We’re in the bad place.

Pretty remarkable to me that as a 24-year-old law student, Sonia Sotomayor made The Washington Post for reporting a law firm partner to Yale after he asked her racist questions during a recruiting dinner ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/clarence-t...

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Watermelon Cotton candy Textural nightmares.

Ngl I thought this was @smbrnsn.bsky.social for a hot second:

Explaining to my husband, who is normal, why our very fine perfectly nice modern updated clear glass shower is my mortal enemy.

Pondering the eternal quandary of boundaries in writing what I know v. maintaining relationships that impacted what I know.

Thanks to @jpbrammer.bsky.social I am now deep into a Toni Morrison novel that I started yesterday and can’t wait to get back to after work. Giving my curiosity reign but directing it away from easy dissociation. Go read his short essay on attention and reading. DO IT.

There is an interior designer on the clock app who says to folks wondering why their homes don't feel personal or special "Your home is not weird enough." I think about that a lot.

me*: cleaning up a mess I asked someone else to take care of days ago and they didn't them: i was going to do that! me: WHEN BECAUSE WAITING AND ONLY ACTING ONCE I AM RAGE-DOING IT IS NOT DOING IT *every mother/partner/woman everywhere*

“Worse than Taney” is a hell of a thing to do

I just learned we lost our Colorado minor league baseball team and I am now unreasonably unhappy.

I’m writing again. If you want a link lmk.

this surgery taught me about how debilitating pain is and how limited the options are—my surgeon reached in & relocated my liver with her hands…but yeah, sure, TYLENOL WILL BE FINE we have to do better

Five weeks post doozy of a surgery, living on these and have no regrets

Pauls Boutique. It’s in Brooklyn.

Home.

Let’s hear it for DAY SIX. I will not leave ama I will not leave ama I will not leave ama…

“It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people… They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” -The Great Gatsby

Maybe Absolutely Abigail is 20 today. And I’m stuck in the hospital for far less amazing reasons.

Day Five: Nope.

Apparently when a chest tube output is <100 it can be pulled & a person can go home. Some folks chests are overachieving assholes, however, and are still putting out >400 four days later.

Day 4 in the hospital. Transplant nurses still rock. Chest tubes decidedly do NOT.

I’m reading James Baldwin right now and he pointed out this problem so clearly 75 years ago; it appears nothing much has changed. We’ve got to do better.

If you ever need hospital care post surgery, the transplant floor is where the best nurses are, hands down. (I am ok)

Reading the complete LotR for the first time. Subject to change hourly, but my first impression is that JRRT can both have given us one of the Great Stories AND also badly needed an editor who could stand up to him.

I went to a smaller boutique law school and even there this pathway was an open not-even secret.

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Artemis II are home safe 🥹 Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson would be so proud 💜🌙

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE

Hammer all the weapons money into science funds. All of it. Science. Math. Art. Humanity.

A little chair to sit on in the shower with the lights out is a nice treat actually

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Easter dinner table discussion revolved around Kolob, what “hie” means, the Artemis mission, and how the institution traded expansive amazing weirdness for detrimental tiny-tent conformity.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Friends from Germany visiting me in San Francisco, told me their plan to drive from my house to Yosemite, Yellowstone and then through the Grand Canyon on their way back to SF. Over a long weekend. I...Um...folks...

Anyone overcome months of unemployment even though highly qualified? What did you do? (it’s not me but very close to me)

So uh, it's mid-March at we're at 81* and we've had exactly 3 snows this winter and now we have a 1600 acre wildfire with the smoke plume blowing hard to the east. Everything is definitely fine.

Smoke.

Nothing like reading your own pleadings from months ago in preparation for a hearing and finding not just one, but TWO TYPOS.

I don’t usually care. I do this year. I’m stuck on how good Sinners is—art so compelling, groundbreaking, relevant, gorgeous, powerful and unique—and yet was still passed over to give its rightful flowers to a lesser film. Sinners will be immortal. No one will remember the rest in a few years.

Yeeessssssss!!!!!!!! MBJ!!

Penn couldn’t even be bothered to show up and DELROY LINDO WAS RIGHT THERE and the Oscars still fumbled.

Yesterday, glass and lead, today string and some sticks.

One of the ways I cope with the stress of being a lawyer *waves hands” in all this is that I cut class and melt lead. It helps me. Made this today:

I’m a litigator. Same.

Folks. Watch the new Muppet Show. It’s weird and silly and creative and messy and in this age of filtered manufactured content it’s art. It’s imperfect and chaotic and so wonderful. Watch the old ones too while you’re at it.

Me today 5 minutes after work: