Joan Gaylord
@joan-gaylord.bsky.social
Writer, calligrapher, jazz freak, artist. Book reviewer for the Christian Science Monitor. Board member of the enviro organization, Clearwater.org. Alumni advisor for yujc.org. NYer after a Pittsburgh childhood.
This Irish/English Christian is making latkes for dinner tonight using a recipe shared with me years ago by the gay, Jewish husband of a former colleague. My America.
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This Irish/English Christian is making latkes for dinner tonight using a recipe shared with me years ago by the gay, Jewish husband of a former colleague. My America.
Scofield sounding sublime
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Scofield sounding sublime
Making the apple pie that my sons always look forward to at Thanksgiving and do a google search to see if I can locate the woman who gave me the recipe decades ago-- it would be nice to reconnect and thank her. Discover she passed last week. True story. I am thankful our paths crossed so long ago.
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Making the apple pie that my sons always look forward to at Thanksgiving and do a google search to see if I can locate the woman who gave me the recipe decades ago-- it would be nice to reconnect and thank her. Discover she passed last week. True story. I am thankful our paths crossed so long ago.
NYC Folks, if this can meet someone's need--
Where to get a free Thanksgiving Day meal in NYC
Here's a roundup of free Thanksgiving Day events in New York City.
gothamist.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
NYC Folks, if this can meet someone's need--
John Lee, Freddie Hendrix, and Tommy Campbell-- three of th six members of the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars sounding sublime tonight at the Blue Note.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
John Lee, Freddie Hendrix, and Tommy Campbell-- three of th six members of the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars sounding sublime tonight at the Blue Note.
Vital that we take a stand for academic freedom. If you are an alum of either school, I hope you've signed the petition. And thank you, @blumenthal.senate.gov Boola boola!
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Vital that we take a stand for academic freedom. If you are an alum of either school, I hope you've signed the petition. And thank you, @blumenthal.senate.gov Boola boola!
Ken Burns' American Revolution series got even better when I realized one of the historians interviewed is the daughter of my favorite college professor. Now all grown up, she was the girl who would answer the door and greet me when I dropped off a paper or had a meeting with her mother.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Ken Burns' American Revolution series got even better when I realized one of the historians interviewed is the daughter of my favorite college professor. Now all grown up, she was the girl who would answer the door and greet me when I dropped off a paper or had a meeting with her mother.
My local farmers market just sent an email saying that, when SNAP benefits are suspended, anyone who comes to the manager's tent with their SNAP card will be given a card for $40 of fresh produce each week. The email included a link for those who can help cover these costs. Community.
October 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My local farmers market just sent an email saying that, when SNAP benefits are suspended, anyone who comes to the manager's tent with their SNAP card will be given a card for $40 of fresh produce each week. The email included a link for those who can help cover these costs. Community.
One of the greats. Jack DeJohnette, taken during a set he played with Ravi Coltrane and Matt Garrison. Thank you, sir, for all you gave us.
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
One of the greats. Jack DeJohnette, taken during a set he played with Ravi Coltrane and Matt Garrison. Thank you, sir, for all you gave us.
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This is *our* country. We got this. #NoKingsDay
October 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is *our* country. We got this. #NoKingsDay
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The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.
This is truly terrifying.
This is truly terrifying.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.
This is truly terrifying.
This is truly terrifying.
An old friend, someone I've not talked with in a long while, sent me a text this evening, a photo of an amazing color-streaked sky with clouds rolling in. His text read,
September 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
An old friend, someone I've not talked with in a long while, sent me a text this evening, a photo of an amazing color-streaked sky with clouds rolling in. His text read,
Ironic to mark Climate Week with an oil spill...
Oil spill snarls traffic on Manhattan's First Avenue, turns block into slip-and-slide https://gothamist.com/news/oil-spill-snarls-traffic-on-manhattans-first-avenue-turns-block-into-slip-and-slide
Oil spill snarls traffic on Manhattan's First Avenue, turns block into slip-and-slide
You better watch where you're walking on First Avenue, slick.
The incident left oil all over the busy street, worsening gridlock on the East Side caused by the ongoing United Nations General Assembly. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Ironic to mark Climate Week with an oil spill...
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Been in a NYer's 9/11 funk all day. Came home and waved to the newly immigrant family renting the little place next door-- hadn't seen them in a while. The dad calls over that his 4-y-o daughter wants to give me a hug. "I'd love one!" She doesn't speak much English, but...
September 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Been in a NYer's 9/11 funk all day. Came home and waved to the newly immigrant family renting the little place next door-- hadn't seen them in a while. The dad calls over that his 4-y-o daughter wants to give me a hug. "I'd love one!" She doesn't speak much English, but...
This year's anniversary is hitting harder than usual. I mean-- how am I supposed to feel good about American and NYC when the #Yankees are holding a moment of silence for a white supremacist?
September 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This year's anniversary is hitting harder than usual. I mean-- how am I supposed to feel good about American and NYC when the #Yankees are holding a moment of silence for a white supremacist?
Sending hugs to all my NYers, those of us who can still remember the smell and even the taste of the smoke. There is no way to adequately describe that day to anyone who wasn't there, but we remember. 💙
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Sending hugs to all my NYers, those of us who can still remember the smell and even the taste of the smoke. There is no way to adequately describe that day to anyone who wasn't there, but we remember. 💙
When one of your jazz student calls and you text her that you can't talk now because you're at the Blue Note listening to a sublime set with Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau and she replies that she knows-- she's here, too, and she can see me. #thekidsarealright
@mcbridesworld.bsky.social
@mcbridesworld.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
When one of your jazz student calls and you text her that you can't talk now because you're at the Blue Note listening to a sublime set with Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau and she replies that she knows-- she's here, too, and she can see me. #thekidsarealright
@mcbridesworld.bsky.social
@mcbridesworld.bsky.social
As a book reviewer for a newspaper, I receive announcements about upcoming releases all the time. But this morning I got one for a book expected out in 2026.
TwentySIX? I'm still coming to terms with summer ending in a couple weeks. I do not want to hear about next year.
TwentySIX? I'm still coming to terms with summer ending in a couple weeks. I do not want to hear about next year.
August 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As a book reviewer for a newspaper, I receive announcements about upcoming releases all the time. But this morning I got one for a book expected out in 2026.
TwentySIX? I'm still coming to terms with summer ending in a couple weeks. I do not want to hear about next year.
TwentySIX? I'm still coming to terms with summer ending in a couple weeks. I do not want to hear about next year.
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August 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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