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This lasted for two minutes but I’ll take it. #raisingareader
When I was 22, I took a writing workshop with Maria Irene Fornes—Irene to her friends, which I was definitely not—at the Flea Theater. I was new to New York and living the dream and I was so intimidated that I barely spoke for the entire two days. But toward the end, I got up the nerve to ask her about the particularly devastating ending to a play of hers that I particularly loved, and she told me it had been an accident. She hadn’t meant for it to end that way—it had just happened. She’d had to let it. Then we shared an umbrella to walk around the corner in the rain. Until I saw this obituary, I hadn’t thought of that interaction in years. But in retrospect it seems like a pretty good lesson, for writing and for life.
Flamingos don’t smile for the camera.
Firm believer in the power of the window seat and the shitty first draft. #andcoffee #amwriting
I spy... #fearofmissingout #fomothebook 🌃💜 via @fiercereads . . . #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #yalit #yareads #yabooks #yabookstagram #fiercereads
Friendly reminder from this crackerjack canvasser.
“UP!”
This girl: takes up as much space as she wants; talks as loud as she wants; lets you know exactly what she wants and doesn’t want. Now, to keep her that way in this world.
Parenting level unlocked: She reads, I drink coffee. (Shhh don’t anyone tell her.)
1) Two years today; 2) two years next week; 3) 7 months + 16 months after that. ❤️ 📷: Charul Kothari / @lizv / @klwestcam
Sunday funday. #allthebooks #andblocks #andpuzzles
That view, tho.
The moment right after the moment that never lasts long enough to catch on camera.
An opinionated stranger at the bookstore gave me some judgment for buying a book about gravity for my baby today. Things I wish I had said: 1) @ruthspiro’s books are...for babies; 2) this one is about a child who throws food on the floor so it’s basically Priya’s biography; 3) hello, it’s never too early for some STEM; and 4) maybe my kid is a genius what’s it to you? But I did not. #missedopportunities #raisingareader #kidlit #mytntp #seewhatididthere

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