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Who I am: yarn-wrangler, book lover, head chef for small clan, wellspring of executive function both at home and at work. Working on figuring out who I want to be next.
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Academics & others need to understand a few things. A 🧵 I) First, fascism is not inevitable. Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them. Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends. That why visible resistance matters. 1/

submitted 74 days ago • 20 comments

Pantry update/cleanout report…8 half used bags of various dried chilies have been reduced down to an amazing batch of chili crisp. If I say so my very own self.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

People who justify doing hateful things because they are “practical” or “necessary” will never admit they are wrong. They will blame us for their failures the same way they blamed others for their terrible choices. (Tired of the breathless “do they regret their votes yet?” rhetoric.)

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not sleeping really well lately, but on the up side…I am totally caught up on my reading target for the year! Today is an “all the coffee” day.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

#showmeyourknits is asking for color work? Yay! I love color work! This is a terrible picture of my Null Hypothesis (pattern credit to Katrina Elsaesser). Took some doing, but I absolutely love it. Got me through a good chunk of 2020.

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments

The last two months have been two years long. Holding my professional world together as best I can. Learning how to put down my work stress when I log out at the end of the day so I can be my best self for my family. That’s a heck of a thing to have to figure out at over 50.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

submitted 98 days ago • 120 comments

Honestly, if anyone watched that halftime show and didn’t see a clinic on the effectiveness of speaking truth, loudly, consistently, and with no equivocation….you were not paying attention.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

So, on top of just trying to exist in this country…I manage federal grants for a research department at a large university. I am….whatever level looks up toward “despondent” like it’s a fond memory. I love my job. It’s important, and useful, and about to be obsolete…I’m getting ready.

submitted 139 days ago • 2 comments