Elissa Altman

New Trump Banner Hung on Justice Department Headquarters

Willkommen!

She may be very quiet but she carved a love note to me out of a block of Velveeta.
So I married her. ❤️

USDA Announces Ground Beef Recall in 3 States—Nearly 23,000 Pounds of Meat May Contain E. Coli — Health Almost 23,000 pounds of ground beef were recalled in three states. The products may contain E. coli, a pathogen that can cause severe foodborne illness. The recall has been given the highest risk leve...

This is what happens when you decimate the USDA:

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I am so thrilled about @annelamott.bsky.social and @nealallen.bsky.social 's new book, which is coming on 3/17. A complete pleasure and joy to read!
I’ve also included their tour schedule — please make sure you get to one of their events!

Permission Who Are We to Tell Our Stories?How can we grant ourselves permission to write the stories we're compelled to tell when we've been told we shouldn't? The act of crafting engaging stories elevates them ...

Friends:
Join me for a permission/story ownership workshop this March at beautiful Kripalu in the Berkshires. All levels are welcome and celebrated. Extras: you get all the yoga you can manage, beautiful hiking and walking trails, great food, and a compassionate teacher! Join me!

It’s ok Mike!

Massive pages—I’m going back to 1985ish—

Yes and every line was numbered—Now excuse me while I change the tennis balls on my walker….

Even after going to cooking school, I’d never had a caper berry until I met my wife. Now I dry them, roll them in flour/egg/breadcrumbs, and fry them. Great for parties.

Enough already. Enough.

Is Cruelty Addictive? – PRINT Magazine In the aftermath of the horrific shooting in Minneapolis, questions of motive and meaning once again dominate the public conversation. This essay by Elissa Altman looks beyond the headlines to examine...

Thank you @printmag.bsky.social for publishing my essay on this insane moment in time, and the roots of cruelty.

Thank you.
We are a grief-stricken nation, living in perpetual shock. We have to be able to metabolize this—

I am thrilled to announce my next book, WHERE YOU USED TO BE: Meditations on Grief, Love, and Living a Creative Life, which is coming from Godine. How is it that the making of art enables us to move through grief, and the living with and carrying it? How does it enable us to metabolize it?

Delighted to share—coming soon from @empresseditions.bsky.social
Available for preorder now.

Thank you-

Thank you

Thank you Jake🙏🏻

Rita Hammer Obituary October 29, 2025 - Legacy.com View Rita Hammer's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

My mother, Rita Hammer, passed away peacefully on Wednesday evening, October 29th, at Regional Hospice in Danbury, Connecticut, after a short illness. Susan and I have no words.
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Christians, my ass.

In the Bardo with My Mother On grief both personal and public

Time has suspended as we sit with my mother in hospice, and wait.

Amidst all the strife surrounding my mom being in hospice, I hadn’t seen this. Thank you @longreads.com for choosing my @bittersouth.bsky.social essay, My 24 Guitars, as a Longreads Pick 💕

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

She is 90 years old today.

From the website of the in-facility doctor where my mother was in skilled nursing care until yesterday. I would have scratched out his name but then I thought: why bother?
I’m looking at you @bcdreyer.social

We admitted we were powerless over our algorithms and our lives had become unmanagable

Brilliance.

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My mother was up for it. She’s extremely disappointed.

the distraction of grief. On Sustenance and Safety in a Time of Horror

Let the great world spin, to quote Colum McCann. There is grief all around us all the time now, from Manchester to Gaza, from Chicago and Danbury to the facility where my mother sits, waiting.

My home. 🙏🏻

Sleep well, everyone.

Children, google “Pinochet.”