Pie Person

My kid has an extraordinary ability to have boundless energy for almost an entire train ride no matter how long the trip and then fall into a deep sleep 20 minutes from our stop.

And in ALX!

Also I guess once again as a mom that does literally all those things listed most of the time on my bike, I’m just not a real person?

This post just tells me she literally doesn’t see all the brown and black folks who ride bikes in the city every day because she’s in her car and probably wealthy/middle class neighborhood. I saw a 3 person landscaping crew on bikes yesterday!

My kid said “it’s gotta be Golden. Why you even asking.”

Soooo that tracks.

Alexandria committee for equality has a sign on letter urging the opposite of this petition “effort.” I don’t have the link handy and not sure if it’s still accepting sign ons but so the people know.

37 people who think they’re so right they won’t put their name on it is something.

This ishands down the most deservedly humiliating part.

He had me at the Muppet Show reference.

“You’re good enough.”

[Took me 25-30 more years, moving to the coast, to a big city, to realize most/all of those impressive people from afar weren’t any smarter or better, they just grew up with a lot more money and access to power and pedigree.]

My husband and I each grew up in different Midwestern college towns. And boy is this ever so true.

Thanks! I have done something similar in the past. I found a cobbler recipe and made it for my neighbor. I tried it and it was underwhelming. I prefer top pie crust or a streusel to a cobbler topping.

For example, corner of Duke and south Gordon.

Yeah but that map would be more fun with ice cream cones all over it.

Which of you mapmaker types is gonna make a map to identify all the places west of Quaker an ice cream shop/paleteria could go?

Ice cream shop | Palacana At Palacana we have the best homemade ice cream in town! We also offer fresh fruit cocktails, a juice & smoothie bar, desserts and traditional Mexican food.

This is the perfect place for a paleteria. Can we please get a local place similar to this undefeated champ out of the Midwest.

www.palacana.com

We need an abundance approach: more ice cream shops AND paleterias west of Quaker.

Talked to some friends yesterday who said they thought that might have been you waving at them from a car but couldn’t be sure and that it’s funny because they definitely recognize you on bike.

My neighbor asked for peach cobbler. I’m not really a cobbler person so if anyone has a go-to cobbler recipe I can scale down to a mini pie tin size, I’ll take it.

Several years ago we had to cut down our magnolia tree to replace our main line. We planted a little peach tree. Finally, this year, for the first time, we got enough peaches to make a pie. We got a lot of peaches actually. Pretty happy with how the pie turned out.

This city sure does love cake/cupcakes, parties, parades, and input surveys.

I do not love that there are already bollards flattened by cars. @sarahbagley.bsky.social if we report via 311 can the city track how often these are getting smashed and could that data help us get concrete protected bike lanes where bollards are frequently run over?

This is a child who can’t play with friends while she gets over being sick but she’s well enough to be active. When we have protected bike lanes she is off screens and being independent and active and having a ball.

First of all, how rude.

All the fresh hell needs to just not.

It was so confusing when I managed to run outside without immediately feeling like I was dying.

1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

2. La pipa de La Paz - Aterciopelados

3. Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest

4. Orishas - A Lo Cubano

5. Still Bill - Bill Withers

The good news is that there are a lot of parks and shelters along the way.

Also, I wish I could require every urban liberal/progressive to read Heartland by Sarah Smarsh because the way some of these wealthy urban blues dismiss “red states” wholesale ignoring the people who live there especially the poor, is really infuriating.

The Sum of Us should be required reading for everyone everywhere and especially in all these “blue bubbles” where wealthy Dems have no problem continuing to reinforce racial and socioeconomic stratification as long as they got their little In This House signs