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@gwyndolyn.bsky.social
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Engineer, Bon Viveur, Handy-person, Optimist, Parent and Renaissance Woman of the modern age.

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"Dave Made A Maze" (2017)
A living room with an elaborate blanket fort. Fabric tunnels, blankets, armchairs (for kids and adults) have all been absorbed into the labyrinth.
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Normalize telling your friends you love them.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The mom triathlon: splashing and swimming practice at the pool, bike home, chase a small person around the house trying to get them to go to bed.
June 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
For Mom's day, my spouse made me PURPLE HASHED BROWNS. What a special treat.
A clump of delicious hashed browns made from purple potatoes sitting on a white paper towel.
May 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Gotta love spending $2 for stitch witchery to repair my expensive "performance" fancy hoodie (bought on clearance 10yrs ago). Also, I'll miss JoAnn fabrics when it's gone.
April 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Spouse: it's Ash Wednesday and we ate vegetarian sloppy joes for dinner. That means we were eating 'Lent-ils'
March 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My music service has been really excited to introduce me to "The Barber of Seville" and has been suggesting it hard. Uh thanks, but I asked my parents for a CD recording when I was in HS. I'm familiar already. (I'm also the nerd who listened to opera in HS)
February 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Parenting is buying new kid shoes because the 2YO keeps throwing his shoes in the trash when nobody is looking. ("Small things go in big things")
October 23, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Today's accomplishment: bike with the kids in full rain gear. Bonus: another parent at daycare admiring my kids in their rain gear.
September 24, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Seems about right I guess?
Blue sky user number 156,458.
September 17, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Things I'm going to have to explain to the new toddler teacher: if my kid is mad at you, he will roar at you like a dinosaur/lion and/or pretend Spider-Man web sling at you. These are his toddler swear words.
August 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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NOTHING BUT RESPECT FOR MY CAPTAIN AMERICA
Simone Biles biting a gold medal
August 1, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Your periodic view into the meat and cheese plates for the carnivores in my household.
A dark countertop with three different cheese and charcuterie plates. On the far left are four small bowls of grapes. The back of the counter area has other kitchen appliances.
April 6, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Employer: It's Intl Women's day- here's some snacks and a cut flower.
Me: thanks! how about pay parity or equal boardroom representation.
Capitalism: ...
March 8, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Getting better at decorating cakes. The request was "vanilla cake with rainbow sprinkles on top"
A top view of a white round cake with bright colored sprinkles on top. It looks pretty good for homemade. A side view of a white round cake with bright colored sprinkles on top. It looks pretty good for homemade.
January 15, 2024 at 1:48 AM
I'm accepting predictions on whether my children will eat anything besides dinner rolls for dinner.
A cookie sheet with two dozen homemade dinner rolls.
January 4, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Watchmen (2009)
A white plate with smiley face potato puffs. One has a squirt of ketchup on it, suggestive of the opening to Watchmen. There is a bowl of more puffs in the top right.
December 29, 2023 at 5:40 PM
The catering company at work has done a terrific job of selling the "hot cocoa station" package. It's everywhere.
December 12, 2023 at 5:45 PM
I know everyone talks about how much they hate being in the office, but what about when your coworkers bring in "extra" cookies because they got carried away while baking?
December 11, 2023 at 2:43 PM
I made buttermilk biscuits for dinner. I ate too many of them. I have no regrets.
December 2, 2023 at 1:20 AM
"in-silico" has to be the most pretentious way possible to say "computer". #work
November 29, 2023 at 3:07 PM
While most people think dinosaurs went extinct, another way to think about it is that they evolved into cookies. #dinofacts
A cookie sheet with delicious looking gingerbread dinosaurs.
November 9, 2023 at 3:27 AM
Happy Diwali! (or how long can I keep my kids from picking at my henna?)
November 9, 2023 at 12:27 AM
I'm taking it as a compliment of my "mom-energy," that random kids will come to me to be picked up while I'm at the playground.
October 28, 2023 at 9:31 PM
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The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866

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Illustration of two women, one in masculine and one in feminine attire text: If a woman fancies that she looks better or feels better in men's clothes, there is no reason why she may not indulge in so harmless a fancy. We do not see tha any moral or proper legal question is involved in this: or, if the dress is neat and becoming, convenient to the wearer, and pleasant to others, that it is a breach of good manners. It is a simple question of good and evil. If the amount of happiness, immediate or ultimate, is increased by any costume, it is right to wear it.
October 7, 2023 at 2:43 AM