Why you need a travel advisor like Truvay Travel: «”Jeff Bezos booked every water taxi in Venice—the same days my clients need to get to a cooking class at the home of a local chef! But we got this. Our guide borrowed a friend’s luxury vintage wooden boat. Problem solved.”»

NYT left out a small note in quoting Trump on the No Kings protests. “We’re not a king at all, thank you very much,” he added…using the royal “we”. Fixed it.

I hope they keep making Ambien during WW3.

Anyway, here’s a pup.

Today a friend who lives alone said “I like to have wings for dinner” and I thought… but how do you turn the page? Then I remembered I’m weird.

Ok so the French Open final is in hour 5, and there seem to be two people in the @BBC control room fighting over whether to keep airing it or switch to In the Studio.

“[W]inning doesn’t always mean being fastest to first. The deeper reward comes from staying in the race long enough to become who you were meant to be.” I would love to make this my writer credo, or something. I needed to hear it.

Hey, as Sen. Ernst says, we’re all going to die! NBD, amirite?

Red State Rager!! June 11 NYC: Lyz Lenz, Maris Kreitzman, Taylor Kay Philips, Felipe Torres Medina, Alison Leiby, Melissa Lozada-Olivia, read funny stories about the Midwest and support abortion access in Iowa. This transplant Midwesterner has tix… www.eventbrite.com/e/red-state-...

I hereby declare “I’m working outside bc there are people in my house watching TT w/o headphones and asking where we keep the mayo” season: open.

Do I sometimes have to wander around the house in search of this charger despite its pleas? Yes. Bit no one has actually removed it from the house, which is a victory.

The tempo of my life has finally slowed down a little. I can stop outrunning my feelings and sit down and feel them. This is vastly less appealing than I thought it would be, actually.

Wearing a hat and a puffer for Memorial Day while also worrying about ticks is the New Hampshire version of needing skincare that deals with both zits and wrinkles.

It’s research I swear not just me sitting here reading and not writing

More where those came from —that is if you like reading real books recommended by a real reader who is also a writer who should definitely be writing right now but is doing this instead. kjda.substack.com

Real hot summer reads! I got you! How about Songs of Summer by Jane Rosen? Mansion Beach, Meg Mitchell Moore? Dying to Meet You, Sarina Bowen, Far and Away, Amy Poeppel… I could go on and I don’t even need a chatbot to do it.

My feed is full of packing advice for a fun summer long weekend. My forecast calls for a slightly different wardrobe:

I can’t wait for this!

🍺 New book coming June 2025

New sign of maturity: dreamed I went to brunch without pants so I stole someone’s pants and then I was fine although a little nervous that they would notice.