eep that sounds like a lot!

yeah the drive home from therapy used to be at some points the best and most useful part of therapy for me…

(it is about software whose error messages are written like: "oopsie, your request couldn't be completed right now 🐶")

sometimes we still try to kinda encourage our kids to mask at school in the really high sickness periods, but they aren’t too interested 🤷🏼‍♀️

yes!

it appears to be the case that it isn’t very settled in trans medicine when one would want to start getting this screening, as my medical providers haven’t agreed with each other about it. but i also have some family history of breast cancer so probably it’s prudent anyway.

are you me, this sounds exactly like me.

that's beautiful — it also kind of looks like you would have to have been floating on a canoe or iceberg in the middle of the creek to take this.

I’d love to see the whole reading list!

yeah…

also, our random Atlanta-area law firm assumed that we were a straight couple as well as practicing Christians 🤦‍♀️

dad is quietly whispering “hush…”

to demand that the other see what you are seeing and love it just as much as you do.

i really love that last demand to keep looking, like you’re just old enough to try to command the gaze of the other and then to implore it not to get distracted.

tbh the internet is pretty great for connecting communities of readers!

i feel this at my book club sometimes too — people don't always know what to say about books, even if they really loved the experience of reading them.

if you asked my local community the question from the OP — "what are you reading?" — they would definitely have answers, but then afterwards…

i just asked our neighbor what she thought of Miranda July's All Fours, and she was like, "it was good, but i didn't identify too much with it." and i remember thinking: there's so much more we could say about this book, but it feels like we have no habits for deeply talking about what we read.