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genX (she/her) tugging at the delicate eye area 🌈 Upper Valley🌈 🐈⬛✡️⛸️🦻🏼🥄🎶💿🎨💅🧶🌳 Talkin’ ‘bout my Sandwich Generation / profile pic is a tabby cat lying with his paws across a long, old, elaborately carved knife; banner is a partly cloudy sky over a rural road
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*not shopping at Target intensifies*
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
*not shopping at Target intensifies*
The private boys’ prep school in town opens their ice arena for free public skating a handful of times each winter…today’s the first one! ⛸️ When our girls were very little, the boys who attend the school would help lace up their skates… 🥹
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The private boys’ prep school in town opens their ice arena for free public skating a handful of times each winter…today’s the first one! ⛸️ When our girls were very little, the boys who attend the school would help lace up their skates… 🥹
My earworm for today is a parody clip in the style of Sammy Hagar: “I can’t be…FIFTY-FIVE!” 🎶
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My earworm for today is a parody clip in the style of Sammy Hagar: “I can’t be…FIFTY-FIVE!” 🎶
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Hegseth must be prosecuted to the absolute maximum extent allowed by law.
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hegseth must be prosecuted to the absolute maximum extent allowed by law.
Could my Mom NOT sound like she’s dying in the bathroom when there’s a contractor in the house?? 🤦🏻♀️ 🫠
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Could my Mom NOT sound like she’s dying in the bathroom when there’s a contractor in the house?? 🤦🏻♀️ 🫠
Miss 19 is on her way home from college for Thanksgiving!! 🎉
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Miss 19 is on her way home from college for Thanksgiving!! 🎉
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My friend Emily Walton wrote a book about racial exclusion, studying the place where we live, the Upper Valley of NH/VT. Pretty wild to read a study of the place you live! Anyway, out tomorrow, very well done with lots of data and interviews. www.amazon.com/Homesick-Rac...
Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England
Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England [Walton, Emily] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England
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November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My friend Emily Walton wrote a book about racial exclusion, studying the place where we live, the Upper Valley of NH/VT. Pretty wild to read a study of the place you live! Anyway, out tomorrow, very well done with lots of data and interviews. www.amazon.com/Homesick-Rac...
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Crimes against women and children aren't crimes, example # infinity:
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Crimes against women and children aren't crimes, example # infinity:
Watched Wicked Part I with Mom. Within 5min she was complaining about Ariana Grande’s voice (fair), but got over it. She also claimed not to know the basic story of The Wizard of Oz, so I supplied background where needed. We enjoyed it, but I’m still feeling sad about Elphaba.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Watched Wicked Part I with Mom. Within 5min she was complaining about Ariana Grande’s voice (fair), but got over it. She also claimed not to know the basic story of The Wizard of Oz, so I supplied background where needed. We enjoyed it, but I’m still feeling sad about Elphaba.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
Yesterday was rough, and last night we dealt with some ultra challenging behavior. But a full night’s sleep hits the reset in my mom’s brain and this morning we’ll start fresh again. 😅 #dementia #caregiving
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday was rough, and last night we dealt with some ultra challenging behavior. But a full night’s sleep hits the reset in my mom’s brain and this morning we’ll start fresh again. 😅 #dementia #caregiving
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Serenity Now! #caregiving #dementia
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Serenity Now! #caregiving #dementia
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Alice wrote so many wonderful things. Thinking of this essay today.
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
In Praise of Peaches - Orion Magazine
Sometimes a peach is just a peach. But sometimes it's a portal.
orionmagazine.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Alice wrote so many wonderful things. Thinking of this essay today.
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Honoring Alice Wong's life and legacy with gratitude, in solidarity and sorrow, this morning. I was a fan; thinking of all who loved and knew her personally.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Honoring Alice Wong's life and legacy with gratitude, in solidarity and sorrow, this morning. I was a fan; thinking of all who loved and knew her personally.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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I'm so, so sorry to hear Alice Wong (@sfdirewolf.bsky.social) has passed. She was a wonderful person, a revelatory speaker, and very kind to me personally. The disability community and all her friends will miss her deeply.
May her memory be a blessing.
May her memory be a blessing.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm so, so sorry to hear Alice Wong (@sfdirewolf.bsky.social) has passed. She was a wonderful person, a revelatory speaker, and very kind to me personally. The disability community and all her friends will miss her deeply.
May her memory be a blessing.
May her memory be a blessing.
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Serenity Now! #caregiving #dementia
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Serenity Now! #caregiving #dementia
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Hitting like on every northern light photo
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Hitting like on every northern light photo
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Maybe it’s my current state of mind, but 50 year mortgages and 15 year car terms are reasons to revolt in the most iconic ways
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Maybe it’s my current state of mind, but 50 year mortgages and 15 year car terms are reasons to revolt in the most iconic ways
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In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
Listening to my mom chat on the phone with her oldest friend, who doesn’t know that my mom has dementia. I’m valiantly resisting the urge to fact check as she shares wildly inaccurate details about our lives. It’s really hard, even though I know it doesn’t matter.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Listening to my mom chat on the phone with her oldest friend, who doesn’t know that my mom has dementia. I’m valiantly resisting the urge to fact check as she shares wildly inaccurate details about our lives. It’s really hard, even though I know it doesn’t matter.