddie Prinze Jr has hidden depths 1 hr into SHE’S ALL THAT: Freddie Prinze Junior should be … be… be… leading a small country! He’s quite literally a … a … a ,,, PRINZE among men

Ordering!

I don’t know if British people realize how controversial their dish washing methods are

As a poet — I mean, as someone who “makes content” that nobody wants ….

Hera: We’re alients Me: What? Hera: We’re alients to alients Me: Where’d you get that idea from? Hera: From my mind

I’m in awe of my grandmother’s taste!

Me to my kids: Can you go ask an adult what time we’re gonna board? Hera: 😒 I’m sure it’s gonna be next semester

My kids have been watching Darkwing Duck lately & Hera suggested that if a criminal were to attack them I would defend them, announcing to the attackers: “Let’s get dangerous”

Walking through the airport, one grown-up, three children Hera: “Mommy, we are a herd of sheeps! And the farm barn is the plane.”

WWJD if somebody next to him on a plane was watching a movie on their phone with no headphones 🙏

I used to think I was stand-offish bc I was shy but now I think it’s bc I have bad manners

Crickets and frogs singing out there in the dark While the world is still young

This calendar 😌✌️

My hot take is that pizza is not a main course or a meal unto itself. It is just bread!

Hera: Mommy, you’re fast! You’re fast as a turtle. But a speed one.

Professional art supply stores. I adore them. And surprisingly they’re always filled with customers. More customers than people I know making visual art, which is almost none.

There are some living writers — “voices of their generation” — who I’ve never read — whose books seem so so so so so boring — that I know I never will