Oh. Oh gads. My final "capstone project" literally begins with a paper outlining why and how I'm choosing my final project, people you don't understand I have had "showing my exigetical underwear" trained out of me WHY would you do this? (Seriously just let me write the real paper and be done?)

Perhaps for many around the country. But in Minneapolis, the no Kings and melt ICE movements have significant overlap with BLM. Those folk are righteously angry and grieving not pearl clutching over white ladyhood.

Godsdamn. This is where we’re at.

If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own - which it is - and render impassable with our bodies the corridors to the gas chamber. For if they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night. ― James Baldwin

Woot, first 5k race in the books and new PR for the 5k, came within 59 seconds of a sub 30 minute time!

This is such an intense symbolic/archetypal moment. Explicitly written out. They killed GOOD.

Listen: I had cancer in my central nervous system. Don’t be cavalier about keeping yourself in traumatic arousal.

Many of us believe there's no greater love than to lay down your life for another. But it's not just about a person's death. It's mostly about how they live. Who they are. Renee, her wife, and the thousands standing up against ICE, are literal Good Samaritans. They are Mr. Rogers' Good Neighbors!

This was so good for me last year that yeah, I need the break!

Also you are currently nearer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the laying-down of the first stone of the Great Pyramid of Giza, so even human time is completely unfathomable to us, let alone the vastly deeper variety. Follow me for more science-based existential horror in 2026. 👍

Bottom: the onion out meal kit company thought was fine for a recipe that needs a lot of onion. Top, a normal yellow onion (half I used the rest yesterday) from our grocery store. Meal kit company can't figure out why I rarely order a box anymore.

My horse peeps are really having a blast with the whole 2026 being the year of the horse thing. Don't worry y'all, we're gonna lunge this red mare before anyone gets on, JUST in case.

*sigh* For a while I've seen lots of PNW folks insisting that everyone should get heat pumps and this Michigander is always like "sure but do not remove your furnace" and now we've got a neighbor w no heat bc yup, got sold a heat pump, told didn't need a furnace and we're below minimum temp.

Well glad I bought the tire insurance when I bought tires, and also didn't have this little adventure on my "last day of 2025" errand list. 🤦‍♀️ (First time in my life a tire has read ZERO pressure on my tire monitor.

Perfume collector and geek. Time for some perfume education cause there is so much misunderstanding. 1. Perfume is perfectly acceptable to wear. I wear it daily, yes there are folks in my life who are fragrance sensitive, none of them are bothered by my wear because I do it *right* and you can too.

Literally every other text I get from my mother is some unhinged Threads post about how mRNA vaccines are mutating our genes, and poisoning our water and they are ABSURD and yet she swallows them hook line and sinker and can we PLEASE put age restrictions on social media for the over 80s?

We have finally figured out why Miggy just doesn't eat sometimes... he doesn't like fish. Seriously. Any wet food with fish is a NO from this weirdo. Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to find quality wet cat food WITHOUT FISH at prices that aren't "I am a billionaire?"

Well I held off for YEARS but finally upgraded my phone so I could KEEP the old one and I now have a dedicated work phone and NO work accounts/apps on my personal phone and let me tell you that feels good. (Work phone will live in my office on my desk. Because BOUNDARIES.)

People: Why don't you go home and visit family at Christmas??? Michigan right now:

Hey y'all, my friend @tonigatlin.com is training to become a spiritual director & needs directee volunteers! I know Toni very well & trust her deeply. If you could use spiritual support right now, consider working with her. Everyone wins: you get support & you support her too! 💛

This winter has been so mild I didn't even clock that if I want to the barn super early today (really first night below freezing) that the arena would be frozen and I'd be driving home to try again once it had thawed later. 🤦‍♀️🤞 Guess it really is winter now.

Non W2 therapists - is personal therapy tax deductible? I see conflicting info when I read about it.

Seeing yet more AI news in the feed and I am now firmly in my "OK Herbert had his issues but I now 100% understand the not making a machine to imitate a human mind absolute law and I am ready for that please."

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Doing the old Christmas season tidy (what is that just a priest thing?) and found a box of books in the garage that I don't think has ever been unpacked. We have been here 11 years now. 🤦‍♀️ Grandma used to joke about funny ways to clear the WHOLE house out and start over, I get you now Grandma.

When I was growing up in the South, we assumed that people who used phrases like "Heritage American" in public were definitely in the Klan.

I kinda love being a priest who isn't serving a parish but at Christmas and Easter I miss being *part* of it all. Grateful for a lovely colleague who invited me to serve at their late service last night it was JUST what I needed.

Most Grandparent coded gift? A digital photo frame from eldest son & DIL so they can constantly send us Grandbaby pictures and frankly I've never been so happy to get a gift made for the elderly. ;) (Box promised "easy setup for any age!")

Merry Christmas y'all. I got a little portable photo printer so I'll actually print photos for my journal, what a concept!

I did not hate blue books. Those were my favorite kind of test. Write what I know, no trick questions, no endless memorization bullshit just "show that I learned the thing." I am so glad the blue book is back because it should have never gone away damnit. (And yes make accommodations too, obvs)

Botulism is a rare but serious condition caused by botulinum toxin, a neurotoxin. We have known about it for centuries, and yet new risk exposures continue to emerge. Here's what you need to know: (1/9)

Elizabeth Wheatley is my hero youtube.com/shorts/fNhT4...

As we've said before, adoption is not an alternative to abortion: Abortion is a decision about *pregnancy*. Adoption is a[n often coerced] decision about *parenting*.

Winter solstice is tomorrow (for certain parts of the globe.) Letting the shortest “day” of the year remind me that things pass and there is comfort in impermanence, at times.

Ok. I got the tree up. Now to decorate it, I gotta say I have VERY little energy for it this year. (I'll love it once it's done but I definitely miss my FoO where decorating was a big communal affair.

Both of our DIL are beautiful wrappers, the gifts they send are works of art. My goal is for none of the present to be visible and to not use TOO much tape. 🤣

Ah yes the yearly ritual of "Emma gorges on enough bits of plastic Christmas tree to make herself violently vomit" and now we see if that taighter a lesson for the year. 🤦‍♀️

Happy Solstice everyone!!

I think a lot about how hospitality was considered a vital public virtue for millennia and I fully believe that the corrosion and displacement of hospitality as a pillar of healthy social order is a not-zero part of why shit sucks now

Took 12 pens with me on retreat, which one did I drain DRY because she is just the most delightful writing experience ever? The 60+ year old Pelikan with the OB nib I got on eBay years ago for a steal because people didn't want "those old things" that's who. Why do I own other pens? Right, pretty!

THAT’S RIGHT. FUCK YOU CHOLESTEROL.

Someone shot up a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. It seems like we get a new attack every #Jewish holiday now. Gentiles, please notice what’s happening. This is not a MAGA trick, antisemitism is getting worse, & getting more violent.

I 100% recognize the importance of anti-hazing and anti-sexual harassment trainings for colleges. AND I am 50 friggin years old, attend online only and go to the hippy dippiest U I've ever encountered where (for the first time in any setting EVER) I've not encountered even a HINT of any of that shit

"bring a photo of yourself before puberty" Umm, those of us older than a certain age don't have those photos, they were all physical and they reside in albums tucked away in our elderly parents homes often multiple plane journeys away. I find these requests bizarre.

THIS:

I have strong pacifistic tendencies and I want to PUNCH THIS FACE as hard as I can every time a photo appears in my timeline.

I have been using the same planner for 3 years (Hobonichi Weeks) because it is PERFECT as an academic planner. Keeps track of assignments and readings, simple, easy to use, done. In 2026 done w school, launching business and I HATE the process of finding a new planner that's a fit. 🫠

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Today's vibes youtu.be/FNBf2yNOzhY?...

Do I have literally 20 books in my therapy TBR pile? Yes. Have I just ordered what feels like 20 more because of specific client issues that keep coming up in the last 2 months? Also yes. Someone please pay me to read?