I need to read this! I‘m working on a novella!

I wrote this in my book and stand by it.
American culture is incompatible with responsible gun ownership.

#louisiana #repeal2a

Yes, if there are minor children the separation needs to be a year. I think there are exceptions in the case of abuse.

Domestic Violence and Firearms | Center for Gun Violence Solutions

Scroll down to the section on evidence.
publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

It’s the domestic violence.

It’s the guns.

It’s the combination of patriarchy and easy access to guns.

Domestic violence is a gun violence issue, and gun violence is a domestic violence issue. We cannot address one without addressing the other.

One of my favorite places in the world. Thank you.

My father took me (11) and siblings (8) to see The Mission.

Elastic bracelets of tumbled stones and crystals. All the colors please!

Yep, I am also a CTCL alumna. I’m so sorry, Hampshire folks.

Then there’s no hope for us community college folks, huh. :(

I am making this very point in a talk later this week.

Yay!!! Thank you!

Your roots are in the community college system—please include us too!

American here. I think it was around 2009 or so, and I must have gotten Nervous Conditions from the library. I had a Fulbright to South Africa in 2007 and began reading everything I could find from southern African writers.

Biruté Galdikas, Champion of Endangered Orangutans, Dies at 79

She’s not as well known as Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey, but she did for orangutans what they did for chimps and gorilla. Her book Reflections of Eden was stunning. An enormous life and loss.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

I read Adam Higginbotham’s book about Challenger over the winter break and was thinking about it, and that day, for the entire pre-launch into launch!

That essay was perfection. And the people who need to read it never will.

What the average American student learns about Africa could fit on the pinky nail of a miggie.

Should be on all the 80s best playlists!

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Just participated in a Braver Angels debate with my school and a neighboring university—it was an amazing night. My students loved it!

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

When I was in graduate school discovering creative/narrative nonfiction, Tracy Kidder was one the giants in that world: observant, compassionate, astute. I read and learned from all his books.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

A screenshot of a TikTok comment says “never seen a cybertruck at the library”

Seven-word death punch

I found my first literary agent and met @johannabanana.bsky.social ♥️

One of my MFA professors derided this poem as sentimental and I cannot get over that.
I love it. Always have.

The Atlantic article about that was so disturbing. I‘ve never forgotten it.

Also in Jonathan Metzl’s book Dying of Whiteness.

Eight years ago, 17 people were killed and 17 more were injured in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Honor them with action by calling your Members of Congress at (202) 224-3121 to pass an #AssaultWeaponsBan.

Positive masculinity right here.

18 years ago, five people were killed and 17 more were injured in a mass shooting at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

We remember the lives taken and will continue to #HonorWithAction.