I think it means something that the first thing I told my therapist this morning was how my husband and I watched the halftime show together last night and that I thought it was so beautiful and it gave me hope that there was good in the world.

How Was *Your* Weekend? Welcome to staring at a blank page Monday.  How was your weekend? High points for me: Watching the world discover on Bluesky that County ...

High points and talking points. “How Was *Your* Weekend?” villagegreentownsquared.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-... Village Green/Town² blog - - It’s Monday already?

This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.

😂 FB Marketplace is a source of endless amusement!

this is so joyful and beautiful, like how could you look at this and hate it

It was like the whole opening ceremony of an Olympic Games.

Wow. The beautiful community. I’m just speechless.

Why you should stop watching football - The Boston Globe Even for casual fans, the evidence about the destructive forces of the game have become too clear to ignore.

The person who really convinced me was Steve Almond, who LOVED football, & 11 years ago wound up writing a book about why we should all stop watching

Bottom line: "Consuming as a form of entertainment a game that causes human beings to suffer brain damage is wrong."
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FB Marketplace listing for a “Rare Purple Pool Noodle, $20.”

Act now before you miss this exceptional offer! (Are those…teeth marks?)

Why do people doooo that???

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I am feeling much like they are this evening but I’m terrible at complaining loudly.

Football just makes me sad.

I just spent a half hour cutting up the top of a holiday gift box because it had silver snowflakes on it and I just don’t know what to do with myself. 🫤

YouTube video by Deep piano Music Is Pure Energy | YoYoMa’s Unmatched Performance #colbert #yoyoma #piano #music #pianotips

Have you seen this?

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everyone please check on your adhd friends; they’re probably solving problems that didn’t exist when they woke up

Image of baby owl named Monty at the Howard County Conservancy.

I kinda have a crush on Monty.

Is Monty there?

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An almost life-long affair I fell in love with the Olympic Games around the same time I fell in love with the Baltimore Orioles. I discovered the Birds in 1966, whic...

Overslept. It’s a no blog day. But here’s a lovely piece on Olympic reminiscences from longtime friend of the blog Marge Neal. Enjoy. scribblesfromthemargen.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-almost-life-long-affair.html

Well done, you!

😮🤯 I did not know.

Why did I not buy any food for *lunches* this weekend??? 😫

It was handmade for him by a Brit who probably didn’t want him to trip. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Baltimore Beat Documentary Tour 2026 Now more than ever, it’s important for everyone to know what journalism is and how it should serve communities.  You may have noticed in recent years that the wealthy and powerful have increased…

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So far I’ve only managed to throw birdseed out the front door.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball opens a new Free Library made to look like a TARDIS. He wears a Tom Baker-style scarf.

He’s an extremely good guy and I suspect his naming predates C & H. In fact, he’s more of a Dr. Who fan. (Photo credit Nate Pesce)

Ask every Harry Potter fan how many more dead children it would take for them to stop funding the biggest anti trans campaign of my lifetime?

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