Flowers from my oldest son (for my birthday earlier this week).

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

This was such a satisfying read. Runaway Jury is one of my favorite movies and we agreed on the best adaptation. 💁🏻‍♀️

Bought myself a puzzle for the last weekend before my next semester of school starts.

I have a classroom wish list! If this would bring you joy that's great. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

If we met on Twitter, you may remember that Katie, my youngest daughter, had a rough couple of years in and out of the mental hospital. Today she turns 20!! 🥳

Hey, poetry lovers! I have PDF arcs of Unrivered, and if you're interested in reviewing, I would love to send you one. Send me a message if you might be interested... I know reviewing is time-consuming labor, so thank you.

As @dlmayfield.bsky.social and I discuss in this interview, many of the harmful beliefs and practices that we see in the U.S. today when it comes to childcare and parenting have their roots in the white evangelical, religious authoritarian parenting model.

I’ve not been online a whole lot but in the past week I have heard three separate dates for a blackout and my level of exasperation at the lack of solidarity (and organization) is at an all-time high.

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

On the way to open house yesterday we were doing some math to figure out how long it has been since my oldest started high school and we figured I was 8 months pregnant with my youngest, who is now about to turn ten.

I don’t know if there is a name for the depressive drop that hits you after you take your last final of the semester but it is so real and hits hard.

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

Kiddo number five has his high school open house this afternoon. My baby got so old (and so tall!!) so fast.

"All I’m saying is, I could not say, I could not see whose mouth it was carrying me." "Please Hang Up & Try Again" by @johnpauldavis.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/28/p... Art: "New Song" by Sarah J. Sloat

"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

Fried Deviled Eggs - at a burger place in Greenville (helping my daughter get settled into her new apartment!) surprisingly good, would try again.

One of us...one of us... One of us! 😅🤣😊

My youngest just and I watched the KPop Demon Hunter movie on Netflix and he has been blasting the soundtrack as much as possible. Now here I am listening to “Free” on my own time. 😂 But seriously, the ending gave me chills. Plus they understood what makes the “hand flex” scene in P&P work.

I think about this story a lot "Shit Cassandra Saw That She Didn't Tell the Trojans Because at that Point Fuck Them Anyway" Title alone does so much work, characterization, setting, tone. Plus, I'm just a sucker for list stories. An older story but worth a read! www.smokelong.com/stories/shit...

The more I see about Shiny Happy People Season 2 the angrier I feel about it.

Ugh, trauma responses just do not care about logic or your feelings or anything. The just suffocate you for little while (or whatever) and then (hopefully) pass.

Tumblr 🤷🏻‍♀️

You don’t get spared just because you don’t pay attention to it. In fact, inattention is how you guarantee it.

Every time I log into this app there is some new and horrific and previously unimaginable reason to scream into the void.

I don’t know what you were doing at 2am but I was dying rice and honestly, I have zero regrets. Midnight craft time is top tier.

Just noticed that the Mr Clean concentrate and the Listerine mouthwash, that are both currently on my bathroom counter, look way too much alike.

Today I ran into someone from The Before Times™️ at a community event and remembered why my social anxiety is so bad. That was so awkward.

The opening of my chest to them, not violently, but like the flowers at the top of the mountain mint. Oh my deep heart. My shallow body. Han VanderHart (in Raleigh Review)

Hello beautiful

I was not prepared for how relatable this still feels.

Seems like a good time for a Sunday night meme dump.

Anybody else wake up feeling like they’d been hit by a truck? Good grief.

Via @coyotesnout on Instagram.

Berton Lieberman

This morning I noticed that the last word of each line is repeated in the first word of the next and listened to it like ten times in a row. So very satisfying.

That Thing You Do has aged amazingly well - such a classic.

This is who runs this account

everytimeilookaround

Introducing my boys to Oceans Eleven

💜

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?

Zinnia

I was not expecting much from Taco Bell chicken nuggets but wow - I’m impressed.

I can’t say I have ever seen this type of bird before. So beautiful!

I’m over here setting my plants outside like a nervous new mom taking her child to the park to socialize, hoping the bullies don’t pick on their child.

So grateful for a wealth of book portals to bring us into deep interconnected presence with the living earth, our belonging to the more-than-human world and a sense of reverence and responsiveness. These six are some of my favorites and most read ❤️‍🔥.

“Poetry, for me, is the answer to how does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?” ~Lisel Mueller #poetry