Lisa

I’d like to use 🦋 more but need to work at bringing more joy and levity into my feed. I set up Threads a couple summers back in the easy breezy days of teacher summer, and I set up Bluesky in, well, November. Different selves were at the wheel. Any tips on how to recalibrate my algorithm here?

I don’t think I realized when you began. I left NYC (and the East Village) in 2006 and am pretty sure I found your site just a year or two later. I loved (and love) connecting to and missing my former home through your posts.

Yet am I thankful.

This whole thread!

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

Saw Wicked today in our packed one-screen theater, sheer delight. My kid made these bracelets before we went.

Love this so so SO much.

Oh goodness!! ✨

Would also love to go to the March house (I don’t know if mean the real Orchard House or just the one from the book), the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, and E.L. Konigsburg’s version of the Met (where I can climb into beds and fountains and be there in the middle of the night).

Location feels too broad, but for building I am pretty much always wishing I was at the Hotel Deucalion from the Nevermoor books.

I bet it’s coming!

Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers.

Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be.

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I would like to say it’s the work itself and not the vessel, but no, I’m really quite a Gollum about my first edition A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. My dad bought it for me when I was a teenager, after our library culled the raggedy old copy I’d been checking out at least yearly since I was 11.

grown up.

I keep thinking about that party. I have an oddly clear vision of sitting on the floor in her walk-in closet, holding the mass market paperback in my hand, feeling the raised letters of the title, listening to her tell me why I should read it. She was a year or two older than me and seemed very

My mom’s colleague’s daughter gave me her copy of Thornyhold at a pool party when I was like 14. I remember loving it but haven’t reread it and haven’t read anything else by her!

True! Thanks.

I also have this superpower. I can’t explain it: I’m willing to suspend my disbelief in so many ways, but this I cannot abide.

I’m Lisa. Generally a pleasure to have in class but occasionally talks too much. Also terrified to audition for anything.

Here (on this app and in this world) to bulk up my wonder muscle!

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Happy Thursdsy, y’all!

While I think it’s somewhat facile to criticize McDonald’s (I want to say: doing so seems classist, and also orthorexic, and also franchisees are small business owners too) – this quote still makes me feel soft and hopeful.

I would also love to see so much of the Florida Lily Brooks-Dalton writes about in The Light Pirate. Certainly times are devastating and dangerous and so so lonely in this book. It’s also so visually rich. I want to see the mangrove swamps and the scene with the manatee and even the submerged towns.

I’d like to see Brooklyn as Jacqueline Woodson saw it when she moved there as a young child circa 1970.

Francie Nolan’s, of course. And I’d pop into Patti Smith’s Chelsea Hotel, maybe sneak a look at Dalí over the top of my book. I’d love to see the bookshelves and safe dinner tables of Cat Sebastian’s queer midcentury baseball and newsroom found families.

Home sick in a quiet house and this able to keep musing about this.

Have spent a lot of time in 21st century NYC, as a resident and visitor, but I’d love to time travel, for just a bit, to other New Yorks.

It doesn’t sound twee at all, or if it does let’s leave that word to compost into something richer. Your words sound like gentleness and rest and being loved. Would that we all felt that way as often as possible.

“We’re at our best when we’re disruptors.” Barbara Kingsolver on artists, accepting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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For real, the first thought that came to me was I’d just like to see Francie Nolan on her fire escape with her ice water and her peppermints and her book. (Since punishment for breaking the rules and considering other scenarios is unlikely, I may add more in the comments. ✨ )