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- Finished a crossword last night & one of the words was “arid”, which I can’t stop thinking about now. It reminds me of Claire Vaye Watkins writing.
- "Dimond’s poetry is emotional, but it’s also playful in a way that we all need as the world weighs heavier each day it seems." I'm celebrating a pain-free 30 minute run this week by revisiting this very fun conversation I had with Malissa Rodenburg - thank you for reading <3 tinyurl.com/4k4t952d
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- If cookies can track my browsing, can they also at least know when I made a purchase so I don’t get 15 emails about something I bought already?!?!
- So, I’m thinking about writers who run running routes for @awpwriter.org with literary landmarks. When we run by University of Baltimore I’ll say, “your favorite poet’s favorite poets went here: Steven Leyva, Tonee Mae Moll, Tafisha Edwards…etc etc etc.”
- Reposted by glitteratureWriters! Give yourself a head start on 2026 and sign up for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/18! Just $95, which includes a book, workshop w an editor, the full conference, more lit stuff. A friendly, positive, productive day. Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
- "Bring back the Oxford comma, stop using ordinals!!!!" ⏫Me, at work.
- You know you’re from Baltimore when you’re bonding with someone about walking or biking to work, then one of you says “but I give a lot of space to cars with VA tags” & the other person is like “mmhmm not messing with that.”
- Today was the first day in almost 4 decades of life that I used "find and replace." My middle school had a class where we learned how to use Word and Excel. I have no idea how today was my first day doing this.
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- "It’s enough to make a person kneel down in the street, this light. How any small piece, no matter where it comes from, fits exactly right." orionmagazine.org/article/lett...
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- Y'all. I am still getting random bills for bloodwork my primary care physician ordered in September. September! This is how our insurance works now: random bills for months so you cannot keep track of what was covered and what wasn't covered.
- I am no longer in academia; I am an internal communications professional. But in my field, AI has brought about how important our expertise is for authenticity & critical thinking. Professors are the people shaping these skills in younger generations.
- I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by [the madness of university layoffs of creative writing professors].
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- Every time I watch a video from The Last Dinner Party, I am transported back to Bread & Puppet (this is positive).
- I love getting older. Kids will be like “have you heard of XYZ” and they look at me with wonder when I say “I was alive for that.”
- All my ankle sprain / foot stress fracture rehab looks a lot like hypermobility pre-hab.
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- Here’s to the editors! Can we include copy editors too? Both save us from ourselves.
- I want my healthcare to cover my costs when I unexpectedly end up in the hospital or at the doctor. I do not want personalized wellness tips from them.
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- I think I just watched my first AI doctor video. I would say I’m throwing all my technology into the water this holiday season, but I do not want to pollute the Jones Falls 😭
- A cannonball? In Fort McHenry? The setting of the Star-Spangled Banner?
- Famously, there was a battle here.
- A common argument that tries to diminish environmental usage of AI is that it uses similar energy to streaming platforms. Because new information doesn't threaten my entire being, I am more mindful of my streaming now that I know this fact.
- A friend shared her grad school environmental writing syllabus & let me tell you, I would have read Walden much sooner if someone told me he had so much sass: “The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course à la mode.”
- They say Gen Z is obsessed with their direct elders, Millenials, and let me tell you, as a Millenial, I’ve been really into music from my direct elders, Gen X, lately. Give me a longer Lilith Fair documentary plz.
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- Y’all. Even my Strava feed is getting filled with AI slop posts 😭.
- I read a lot of celebrity/political memoir & there is a theme of people with immense power pushing the narrative that “at one time, I struggled deeply” as a way to avoid taking accountability or publicly accepting that they do have power NOW.
- I would love for people to think critically about why they consider criticism of billionaires & major institutions…mean.
- “What you have is empty of anything green, but the slugs still find a way to work it out, inkiest green like mold breathed to life, they slide a wet trail across what is not a backyard.” Wowow a friend shared this essay from Michelle Tea I missed: therumpus.net/2018/05/07/r...
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- I looked up how to turn off “text predict” on my phone this morning, and let me tell you, my life has already gotten 10x better. Any typos this moment forward are all me baby.
- Also why in the fresh hellscape did I have to sign paperwork that even though I confirmed before my endoscopy & colonoscopy that the procedures were covered, my insurance company might not pay for the anesthesia. This is some private insurance nonsense that our govt is ensuring will only get worse.
- Angela N. Carroll’s account of experiencing SHERALD’S portraits is not only a review, but an ecstatic poem that honors Sherald’s art beautifully:
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- I had to set up a three way call with my insurance company & colonoscopy + endoscopy provider to tell them I DO NOT owe $1000 for the two procedures. I exclaimed MY BODY IS VERY EXPENSIVE when they were like "oh wow, you hit your deductible & coinsurance, this will all be 100% covered."
- Anyway, my house was broken into last week & a lot of folks are like: “you need cameras” but I’m like “what if we had living wages & social safety nets instead of this modern version of debtors prison.”
- Me, blasting Iris DeMent on the way to work today.
- Can’t wait to see my ENT’s face when I tell her later this week that allergy testing in the spring lead to such an intense inflammation response that I ended up needing an iron infusion and then stress fractures my foot this summer because I couldn’t absorb nutrients properly 🫠
- Academics will go to school for 10 years to justify “that’s not my taste.”
- The last week has felt like I'm in a Final Destination film & I do not like it!!!!!
- Boring reason number 1385859 I am pro environmental regulation: because my car is a zero emissions vehicle, I will pay $0 to replace my catalytic converter due to regulations years ago that gave my car a 150,000 mile warranty on the piece of technology. Yay protecting air & having pre-paid repairs!
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- Imagine if all the people creating healthcare apps put their energy into advocating for single-payer.
- No more adult girl whisper singing. Please.
- Ok RFK - if we are the sickest country in the world, how about we force universal basic care so people have the ability to address their health?
