TROS SPOILER
The best review of this movie came from my sons’ friend who is a girl (“but not a girlfriend, mom!”)
“Kylo Ren is my favorite Star Wars character of all time so I’m glad he got to turn his frown upside down, but I thought that could have been developed more.”
My birthday is this weekend and due to social distancing, I won't be celebrating it. This also means that I will not turn 47, but will remain 46 for another year. I am not taking any questions at this time.
Next week I start my new job at
@Medium
as Senior Platform Editor for
@ozm
. I’ve been following OneZero since its launch and I’m thrilled to be part of this amazing team. I’m flying to NYC on Sunday to meet everyone and figure out how we’re going to save the world. Stay tuned. 💙
Thrilled to share the news that
@meganmorrone
will be joining
@axios
starting next week as technology editor, working with me and our intrepid tech coverage team
Ya’ll! I am looking for work. Please don’t hesitate to find me in my DMs. I’m an experienced tech and business journalist with over 20 years of experience as a Senior Editor, writer, podcaster, and TV star (maybe star isn’t the right word for it, but if you know, you know.)
My twins turn 15 today. Everyone is wishing them happy birthday, which doesn’t make any sense because I did all the work. They both weighed over 7.5 lbs. That’s 15 lbs of baby I carried and I will never stop bragging about that.
My daughter will graduate from high school tomorrow. When I was pregnant with her I appeared on a daily live cable TV show about computers. Even if you watched that show when you were a little kid, you are old now. You’re welcome.
I feel like I should make my husband set up screen time for our kids on iOS 12 because I gave birth to TWO 7.5 lb babies at ONCE and this is almost as difficult.
Dear Tokyo twitter: Victor bought me a very old, tiny taxidermied owl at a Japanese flea market but I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to bring him to America so I need someone in Tokyo to take Owlexander Hamilton and love him as I would. DM me.
Some personal personnel news! Today I'm starting a temporary gig helping edit
@HR_Brew
at
@MorningBrew
.
Mostly because of how they embrace the emoji. ☕️ ✍️ 🫶
Keep me in mind for all your workplace scoops!
Thanks especially to every one of you who listened, watched, encouraged, criticized, complained, corrected, cheered, called in, emailed me, let me interview you, made suggestions, tweeted at me, sent videos and photos and funny stories. My DMs will always be open. 💙💙💙
My husband asked me to marry him 18 years ago tonite. He thought the Y2K bug was going to destroy the world the next day. Haha. He’s been stuck with me ever since.
This is my friend Violet, who is just one of the many sweet, soft, smart, devoted pups at
@LilysLegacySDS
dog shelter right now. Please share this with any Bay Area friends who are looking for a dog to rescue them.
Just finished my first day at
@ozm
in NYC. I was going to work remotely from home in Petaluma, but I love it too much here and I felt so welcome that I’m just going to live in this hotel forever. I’m sure my husband is perfectly capable of finishing the job of raising our 3 kids.
For years a road trip with my kids meant stopping for diaper changes every 2 hours, lots of crying by everyone, and a laptop with a DVD player attached to a cooler via bungee cord to keep them constantly entertained. Now one kid is driving, one navigating, and I’m tweeting. 💫
This guy was not only a great and generous co-worker, he was also an inspiration to my kids and all their friends who they brought to the studio and who watched his shows.
@padresj
will be missed so much.
Thank you to the person who didn’t show up for their Kaiser vaccine appointment yesterday. I took your first shot of Moderna last night and I’m not giving it back.
Today a 12-year-old who is not related to me tried to convince me that there was a Windows 94. I am not proud to say that I argued with him until I had internet access and could prove it.
I am available for all of your freelance writing and editing gigs starting now. I just remembered that I can write, as long as someone gives me a deadline. Please share this if you like me.
If you’re taking babies or toddlers on vacation this summer I’m here to tell you that if all goes well they’ll be teenagers one day & they’ll carry their own stuff & sometimes yours. They’ll apply their own sunscreen & you won’t need to remind them to bathe. Hang in there buddies
A new decade starts on January 1, 2020. It also starts on January 1, 2021. It also starts right now and five years from now. A new decade starts whenever you want it to start. I’m not drunk. This is just the truth.
I don’t ever want to tell anyone else how to parent, but if you have kids at home right now who spend a lot of time online, you might want to check in with them and talk about what’s going on and what lens they’re watching it through.
I’ve mentioned this here before, but it bears repeating on the morning after this anniversary. My husband asked me to marry him on New Year’s Eve 1999 because he thought computers were going to destroy the world and he wouldn’t be stuck with me forever. We sure fooled him.
I haven’t been in an airport since I was 46 years old. I didn’t wear glasses back then and I took my 20/20 vision for granted. I had a different job, three kids in high school and I thought I knew exactly what the future looked like. But, you know, I had no idea. I’m OK though.
It’s probably very self-centered of me to think you would enjoy seeing my daughter’s senior portrait vs. my senior portrait from 30 years earlier. But at least I didn’t fleet it.
All done with my colonoscopy and it was so easy. If your doctor tells you to get one, get one. The only side-effect is that the anesthesia made me dream that Elon Musk tried to buy twitter.
I complain about my social media-averse husband a lot, but reader he cleaned our fridge and made it look like new and I feel like we just renewed our vows.
The
@bestofnextdoor
account is hilarious because these people are not your neighbors. The actual Nextdoor app is terrifying because these people are your neighbors.
There is no silver lining to Covid AND I will always and forever be grateful for the extra time I got to spend with my baby girl during her last year at home.
I’m tired of people expressing shock when a young-looking famous person is 40 or (god forbid) 45. I am 46. I don’t need you to tell me I look younger than that, I just need you to know that I’m not ready to be put out to pasture anytime soon.
My ER doc friend just saved someone’s life on a plane and the airline gave he and his wife a free flight. I am going to start demanding the same treatment when I show a fellow passenger all the iPhone games that don’t require internet access.
Periodically I like to remind the world that in 2005 I carried twins who were each over 7.5 lbs when they were born. I did this while I was often carrying my not yet 2-year old in my arms. I can do anything
I don’t follow our President on Twitter, but somehow his tweets show up in my timeline and manage to ruin my day. So, now if he wants to send me a message, he will have to find another way.
I had just begun to ask my echo the weather. “Alexa,” I said and then my husband came in the room to apologize to me about something we’d been fighting about. I wasn’t read to accept his apology, but Alexa was listening and said, “that’s alright.” So she is married to him now.
These two photos from my Freshman year of high school are my favorites to share on Father’s Day because the fake/smile real smile tell you everything you need to know about how much I love my dad.
I have exactly one week left in my 40s and I am living it up. And by “living it up,” I mean working a whole lot so I can pay my mortgage and figure out how to get 3 kids thru college and also casually wondering why various parts of my body just hurt for no good reason
Having to commute every day into an office is bad for working moms with young children. Having to work from home forever is bad for working moms with young children. How can both of these be true? Because the workplace has never been designed for working moms with young children.
Some personal news. My husband has never smoked a cigarette, drank a cup of coffee, or signed up for Facebook, Twitter, or any social media account. I just thought ya’ll needed to understand the kind of asceticism I’ve dealt with in the 19 years of my otherwise happy marriage.
I got my eyes checked this week and when the doctor told me I needed readers she said it was just part of “growing up.” She said “growing up” instead of “getting old.” It was the nicest thing.