This is the text I just received after asking my best friend ( pulmonary and critical care doctor) how she was doing. #WearAMask #SocialDistance

ON ONE HAND IF A NEW NOTEBOOK WAS GOING TO FIX ME I WOULD KNOW BY NOW BUT ON THE OTHER HAND I HAVE NOT TRIED SPECIFICALLY THIS NOTEBOOK YET

I’m fascinated by our compulsion to keep asking one another “how are you?” even as we all wince while doing it, even as we know the answer, at best, will be a well-varnished version of “Not great, Bob!”

“White women with humanities degrees...” 🤣 themuse.jezebel.com/white-women-wi…

This is just to say I'm 43 and just learned that I've had my first poem accepted for publication. Dreams come true. Even dreams you were afraid to admit you had.

I would like to thank this review for helping me save two hours of my life! Bananas.

Soul, the movie. V good.

If only there was a shorter phrase to describe someone who dies in the bomb blast they are responsible for.

Hi, folks! We’ve held this in as long as we can. OKD Press is going to be open for flash fiction manuscript submissions from Jan. 16th to Jan 31st, 2021. We’re looking for debut collections around 150-200 pages and with stories under 2,000 words. More info. up on the site soon!

Today in Comics History: A brilliant chapter in cartooning came to a close 25 years ago, on December 31, 1995, when the final “Calvin and Hobbes” ran.

I’m proud of you for making it through. Good work.

Made cornbread, greens, black-eyed peas. I HAVE DONE MY PART, 2021.

Tips from an ICU nurse to treat (mild) COVID at home: a thread.

When Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet from Los Angeles, took to the stage, it was immediately clear why President Biden had chosen her as his inaugural poet. Watch her reading of "The Hill We Climb": trib.al/00BLGpz

Amanda Gorman quoting Hamilton/Washington is the only thing I think about.

"I wanted the dullest, most mindless job possible. I wanted all the stress to vanish. Maybe, if I had the freedom to think about nothing, I could write again." Quinn Forlini on trading her dream of teaching creative writing for a writing life of her own: bit.ly/3kqjttG

This is it. This is the notebook that will help me get my life together.