On the RNC
> Well there's 4 days of my life I'm never getting back. https://t.co/Hac3abF1mM — Michelle Cottle (@mcottle) August 28, 2020 [https://twitter.com/mcottle/status/1299328508607508480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Anxiety
> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CEZd6Omlova/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] A cartoon by P.C. Vey. #NewYorkerCartoons [https://www.instagram.com/p/CEZd6Omlova/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] A post shared by The New Yorker Cartoons [https:…
So that's what novels are for
> "One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened." English novelist and children's writer, Nina Bawden died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_…
Comment for our times
> I cannot a remember a time when ‘normal’ was used as such high praise in American politics... — Susan Glasser (@sbg1) August 19, 2020 [https://twitter.com/sbg1/status/1295920877637447683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Wise baker
> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKBUg7HlST/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] Take time for yourself. It's not just bread dough that needs to rest. 🥖 From your friends at #KingArthurBaking [https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKBUg7HlST/?utm_source=ig_embed&…
Ukeireru
> "Ukeireru is a word used in Japan to describe the acceptance of people and things around us. Not a cultural experience, but a way of life." https://t.co/bNdb8nfoZK pic.twitter.com/vJwx3IIN8k [https://t.co/vJwx3IIN8k] — Scott Barry Kaufman (@sbkaufman) July 8, 2020 [https://twitter.…
Positive Lexicography
> From “utepils” (Norwegian, “beer that is enjoyed outside, particularly on the first hot day of the year”) to “mbuki-mvuki” (Bantu, “to shed clothes to dance uninhibited”), the Positive Lexicography Project gathers untranslatable words describing happiness. https://t.co/TPSnKraDBY — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) July 7, 2020 [https://twitter.com/…
Unfortunate
> “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour” English writer, Beryl Bainbridge died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] in 2010 #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_…