Starting units on To Kill a Mockingbird and The Lynchings in Duluth here in blue state/red county. Carry on!

Bar babies! Love that! How lucky you are to have judicious splitting of affections.

Beautiful floofs! We share a love of calico cats, though I, too, have added a non-tri to the mix. Troy calls her “Striper” (her name is Maude).

I’m adding Sherman Alexie into my College Lit class, starting next week - so excited!

Glad NM is trying to follow in MN’s steps. My students were LIVID about To Kill a Mockingbird bans! I always include an end discussion on merits vs. dangers of challenged reading, and I have yet to have a class decide a book is not worth reading.

I’ve got two teaching colleagues who have both *written out* “nip it in the butt” and I don’t know what to do with this…

Henry James’ Turn of the Screw is set at Christmastime with friends sitting around telling ghost stories, so maybe that’s on the Brits.

West-Central MN

My daughter’s neighbors’ tree must do this, and I stared across the street into their front window endlessly one weekend, wondering what the hell was going on. Thanks for explaining! 😂

Guess I have to buy a book or subscription now! I imagine the outrage would have been different if you were featuring gold shoes or bibles.

grandcat Ezmerelda

This is Larry, a stray who showed up on my grandma’s farm and was her best friend for 12 years. My son lives on the farm now and “inherited” Larry, who’s some kind of Corgi mix.

I had the audacity to leave for the weekend, leaving the cats to wail to Troy for unpurchased wet food. This will end disastrously, but humorously so.