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"Ask Amy" advice columnist, NPR Wait Wait Don't Tell Me panelist, literacy advocate, NYT bestselling author, and proprietor of the Freeville Free Library. Author of the One Good Thing newsletter on Substack

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Quick Q If you were at a deserted airport and two obviously abandoned bananas were sitting on the next seat for 90 minutes, would you eat one?

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One day I will push this button in the elevator and receive my free fireman hat

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I'm flying out of Syracuse, where it is currently 5 degrees and snowy. The water onboard is frozen. Our flight is delayed due to de-icing but hey -- I don't care if I miss my connection. I'm extremely grateful to the crew wearing their arctic suits whose job it is to spray this plane. @united

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Darn right!! One of my favorite novelists delivers the validation my mother never could.

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Crushed pack of Newport lights Ace bandage Broken mechanical pencil Last week's church bulletin Werthers because I'm an old lady, not a monster

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A side hustle of massive proportions:

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If Donald Trump can just declare himself the chairman of the Kennedy Center, then so can I. Come to the Kennedy Center This Thursday, February 13 in DC for my stand-up comedy show. Tickets here: www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/exp...

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

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I feel like Kendrick just took the flag back

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I keep thinking there will be a last straw. And then they find another straw

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Prospective tenant for a small commercial space I own looked over the lease and said several/many times: "I'm Sicilian, you know." Should I be nervous

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Oops

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Ice ice baby

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Taughannock Falls today, frozen over and very beautiful. (This waterfall is, at 215 ft, the largest free-falling waterfall east of the Mississippi)

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Being awake and up at dawn has its consolations.

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I'm lying in bed on another snowy blowy very cold morning, listening to the snow plow make its way up the road. Grant me these little luxuries.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Just putting this out there again for the big weekend in Iowa City. Iowa will retire Caitlin Clark's jersey on Sunday vs. JuJu Watkins and USC. I have friends flying in from all over the country for this (OK, one is a USC alum, but still).