Hera & I were playing tea party & I don’t know what came over me but I said, “So. Do you have any hot gossip?” And she said, “Yes! I have some hot gossip. Would you like me to make some?” And proceeded to stir spoons inside her kettle and various empty canisters.

it’s begun 😥😞😔 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I asked my husband to buy feta cheese 🙏

1920s Parisian cafe culture, but with headphones & laptops

Andrés went to a farmers’ market on Saturday; I told him to get whatever he wanted. Not knowing what to buy, he followed man around & bought exactly whatever he was buying (fennel, leeks). Eventually the man turned around & told him, “You know, you’ll need to look up a recipe to cook these things”

Andrés went to a farmers’ market on Saturday; I told him to get whatever he wanted. Not knowing what to buy, he followed man around & bought whatever he was buying (fennel, leeks). Eventually the man turned around & told him, “You’ll need to look up a recipe to cook these things”

Hera was trying to think of some funny places to hide an Easter egg. Inside a toilet? Within a beehive?

When I was little I thought the most grown up thing a person could do was to lick their fingers before turning a page

I absolutely couldn’t believe my ears when I heard this on the radio, dropped in as a minor detail. I looked it up to verify. From Reuters.

I remember as a child being almost embarrassed by how plain and ugly moth cocoons were compared to butterfly chrysalises

Interesting! I learned at least some of this stuff in 7th grade (Boolean search terms) — but there’s more here that’s useful

British ppl seeing the word “soccer”: ☹️ Americans reading the word “colour,” “grey,” or “racquet”: 😌 Americans hearing a British person say the word “fillet”: 🙁 British ppl hearing Americans announce that they’re “going to the restroom”: 🥴💅🏻

Like how some mansions have stone lions guarding their front door, I asked the kids what animal they would pick as a stone statue to guard their front door front door & Hera said “frog” or “snail”

“A large explosion hit” Yes, the gods thunderbolted the city, an event as mysterious and “from nothing” as the Big Bang

😑

Today I saw a man wearing a 10-gallon hat driving a bright yellow El Camino that had the word POISON on the back windshield. I loved it.

Of all the lies I tell myself, “I’m just going to rest my eyes a minute” has got to be the most frequent

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This is like an Ambrose Bierce short story. Soldiers attempting to dig up and retrieve a 30-years-deceased corpse end up killing 44 people in the process.

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Three albums that contain an artificial tone mixed with anger cultural nostalgia generalized longing an off-putting attitude toward women fantastical imagery SELF-TITLED — The Presidents of the United States of America FASHION NUGGET — Cake IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA — Neutral Milk Hotel

GAP in-store playlists from the 90s. It’s like if the mall were a museum. gapplaylists.blogspot.com/2021/04/1994...

🧐 loosen & unloosen mean the same thing

Curly hair has two modes — fantastic or humiliating

Me: You’re cute as a button Hera: You’re as cute an umbrella!

Whenever I see someone in their 20s smoking a cigarette nowadays — it’s kind of like seeing a 12 yr old boy who wears suits to school

Offshoots Poetry Bookclub THE MYSTERIES OF SMALL HOUSES by Alice Notley BASKET BOOKS & ART Sunday, February 22nd 3-5 pm (this excerpt is from Notley’s poem AS GOOD AS ANYTHING)

Later: “I was wrong. Water does have bones, when it freezes”

Reading poems aloud only to discover I don’t know how to properly pronounce lots of words — “coiffure” “moue” and so on Also don’t know what lots of words mean — “lambent”

I like the stage of getting to know someone where you see what their handwriting looks like for the first time 🙏

“Water has no bones” Hera said to me this morning

Bc I guess I follow a lot of Irish ppl I now (sort of) know what shrove Tuesday and it’s something to do with pancakes 🤷‍♀️🧐

My favorite thing I’ve ever ever seen on the internet was when that guy got stuck in a decorative urn at a New Year’s Eve party

Me: Would you rather be a duck or a unicorn? Hera: A duck Me: Really? Why? Hera: So I could follow you (likes ducklings follow their mothers in a pond)

Does Earth have a special handwriting that belongs to it

Centaur and Hydra: a fragment of the ceiling mural The Sky of Salamanca, painted by Fernando Gallego, 1473. A hidden gem tucked away in the courtyard of the Escuelas Menores, part of the historic University of Salamanca, a blend of science, art, and mysticism that characterized the Renaissance.

Román: The king of rock is Michael Elvis

RIP aol instant messenger

Briefly recalling that period of time when women on their birthdays would post photos of themselves looking preternaturally young, in bikinis, on beaches, with captions saying THIS IS 40 or THIS IS 50 or THIS IS 60

Hera: Mommy, why do childrens have different handwriting than humans?

Ickleton, Pickleton, Tickleton, too

Hera, on getting a dog: “We could name her Opal, or Ruby. Or Mineral.”

I have a lot of stuff to do, so I’ve decided to rearrange my books

I can't say at all what I mean - the gift of expression seems to have left me, so you must guess.

Hera: I know it’s a dream because it’s gray or orange Me: It’s not colorful in your dreams? Hera: No, my head doesn’t put color in it

There is a Renaissance painting of Elijah Wood at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

I’m reading Edith Wharton’s book on interior decorating, which helpfully contains chapters on “Gala Rooms: Ball-Room, Saloon, Music-Room, Gallery” ….. “The Library, Smoking-Room, and ‘Den’” … “The School-Room and Nurseries” …. “The Drawing Room, Boudoir, and Morning Room”

Román (reading): Fish have a pocket of gas inside their body called — Me: Farts Román: Good one, Mommy! Fish have a pocket of gas inside their body called a SWIM BLADDER

Up until just a year ago, I thought “Go Texan Day” might be a national holiday, or at the VERY LEAST a state-wide holiday. It’s just a Houston holiday! It’s the day the rodeo opens & to celebrate children wear Western gear to school.