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Documentary reviews, body neutrality, parenting, Jupiter, piano, cats, European history, ghosts, rodents, the collapse of civilization, and if this goes on long enough I'll probably end up cataloguing my entire smushed penny collection.

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  • Lines I Like

    I am currently reading George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley and am very much enjoying it. Ms. Ridley notes that within George’s childhood household it was normal to refer to people and places as “dear little” or “poor little.” She quotes Marie, Queen of Romania, who wrote that this practice made it…

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  • The Grammys 2023

    I don’t usually watch the Grammys but my girl Brandi Carlile was up for a couple big awards this year and my other favorite, Kacey Musgraves, was scheduled to perform so I grudgingly stayed up past my 9:30 PM bedtime with the rest of the nation so as to enjoy the outfits, the performances, the…

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  • Weird Things My Husband Says

    “Reading logs are fun!” I think that nothing makes reading less than fun than having to track and log the amount of time you spent reading every day. Can we, parents and teachers, all just agree that it’s time to kill the reading log?

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