I absolutely love this story. Well done, Billie Jean King!

Day 9 of training for the White Mountains. Day 1 of actual hiking. Ramapo Mountains State Forest was my childhood playground, one of the first places I ever hiked, parents would drop me/us kids off and we'd just wander for hours. Perfect start on a stunning day!

Sometimes you really need a goal and deadline. I love hiking and one of the reasons I kept my car was to hike more. But I barely have. Now that I'm planning to hike in the Whites of NH, I have a reason to hike locally, gotta get my trail legs back! How do you get yourself out of ruts?

So, there is a FIFA World Cup album coming out called Illuminate. I'm sorry, all I can see in that is Illuminati. Also, my phone thinks Illuminati is a world but illuminate is not. WTF Google?

Will never stop being amused that one of the hotels next to our local Medieval Times is a Sheraton Renaissance.

May is Torture Month for so many people I know. Mother's Day marketing is so cruel to people w/o moms or worse, with bad moms. Relentless. I spend the last week of April mentally gearing up to support the extreme spike in misery. 8 days into May and already exhausted. All to sell some trinkets.

First time I saw live skating since around 1989. First time for Woody since 1977. We were pretty overdue, I think. #StarsonIce

It's really weird to think that acts like Eminem and House of Pain are basically to young folks what The Beatles were to us now. Sorry, young people. But Ilia Malinin skating to House of Pain is pretty fucking cool anyway.

At Stars on Ice and it is wild to see people filling the place right to the top of the nosebleeds! It feels like 1994 again around here!

"So, if there’s something out there that you’ve always thought of doing, and you have the means to do it, well, now’s the time. It might be exactly what you expect, or completely different, but either way it’s important for you to find out." About a ski race, but reminds me of launch chasing. ♥️

My dad had a philosophy that a milkshake could help basically every problem except lactose intolerance. I thought I was the only person he ordered to have milkshakes. But since he died, I have learned he also gave that advice to friends of mine. And now they tell me to have milkshakes. ♥️

I experienced luxury dentistry today. Everyone was so nice. No lectures or anger, just calm enthusiasm, "Let's get your teeth and mouth healthy!" TV on an arm to watch, this head tapping thing during the lidocaine shot that made that painless, absolutely no pain during extraction & cleanup.

A very green blast from #NYC past. I used to love stopping in for a cocktail while grubby from hanging in Central Park so I could use their fancy bathroom. Meh food, good drinks, gorgeous bar, best setting and building ever to dine in.

I have been sick or injured for the past 2+ weeks. Just feeling baseline healthy feels INCREDIBLE. Standing without woozies. Breathing without sneezing or sniffling. SMELLS!!! Ears that aren't stopped up can hear all sorts of things. Food tastes like food! What a world!

Sometimes things align: Finally decided to head to the mountains of NH for my 50th. Just found out there will be a dinner celebrating the full Buck Moon that day, at a mountaintop restaurant, that begins at moonrise after a gondola ride up. What kind of magic put this on my bday???

Anyone else think it is one of the dumbest, most ridiculous, most insane things ever that Perseverance's sample tubes have just been... abandoned on Mars? The science in those tubes could be revolutionary & they're just going to sit there, watching dust devils twirling across the skyline.

Awwww thank you, my friend who is somehow still my fan. 😂♥️ Just want to take a moment to thank everyone who ever got this out there, too! And I am so happy that my song Familiar Frontier is becoming more archaic with every #Artemis mission! Sadly, Bake Sale is even more relevant now.

We spotted some of that Moon joy! 🌙 In the early morning of 9 April, our NTT Telescope turned its gaze to the sky above La Silla and caught something special. Not a distant galaxy, nor a star cluster, but a streak of light with a very special story 👇 1/3

Anyone else use naming conventions for their various devices? Just got curious. E.g.: All my Samsung Galaxy phones have been named after galaxies. All my bt speakers are named after radio telescopes. My smart ac units: Polar explorers. My SSID: Named after a space comms system.

It’s bonkers that you can take a screaming fast spacecraft, jam it into the atmosphere, bring it down using parachutes, and have everything be exactly as you planned, from speed to location.

3 good chutes #ArtemisII

Watching MCC and thinking about what the room's crew looked like last time humans returned from the moon. Looks quite different! Vast improvements since 1972.

Is a cherry blossom walk and astronauts returning from moon orbit a glorious day in the middle of terrible times? As long as it all finishes flawlessly, yes, yes it will be.

Unplugged for most of the day and took a nice amble in perfect weather with @souphead.bsky.social at the Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark. An absolute gem of a public park with more cherry trees than DC! Largest collection in the US. And a fab roller rink!

The only thing I have absolutely done 100% right in life is pick my partner. 29 years ago today we went on what was supposed to be our only date ever. But instead I'm boogying to his old band while cleaning a bit before he gets home from work to celebrate our anniversary. Wild stuff.

Woke up to a very hot apartment with melting chocolates and one of the laptops throwing a thermal shutdown error when I tried to use it to listen to music. Used really basic science to cool down the house w/ strategic window coverings and openings and fan placement. Got it down 20°F with no ac!

Started dancing every day, under doctor's orders, about 16 months ago. Just a good boogy down. Missed about 8 days, injury or illness. What I learned: Dancing for at least 4 mins per day makes the worst days bearable and the best days even better. Did it for nerve pain, helped my mental health!

@drlucyrogers.com Randomly zoomed in on your avatar here and just have to mention what a fabulous pic it is!

49 often feels like this odd cross of being 22 and 82 at the same time.

A neighbor of mine works for my city, hand cleaning bigger trash off the streets for the sweepers to come get the small stuff. We're becoming good buddies. When I go to move my car he's always there with a big smile and fabulous bear hug for me before he gets back to working. Makes my Thursday!

Today is the 100th anniversary of Robert Goddard launching the first liquid-fueled rocket, a crucial enabler of space expl. In commemoration, AIAA is releasing a special collection of 100 technical papers highlighting the evolution of modern rocketry. arc.aiaa.org/goddard100

It's very silly that I need to pick a way to mark 2 nearly identical pairs of Levi's jeans so I can tell which pair is bigger. Same model, size, even wash. It's a small difference, hard to see by eye. But also the difference between fitting thermals under them or not. So it does matter.

"I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil." Yes! Where I'm at now, for myself: Be angry to the point it motivates you to keep doing meaningful things in your own sphere, but not more angry than that.

Having our tiny wedding at a small family-owned restaurant right by our house was brilliant. They greeted us like family and snuck us in for dinner on a night when everywhere is packed and we had no reservation. We never expected that, but it is lovely! And keeps us coming back even more.

People don't give old-fashioned radiators enough credit. I never have to put on chilly clothing in winter since I warm it all up on the big radiators. A little bit of decadence injected into every ordinary day!

We always do the shoveling for our building, since our late original landlord got cancer and then his lovely kids who live a distance away took over. They treat us like gold, so we give back. But today the young men on the first floor surprised us by not just shoveling the sidewalk, also my car!

This is an excellent way to frame the discussion over WNBA pay. Here is what NBA players would get paid with the revenue share the WNBA players are asking for. Curry takes a massive pay cut. Of course, the NBA would still claim they are losing money. Right? fansided.com/what-the-nba...

I love my city. Concerns today have included: Will they let the bars serve alcohol at 8 am on a Sunday for the Olympic hockey? (Yes) And will enough bars open for it? (Of course!) I got warning a dispensary was closing early and to get my order in for "snow day essentials." And this on my car:

So, I posted the other day about struggling with my mom's 34th deathiversary. And it helped and people really helped and it got better. And then I found out today her grand piano was most likely destroyed by a flood at our storage unit. Of all the weeks! Trying to find the humor in it all.

Anybody else remember when department stores had pianists playing live? Once in a while I remember why shopping used to be a thing we did for fun instead of another awful chore to add to all the chores.

My mom's death anniversary has been getting harder over the years. Maybe bc there is no call from Dad anymore. Maybe bc I am almost as old as she was at death and I feel it. Or maybe I'm just not the strong person I used to be. Or bc I finally learned how brutal her death was and it haunts.

In all the talk of Vonn, I fear this will be missed: Federica Brignone broke the record for oldest alpine skiing OGM, either gender. Previously, Aksel Lund Svindal held it at 35 years, 51 days. Fede turned 35 last July. And she did it w/ a missing ACL. And then did it again.

Long weekends are so strange. I have no ability to remember today is Wed. due to Woody taking a birthday long weekend. Which makes sense, fine, normal stuff. But why is that screwing up my ability to tell time today, too? 😂

I really wish reporters would stop asking athletes with dead parents what their parents would think of their medals. "Congratulations! Let's immediately discuss the worst things about life so you can't possibly enjoy one moment of your victory without it being focused on death."

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One of the reasons I love alpine ski racing is it is such a cooperative sport. Like larger teams "adopting" skiers from countries that don't have their own programs instead of hoarding the sports' institutional knowledge. Training up their competitors, pretty cool! Cutthroat with camaraderie.

Hoboken is closing each street for a night for snow removal. Anyone parked as of 6 pm is towed. There are people all up and down the street practically hanging out the windows watching the few cars left get towed. In a world of endless entertainment at our fingertips, we watch tow trucks.

We do!! Who's in? Where should we go? I keep thinking a museum thing but most are in $$$$ places. 🤔

Trying to navigate social media for the social while moderating things like news intake for mental health is a real challenge. Balancing being informed with restoring oneself enough to keep going. Merely existing right now is like being an aging athlete, how much to go hard vs how much to rest.