Hera didn’t do well on her eye exam; afterwards she said it’s bc her eyes were “soggy”

Your Future Awaits

My son wrote a little book whose main character is “our hero,” referred to exclusively as “our hero.” Ie “As our hero woke up, the enemy was upon its evil plan.” “While our hero was working, the sky turned dark.”

Something I’m not interested in or impressed by — but that the world continues to seem to want me to be interested in or impressed by — is when people climb mountains that are difficult to climb 🤷‍♀️

SNAKES R SNAKES Keep Them Safe how human and nature affect endangered animals (snakes)

Just returned from my son’s IB expo. Didn’t know about it until this morning. While the other projects were about topics like childhood cancer, dangerous social media use, and the negative effects of war, my son and his friend’s project was called SNAKES R SNAKES

I’m trying to understand the diagram with the three figures

There’s a suburb of Houston called “Sugarland” that Hera always misremembers as “Candyland”

Román just announced, “Mommy, I’m going to make a book. Just like Jo.” ☺️ Little Women is working! 😌

Sat down to start translating my most recent book into Spanish and have been defeated by the very first line: “Hatbox, pillbox, pillbox hats”

How I act when confronted by the dishes after cooking

My parents have been on vacation in Europe for three weeks. After three weeks, this is the first message he’s sent me from his trip — it’s about structural settlement.

This is how I answer the door

Wearing his favorite hat 😤

(INCLUDING BAT WATCHERS)

Thank you Jesus 🙏

Nike of Samothrace Before Nike of Samothrace 9 weeks After 2nd CoolSculpting Session

I don’t get it. The “before” photo looks like the Nike of Samothrace.

I’ve always perversely enjoyed the (now old-fashioned or disused) use of he / him / his / man / mankind to mean a generic human … as it was tangible evidence of how half of humanity wasn’t meant to be included in the definition

There’s always money in the banana stand

Carrot top is not a good nickname for redheads bc carrot tops are in fact green

Me, among a group of women, one of whom just started reading LITTLE WOMEN for the first time, apparently: So I’ve been reading LITTLE WOMEN with my kids & we’re getting close to the part where Beth dies Woman: BETH DIES!?! (Wait till she finds out who Jo marries!)

Favorite living generations: X, Silent Least favorite: Millennial, Baby Boomer

One nice thing about being an aging woman is that the movie DEATH BECOMES HER exists, and I can watch it 🙏

I still think about that video of a man dancing by rolling around all over the place inside a metal ring

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