Sweet Stumpy is getting a lot of attention these days! People have asked how they can make a difference. Inspired by Stumpy? As a The National Mall Cherry Tree Ambassador, I’m sharing how you can help ensure his resilience and legacy carry on…go to bloomcam.org

That’s a wrap on #Stumpymania after three weeks of frantic news coverage best reserved for, say, people walking on the moon. Thanks to my pal Faith Salie, who perfectly captured the story for CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 today. Watch it here:

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stumpy prevails 🌸

🌸🌸🌸 Honored to have “CBS Sunday Morning” and NPR’s “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” Faith Salie serve as Cherry Tree Ambassador…don’t miss her story today on Stumpy(!!)

Go to bloomcam.org to protect the future of the cherry blossoms 🌸🌸🌸

Thank you, Madame Ambassador!

Ahem, don’t you mean Cherry Tree AMBASSADOR Faith Salie?
So delighted to share Stumpy’s beautiful, inspiring story.

🌸🌸🌸 CBS Sunday Morning and Faith Salie shine a light on Stumpy. You can go to BLOOMCAM.ORG to learn how to help protect the cherry blossoms for the next generation, including future trees genetically matched to Stumpy. 🌳🌳🌳

As an official 2024 Cherry Tree Ambassador, I am honored to bring you this story tomorrow morning of a runty spunky tree called Stumpy.

This symbol of springtime & international diplomacy marks over a century on the Tidal Basin, the cherry trees need our help now more than ever

Have you liked seeing our cherry blossom pictures? Photos taken by a federal employee on duty are in the Public Domain and free to save, share & print. So, scroll down, help yourself to our images, and enjoy the National Mall anytime you want.🌸📸🌸
#Photography #CherryBlossom

I had an amazing time doing the Wait Wait Standup Tour tonight in Charlottesville.
This pic pretty much says it all.

Today seems like a good day to post a photo of me with Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 and Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦
One of the greatest gifts of what I do is getting to spend time with great humans, like them, who inspire me.

So proud to be a Cherry Tree Ambassador for the National Mall!

Easter, 1978. In Atlanta, with dogwoods and azaleas all around us in our yard. We headed to Mass at All Saints right after this was taken.

On Easter 2019, I took my Jewish kids to Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta to hear Reverend Raphael Warnock preach, & we praised the Lord in community.

My son lost his front tooth there, in the pew where MLK’s sister, Christine King Farris, used to sit.

It was a beautiful morning.

Every parent, hell, every GenZer needs to read this as soon as possible. At risk of sounding pretentious, this book is both important and timely. Human beings have always grown to maturity through “play-based childhoods.“ We’ve now switched over to “iPhone-Tik-Tok-based…

I am looking forward to the family discussions about the upcoming 4th grade Growth & Development lessons. I am eager to hear my 11 yr old son and 9 yr old daughter converse through squeals of delight-and-horror while alternately covering their ears to make it go away.

tell me you've never read the Yellow Wallpaper without telling me you've never read the Yellow Wallpaper...

Yesterday in an elevator, I ran into a finance professor—I explained to him I once was an economics major, but became an English major

With horror he asked “Why would you switch from Economics to English?”

Y’all. I’d waited MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THAT QUESTION FROM A FINANCE PROF

That’s me, 26 years ago. 🖖🫶

Here’s my CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 interview with Stanley Forman about his other Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, Soiling of Old Glory

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For all you starry-eyed kids out there watching the Oscars, I just opened my mail and got my latest residual check.

For one cent.

Never give up on that dream.