My early-morning writing buddy 🐾

This one is going to be extra special because it’s my daughter’s first DMB concert - I even made her a sign to hold and take pictures in front of the big tree outside our house like we do for the first day of school 🤣🤣🤣

Lots of great memories of my babies today 💗💗💗

For the past 6+ months, I have been sifting through Cambridge newspapers, reading about East Cambridge (our focus neighborhood for this year). It's been fascinating to see how the neighborhood has grown and evolved over the past two centuries, and has reinforced for me just how important (cont'd)

Glad to be able to contribute to this piece on Danehy Park, a jewel in Cambridge's open-space landscape! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/06/m...

A little Mary Oliver wisdom to start the day ☀️

Our local Cambridge sex shop is getting into the spirit of July 3, 1775 🤣🤣🤣

Excited to start my new read, especially after hearing Zara Anishanslin speak at @dublinseminar.bsky.social this weekend! She was gracious enough to sign her book for my fangirl self 😉 #nerdalert

Had a wonderful day yesterday at the @dublinseminar.bsky.social - so many smart, thoughtful folks doing such great work. Looking forward to Day 2!

It's restoring a bit of my faith in humanity that the public is pushing back on this ridiculousness. NPS staff are incredible folks who spend a tremendous amount of time and energy planning how to best present America's diverse history to as wide an audience as possible. www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...

WTF does this mean? Can researchers still make reading room appointments?

Wouldn't it be great if the proceeds from these specialty plates went to local history orgs that are sharing diverse and inclusive stories about our collective history? A girl can dream... www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Happy Juneteenth! Join us this Sunday to celebrate and honor those who endured enslavement and seized freedom in Cambridge. I'll be repping History Cambridge alongside a number of other local orgs to share how Black Cantabrigians were and are crucial to the rich history of the city ❤️💛💚🤎🖤

Getting ready to march in today's Boston Pride Parade with the Episcopal Diocese of MA! So proud of my church for standing up for equality, belonging, and human dignity. As former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry always says, "If it's not about love, it's not about God." 🌈

It's the most wonderful time of the year - #civicseason! Made By Us has done a fantastic job of creating and compiling information about events and gatherings around the country from Juneteenth to July 4 that explore America's founding ideals and how we have - and have not yet - lived into them.

13 years ago today, at my 15th @wellesley.edu reunion with the kiddos - rocking purple for the Class of 1998 💜💜💜

Memories of this day 10 years ago at Boston Pride - can’t wait to march again next weekend ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩷🤍🩵🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

For any of my friends who will be attending the @dublinseminar.bsky.social in Deerfield at the end of June, please join me for a happy hour at Treehouse Brewing on Friday, June 27 to geek out about all things Revolutionary! All are welcome, and please feel free to share!

Boston Calling 2025 - Remi Wolf, Vampire Weekend and, of course, my boys!

Boston Calling - LFG!!!

13 years ago today - Maggie’s Communion Recognition Sunday at St. Paul’s. I had to have a scheduled c-section with Nate and they asked me to choose between Friday, May 18 and Monday, May 21. I picked May 21 because wanted to be there for this ❤️

Happy Marriage Equality Day! On this day in 2004, the first same-sex marriage in the country was performed in @cambridgemass.bsky.social. Proud to work in a city that has been on the frontlines of equality in so many ways ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤍🩵🤎🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Today! I'm excited to be leading a tour of Revolutionary East Cambridge, where the British troops landed ("two if by sea") to begin their march to the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Join us and find out why East Cambridge is the bomb (don't tell the other Cambridge neighborhoods I said that 😉)!

Edinburgh!

Leeds!

London!

Finally got this new ink based on a gravestone I studied in grad school. It’s the soul effigy from the 1739 stone of Hannah Loomis in South Windsor, CT. #historynerdtattoos 🪦

Shutterfly was having a $2 magnet sale, so I had to do it 😂

Three babies hatched overnight! We named the first one Dashiell (“Dash” for short, as he was the first to hatch), and the other two Eloise and Josephine. I especially love the picture of Eloise with her little wing draped over another egg ❤️🥚🐣🐥

The little chicklets are wiggling around in their eggs! Today is Day 20, and they should be hatching out soon!! 🥚🐣🐥

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

Agree with this 100%. Universities "need to be far more proactive in communicating the enormous contributions they make to the public good: a campaign not just to defend themselves but to remind the country that our universities are among our most crucial assets."

I’m telling you, if we somehow pull out of this death spiral one of our top priorities as a nation must be a new wave of Schoolhouse Rock songs

I have tremendous respect for both NARA and the NAF, which is a nonprofit that works to support NARA but isn’t a government agency. Which is why it makes me so sad that my first thought on receiving this text was “Is this a way for the government to keep tabs on me?” #resistorians

It’s a good day for some Ani wisdom (tbh, it’s always a good day for that) ❤️🎶 @anidifranco.bsky.social

@embracebos.bsky.social: I just heard about your Everyone 250 initiative on the news - fantastic!! How can local historical orgs get involved?

How are we, as #historians, showing up for our communities and for our colleagues at the NPS? What do they need from us in this moment? www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Just so we’re clear: if we’re challenging #birthrightcitizenship then all aspects of the #Constitution are on the table, including the #2ndAmendment. LFG, Dems!! @warren.senate.gov , @edmarkey.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedems25.bsky.social

Bringing that Monday energy 🔥🔥🔥

Visiting the graves of Jane and Cicely in Harvard Square - the only surviving stones of enslaved people there. Jane’s stone had an evergreen branch and Cicely’s grave had a little white rock in the shape of a heart. In these dark times, it gives me just a glimmer of hope for the human spirit 💗

Division is the strategy - pitting marginalized and vulnerable groups against one another and making us think our neighbors are the problem so that we don't organize and resist. Keep your eye on the ball, folks! www.telegram.com/story/news/l...

What.The.Actual.Fuck???

One again, wisdom from Mary Oliver 💔💔💔

A historic Black church in D.C. that was vandalized by members of the extremist Proud Boys in 2020 has secured the group’s naming rights, allowing the institution to seek proceeds from sales of the organization’s merchandise and membership dues.

From the January 30, 1886 issue of The Cambridge Chronicle, given without any explanation or context…