Sitting with all the feelings. Sitting with art. ❤️‍🩹

Eating a burrito in the Mission to warm my cold cold heart.🌯

Stay warm, world. Stay.

For those hunkering down for the cold snap, there are ways to prepare. Whether by taking proactive action at home or using an abundance of caution outside, here’s how to best navigate the blast of Arctic air coming to the area.

A major winter storm that the National Weather Service has described as “expansive” is expected to affect a widespread area across the U.S. this weekend. See how much snow may fall where you live. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

For the massive amount of the country about to go through what we had in Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan over the last two weeks: I’m profoundly sorry. 🥶

WTF. Guess we could have seen this coming with Venezuela bombing during winter ball…but it’s still stunning…

Landed in Vegas. 64 degrees Fahrenheit. I’m saved.

It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die

Just venting…feels as though I’m never going to get out of Detroit due to delays.

Infrastructure: NOT FOR NOTHING BUT MAYBE TECH SHOULD BE INNOVATED FOR MAKING INFRASTRUCTURE MORE RESILIENT AGAINST THIS NIGHTMARE WE KNOW AS CLIMATE CHANGE INSTEAD OF USELESS SHINY SHIT NO ONE ASKED FOR.

Allowing myself the indulgence of reading paper. 🛫 #DTW

Drone footage shows a massive pileup involving more than 100 vehicles in Michigan, with injuries reported as hazardous winter conditions grip the area.

Numerous drivers are injured in the large-scale traffic incident on I-196 in Zeeland Township caused by snow squall white-outs. Video shows the sheer scale of the chain of crashes.

100-car pileup, several jackknifed semis in Michigan injures between nine and 12 people. https://fox11online.com/news/nation-world/jackknifed-semi-truck-causing-closures-east-i-196-extended-time-until-cleared-winter-weather-advisory-travel-road-conditions-whiteout-zeeland-ottawa-county-traffic

I cannot get back to California fast enough.

Oh.

"There is no humiliation so entire as not being quite good enough" — Elizabeth Jane Howard, "The Long View" #SundaySentence

Going to lose my mind. It’s like I didn’t even grow up in the same state as everyone else. If I hear “No, that’s not the way it happened” one more time I will come unspooled. Behave, Jo, behave…if no one else then for your mother’s memory.

“Some part of the world still cares what color the kitchen is.” The Untouchables, and the #SundaySentence that came to me as my family and I were stranded in Manistee National Forest this week awaiting help.

Germany, Sweden, France and Norway have all since confirmed they are sending military personnel to Greenland this week for a joint exercise with Danish troops. https://cnn.it/45aV8Q5

So. God almost took me, my brother, and my sister-in-law today. And if you rent a four wheel drive vehicle, NEVER rent one from #Enterprise . NEVER. EVER EVER.

US history is generally taught as Plymouth Rock, blank space, War of Independence, blank space, Civil War, blank space, World War II, blank space, 9/11, so this checks out

Beyond overwhelmed. We’re trying to get my parents’ home cleaned up after decades of hoarding and we end up having to comfort everyone else with lunches and dinners and breakfasts. Getting monumentally resentful. I just want to be left alone to process my father’s death.

After a convocation speech he gave about practicing kindness went viral, the writer George Saunders earned a public reputation for goodness — a narrative that he resists. On “The Interview,” Saunders explains how he’s just as flawed as anyone else. Read, watch or listen. trib.al/ZWKt6Gc

The chaplain yesterday at the funeral spoke of recovering from a loved one’s passing. I couldn’t stop thinking I was recovering from his life, not his death.

My #SundaySentence this week is from Patty Griffin’s song Top of the World, in memory of my complicated history with my father:

Smile is not joy, but relief.

The writer with emotional support animal, post-funeral.

🍭🥁

In the chalkboard section: An affirmation my mother wrote 30 years ago. In the index card in the lower right: What my father thought was important. In case we wonder why I never went home to see him.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

The intense amount of grief this caused me took the wind out of me just sitting in the truck. Like a post-apocalyptic world. I have not been home in 24 years. We did not part well.

What time and nature have done to the family farm where I grew up. ❤️‍🩹

Good advice

Detroit.

it is ok to log off right now. 💔

And I did not gamble but I did drink because (points toward MN, as well as nature of this trip)

Leaving Las Vegas. 🛫

Yep, needed this.

Shocker. 😐

Wheels down in Vegas.

Sunrise, sunrise.

Excellent music choice, Lyft driver, I’m awake. 😂

The U.S. military operation that removed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from Caracas has left the future of the country shrouded in uncertainty. The upheaval has reached Venezuelan athletes, including Major League Baseball players.

Noting irony: The book on the left, what I read to my mother in the hospital in 2002. The book on the right, what I’m reading over the course of my father’s bereavement. Both books are set less than an hour from where I grew up.📚

Last day in California before heading to points east. Last day of feeling competent before being second-guessed for two weeks.

Completely cracks me up how even the balance is on this site of people who post pictures of X posts and people who call for others to delete their X accounts. Like missed connections on Craigslist, I just want to introduce them to each other or something.😂

So. I’m flying into Detroit Wednesday. And I’m in a bad mood to begin with because it’s for a funeral. 😐