I did not know this about ALERT! (Also, would it be inappropriate to say I covet Marcie's shirt?)

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Does your family have your own words or phrases that no one else gets? Ours is "Chapter 4" for when we're losing steam on a project. It comes from a character giving up in Chapter 4 of a book. That's a familect: one family's private language. Tell me yours, and I might play it on the podcast!

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It is salutary to discover, sorting through old papers, that the first essay I ever wrote for an English class at university actually began "Throughout the changing eras in the history of western civilization..."! 🤣 (In my defense, it was a surprise in-class essay on "the seven deadly sins".)

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We made it! Um… hail Satan? *💡* Hail patrons.

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Y'all, today a goofy, joy-filled essay I wrote for the very first issue of @paperairplane.pub is being re-released--as one of 20 articles chosen for The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology, 2026, from @marinerbooks.bsky.social. Whoa. WHOA. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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