My best friend and I would go out on our bikes. She had type 1 diabetes, and as we left her mom would shove a few sugar packets or hard candies at me. Occasionally she'd go into shock, and I'd have to get her -- and her bike -- home.

Just finished Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. A murder mystery...solved by sheep. Fun. Weird.

All kings and all their favorites
All glory of honors, beauty, wits,
The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass,
Is elder by a year now than it was
When thou and I first one another saw.
All other things to their destruction draw
Only our love hath no decay....

Turkey stock, followed by Greek egg-lemon soup. Turkey salad. Turkey pot pie. It's rare other leftovers last past Friday.

A MIDWIFE'S TALE: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Completely pulled me in, somewhat to my surprise.

Great photo, and I love their teamwork. But WHY are they not setting a good example by wearing helmets?

I live in NYC. Needing to run for reelection, she seems to be cautiously choosing Democratic voters over the feds, and I'll take it. She came late to congestion pricing but finally got there. Now if she'd just show a bit more spine and endorse Mamdani...

I started keeping a language log starting when my son was about 18 months, and kept it up for about 8 months. It was a wonderful record of his exploding vocabulary. One day, my dad was hanging out with him, and he asked me later "Where did he learn the word 'clamber?'" No idea!

I did the same. Took several tries to get a human, and from her response, I definitely wasn't the first caller on the topic.

This is true. In addition, the Greatest Generation parents of many Boomers had fought to keep democracy, and they made sure their kids grew up knowing what fascism looked like and how it got started.

Oh, this brings it all back: my kid took months to sort out pronouns. He somehow thought "you" was another way of saying his name, and there was simply no way to explain it!

Scott Stringer is great. He was comptroller during the Joel Klein era at the DOE, and the only official in government who seemed truly to care about the public schools. I'm ranking him and Lander 1 and 2, not sure what order yet.

Really loud, just died down a few seconds ago

I don't know: Isn't Philadelphia the best possible place for an event celebrating the real values that our founders wrote into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?

My best wishes to you and your mom, and I hope things go easily for her. Over time -- it has been a few years since my mother died -- you do get back clearer memories from the time before, so you can mourn her properly and hold close in your heart the person she was.

The Ottolenghi restaurant empire is worth a visit. Went to the one in Hempstead last fall.

Speaking as the parent of a then-8-year-old with a terrible stomach virus, washable slipcovers are your friend.

Mmm, I've had this. I would step back for a while, tell them it's because of work or family or whatever. See how you feel in a while without the stress. Odds are anyone who's your real friend will stay in touch (maybe a new group will form)? And I bet others are uncomfortable with it, too.

Not bad to have some bergamot marmalade (David Lebovitz recipe) on hand. And cottage cheese.

Parent of 25-year-old scientist. Furious on behalf of all of our kids!

Kind of a Leonard Cohen vibe?

I contacted the Times and got a canned response about how much space they devoted to the story that simply wasn't reflected by what I saw on their website -- on my phone and browser -- this morning.

I love your cute little (they really aren't) reviews. And honestly, they're a relief from the doom scrolling.

It's a great essay. I didn't know she was married to Sinclair Lewis! (I didn't realize anyone else had ever read him! Babbitt is also worth a reread.)

I just discovered Transit of Venus last year: remarkable.

Yes, my GenZ son had to explain...eggplant...to me. And here I was thinking it was a vegetable!

Reread Wolf Hall so I could read (for the first time) Bring Up the Bodies. Partway through The MIrror and the Light.

In addition, there is a policy as of yesterday (at least in one agency) that laptops can't be taken home, so practically speaking, employees had to respond by end of work day, not 11:59. Madness.

Do you know when "Jewish" was added? The word had negative connotations in the '30s and '40s, and people interested in the cookbook might have understood it without it having to be spelled out. Temples were listed as "Hebrew" rather than "Jewish" in city directories that I've looked at. A guess.

My son was in middle school at the time, and all the parents and kids were talking about it. Hot competition among the 7th graders about whose tiger mom was the worst. Mine informed me that I wasn't a tiger mom, exactly -- more like a feral house cat.