Menace to society.

Lashes so long she can barely keep her eyes open.

I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

Hot Dog Time Machine

This peony tree was at least seven foot tall and full of blooms.

Arm.

I don’t mean to be alarmist, but OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

“…they’ll never write a poem.” This isn’t accurate about autistic kids, but it is about kids who get shot & killed at school.

My book piles make up my emotional support fortress.

The Pitt is certainly a medical drama but it is about trying to survive America.

He loaf.

person: so what motivates you to keep going every day me: (zero hesitation) have you ever met a cat or a dog

The Costco sample lady called spanakopita 'spankopedia' and I'm still disappointed it turned out to be a spinach thing

Today’s stick. Bonus sunshine-napping senior cat.

He snoo.

Making macking cheese in the michaelwave.

Have you ever messed up a recipe you make all the time? I just made a banana brick instead of banana bread. Oops.

Bill: Well, Ted, what do we do? Ted: Don’t let’s do anything, dude. It’s wayyy safer.” Bill: Excellent.

Saw this grey squirrel soaking up the sun’s last rays when I looked out onto my garage rooftop. 🥺

I wonder if Roman elites watching the fall of their empire also thought: “This is so stupid.”

A few things from today.

[invention of the skeleton] we’re gonna make it out of milk

Just purchased a small array of olives from the olive bar like some sort of Vanderbilt.

Touching grass is not enough I need to get stuck in a hollow log

[gentle voice] babe. babe, wake up- i made you some hotel room coffee with sink water

Pink!

I would like to go back for a simpler time when it was all about the bass. Now it is hardly about the bass.

You guys, it happened. I got a free book (Thriftbooks) from ordering too many books.

She has style, she has grace, she gets stuff stuck to her face.

Orms

This comes as no surprise to me. Small Rain is the best book I’ve read this year. It’s on my “favorites” shelf next to Cleanness.

In case you needed to see a cat in a lunchbox today:

Dylan McDermott & Dermot Mulroney starring in this season’s plucky new buddy comedy: MulDerky, Der Rondertt.

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

I just asked my teenager if they wanted to pick the movie and they maintained eye contact with me while speaking into the Apple TV remote, “Grownups 2.”

I’m like Smaug sitting atop a pile of gold and jewels except my hoard is pens and notebooks and all things stationery-related.

It’s a always a good time to watch Fleabag again.

it was the worst of times, its was the wow somehow it keeps getting worse of times

There has never been (and there will never be) a world without trans people. Stop making hate your whole personality.

I'm supposed to be at Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

in addition to birth stones each month should have a birth cheese

My @madrigal.bsky.social original “Bad Girls” arrived and it’s stunning, as expected. I need to find the perfect place to hang her.

worrying that years of “campuses are dangerous hotbeds of intolerance,” “students are the enemies of academic freedom,” type narratives have been useful in massaging the public so we will more readily accept that snatching and renditioning students for speech is okay

Will y’all please go to Hulu and watch Mid Century Modern? I don’t care if you like it, but I DO like it and I don’t want it to get canceled. Thank you.

“Once you learn to write, you are forever freeing someone else.” — Tayari Jones, Black Words Are Black Wealth #AWP25

Hey does anybody know what the fuck.

I wrote about Title VI, a Department of Ed program that changed my life & gave students across the country a chance to learn about the world. Some asshole lawmakers have always hated it. Thanks to DOGE, it's basically dead. Don't count on university admins to fill the void. time.com/7269589/depa...

My cat? He loaf. He stretch. He scratch. He barf.