The biggest scandal here, as far as I’m concerned, is that the decals are inconsistent. Some are centered over portraits, some aren’t. Some are mounted on a piece of wood, some aren’t. It’s like when tile is designed to create a broader pattern but then it’s laid without regard to the pattern!

Pilot offered to let Hera sit in the cockpit before takeoff, but she refused — “I don’t have my driver’s license”

The scientific name for grizzly bear is making me laugh …. Ursus arctos horribilis

This will be an on-going list of things that almost always make almost everyone happy: 1) hummingbirds

In 3rd grade I was supposed to make a model of the Earth by putting paper mache over a ball (like the kind they sold in crates at the grocery store) but my parents had me use a balloon instead & my model of the Earth was the only one with a balloon shape 🎈 🌍 Which is not the shape of Earth

I bought this chic, understated, elegant black halter jumpsuit that has two big buttons on the waistband & my son was sweetly like “Cool! I love it! Mickey Mouse!”

Still clinging to the idea that the most important email of my life will be diverted to my spam folder

My children don’t have iPhones, tablets, computers, …… the only video games they have are the 1989 NES & Super Nintendo…. …….and I’ve just been struck with the unsettling realization that I’m raising elder Millennials

Preposterous tales my sister told me when I was little: 1) that she invented the word “dudette” 2) if I ate a watermelon seed, it would grow in my belly 3) that she paid 1 penny more than me on the Nintendo we pooled our money to buy, so, technically, it belonged entirely to her

The name “Internet cafe” makes them sound more romantic than they were

I think the worst thing I’m good at is having thoughts

Me when a British person calls me “love”: “That person loves me”

Building on the idea of a “toadstool,” Hera came up with a new name for mushrooms: “mouse’s umbrella”

I don’t that tv’s plugged in

Any advice on securing the rights to use song lyrics as an epigraph in a lowly poetry book?

I do like how, when there’s leftover cake in the house, for a few days there’s an alternative set of rules where you feel like it’s just fine to have a slice of a cake after breakfast, a slice of cake after lunch, don’t mind if I do, cake lining the edges of the entire day

Hera’s been sending me messages by dropping a balloon weighted with a ballet slipper down the staircase

For the record, if you want to make someone feel very loved, make them a playlist or, better still, burn them a CD 💿 🙏

Hera: Guess what? Mermaids live up to 300 years

Walking into my daughter’s ballet class in the middle of downtown, watching all these fathers walking out, letting their daughters walk on the actual city sidewalks in their ballet slippers 👀 🩰

Ok!

Hera: I just saw a daisylion Me: What’s a daisylion Hera: A flower with a yellow pollen and the petals are white

Will always fondly remember my student who turned in his final poetry project with the title “MY PEOMS!!!!!!”

Was just recalling that the internet used to be called THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

I love David Bazan’s lyrics: “I don’t like girls the way they are So shave their legs and make them look like movie stars” youtu.be/Z6D4FwgGwRE?...

I love this but also this is an insane way to eat an orange ! 😌😇

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Necesito encontrar a alguien que traduzca mis obras 👀😏☺️🥰

Am so pleased about “ear-shaped earrings”

When I was a kid there were things I loved so much that I couldn’t believe they existed Things like Cotton candy Miniature paper cocktail umbrellas Diaries with a tiny lock and a tiny key

🥰 Houstonians:

Hera: Ducks like to be near water. Like if you’re sweating, they’d go inside your armpit. It’s a joke!

virginia woolf could write

I liked WEAPONS better than ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 😤

My goodness Should I??? (In a poem) Capitalize Internet Or not capitalize Internet (How old do I) (who was born in another century) (want to seem)

“Your beautiful dresses disintegrated like your skin, loops of skin, dreams or years sloughed off” From the poem GRANDMOTHER WORSHIP from my book RICH WIFE Reading in Houston at Basket with Wayne Miller next week 🙏

Hera: I’m a tadpole — got it?? Me: Got it! Hera: Actually, I’m an egg Me: Got it! Hera: Actually, I’m a frog egg Me: Got it!

Hera said she’s making me spaceships — “in case anyone attacks”

So many of the women I grew up with have become wellness influencers C’est la vie!

The important thing to do — when you’ve written something pretty bad — is to send it to a friend straightaway — (so she can tell you so!)

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