Taylor Hathorn

My latest short story, “Mai-Tais and Manhattans,” is out today in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social. You can read it here:

www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/04/08/m...

I would like to thank the soundtracks from Lincoln and Romeo & Juliet for getting me through schedule-making season

Skincare routine this morning:
1) Thayer’s toner
2) La Roche Posay sunscreen + moisturizer combo
3) Last year’s burned palm branches

#AshWednesday

Just texted my 83 year old grandfather to check on him because he has watched Lester Holt every night for years 😂

I am so sorry! Dogs should get to outlive us.

I’m getting my hair done for a wedding and this lady is straightening my hair with a roll brush and a blow dryer and now I’m sad thinking about Kamala Harris

It’s fine, I needed a little cry this morning.

You know what, this is going on the grocery list for next week.

Smudge the cat, who is mostly concerned just with what's going on in his own house.

Folks, I don't intend to post about every single horrible thing that's happening at the moment because I'm not a direct news source and also because my mental health has an upper limit. Don't confuse lack of obsessive news updating for lack of concern or lack of personal action. Also, here's a cat.

Used this article tonight in my Comp II class to talk them through objectivity in source material. 🫶🏻

It’s very important to me that misogynistic football fans have to see Taylor Swift be happy and on their tv screens to the fullest degree possible.

No 😘

“But before we can make our country live up to those ideals, we must first pause the star-spangled poetic waxing long enough to admit that it currently does not.” 🔥

I forgot the Mississippi legislature was back in session until I came to my favorite neighborhood restaurant and was suddenly reminded

Got my second MA this week 😛

#foreverLSU 💜💛

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Deirdre, quietly last night during the “Dancing Through Life” number of Wicked: So, Shiz is Metairie and the Emerald City is New Orleans. Got it.

The amount of people who are mad about SMU and Clemson going to the playoffs over an Alabama that lost to *checks notes* unranked Vandy and Oklahoma… please be so serious.

People who complain that Jackson isn’t walkable really haven’t been with me and my bestie on a girls night out

Mississippians will believe anything that comes to their house on a mailer and says something about one candidate being more religious than the other, despite the fact that one of them has never sat on a bench…

My students do an “anything but an essay” assignment for their final project for my class, because of ✨ multimodal learning & transferability of skills ✨ but also because I love to grade things like TikToks, scrapbooks, and podcasts.

I’m dying at this reaction!! I missed y’all 🥲🫶🏻

I’m going to slowly start trying to make the swing over here. So, hi! I’m Taylor. My old therapist told me once that I was her funniest and her most self-aware client, so this is the best endorsement I can give to persuade you to follow me.