Missed phone call pre-answering
machine, a receding wave:
two lost opportunities.

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Swimming matters. Just ask my
Civil War ancestor who
had drowned after his ship sunk.

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What LeBron is doing in this series at 41 is just amazing.

Broken shells and an earring
with faux jewels missing: my
treasures. I won’t tell you why.

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The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Ashes and old bones don’t stay
buried, disrupting dreams with
deep fears of discovery.

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My mother said that trouble
was my best friend’s middle name.
Peril would be prettier.

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Orange tabby cat with a sign over his head. If cats could text you back, they would not.

Truth. #Caturday

Swimming up through winter’s gloom,
seeking joys of spring and sun
surfacing with fins of hope

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Did people invent the word
“byways” just to have easy
rhyming with highways? Seems so!

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Human beings are such wild
animals: so bloody in
metaphorical tooth- claw.

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Cheryl Miller back in TV as WNBA analyst for NBC Once a familiar figure in pro basketball television coverage, Cheryl Miller is back in broadcasting with NBCUniversal.

Once a mainstay of NBA coverage on TNT, Cheryl Miller is back on TV as a WNBA analyst for NBCUniversal: www.sportsmediawatch.com/2026/04/cher...

JD Vance is like a guy who just played in his first JCC basketball league giving shooting advice to Steph Curry.

Many Roman bridges still
stand, long after the builders
tasted their last brined fish sauce.

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Cat sat in sunlight.

Morning 🤣

Confederate dollars: who
touched this money? What did they
think? Did they survive the war?

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What a compelling voice and rhythmic presentation . . .

Claim that you’re cleaning up when
you’re straightening and dusting:
That’s “redding up,” Grandma said.

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My great-nephew got bubbles for Easter . . .

Living in a funeral
home, classmates thought I slept in
caskets. My false claim to fame.

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Chicago White Sox pope hats giveaway

In the running for greatest giveaway of all time

Bathing under reflected
glory of the meteor
showers, my mood will brighten

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Grandma let me play with toy
cups and saucers. I kept mum
when one fell under her porch.

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I research, write, and edit, human-made, only using AI when a client specifically requests that route.

Not showing off but someone
disagreed that I’m a nerd,
calling me a full-fledged geek.

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A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Getting dressed in the morning
serves as a good reminder
that I didn’t do laundry.

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I feel a need to defend
Pluto: a dwarf demoted
distant planet. I still care.

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Just one more ray of sun might
melt the ice, sending water
tumbling down the cold creek bed.

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