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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · 5d

Knock knock, motherfucker. thebloggess.com/2025/10/03/h...

Hailey and their sweetheart came home with a little spooky season surprise for me. A small metal friend at the door. “Knock knock, motherfucker.” She has a little solar panel on her nec…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · 16d

I went to Shelley Duvall’s house for her estate sale and it was sad and wonderful. thebloggess.com/2025/09/22/i...

It’s not the same as hugging Shelley Duvall, but it feels like the next best thing.

Look, this is going to be rambling af so totally okay to skip this whole post because it’s me talking about something that gave me so much joy and I want to write it down for myself so I alwa…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · 20d

thebloggess.com/2025/09/18/c.... They think Hailey has meningitis agin. Crowdsourcing in case you’ve had experience with recurring meningitis treatment.

Crowdsourcing recurrent aseptic meningitis treatment

Hello and welcome to the most boring blog post title I’ve ever written. Sorry, but I thought I’d reach out and try to crowdsource (after getting permission from my kiddo, Hailey.) You m…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · 21d

Apologies to the people who saw me sobbing as I left the drs office. They were happy tears: thebloggess.com/2025/09/17/a...

Apologies to the people who saw me sobbing as I left the doctor. Emotions are weird af. I’m totally fine. (And itchy.)

So about 6 months ago I started having this itching inside one ear that kept getting worse and nothing fixed it so I went to my doctor and he was like, “Huh. There’s a lump there. You n…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · 23d

Art interpretation for vampires: Art interpretation for vampires: thebloggess.com/2025/09/15/a...

Art interpretation for vampires

I have this giant painting I bought second-hand years ago. Dorothy Barker for scale It’s a print on canvas called “Before Nightfall” and when I first saw it I was like, “I l…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · 26d

Reading is less dangerous than cleaning: thebloggess.com/2025/09/12/r...

Reading > cleaning

I decided to clean up the house and a frame I was polishing broke and the glass went through my finger and now I can only type with one hand because it keeps opening up and this feels like a sign t…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Sep 4

I was today years old when I learned something I guess I should have learned when I was a kid. *sigh*. thebloggess.com/2025/09/04/h...

Hi, I’m stupid.

Next week I’m going to New England to talk about my upcoming new book at a conference just for indie booksellers (yay!) and I was talking to Elizabeth (the lovely person who runs Nowhere Book…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’m super excited and lightly terrified to announce this: thebloggess.com/2025/08/20/h...

HOW TO BE OKAY WHEN NOTHING IS OKAY

Y’all. This should be a fancy-ass, glossy post where I breezily tell you about something I’m so excited about and I should be wearing a suit while talking to a news anchor as I toss my …

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Thank you!

First off, a giant thank you to everyone who loves us because Nowhere Bookshop was named the Reader’s Choice Best Independent Bookshop in San Antonio in the San Antonio Current. WHOOP. Second…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Aug 7

Am I doing birds wrong? thebloggess.com/2025/08/07/i...

I think I’m doing birds wrong

I have always been lightly obsessed with birds, and it’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older, which I can only assume is another sign of perimenopause that no one warned me about. (Seriou…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Jul 28

They’re no longer making my antidepressants and I’m trying not to panic. thebloggess.com/2025/07/28/m...

My antidepressant just got discontinued and I need someone to tell me it’s going to be okay.

This is less of a post and more of a rant that I just need to scream into the void, so feel free to ignore because I don’t think there’s a good solution here and I’m sure I’…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Jul 23

A lovely little update: thebloggess.com/2025/07/22/a...

A SERIES OF THINGS

A tiny list of things: Last week my doctor did 25 stomach biopsies on me AND DIDN’T FIND ANY ADDITIONAL CANCER. CAN I GET A “HELL YEAH”? Hailey is feeling a little better each day…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Jul 16

What I’m reading in July: thebloggess.com/2025/07/16/u...

Utterly bewitched by books

I’m a bit late with this because everything has been a bit upside down, but things are finally starting to feel a little bit better and so I am back to tell you about my favorite new July boo…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Wait…is this going to work?

I have not been ignoring you but my blog has been broken and giving error messages every time I try to write, but I think maybe it’s fixed? I guess we’ll see if this goes through. I&#82…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Jun 16

Secret rooms, spam and bear costumes. thebloggess.com/2025/06/16/s...

secret rooms, spam and bear costumes.

A few quick mysteries: In case you missed it, we found a secret room (half room?) in our new house and I still don’t know what it is or what to do with it. several people suggested I use it for sto…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Jun 9

Y’all I HAVE GOOD CANCER NEWS thebloggess.com/2025/06/09/i...

I’ve never been so happy to be labeled as”GROSSLY NORMAL AND UNREMARKABLE.”

So. I’ve been busy with PET scans and CAT scans and tests and moving houses and stressing out about cancer and this all culminated into one of those panic attacks where my chest hurt so much …

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Jun 7

SAN ANTONIO! Go vote for Gina Ortiz for mayor today! Keep San Antonio blue.

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · May 15

This is not great news but I’m going to be okay: thebloggess.com/2025/05/15/t...

This post might be upsetting if you love me but just know that I’m going to be okay and if you want to skip it and come back another time that’s totally fine.

Woof. So, you may have noticed that I’ve been a bit MIA recently and that’s because I got some shitty news and I didn’t want to share until I had more information because I know y…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Apr 24

I didn’t rip anyone’s arms off! thebloggess.com/2025/04/24/b...

Bad songs for surgery

Yesterday I was at the hospital getting an endoscopy and biopsies for yet another terrible autoimmune thing that I don’t even remember the name of because my body has decided I have to have a…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Things that probably won’t sell on facebook marketplace because no one is as weird as I am.

My friend Xan sent me some giant easter bunny for Bone Crawford and I love them but… Bone Crawford is no more. Or, actually she still exists but I had to take her down because we’re sel…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Apr 8

This literally made me cry, but in a good way : thebloggess.com/2025/04/08/a...

A happy cry

Y’all. I’ve been a bit of a wreck lately and part of that is another bout of pernicious anemia (which absolutely sounds like a Lemony Snicket disease) and also some other autoimmune dis…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Apr 7

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My work is not always pretty, but it’s always honest

If you’re subscribed to my art substack you get an email from me every Monday with a doodle I’ve drawn and a few words of what I’m thinking. It’s a bit more earnest than wha…

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Having a human body is bullshit

So I’ve written before about the fact that I have vasovagal syncope (although I’m not sure I’ve ever used the technical term for it) but it’s basically where I pass out if m…

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Mar 27

ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues

According to ICE records, Iranian national Alireza Doroudi is currently being held in a "detention facility" after he was recently detained.

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The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social · Mar 27

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The messages I write to myself are terrifying.

Every few months I go into my notes app on my phone to look at all of the reminders that I’ve written to myself that I have forgotten to do and inevitably there will be several notes that are…

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