Sold-out crowd welcomes the Boston Fleet to the TD Garden ice with their phone flashlights on.

Everyone👏Watches👏Women’s👏Sports👏 #BostonFleet

Oh, and: #uptheswans #fullfleetahead. Sorry, this is a lot to keep track of. 🦢🚢

Both the Fleet *and* the Legacy square off at 4pm today? I can’t remember if we’ve ever had a conflict in Boston professional women’s sports. More of this please (but also where is the PiP setting on my TV?)

Two Parkrun volunteers walking along the path at Jamaica Pond

#parkrun

There is a direct line between me witnessing this goal in person last night and dragging my ass to the gym at the crack of dawn this morning, and THAT my friends is the power of women’s professional sports.

My listening age is 69, my top album was Wet Leg, and apparently I am 100% chaos. #spotifywrapped

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Giant skeleton wearing a crown, holding a piece of candy, standing over 2 smaller skeletons doing the conga

Giant skeleton atop a one-story store, illuminated in red

Giant skeleton wearing a crown with animated eyes, standing over a court of smaller skeletons doing the, one of whom is being knighted

Giant skeleton standing outside a building, appears to be making eye contact with the camera holder

A very incomplete survey of this year’s class of giant skeletons

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One more: projectbread.org

In my professional opinion, here are two local websites with clearly stated missions and excellent calls to action. 👍👍

www.gbfb.org

www.servings.org

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Been thinking a lot lately about Clippy.

Turkeys ascending stairs outside a home

Ding-dong, company’s here.

Revisiting this 9/11 remembrance, published one year after the event. The young among us felt like things were changed forever; those a generation older knew that it was the same as it ever was. 23 years later, I can relate. bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_...

Three book spines: “Good Job” by Margo Stern, “Reinventing You” by Dorie Clark, and “1000 Words” by Jami Attenberg

The pile of books accumulating in my office would seem to imply a career at a crossroads.

@jtkantor.bsky.social we’re die-hard Sox fans who grew up with the Marlins in Florida, and as we reminisce about their World Series wins in ’97 and ’03, you could say “Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes.” What do you say?

Pretty clouds and a neon Market Basket sign

His new album drops next Friday

Screenshot of iPhone Reminders app with an item that says, “Water my pants.”

Close enough, Siri. 🪴

Years later, I’d reconnect with some of those people at a reunion. We swapped phone numbers and pledged to head to the woods together again. We finally made it happen yesterday, and reader, there’s nothing like spending time under the trees with people who’ve known you since you were 12.

I didn’t know what I was getting into, but it felt good to hop in a passenger van, sail over the winding roads of Maine, and see something new.
Maybe my fellow campers had similar reservations, but everyone was game to discover what was at the end of the trail.

Water flowing in a stream over an old mill, surrounded by forest canopy.

Growing up in Florida, we didn’t take day hikes. My first introduction to hiking in New England was at summer camp, when I was handed a smelly orange backpack and told to pack water, extra socks, and bug repellent.

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Swan couple with several cygnets

The base of an old light pole, with branches stuffed into the opening

A stone bridge arch over a riverway

An Olmsted walk, Boston

Smoke tree

Roses

Sunny Sundays are for taking a stroll and finding what’s blooming at the Arboretum

Commonwealth avenue, Boston, at twilight. Upside down.

One year after my first race ever was canceled due to excessive heat, I finally took to the Corporate Challenge course tonight. High 70s and humid, sweating down to my socks. The lone photo I took captures the feeling perfectly.

Wordle is really going for it today

Grabbing my phone for every ESPN and Boston Globe alert like it’s a Supreme Court decision as I wait for news on Tatum’s injury.

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