From a long time ago, but an old favorite

Cannot work under these conditions

I spent this mother’s day finishing this book, which I picked up in part because my mother died of cancer and is part of the talc class action, but I probably noticed it on the shelf because the iconic logo reminded me of my mother combing my hair with no more tangles no more tears when I was little

Grief is strange and slippery. Wednesday would have been my mother’s birthday. I’m missing her and also knowing how much of her anger was a kind of faith in the potential of the world to improve. This is one of those years when to find any faith in the rage I have to remember who raised me.

The average American has three friends

If you’re going to carve something into stone, wise to make sure it’s a message of lasting truth capable of standing the test of
time.

Me wanting to shake my head and say “Damn shame what Americans have done to their country” and then remembering that I am also Americans.

Trying to blend in at the Baltimore Eagles bar but I wore the wrong bird.

Right out of law school my mother joined the Justice Department honors program in the civil rights division. 26 and pregnant with me she was back and forth between DC and a Parish in Louisiana where the high schools were de facto segregated and the school serving the parish’s Black students had

Yeah but could an AI reconstruct a lecture from these notes?

I tried to tell my cat that his asthma inhaler only works if I sing Space Oddity while he uses it but he says I am lying and trying to take advantage of the fact that he can’t read.