Brenda
@mytruantpen.com
I just talk about my life, and offer respite from well deserved anger.
TIL opium can prevent cholera!! #whitehousecookbook #1924
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
TIL opium can prevent cholera!! #whitehousecookbook #1924
I'm quite pleased with how these paintings came out - much better than my usual "right which end of the brush goes in the water" sets. The Yeats poem is one my husband and I memorized together as newlyweds. It hits differently after 25 years. #watercolor #autumn #poetry #yeats
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm quite pleased with how these paintings came out - much better than my usual "right which end of the brush goes in the water" sets. The Yeats poem is one my husband and I memorized together as newlyweds. It hits differently after 25 years. #watercolor #autumn #poetry #yeats
Book 58: my husband nearly sprained his eyes rolling them at this book, but it was a clever, fun read so nyah nyah to him. This working mom wishes she was getting to study cantrips instead of brain rot to talk to her kid. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/0af853... @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Book 58: my husband nearly sprained his eyes rolling them at this book, but it was a clever, fun read so nyah nyah to him. This working mom wishes she was getting to study cantrips instead of brain rot to talk to her kid. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/0af853... @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social
I'm reading through the Peanuts comics of the 70s right now, and Peppermint Patty really suffers with the requirement to conform. Way ahead of it's time.
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I'm reading through the Peanuts comics of the 70s right now, and Peppermint Patty really suffers with the requirement to conform. Way ahead of it's time.
Book 57: after my sojourn in the Sahara, my mother sent me a book she taught to her sixth graders for many years. Sixth grade me would have loved it. 47 year old me enjoyed it, and could see it in a way that I couldn't in my youth. #bookaweek #sahara
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Book 57: after my sojourn in the Sahara, my mother sent me a book she taught to her sixth graders for many years. Sixth grade me would have loved it. 47 year old me enjoyed it, and could see it in a way that I couldn't in my youth. #bookaweek #sahara
I haven't uploaded my art in a hot minute, like since this summer, in part because I haven't been doing a ton of painting. With no nice weather and no baseball, it's time to get back into practice. I call this set "Yeah, it looks better with ink outlines" #watercolor
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I haven't uploaded my art in a hot minute, like since this summer, in part because I haven't been doing a ton of painting. With no nice weather and no baseball, it's time to get back into practice. I call this set "Yeah, it looks better with ink outlines" #watercolor
Enjoying the last long afternoon of autumn before the dark sets in. The shadows just don't do this in summer. They're soft and gentle. They take on a knife edge as the sun slips south. #middlesexfells
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Enjoying the last long afternoon of autumn before the dark sets in. The shadows just don't do this in summer. They're soft and gentle. They take on a knife edge as the sun slips south. #middlesexfells
The last posies of the year.
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The last posies of the year.
My local pizza place stepping up where the government has stepped down:
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My local pizza place stepping up where the government has stepped down:
I'm body doubling while my son writes an essay on "Their Eyes Were Watching God". I have thoughts:
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'm body doubling while my son writes an essay on "Their Eyes Were Watching God". I have thoughts:
Book 55: The Magician of Tiger Castle. A delightful read that crosses eras of the world as the seasons slip from warmth to cold, light to darkness. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/6eb4ed...
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Book 55: The Magician of Tiger Castle. A delightful read that crosses eras of the world as the seasons slip from warmth to cold, light to darkness. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/6eb4ed...
One of my favorite spots on my usual running route is the underpass of I93 in the Stoneham Greenway - which was originally trolly tracks. The tunnel is the purview of amazing self-organizing #graffiti artists. Here are some recent works of art. #stonehamma #tricommunitygreenway
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
One of my favorite spots on my usual running route is the underpass of I93 in the Stoneham Greenway - which was originally trolly tracks. The tunnel is the purview of amazing self-organizing #graffiti artists. Here are some recent works of art. #stonehamma #tricommunitygreenway
Me: this day can't get any better
Also me: "accidentally" passes by @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social Lovestruck Books. They have a wine bar
Also me: "accidentally" passes by @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social Lovestruck Books. They have a wine bar
October 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Me: this day can't get any better
Also me: "accidentally" passes by @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social Lovestruck Books. They have a wine bar
Also me: "accidentally" passes by @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social Lovestruck Books. They have a wine bar
I just freaking live the alta capella. If only they had brought the cornetti!!! #pifarro #shawm #sackbut #cornetto #altacapella
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I just freaking live the alta capella. If only they had brought the cornetti!!! #pifarro #shawm #sackbut #cornetto #altacapella
Suddenly, bagpipes! If you aren't going to concerts where you may be surprised by sudden bagpipes and/or hurdy gurdy you need to expand your horizons.
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Suddenly, bagpipes! If you aren't going to concerts where you may be surprised by sudden bagpipes and/or hurdy gurdy you need to expand your horizons.
This is what I came for. It's the only piece I had heard before, which in conversation afterwards put me ahead of some of the performers. I never read the liner notes in my album and assumed it was a Dies Irae or equivalent.
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I came for. It's the only piece I had heard before, which in conversation afterwards put me ahead of some of the performers. I never read the liner notes in my album and assumed it was a Dies Irae or equivalent.
As a child born in the Carter administration, there are fewer and fewer places where I represent youth. An early music concert at midday is one such. #blueheron #pifarro #fitstchurchcambridge
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As a child born in the Carter administration, there are fewer and fewer places where I represent youth. An early music concert at midday is one such. #blueheron #pifarro #fitstchurchcambridge
Meanwhile, my TBR pile says "Oh you are NOT going to that romance book store in Harvard Square tomorrow woman!!" To which I cleverly reply muahahaha you can't stop me TBR pile!!!
October 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Meanwhile, my TBR pile says "Oh you are NOT going to that romance book store in Harvard Square tomorrow woman!!" To which I cleverly reply muahahaha you can't stop me TBR pile!!!
Book 54: this one was on either side of a long gap. Physical, in front of the first fire of the year. app.thestorygraph.com/books/3fb102... #bookaweek it's odd to know more about what happened than the main characters do.
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Book 54: this one was on either side of a long gap. Physical, in front of the first fire of the year. app.thestorygraph.com/books/3fb102... #bookaweek it's odd to know more about what happened than the main characters do.
No one here but us cozy cats.
October 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No one here but us cozy cats.
What do I listen to instead of baseball while I work? Just some simple, innocent sea chanties. This Cthulhu ftagn chorus is so catchy!
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What do I listen to instead of baseball while I work? Just some simple, innocent sea chanties. This Cthulhu ftagn chorus is so catchy!
Hello, @tkingfisher.com if you are looking for something that can happen only in the modern age and yet seems very doomy in a creepy way.... here are the ads I just got shown. #imindanger #noneoftheabove
October 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Hello, @tkingfisher.com if you are looking for something that can happen only in the modern age and yet seems very doomy in a creepy way.... here are the ads I just got shown. #imindanger #noneoftheabove
Book 54: reread. This is such a good overview of bipolar as a lived experience. Plus the art is super sexy.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/bfebb5... #bookaweek
app.thestorygraph.com/books/bfebb5... #bookaweek
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Book 54: reread. This is such a good overview of bipolar as a lived experience. Plus the art is super sexy.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/bfebb5... #bookaweek
app.thestorygraph.com/books/bfebb5... #bookaweek