washingtonpost.com/health/ticks-b… The "Worst Friend of the Year Award" (though it's only half over) goes to...me. Who didn't think to interrupt my Twitter sabbatical to highlight this piece by the probing Abby Alten Schwartz Abby Alten Schwartz . It's service journalism meets a compelling story.

i know how this story by my friend Abby Alten Schwartz turns out. and i still get the sweats every time i hit the third paragraph and get taken on this ride.

i don’t know how many questions i’ve asked Nikki Campo about everything under the sun. i don’t know why i’ve never asked her how she makes me feel like i know everybody, in everything she writes.

news flash: LaVonne Roberts felt the pandemic’s effects as well and has become even better and more prolific every day too.

My friend LaVonne Roberts in the The Washington Post about clothing waste…the energy spent making them…and their environmental disposal. The average family does not wear 80 PERCENT of their clothes. How to combat Big Clothing’s influence…at the click: washingtonpost.com/parenting/2022…

There needs to be a Pulitzer-adjacent committee with categories like, “Best Writing about Son” or “Best Writing about Spouse,” etc. If this shall occur, my friend Abby Alten Schwartz Abby Alten Schwartz just won “Best Writing about Father.” And they can skip the other submissions.

If Abby Alten Schwartz Abby Alten Schwartz isn’t the most compassionate person…and her daughter Sammie isn’t the sweetest…then I don’t know what those words mean. (Which would actually be pretty embarrassing if true.) huffpost.com/entry/daughter…

3 presidents. Radio City Music Hall. Lots of traffic changes. Here's what you need to know before you get going today: 4.nbcny.com/Agjn5QB