Wendy

THANK YOU.

Told him we didn’t actually live in Akron and he shot back, “nobody’s perfect.” 10/10.

A screenshot from Reels posted by the City of Akron of a wall of kid art decorating the Municipal Building.

My kid’s art is up at the mayor’s office and she got to meet him tonight at a reception for the artists!

Thing I have said out loud at multiple school board meetings.

Pregnant with an otherwise asymptomatic UTI that had exacerbated my already miserable HG.

Up to 19 now!

Hanukkah is saved!

Read me for filth, why don’t you??

It has Oh, Hanukkah by Jack Black (or Bowser as my kids know him) and Adam Sandler for the Gen X vibes. I have a few Maccabeats, yes, and Barenaked Ladies (Hanukkah Blessings) and Indigo Girls (Happy Joyous Hanukkah). So yeah. That’s what I’ve got.

My 11 song Hanukkah playlist would beg to differ!

Sent my kid to overnight camp for Shabbat and she did an entire night hike before realizing I'd packed her winter boots, gloves, and a hat. We live in Ohio.

Screenshot of an Onion article from 2002 with the headline, “Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids,” above a photograph of a haphazard pile of bread and sandwich fillings.

This is finally not funny anymore.

I want two or three and do not have Venmo?

I HAVE BEEN DOING THERMAL GEL POLISHES AND MOONCAT CURIOUS (mostly for the kids)!

Watch where you’re going, two-wheels! That’s it. I’m going to invent something that kills cyclists and ruins the whole earth while it’s killing them.

Snow day here means TWO holiday concerts for two different kids are bumped or cancelled and that is worth it for me.

I also get this one a lot, and I am decently crafty, but it’s unrelated to anything I teach!

Usually I get people enthusiastically telling me they took one art history class in college and how great it was, and I’ll take that.

Me, every year since 2000.

Two jars, the first with very few coins says swear jar. The other jar has May coins and says: telling people about history when I wasn’t asked jar

Me in one image.

I have ruined many a Passover this way.

Well. As a parent of only daughters, I will report back when they’re old enough to have developed taste? They call their dad’s music “sad dad songs,” but offer little in the way of viable alternatives so far.

Same. Ugh.

A weekend+Monday-long sale is happening at emilyk.art/shop!

If you spend at least $5, use coupon code SALE10 to get 10% off of everything!

I appreciate my patrons so much during this time of economic uncertainty and late-stage capitalism. Truly - it means the world. Thank you!

I just made a collage postcard of a woman dragoning to send to a book club buddy!

I like to have an analog fidgety hobby, but also a shelf life on it. E.g., I crocheted a square for every book I read in 2024, and this year (starting on Rosh Hashanah), I’ve begun a sort of scrapbook/art journal on fancy paper and using fountain pens.

I also write a lot of postcards and letters!

I JUST searched this up to share with students (they're writing about Benjamin and the aesthetics of fascism). Pairs nicely with
@stassa.bsky.social's article on Jezebel a few years back.

Probably would be easier to just call my ped and not drive all that way, though.

We have not done it yet; I can take three shots off your hands (and two flu shots).

Yes, but the moment it arrives it will be unacceptable, sigh.

One kid cried so far.