I will die on the hill of stuffed artichokes being the perfect T-Day side. The secret ingredient for the stuffing is anchovies. Don't ask me to explain, it just works.

These birds spent all day carefully and lovingly building their little nest of of paper strips and q tips only to lay their first ever egg right on the floor. Pigeons are terminally silly.

Full view of how fancy she is- curled feathers and leg warmers.

Real "Lady and the Tramp" energy from my boy Ransom and his new, very fancy girlfriend Fettucine.

Excited for some escapist weekend reading! Never have I felt so held and soothed by a pre-book map.

Okay, everything is awful BUT a kindly internet stranger helped me track down this apparently formative text from my childhood and I am overjoyed.

Critical update:

My feed right now is basically 1.) Horrors, 2.) Recommendations for Black authors, and 3.) Cats. I'd like much more of 2 and 3 to help combat 1, so here are my sons to help out. Also go read some Rivers Solomon, why don't you.