Andrea Orzoff
@arorzoff.bsky.social
research administrator and independent historian. Opinions are mine, not my employer's. After work: hiker, mom, writer, reader. Brecht: “When the times darken/ Will there be singing even then? /There will be singing even then. /Of how the times darken.”
My pooch is 18 now and a little out of it, but I used to joke that her basic decision-making binary was: could be scary, could be delicious
December 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My pooch is 18 now and a little out of it, but I used to joke that her basic decision-making binary was: could be scary, could be delicious
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. —Bishop
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
—Roethke
(I went through a villanelle phase)
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
—Roethke
(I went through a villanelle phase)
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. —Bishop
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
—Roethke
(I went through a villanelle phase)
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
—Roethke
(I went through a villanelle phase)
I love Edna St. Vincent Millay. Her “Persephone” is also so lovely
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I love Edna St. Vincent Millay. Her “Persephone” is also so lovely
I went to the woods to live deliberately, never mind that Mrs. Emerson was doing my laundry
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I went to the woods to live deliberately, never mind that Mrs. Emerson was doing my laundry
Beware The Mighty Hedgehog (more seriously, agreed about the imperialism but I love that Dylan Thomas and TS Eliot are in Westminster)
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Beware The Mighty Hedgehog (more seriously, agreed about the imperialism but I love that Dylan Thomas and TS Eliot are in Westminster)
That headline made me gnash my teeth
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
That headline made me gnash my teeth
…and then cry, and then drink
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
…and then cry, and then drink
If you hadn’t voted for almost all of this administration’s nominees, Senator, this resistance-posting might be kind of plausible. As it is? Not so much. Get off the Internet and do some actual damn work
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you hadn’t voted for almost all of this administration’s nominees, Senator, this resistance-posting might be kind of plausible. As it is? Not so much. Get off the Internet and do some actual damn work
THANK YOU— how cool!
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
THANK YOU— how cool!
Corollary: buying just one more new planner will definitely make you more organized from now on
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Corollary: buying just one more new planner will definitely make you more organized from now on
“Foresaw” as opposed to the more useful and accurate “bullshat”
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“Foresaw” as opposed to the more useful and accurate “bullshat”
I love that more than I can say
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I love that more than I can say
Do you also do the Little Drummer Boy Challenge? littledrummerboychallenge.com
Little Drummer Boy Challenge
Puh-rum-pum-pum-pum, people.
littledrummerboychallenge.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Do you also do the Little Drummer Boy Challenge? littledrummerboychallenge.com
Saluting your efforts at behavior modification, Robin
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Saluting your efforts at behavior modification, Robin