working on a genre of book that I call Y'allternative
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working on a genre of book that I call Y'allternative
I’m reading My Brilliant Friend as well as a David Sedaris essay collection!
Happy Toni Morrison’s birthday to all those who celebrate!
Some reads as of late
Love this track, I keep coming back.
"The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on." —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974
So lucky 😍
Working on myself these days! Getting into this gem by @melissafebos.bsky.social
the quakers are suing the government (DHS) over ICE raids in churches fucking love quakers
Kroger’s is partnering with Microsoft to install facial-recognition tech in stores to identify individual customers and set prices per person. The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
Article says it will be based on ability to pay, but pretty sure that won't be it.
Really proud to publish this essay today. It's from T.C. Martin, one of my former students, about being fat and gay and looking for love: audacity.substack.com/p/the-chase-...
I used to love reading dystopian fiction in high school.
Reaaaaally not enjoying living through dystopian reality as an adult.
@edyong209.bsky.social thank you for going to my undergrad Transylvania University next year for a lecture! They’ll be lucky to have you. I wish they streamed it so I could watch from Chicago!
When therapy and your self-compassion work coincidentally bleeds into what you’re reading. Melissa Febos in @alexanderchee.bsky.social’s Best American Essays 2022.
Do you REALLY want to be a himbo? Or do you just have anxiety????
Photo looking up the sky. Manicured green trees in the top left and bottom right of the frame leave a diagonal strip of blue sky running through the photo with wispy clouds.
One of my favorite spots at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
It’s the Saturday of Market Days here in Chicago and I’m cozily at home reading bell hooks.
The energy is really off in our house today too!
I have purchased the giant tomatoes from the farmers market. The BLTs are coming…
Ok but look how cute my partner is 🥹 @br0ey.bsky.social
Every single summer I feel like I have maybe two weeks between “ah, spring is finally turning into summer” and then “oh gosh, it’s basically fall already, better check everything off your summer list!” It’s so stressful! I blame retail and academia 😂
An open hand holding a small red tomato with a green stem still attached, in the background is blurry tomato plants
First tomato harvest of the year! There are so many on my vines this year and I am thrilled. This one is from an unknown variety passed down from my great grandfather’s farm and kept going by my aunt now.
Holy smokes!!!
She’s retired and owns an antique shop with her husband. She’s thriving.
She’s a Reaganite so don’t stan too hard. 😂
This podcast has quickly become one of my most cherished. ❤️
My high school Spanish teacher (Señora Hensley de Iowa) would say the English word skit this way when we were doing practice scripted plays in class. She never knew why we were giggling.
You ever get overwhelmed by all the things you want to read? I wish I could read faster and enjoy it just as well. I don’t miss my grad school skimming. 😭
A close up image of 12 quilted glass pint jars on a kitchen counter. The jars contain fresh peach preserves waiting for their canning lids to be added.
Peach preserves day!