Spring at Goodwin Point Pond - Penacook, NH.

Drury Lane, London street named for Sir Robert Drury who built a mansion on the lane in 1500. In Dickens' time Drury Lane was a slum known for prostitution and gin palaces.

Meanwhile, at the White House…

In a time when trust in American institutions is at an all-time low, this story adds even more gasoline to the fire.

Such an honor to receive this honorary doctorate in Letters last night in Marseille from ⁦Aix-Marseille Université⁩ !

.Mike Pride is one of the few people in the world who could turn the most banal fire drill into a master class on postwar presidential politics. Stay strong, old friend.

Scott Calvert Yuri Pride Chad Finn Dave Cummings Ray Duckler Ben Schmitt Jo Becker Kent Fischer m.l. elrick Todd Archer Jim McBride @SDuncovered Dana Wormald Annmarie Timmins Alec MacGillis Michele McDonald Jonathan Van Fleet Mike Pride Trash harvest! President Bob Smith! Holy cow, nearly forgot about those. Amazing.

Felice Belman Yuri Pride Chad Finn Dave Cummings Ray Duckler Ben Schmitt Jo Becker Kent Fischer m.l. elrick Todd Archer Jim McBride @SDuncovered Dana Wormald Annmarie Timmins Alec MacGillis Michele McDonald Jonathan Van Fleet Mike Pride AJ Wolfe and I shadowed the good senator on the campaign trail in Louisiana. What a blast.

Scott Calvert Yuri Pride Chad Finn Dave Cummings Ray Duckler Ben Schmitt Jo Becker Kent Fischer m.l. elrick Todd Archer Jim McBride Felice Belman @SDuncovered Dana Wormald Annmarie Timmins Alec MacGillis Michele McDonald Jonathan Van Fleet Mike Pride Let's not forget the Douglas Family saga (although maybe that was the trash harvest)

We should all care about this, whether we live in Idaho or not. Idaho spends less on schools per student than any other state. Kids are sweating, freezing and struggling to learn. propublica.org/article/idaho-… Becca Savransky

The XFL has succeeded in its effort to turn football into chess.

Thanks, my Twitter pal.

To leave the daffodils in the garden, where they cheer me up whenever I catch sight of them out my window or to put them in a vase to spread joy inside? Decisions, decisions.

The way I want to see again. Making progress.

“There’s nothing romantic whatever in knowing that an hour from now you may be dead,” Ernie Pyle, who died on this day in 1945 indianahistory.org/blog/the-last-…

I keep reading this.

I prefer belts

Mike Pride You’re onto something here, Mike. Maybe the only thing. Making progress myself.