Rabbits too! Our rabbit absolutely knows that I'm the one who gives him vegetables and will circle around me when either I come inside from outside (becuase I often get them from the garden) or I'm cutting up vegetables. He also foot flicks as he hops away from something he dislikes.

The feeling of having a mission that desperately needs to be done and being kept from doing it is so depressing.

Kid lit is some of the best! You have to do so much with such a limited vocabulary and space.

The Baltimore Banner and Washington City Paper, for the DC region!

My husband was telling me a story that one of his college professors told him (about 20 yrs ago now). The professor saw Watson at a party many years prior. Watson turned to his wife and said, “Finally, someone worth talking to.” The professor was like “oh nooooo.”

Believe it or not, a city planner in Paris said almost those same words to me about 20 years ago. “Parisians will never give up their cars” were his words. And yet…

The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network does an excellent job describing policies in plain language so that it can be accessible to as many of their members as possible.

I've been explaining what I've been writing about (I'm a science writer) since my kids were little and it's made my writing so much better!

So true! And then begs you for greens because “you were outside and didn’t get me a snack!” There’s still some basil left, but not for long..

Our school district sent a one-pager home about it. I was glad they did it but horrified that they had to.

I wonder if she was partly inspired by Gravity Falls (which came out in 2013). There’s a girl named Mabel on the show who is quite charming.

My heart just breaks every time I see this mentioned. It could have been one of my kids, easily. Safe streets infrastructure shouldn’t have to be written in blood.

People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible