Every day I look forward to sleeping I love sleeping I love being unconscious

a bag of pea shoots, 6 brown eggs, sweet potatoes, garlic scallions, rhubarb, and a bag of spinach

first CSA pickup of the year!

congratulations!

the nfl draft is like a plague

with honors! congratulations, all! 🎉

bf's emotional response to these last couple of Pens games is making me really appreciate the fact that we usually watch wrestling. nobody's ever seething like this over who wins a belt!

glad they're safe!

Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional!

AND there's a fundamental right to abortion!

We won!

(Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)

Q for book marketing folks: do publishers think about whether the book they're promoting is listed on the reading-tracking apps?

I keep seeing books advertised here, go to add them to my to-read list, and they aren't available in StoryGraph (but maybe just bc SG is small compared to GR? idk)

I actually do prefer American Heritage Dictionary definitions but use Merriam-Webster (for the spelling) when copyediting

my hand holding a glass jar containing a bouquet, against a background of bookshelves

you can just buy flowers for no particular reason, if you want to

Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis A rare look at one of the world's most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world's fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.

A rare look at one of the world's most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world's fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.

"you MFer Sam Girard." *faintly* "not a real Penguin"

"Trevor Zegras has real Bethel Park energy" (I have no idea what this means)

bf: "This is Penguins–Flyers. It's gonna be a shitshow for as long as the series goes on"

"Despite the discontinuities, there is always continuity. People and structures survive, and communities re-form. Our fantasies of individualist survival are at odds with the reality that communities, groups beyond our families, will always be how we survive."
—Chris Begley, THE NEXT APOCALYPSE

The absolute pinnacle of ads. None better.

"when you get tremendously efficient at answering email, all that happens is that you get much more email." –Oliver Burkeman, FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS

protecting myself by not becoming tremendously efficient at answering email

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Some data on how people are actually reading more and book sales are up, much as I suspected.

“The Interdisciplinary Nature of Food Is Now Un-ignorable”: Alicia Kennedy on Food Writing, Food Security, and Food Justice - Public Books “Food writing can no longer just be ‘go to this restaurant’ or ‘explain this dish or cocktail.’”

“The food is expensive for a variety of reasons, many made worse because of the colonial structures that now lead to tourist dependency.”

New at PB: Alicia Kennedy discusses food access in Puerto Rico–and paths toward the decolonization of food writing.

I'm sorry to be a grouch but I hate that the whole city has to reconfigure itself for this glorified job fair

Do you ever look at your calendar and realize that you made several mistakes a few months ago.

Paid, part-time, remote editorial fellowship ⬇️

this is a valuable warning and also I'm a little annoyed if this means that my real, not-scam invitations to join our book club are now getting brushed off as spam

I missed it once, to my great dismay the next year!

🥇 remembered to make my first-quarter estimated tax payments

Meet this year’s literary Guggenheim fellows. For the past hundred years, the coveted Guggenheim fellowship has granted funds “to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form.&#…

Meet the Guggenheim Foundation’s literary class of 2026.

"I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest suspicions."