Listened to a radio show this morning about baby seals. It was very confusing. Things cleared up when I realized it was, in fact, a story about navy seals, not baby seals. #cnftweet

A VALID QUESTION Driving to the grocery store with my twelve-year-old daughter, the radio on:
 “I don’t get it. If he has all these emotions about leaving and he hates to go, why does he keep getting on the dumb jet plane?” #cnftweet

I have a tiny poem up over at at HELD Magazine heldmagazine.com/issue-generati…

Following the news these days feels a bit like Dumpster-diving and, in the midst of rusty needles, hoping to find a nutritious lunch in our neighbors’ trash.

"Cherish these sweet times, they’ll be over before you know it." I accepted their comments politely, not disclosing that the reason I dressed my daughters in dresses and rubber boots was because those were the easiest things to slip on. motherwellmag.com/2021/09/23/the…

"This was a particularly hard number for me, and in the back of my mind, I knew it was because the late Nora Ephron, in her book about aging as a woman..." -from "On Turning Forty-Four," this week's Beautiful Things essay. Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/blog/2022/05/0…

"This is a terrible thing to admit – just awful—but my favourite books are ones I stole from the library." Kim June Johnson gives us five book recommendations and tells us why her "book stealing days are over" in her new online exclusive! tnq.ca/whats-kim-june… #amreading