Behind every man there is a line of people waiting for him to move so they can read the museum plaque too.

Jimmy's doing his best to teach me what it's going to be like when the baby gets here. Tonight's dinner was substantially delayed because I couldn't extract myself from under his (extremely cute) nap.

Love my coworkers, truly.

Rural? How to say you've never been to Framingham without saying you've never been to Framingham.

In awe of this article offering a read on Jane Eyre as autistic. ncgsjournal.com/issue42/rodas.… As if I needed an excuse to reread it!

If you give your files unique and descriptive names, it will be easy to find them later.

It bears repeating: the problem with all these stories about how some random employee didn't know that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens is that it frames the issue in terms of some individuals' ignorance. No: the problem is the U.S. invaded a nation and has kept it for 125 years.

New unit of currency: months of daycare. As in "new cabinets would cost slightly more than a month of daycare, so I guess they're not that expensive."

My first Barbie was Miko.

I have to talk about "leadership when you don't want to lead" in a couple weeks and this is basically my argument.

it's the double feature event of the summer

hey now

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Come celebrate Josh tonight in Cambridge!

Bookseller says yes, please.

The thing about taking a childbirth class based in Minnesota is that when the instructor mentions medical tape, she points out that it's a 3M product.

Instead of watching the GOP debate I am reading and overthinking about labor and delivery.

Which is greater

Here is your annual reminder that Stella Liebeck's 1994 lawsuit against McDonalds for the temperature of their hot coffee was because her injuries were so severe that she needed skin grafts. She suffered third-degree burns on 6% of her skin and lesser burns over 16%.

Always a Massachusetts angle. In this case, the origin of the weekend. You’re welcome.