Alex Luppens-Dale

I had an encounter with a Furby today and it’s going to take me a little while to recover.

Welcome to the rest of your life, asshole.

I don’t know what I did to deserve this but I just got a campaign text from George Conway.

I’m researching new bullet journal layout ideas and I really underestimated how much people love to color in little boxes.

Joseph's Story (available in my collection Starlings from @tachyonpub.bsky.social )

www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-storie...

Me at the office sip and paint: It doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect, it’s art!
Me to any of my first drafts: This is terrible and I should quit forever.

Today is our Friends of the Library jewelry sale so of course I awoke from a stress dream in which someone handed me gallon bag of miscellaneous costume jewelry to price.

All Ninety Two Volumes of One Piece!, a project from Ms. Alexis Help me give my students all ninety-two volumes of their favorite manga series: One Piece! The number of times I've been asked for One Piece by my middle schoolers is more or less infinite. I&#...

I just donated to Ms. Alexis's project! Let’s get the kids some manga. www.donorschoose.org/project/all-...

love to have maternal health information doled out by a man who hates women, mothers, and children

We have a new crossing guard who keeps asking if I’m going to the middle school. This is a height thing rather than a youth thing, I am not delusional, but I keep wanting to say “ADULT” whenever I see him to sort of head him off.

It's not a career. It's not a calling. It's a terminal hobby. You will die doing this. Become a writer.

For some reason I thought we’d have more time between the start of the new daycare class and the cough I’ll have to listen to for the next 3-4 months.

Do you like SWEATING FROM YOUR FACE? May I recommend PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION?

There are many pieces of knowledge I’ve gained since I became a parent that I wish I hadn’t. How greasy a toddler’s straw cup can get over the course of a meal is certainly one of those things.

I’m reading Demon Copperhead without having reread David Copperfield and I’m genuinely impressed by the way the name “Steerforth” came back to me all the way from 2009. Good job, brain. Wish you could remember what we did with my black cardigan, though…

I think this is the lesson. Take what you need from the material. Just don't give them money. THEY WILL BE FINE. THEY HAVE SO MUCH MONEY. In one case, enough money to do villain selfies on a yacht, drinking and smoking a cigar, telling the poors to suck it.

I had a dream that I had to write a 15 page paper comparing Les Misérables and Sunrise on the Reaping by Friday. So no matter what else happens, at least that’s not true.

Things I found in my mom’s fake Louis Vuitton duffel bag: a yellow Bic lighter, a brochure for Newport, Rhode Island (2011), and a single slipper.

A black and white tuxedo cat sitting on a gray blanket. She is looking at the camera.

My chaotic Theo sends her love to yours. 🖤

Husband’s snoring + persistent dreams of (dead) mom = “why is Vikii buzzing?”

My kid is currently drawing on paper my parents bought me because I definitely did not get into card-making the way I must have thought I would back in 1997.

I’m just saying that while joining the Friends of the Library didn’t -exactly- help me meet people in the same stage of life as me, it does feel really nice to be part of something that is doing good work in These Times. Also, please follow us on Instagram at @friendsofthelibraryfairlawn.

Cover of Never Flinch by Stephen King

Just another relaxing book for relaxation time. Very chill. #constantreader #nowreading

Samsam is a bag charm/pendant keychain that looks like a lucky cat with the face of a small child in the cutest possible way. This one is a “calico” with green eyes.

I used to make fun of my mom’s collection of Annalee dolls and now I’m realizing that my children will someday need to reckon with the spoils of my blind box era.

“It’s a beautiful day to be alive.” - my four-year-old at entirely too early in the morning. I’m going to try to bring that energy to today.

Heading to work looking like I teach middle school art instead of… whatever it is I do.

I have somehow never forgotten that my first grade teacher’s birthday is the day before mine. Anyway, I hope Miss Aysun is having a great day today.

I support all label-maker-based shenanigans.

A small galaxy cat figure and a Snow White “jewelry box” that I’ve yet to figure out how to open.

When you’re going through some stuff but you hear the siren song of the mystery box. No regrets.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.