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Blooming yellow crocus

Mom cow (left) baby cow (right). They’re cute.

The first buds of crabapple leaves

Signs of spring.
Thank god.

Tonight’s baking:
1. Damn fine cherry pie
2. Cinnamon swirl sourdough
3. Two classic loaves sourdough
I don’t have a carb problem, I have carb solutions.

Theme of the week

#goals

Yall. Look what I made. Just look at it:

Absolutely.

“Wrinkle” really carrying a lot there.

It’s just one of those nights when you…. Make pies at midnight because tomorrow is your daughter’s birthday.

Ooof. Stay healthy. Grateful my kid outgrew her allergy so we could try to get some coverage. I’ve got three friends around the country whose college age kids have it.

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You don’t say…

Are we all just kind of messy right now? (Asking for a friend who listened to the last 3 hours of the Keith Haring bio and just has a lot of feels today)

In a meeting today I got to watch a man recommend a process I designed (which I believe another colleague shared with him) to a group of people who thought it was a great idea, if you’re wondering how my day was.

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I need to get my bearings but it seems nice!

I feel it is very much not an overstatement to say libraries saved my life and the life of at least one of my children.

11 months since a post. Huh.
Also drunk and watching old Nirvana footage. Make of that what you will.

On the one hand “My Year Of Rest And Relaxation” was bonkers. On the other hand hiding from grief in a self-induced haze after taking a handful of pills from a sketchy doctor sounds better than tackling my issues…

A pumpkin pie decorated with a leaf and a cherry pie with a cat cutout stand in the foreground on a dining room table. Behind them stand two bowls of sugared cranberries and multiple Twilight decorations.

Happy Eating Day to all who participate.

"Might."
Could be a chance you're not, but the evidence ain't lookin' good, my friend.

You ever just sit down to do a bunch of submissions and then rename files for the entirety of your submission time or is that just me and my fear of perpetual rejection?

Looks in mirror: Babe why are you cleaning the garage you haven’t even started the book manuscript you promised yourself you’d finish six years ago!

My life got so much better when I learned to play them at 2x.

“People have complicated lives,” I like to say.

Usually after I feel cute, I also feel forgetful.

I think I just followed every out mag here….

Can’t stop won’t stop.

Me too. Definitely.

On the one hand, I should be writing and doing submissions. On the other hand, I just got so many rejections in a row, I might rather hide under a rock for a bit. Or sit by the lake.

Far too many libraries' Banned Books Week displays will present these book challenges as petty nuisances rather than active, growing threats to democracy. Libraries are being defunded, receiving bomb threats, librarians being fired; our usual approach with caution tape ain't gonna do justice. 📚

I mean, I don't know, maybe don't be the people who ban books. Seems easy.
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All of this reminds me that Banned Book Week is coming up soon and this girl is DEFINITELY helping to plan a bunch of events in my school's library to talk about this very subject.

This is what the kids might call a "Big Mood" and I am in it.