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Barthanie Flatt
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I like to sleep late and party like Laverne and Shirley.
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Rosie, 12, carved Lucille Bluth’s winking eye alcohol suggestion face into her pumpkin for Halloween.
A pale pumpkin with one triangular eye, one narrow, rectangular eye, and a circle for a mouth. Lucille Bluth winking at a prescription medicine bottle.
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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My baby turns fifteen today. You can guess which region of the US she was born in based on my hospital meal.
A dinner plate of fried chicken, mac and cheese, and greens.
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I was skeptical about the return of cargo pants, but my teen is hauling books around so I’m on board.
A pair of green cargo pants with two enormous books stuffed in the pockets.
October 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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We went camping in the desert. It is a magical place.
The milky way rises above a group of red-orange rocks with a prominent arch, illuminated by the moon. The Milky Way rises above a tent between two low trees and a towering rock. A giant rainbow watches across a cloudy sky over a tent pitched in front of low trees and bushes. The sun’s golden yellow rays break through low, grey clouds behind shadowed rock formations.
October 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Night time skies >>>>>>
The bright moon peeks through the lower branches of silhouetted, towering conifers, illuminating wispy clouds and fading through navy blue to black skies littered with stars. The Milky Way ringed by the shadows of fir trees.
September 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Found the worst people in Wheaton, IL and trust me, the competition is *fierce.* The restaurant is called Moveable Feast. I hope they get everything they dreamed of (dysentery).
A restaurant window has a poster that reads “Make America Healthy Again” alongside another sign that says “Jesus is king.”
June 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The east bay was east baying today.
Yellow-green grass slopes down an open hillside with darker green trees leading up to and lining a low ridge in the distance, all under a deep blue sky.
May 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Wednesday trail run. I prefer winter running, but this’ll do.
A rocky dirt trail leads the eye higher through a series of hills covered in scrubby bushes under a brilliant blue sky. Yellow flowers blooming on low bushes line a dirt trail that leads into a switchback. In the distance, low clouds cover green hills. Small trees and bushes give way to lower greenish brown hills that meet the blue sky in a line of white on the horizon. A snake (probably a gopher snake) stretches halfway across a dirt trail.
May 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Thursdays are for long runs where I play peek-a-boo with Mt Diablo around the rolling green hills.
Golden fiddleneck flowers in the foreground among tall green grass. Rolling green hills dotted with oaks in the middle ground. Mount Diablo rising in the background under a brilliant blue sky streaked with white clouds.
April 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Thursdays are also for long trail runs. Bonus: snow in the Bay Area.
Green grass and shrubs line a dirt and rock trail along a ridge that disappears as it climbs into the clouds. Small yellow flowers in the foreground of a grassy, slanted hill side with fog in the background. Sparse snow dusts the trees that form an arch over a rocky dirt trail, lined with the same snow. Above, thick white and gray clouds part to reveal a patch of striking blue sky. Below, bright green hills fold over each other.
March 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Wednesdays are for long trail runs.
Rolling green hills dotted with scrubby oaks in the foreground lead to a reservoir in the background. The sky is full of clouds, alternatingly dense and wispy, ranging from dark blue-gray to bright white.
March 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Couldn’t sleep last night, so I combed census records until I found my grandma’s sister. I only knew she had a sister because of a random photo shoved in a closet. Her name was Anna, born in 1915 to my great grandmother who was 40 at the time.
A sepia-toned photo features a baby with Down Syndrome wearing a white gown and tiny little shoesies sits in a white chair. She has dark hair and round, kissable cheeks. A sepia-toned phot of two girls in white dresses sitting on a bench. The older girl has Down Syndrome and wears a white bow in her hair. The younger girl looks directly at the camera.
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Iraqi Minister of information, 2003, aka Baghdad Bob,
February 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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My daughter interrupted her history lesson on Reconstruction to read The Onion. Two complimentary US history resources.
A child’s head overlooks two history books partially covered by The Onion newspaper, next to a bowl of apples and a pen.
January 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A dark Prius with a California vanity plate that says “I heart INXS.”
January 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Another weekend ski rental treasure. Just look at that cover.
A book entitled “From-The-Woods Cooking: 300 succulent ways to prepare wild game, fish, and plants” by Bradford Angier. On the cover is a drawing of a man in a red and black checked shirt, carving a ham (maybe?!) on a red and white checked tablecloth surrounded by various serving dishes. In the background, a snow-capped mountain looms over a pristine lake.
January 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Did not think it was a hat.
A Ravensburger game entitled “That’s Not a Hat.” The picture on the front is a lava lamp that looks an awful lot like a butt plug.
December 19, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Got a ski condo for the weekend with physical media and there are some *relics* of a bygone era.
A bookshelf holds an array of CDs and DVDs. Zoom in on one CD entitled “American Express presents Hansel’s Water Music.” Close up of the CD cover reads “Cruise in the style of King George I, enjoying sumptuous dinners, vintage wines and fine music. And for added pleasure, here’s a $100 Travelers Cheque.”
December 14, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Inside San Francisco are two wolves.
A San Francisco hillside. On the left is a large yellow billboard advertising AI (“Think it. Make it.”). On the right are freestanding letter sparkling in the sun that day “DREAM.”
November 29, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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“… pathological rummaging through the cupboard of Western fixations, seeking objects of blame…”

Shout out to @swordsjew.bsky.social. If I must read about a topic that makes me want to walk into the sea, at least the writing is beautiful. Buy her book, Wild Faith, friends.
The book Wild Faith by Talia Lavin rests on a white table next to a latte with a foam heart.
November 9, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Ha! I went to Carnegie Mellon. Had to snap this when I took my kids to Sleepy Hollow. RIP Bozo.
A woman posing in front of Andrew Carnegie’s grave with a big grin on her face.
November 5, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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One quart of stock per child, please.
A large metal bowl full of mason jars of home canned stock in front of an array of Jack-o-lanterns on a front stoop.
November 1, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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The internet was a mistake.
A plastic bag containing a Halloween costume of a pink jumpsuit and white cowboy hat. The Halloween costume is labeled “Hawk Tuah Jumpsuit.”
October 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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We’ve been backpacking with the kids since they were toddlers, and they’re just starting to appreciate it. lol jk they still whine about it.
The Milky Way splashed across a dark night sky, ringed by the silhouettes of towering conifers.
October 7, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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Spent all last week camping in Olympic NP. I’m ready to move to Washington and become the Log Lady.
Fluffy white clouds nestle between fir-lined mountain peaks behind a rushing, milky blue stream.
September 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM