@marycmccormack.bsky.social Good god, MM, I have put off reading WHAT’S NEXT because I knew it would be bittersweet. But this John Spencer section is doing me in. Man do I miss him. Thanks for the section, but also 🖕🏻😭💙💙

Well would you look at that.

Damn. What a travesty. I expect better from book people. I rely more on poetry lists because for me it’s harder to find ‘blind.’ There is great writing being done in Canada. What a slap in the face. 🫤

I love that they do shut like this to tout their ‘bipartisan’ record. I mean, we are a dumb people, but…

I feel this. Where I am, I’d either get taken out or come out to no bike. 😂😢

Go buy this delight immediately.

It really is. I probably shouldn’t say this but I’m kind of sad it’s over. Though I suppose really just entering the next weird stage.

So funny. I was just thinking - couldn’t/shouldn’t he have altered his eyebrows beforehand?

Melancholy is the depression that says yes to life.

Oof. 🎯 Well said.

Amazing!

On a more positive note, Santa Cruz was my home away from home growing up. Love it there. Did you sail out of that harbor?

This makes me so incredibly angry on behalf of your entire family. I don’t know how monsters such as that come to be, but they are rampant. I’m so very sorry for your loss and the circumstances that took your mother way too soon. I wish you peace. 💙

Had a fun date with my BFF. We found a huge dragon poop splatter (probably goose from on high) and spit on it so the dragon knew we were bonded and it was on our side. Fought some bad dragons. Then roasted marshmallows on the resulting fire. Victory was ours.

I’ve seen more organized grid searches by kids looking for eggs on Easter

If I don’t immediately go to the kitchen and hang them on the hook on the side of the fridge I’m in BIG trouble. Thankfully, if they aren’t there they’re usually in my vest pocket. Yes, I wear ‘puffer’ vests (the non-puffy kind). Refuse to carry a purse. This response has now gone off the rails.

As a lawyer (insurance coverage for the first half), watching the unprecedented response on social media has me highly intrigued about what any jury is going to do. The law is the law, but… 🤷🏼‍♀️

#8 💙

Just finished this a couple days ago and was entranced! Went in fairly blind and was sucked in quickly. I loved the world-building, which was a perfect level of complexity (ahem, fairly low) and wasn’t ruined by my aphantasia brain. And the Acknowledgments were so incredibly sweet.

There are rarely days I don’t feel like I could lose some lbs, then there are mornings I wake up, extricate myself from bed, look back, know I slept in there, and feel pretty good about myself.

A complicated tiles board with red blue and yello

Wordle this, Connections that — I don’t hear enough of you talking about TILES.

My mom had that one! She loved to cook for an event, but daily was a grind. Not sure how much she referenced it or whether the name just stuck with me.

I keep thinking ‘We made it through another day. This four years will pass.’ Then remember we haven’t even started the clock yet. 🫤

LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.

He’s a ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ kind of guy.

Prone to earworms, I like to say they silence the voices in my head. I can usually ALWAYS figure out their origin, though M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E was a wild one that almost had me stumped. But I’m currently humming the DALLAS theme and it’s not looking good.

Prone to earworms, I like to say they silence the voices in my head. I can usually ALWAYS figure out their origin, though M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E was a wild one that almost had me stumped. But I’m currently humming the DALLAS theme and it’s not looking good.

Listening to J Egner’s TED LASSO book & laugh every time I hear ‘Phil Dunster,’ bc Jamie Tartt does NOT look like a Phil, yet I can’t also help hearing ‘Phil Dunphy, which kind of fits Jamie Tartt. Also, thank you, Jamie/Phil, for ‘poopay,’ which has influenced the way my entire neighborhood talks.

We probably skateboarded past each other at Safeway. 😂