My current husband Neal Allen created substck page for me: open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...

wapo.st/3GuY4xL Here's a gift link to my July 4th piece in today's Washington Post.

Trump is turning our military away from our historic partnership with Europe towards a new enemy - blue America.

Here's the gift link to my piece in yesterday's Post: wapo.st/43MqtXX

You can read my new Post piece at Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/

Here is the gift link to a new piece I wrote for this mornings Washington post. You don't need to be a subscriber: wapo.st/42EsQeM

Here’s a new piece I posted on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott

Here’s my new piece at the Washington Post. You don’t have to subscribe although you have to give them your email: wapo.st/4iY3aAf

WRITERS: come hear the legendary writer Elissa Altman and me discuss her new book Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create. Tomorrow, Thursday night, 3/13 at 5:00 PT. Think of it: permission to write what has always been inside you. m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/

Very laugh-til-you-cry: WaPo Opinions declined a chagrined column by American icon and reader fave @annelamott.bsky.social—in fairness, it is NOT an ode to the free market—so she took it to the LAT. There, of course, it was auto-countered by AI…calling for REVOLUTION www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

A DIFFERENT WAY ONLY I KNOW, ONLY I KNOW. Trump: “Ukraine wants to make a deal because I don’t think they have a choice. I also think Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way—a different way that only I know, only I know—they have no choice.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8f...

Ash Wednesday: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/

Agreed. Hope there's a list in the morning. Hooray for the disruptors.

Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

A sweet week in Costa Rica—workshops, ocean, rain forest, yoga, great food, and —you know me—daily 12-step meetings. Neal’s work w/clients is about tools to tame the inner critic, which keeps us anxious, small, terrified of making mistakes. Me? I know something about writing. x.com/nealfallen/s...

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Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

Please don't say that no one is doing anything. We're waiting for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to catch up with their constituents.

Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

Exactly

Like I said: Quiet coup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Jesus never called his followers to defend Christianity, a “Christian nation,” or even their Christian churches. Jesus called them to defend the poor, the oppressed, and the hurting. Stop manipulating Jesus for the benefit of a few. Get to feeding, healing, and peacemaking.

Empathy says: You and I are made of the same lovely, heartbroken, and screwed-up stuff.

Kristi Noem is on set with Laura Ingraham in full Border Patrol gear but also with her makeup on fleek. Completely ridiculous.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Here is a gift link to my piece in today’s Washington Post on where we are vis a vis the resistance. You don’t need to be a subscriber, although you do need to give them your email: wapo.st/4aEGlP3

Love is not just an idea. Love is something alive, living, personal, and true, the creating and nourishing power within life. It is patient, free to all, and it is medicine and food.

Certainly all the people who were up in arms about Biden not visiting North Carolina immediately will criticize the president’s “fuck you not my problem” attitude to disasters now

america, back to having the dumbest leader in the world. we did it.

The resistance has already begun, in the courage of the Bishop in DC, in every act of kindness and charity, in all us old lefties rising up to support the poor and marginalized and gravely threatened ( and the ACLU), in our donations, and soon, in our song.

Maybe more than ever before in my lifetime, my friends and I are aware of our brokenness and the deep crazy, the desperation for light, hope, food, and medicine for the poor. What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day.

Here's how to cover things that are illegal: (i) this is illegal (ii) they say it's legal (iii) It's not Truth sandwich, extra mustard

I posted something at Facebook, about today: m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/ maybe someone can convert it to some non-Facebookian format that I can tweet here.

Here is the information for the retreat in Costa Rica that my personal husband @NealFAllen and I will holding July 26-August 2. The last one was incredible: Neal’s immersive workshops on taming your inner critic, me on writing, nightly 12 Step meetings. www.shapesoftruth.com/costa-rica-r...

Here is the information for the retreat in Costa Rica that my personal husband @NealFAllen and I will holding July 26-August 2. The last one was incredible: Neal’s immersive workshops on taming your inner critic, me on writing, nightly 12 Step meetings. www.shapesoftruth.com/costa-rica-r...

Lovely.

"Thank you for your concern for women for the first time."

My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me.

How to help LA residents… Link below www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/u...

Having a good dog is the closest some of us are ever going to come to knowing the direct love of a mother or God.

How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

Here’s a five minute segment on the Today Show I did yesterday on resolutions: www.today.com/video/new-ye...