Ellie Anderson

Dig it

Aunties are so important.

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

They did have good chai! Perfect for a foggy coastside night.

Also, it was walking distance from our house and they learned our kids’ names and would give them free dessert.

There used to be an Indian place in Half Moon Bay, CA, called ARK. The name was made from the first initials of the owners’ children. They were the nicest people and their food was my primary craving with my first pregnancy. Baby wanted Spinach Saag, samosas, and a mango lassi.

There's a reason why Fred Rogers used the word "neighbor." The older I get, the more powerful I realize "being a good neighbor" is... and I'm not talking about some damn State Farm.

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.

Time to claim your true history.

My 8-yr-old is running a “Fun Club” camp for his stuffed animals, and it is the sweetest thing.

That one in the middle is especially nice.

#Uplift

Not now, 68-million-year-old egg!

cartoon: 3 panel cartoon. panel 1: close up of wizard hands holding a book. SFX BOOM jingle jingle jingle That's the jingle bell! panel 2: hobbit and wizard looking panicked SFX BOOM jingle jingle jingle That's the jingle bell! panel 3: The Fellowship faces a large demon creature which is dressed in a Santa outfit That's the Jingle Balrog!

Cartoon: Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle balrog!

That reads more aggressively than I meant it. To clarify: I work at the library. I know it takes time. I’m just excited.

Okay, library. Time to get your copies ready! I’ve had a hold on it for weeks.

I usually avoid watching videos of him or listening to him if I can help it. I know he is rude all the time, but the way he just casually insults the reporters is really shocking.

EANABs: Equally Appealing Non-Alcoholic Beverages

I’m at the other end of the state, just popping in to wish Amtrak ran through Ashland instead of Klamath Falls. Or even that it passed through Klamath at a remotely reasonable time of day.

Florida’s Natural, too, I think.

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Wow!

The seven-year-old is going through a School House Rock fixation phase, and honestly, there are a lot of worse choices out there.

Smart move.

Sorry to hear that. I hope things get better from here.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

The cover of “Owl Babies,” a picture book.

This is the plot of the picture book Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.

SNAP and WIC, too. Just awful.

Today at our No Kings protest my kiddo and I were holding up signs in between some women dressed as Handmaids and a guy dressed as the Goblin King from Labyrinth. It was surreal and wonderful.