KIMBERLY (🚫KIM) HARRINGTON
@kimberlyharrington.bsky.social
Writer: HONEY STAY SUPER on Substack, work in MOTHER TONGUE, NYT, McSweeney's, New Yorker. Author: AMATEUR HOUR (motherhood), BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY (divorce). Also: Creative Director. Lover. Malcontent.
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A new COLD TAKE, digging into something I think about all the time. And when I say “all the time” I mean this has been in my head for YEARS. Also: If you worked at Cookie or were a subscriber, I’d love to hear from you. Thoughts? Dream? Visions?
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COLD TAKE: Was Cookie motherhood media's transitional object?
Part 1: The right place at the right time for this mother, the wrong place at the wrong time for that magazine
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October 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A new COLD TAKE, digging into something I think about all the time. And when I say “all the time” I mean this has been in my head for YEARS. Also: If you worked at Cookie or were a subscriber, I’d love to hear from you. Thoughts? Dream? Visions?
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✨57✨ A meditation on a loser year and how the 3-3-3 rule of dog adoption applies to human life YES REALLY
✨57✨
A meditation on a loser year and the 3-3-3-3 rule
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November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
✨57✨ A meditation on a loser year and how the 3-3-3 rule of dog adoption applies to human life YES REALLY
A new COLD TAKE, digging into something I think about all the time. And when I say “all the time” I mean this has been in my head for YEARS. Also: If you worked at Cookie or were a subscriber, I’d love to hear from you. Thoughts? Dream? Visions?
open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...
open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...
COLD TAKE: Was Cookie motherhood media's transitional object?
Part 1: The right place at the right time for this mother, the wrong place at the wrong time for that magazine
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A new COLD TAKE, digging into something I think about all the time. And when I say “all the time” I mean this has been in my head for YEARS. Also: If you worked at Cookie or were a subscriber, I’d love to hear from you. Thoughts? Dream? Visions?
open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...
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"when’s the last time you wrote while sitting at your rickety little desk while wearing two sweaters and mused, this is undoubtedly setting me on a path toward a bright and lucrative future?" old (but still relevant!) piece by @kimberlyharrington.bsky.social
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If You Love to Write Just Wait Until You Try Not Writing
Do you love to write? Is writing what makes you feel alive? Are you sure?
Let me ask you something: When’s the last time you wrote and thought, Tha...
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August 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"when’s the last time you wrote while sitting at your rickety little desk while wearing two sweaters and mused, this is undoubtedly setting me on a path toward a bright and lucrative future?" old (but still relevant!) piece by @kimberlyharrington.bsky.social
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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...
I wrote about adopting a second dog four hours after my youngest kid left for college and how maybe—just maybe—chaos is a feature in my life and not a bug.
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There are four dogs inside you
Three have anxiety and one is built for chaos
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September 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I wrote about adopting a second dog four hours after my youngest kid left for college and how maybe—just maybe—chaos is a feature in my life and not a bug.
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What a trailer. Looking forward to this (but also not looking forward to this, if you know what I mean).
As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.
Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.
Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.
Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
What a trailer. Looking forward to this (but also not looking forward to this, if you know what I mean).
I wrote about what happens, and how it feels, when the kids I wrote a whole book about leave home. And how it’s (almost) time for me to leave what used to be home, too.
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AMATEUR HOUR grows up
When the kids you wrote about leave home and soon you will too
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September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I wrote about what happens, and how it feels, when the kids I wrote a whole book about leave home. And how it’s (almost) time for me to leave what used to be home, too.
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‘Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.’
Happy 85th to Annie Ernaux. Born Sept 1, 1940 in Lillebonne, France.
Happy 85th to Annie Ernaux. Born Sept 1, 1940 in Lillebonne, France.
September 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
‘Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.’
Happy 85th to Annie Ernaux. Born Sept 1, 1940 in Lillebonne, France.
Happy 85th to Annie Ernaux. Born Sept 1, 1940 in Lillebonne, France.
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"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
Am I the only one who is following the Elizabeth Gilbert discourse and the thing I'm most astonished by is how much money she made from writing
September 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Am I the only one who is following the Elizabeth Gilbert discourse and the thing I'm most astonished by is how much money she made from writing
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Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon
July 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon
I’m starting a new series as I read—and purge—my way through my bookshelves in advance of my move to Portland, OR. Old books, new books, books I last read 30 years ago, you name it. Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Hell no, it’s F*CK MARRY KILL: BOOKS EDITION!
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BOOKS: F*ck, marry, kill
No end-of-year round-ups for me in 2025, let's keep it rollin'
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July 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’m starting a new series as I read—and purge—my way through my bookshelves in advance of my move to Portland, OR. Old books, new books, books I last read 30 years ago, you name it. Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Hell no, it’s F*CK MARRY KILL: BOOKS EDITION!
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I'm sitting in a coffee shop near my son's college and listening to the two baristas, both young women, talk about how much they love being single and one just exclaimed "I LOVE CATS" so yeah so far this is the only part of the future I dreamed of that seems to be working out.
May 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm sitting in a coffee shop near my son's college and listening to the two baristas, both young women, talk about how much they love being single and one just exclaimed "I LOVE CATS" so yeah so far this is the only part of the future I dreamed of that seems to be working out.
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Women: Please read! Married, considering marriage, hoping for marriage one day -- it's relevant to all
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When You're the One Paying Alimony - Hello Gloria
By Kimberly Harrington
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April 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Women: Please read! Married, considering marriage, hoping for marriage one day -- it's relevant to all
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Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Please send an email to your representative to stop his attack on the Library of Congress. action.everylibrary.org/emailhayden via @everylibrary.bsky.social
SEND AN EMAIL: Tell Congress to Reinstate the Librarian of Congress!
President Trump has crossed another dangerous line by abruptly firing Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress.
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May 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Please send an email to your representative to stop his attack on the Library of Congress. action.everylibrary.org/emailhayden via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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I would love to hear the editorial rationale for the term "declined to rule out seeking" language that I've seen at least three major news orgs use with respect to this story. How do you not cast this as "Trump threatens to illegally retain power?" bsky.app/profile/wash...
President Donald Trump on Sunday declined to rule out seeking a third presidential term — an unconstitutional act explicitly barred under the 22nd Amendment — saying that “there are methods which you could do it.”
Trump suggests ‘methods’ exist for bid for unconstitutional third term
President Donald Trump again raised the idea of running for a third term in office, an unconstitutional idea that would run afoul of the 22nd Amendment.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I would love to hear the editorial rationale for the term "declined to rule out seeking" language that I've seen at least three major news orgs use with respect to this story. How do you not cast this as "Trump threatens to illegally retain power?" bsky.app/profile/wash...
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"I keep a running top ten list of your best zingers. I have it saved as a Google doc. And, yes, the one about how Beth is 'projecting like an IMAX' is on there. It’s #4."
Things I Wish My Therapist Would Say to Me But She Never Does
“So here is what your problem is…” “I’m not supposed to say this but you’re my favorite patient.” “In fact, I wish we could be friends. Unfortunate...
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March 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"I keep a running top ten list of your best zingers. I have it saved as a Google doc. And, yes, the one about how Beth is 'projecting like an IMAX' is on there. It’s #4."
Some (tiny) news and a bigger conversation about using one's work as a lever of action.
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I quit (my tiny assignment at) The Washington Post
Making work and life choices at the end of the world
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March 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Some (tiny) news and a bigger conversation about using one's work as a lever of action.
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The fact that Severance has become my once a week "pick me up" sure is saying something alright
February 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The fact that Severance has become my once a week "pick me up" sure is saying something alright
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Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall
Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.
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February 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Thought about the future.
Thought about if there will be a future.
Thought about how much everyone I know hates work, including me, and wondering what the point of anything is right now especially.
Speaking of work, posted on LinkedIn. Hated myself a little.
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Thought about if there will be a future.
Thought about how much everyone I know hates work, including me, and wondering what the point of anything is right now especially.
Speaking of work, posted on LinkedIn. Hated myself a little.
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Everything I've done instead of my taxes
A tribute to annual capital-P procrastination
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February 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thought about the future.
Thought about if there will be a future.
Thought about how much everyone I know hates work, including me, and wondering what the point of anything is right now especially.
Speaking of work, posted on LinkedIn. Hated myself a little.
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Thought about if there will be a future.
Thought about how much everyone I know hates work, including me, and wondering what the point of anything is right now especially.
Speaking of work, posted on LinkedIn. Hated myself a little.
open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...
Imagine being a billionaire, able to buy anything you want except for a personality and the ability to do normal things with your arms
February 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Imagine being a billionaire, able to buy anything you want except for a personality and the ability to do normal things with your arms
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[getting the shit kicked out of me] this is illegal actually!
February 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
[getting the shit kicked out of me] this is illegal actually!
If you’re curious about where I’m at re: my feelings about winter, I had plans to go out of town for the weekend but they were canceled last minute. I still dropped my dog off at the kennel Fri morning so I wouldn’t have to go back outside until Monday.
February 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you’re curious about where I’m at re: my feelings about winter, I had plans to go out of town for the weekend but they were canceled last minute. I still dropped my dog off at the kennel Fri morning so I wouldn’t have to go back outside until Monday.