The Moose Is Loose
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“Don't think I've left you all behind
Still love you and Tennessee
You're always on my mind”
Still love you and Tennessee
You're always on my mind”
Would recommend. #booksky #readeveryday
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Would recommend. #booksky #readeveryday
Once upon a time, when I still fancied myself a budding fiction writer, a well-read friend whose opinion I respected told me that my writing reminded her of Curtis Sittenfeld. Reading her latest collection of short stories reminded me what a huge compliment that was.
September 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Once upon a time, when I still fancied myself a budding fiction writer, a well-read friend whose opinion I respected told me that my writing reminded her of Curtis Sittenfeld. Reading her latest collection of short stories reminded me what a huge compliment that was.
Absolutely one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. #booksky #readeveryday
July 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Absolutely one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. #booksky #readeveryday
Charlotte McConaghy’s novel Migrations was a book that stayed with me for months after I read it. Delighted to be starting her new release, Wild Dark Shore, which has already sucked me in. #booksky #readeveryday
May 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Charlotte McConaghy’s novel Migrations was a book that stayed with me for months after I read it. Delighted to be starting her new release, Wild Dark Shore, which has already sucked me in. #booksky #readeveryday
About halfway through Alice Feeney’s latest novel, Beautiful Ugly. Enjoying and intrigued by the storyline so far, but *obsessed* with the oxymoronic chapter titles. #booksky #readeveryday
May 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
About halfway through Alice Feeney’s latest novel, Beautiful Ugly. Enjoying and intrigued by the storyline so far, but *obsessed* with the oxymoronic chapter titles. #booksky #readeveryday
“I push as hard as I can” (2025)
April 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“I push as hard as I can” (2025)
1) Thank God it’s finally spring break. Your teacher friends are not OK.
2) Speaking of teachers, shout out to my kid’s, whose class inspired my 11-year-old to check A Midsummer Night’s Dream to read on vacation.
2) Speaking of teachers, shout out to my kid’s, whose class inspired my 11-year-old to check A Midsummer Night’s Dream to read on vacation.
April 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
1) Thank God it’s finally spring break. Your teacher friends are not OK.
2) Speaking of teachers, shout out to my kid’s, whose class inspired my 11-year-old to check A Midsummer Night’s Dream to read on vacation.
2) Speaking of teachers, shout out to my kid’s, whose class inspired my 11-year-old to check A Midsummer Night’s Dream to read on vacation.
It’s been too long since I’ve made art.
April 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It’s been too long since I’ve made art.
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel is a beautiful book that should have been more talked about when it was first published. Check it out. #booksky
April 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel is a beautiful book that should have been more talked about when it was first published. Check it out. #booksky
I’m a very good speller. I literally made my living as an editor for much of my career. But I just had a Mandela effect moment. Did y’all know “wrath” is spelled like that? With a “w”? It’s always been this way? My whole life is a lie.
March 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’m a very good speller. I literally made my living as an editor for much of my career. But I just had a Mandela effect moment. Did y’all know “wrath” is spelled like that? With a “w”? It’s always been this way? My whole life is a lie.
Chocolate? Cheese? Wine? I’m honestly out of other ideas on how to cope right now.
February 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Chocolate? Cheese? Wine? I’m honestly out of other ideas on how to cope right now.
Anyone else feeling inclined to just drink wine and eat carbs?
February 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Anyone else feeling inclined to just drink wine and eat carbs?
I’m at the stage of mourning our democracy where all I can bring myself to do is eat a lot of Girl Scout cookies and play online Mahjong Solitaire. Does anyone know what comes next?
February 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I’m at the stage of mourning our democracy where all I can bring myself to do is eat a lot of Girl Scout cookies and play online Mahjong Solitaire. Does anyone know what comes next?
“Anger is better, always, than despair.” -Sarah Mathews
February 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“Anger is better, always, than despair.” -Sarah Mathews
Just finished Catherine Newman’s novel Sandwich. So good. I first read Newman a year or so ago (We All Want Impossible Things). Her books are real, funny, sad, irreverent, and she’s quickly becoming a favorite author. Highly recommend. #readeveryday #booksky
February 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just finished Catherine Newman’s novel Sandwich. So good. I first read Newman a year or so ago (We All Want Impossible Things). Her books are real, funny, sad, irreverent, and she’s quickly becoming a favorite author. Highly recommend. #readeveryday #booksky
In some ways, this book is reductive—the kind of caricature-portrayal that might piss me off if the author weren’t a Southerner herself. But she is. She knows the people she’s writing about. A small-town Southerner by birth myself, I know these folks too. Worth a read. #readeveryday
February 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
In some ways, this book is reductive—the kind of caricature-portrayal that might piss me off if the author weren’t a Southerner herself. But she is. She knows the people she’s writing about. A small-town Southerner by birth myself, I know these folks too. Worth a read. #readeveryday
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It's surreal doing all the "normal" things--watching my kid's soccer game, folding laundry, grocery shopping--in the middle of a kleptocratic coup.
February 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It's surreal doing all the "normal" things--watching my kid's soccer game, folding laundry, grocery shopping--in the middle of a kleptocratic coup.
I read seven books in January. Best two were The God of the Woods by Liz Moore and Real Americans by Rachel Khong. Honorable mention to The Women by Kristen Hannah (quite good, but I like others of her books far more). #readeveryday
February 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I read seven books in January. Best two were The God of the Woods by Liz Moore and Real Americans by Rachel Khong. Honorable mention to The Women by Kristen Hannah (quite good, but I like others of her books far more). #readeveryday
Last night my husband went to pick up pizza. At the restaurant, two guys got into a physical fight about their place in line. Then an employee threatened to call the cops and kicked them out. Everyone in line got free breadsticks as compensation for witnessing violence. This all feels very America.
February 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Last night my husband went to pick up pizza. At the restaurant, two guys got into a physical fight about their place in line. Then an employee threatened to call the cops and kicked them out. Everyone in line got free breadsticks as compensation for witnessing violence. This all feels very America.
Wondering when I’ll next sleep this peacefully. Lucky little fuzzball… #catsofbluesky
January 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wondering when I’ll next sleep this peacefully. Lucky little fuzzball… #catsofbluesky
I’ve struggled to put my feelings into words; this is the closest I’ve gotten to capturing it: I grew up listening to these people at church and at school and at home tell me to treat people well, to love my neighbor, to ask WWJD—and I listened and believed them! Is my own moral code based on lies?!
January 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I’ve struggled to put my feelings into words; this is the closest I’ve gotten to capturing it: I grew up listening to these people at church and at school and at home tell me to treat people well, to love my neighbor, to ask WWJD—and I listened and believed them! Is my own moral code based on lies?!
Longtime friend from all the way back in middle school happened to be in town tonight and called to see if she could pop by. We ordered Thai food and reminisced about the good ol’ days—before we knew that most of our former teachers and classmates were actually Nazi sympathizers. Good times.
January 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Longtime friend from all the way back in middle school happened to be in town tonight and called to see if she could pop by. We ordered Thai food and reminisced about the good ol’ days—before we knew that most of our former teachers and classmates were actually Nazi sympathizers. Good times.
Oh, nothing much… Just packing lunches, folding laundry, making a grocery list, and watching the death throes of our democracy. How about you?
January 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Oh, nothing much… Just packing lunches, folding laundry, making a grocery list, and watching the death throes of our democracy. How about you?