My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.
The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember theconversation.com/the-secret-s...
Trans Canada Highway
Peter McConville
2021
Thank you for the message. On behalf of all the non-experts out here, it's very much needed and appreciated. Also, ugh.
Frog ambles through a meadow, looking for spring. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*
“I walked in the meadow. Soon I came to another corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was there. “
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
Isn't it? So glad you found it -- makes me want to read it again!
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being.
How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…
What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”
the interchange, which looks like a vagina
they’re building a new style of interchange here and i don’t think most men are going to be able to find their way around it
"What I mean is, there has never come a time when I could be thought to have acquired dignity, common sense, still less worldly wisdom, qualities that supposedly come with age and get lost with age, too."
Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year
www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...
A graphic novel with an illustration on the cover of two Asian girls connected by a scarlet thread. They are beside the sea or at the beach, the water around them purple and black, their figures blue and black. Text reads TERESA WONG AUTHOR OF DEAR SCARLET all our ordinary stories A MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILY ODYSSEY
What a powerful graphic memoir this is. The story begins after a mother’s stroke, for the narrator, Teresa Wong, as she tries to understand the dislocations that have left her and her mother so far apart. A gift to my husband and I from @clairecameron.bsky.social and I’m very happy for it.
Isn't it incredible? One of those books that I'll always carry inside me. 💙
If you loved The Marriage Portrait, I would go all in on Hamnet.
WATCH: If your city is having a bike-lane debate that’s more about ideology than evidence, watch this news story from Toronto. The Province is attacking bike-lanes, and the local business community takes their arguments apart with data and smart messaging.
Safe bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth
Many notable books here, including Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men and Casey Plett’s Dream of a Woman.
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So interesting, thank you!
13 already somehow and yet it feels like yesterday...
This is so exciting: a new Canadian site where you can buy from independent bookstores. 🔥
#Canada
#AmReading
www.booksellers.ca
Wow
Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears? @trinamoyles.bsky.social on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
Spoiler: Women are choosing the bear, in more ways than one. #bears #bearsky
I photographed a Pizza Hut in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for the New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/f... (Gift Link)
My husband changed his last name to mine. This was a few years ago -- our experiences of the name change have been *wildly* different.
Also, I've lost count of the number of people who have asked if I married my cousin.
I wrote about it:
I'd like to read your book about the suburbs, please.
gripe your oars, and clutch your souls, now!
"Deep in the forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, a few hours north of Toronto, sits a metal monster."
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