@amitha
Award-winning author and poet, identical twin, parent, MD (not practicing). Also: guitar, piano, bharatanatyam student. Boston area, MA, USA. Rep: @karisutherland.bsky.social www.amithaknight.com She/her
Could no one gift him a golden foot measurement device? Also who is actually ordering these shoes? Is it Trump himself or someone else who could be secretly confirming shoe sizes? Mainly though why is this doddering, abusive grandpa still President. So many questions.
I get almost as many comments about how ugly or fat I am on my workout posts as I did on my posts before I started lifting. I’m not asking for sympathy. I just want to remind Black women that the point isn’t if we are pretty or skinny or not. The point is they want us to not exist.🙄
(see also: making things all about gender)
Also, you reacting defensively is still making it about you and not the other person's fault.
Food for thought: when you feel someone is making something "all about race" consider that it may have already been all about race the whole time--YOUR race. It is natural to get defensive. After all, our brains center us. But defensiveness will not help you grow and teach your brain to expand.
I haven't been reading nearly enough picture books! I need to get back to that. I finished my writing goal for the week, maybe I should find time to just sit at the library and read 📚📚
This looks really cute! Requesting it from the library to see if it might be right for my truck loving nephew 📚🚛
"With its large images and opportunities for group participation, this cumulative nonsense tale would be a great option for preschool and early grade storytimes" MR NORTON'S NEW TRUCK ysbookreviews.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/m...
Cadence, a black kitten, half grown, on my lap with my hand on her back. It looks like I'm gripping her tightly but I was just patting promise! In the background are two adult black cats, and two adult tabby cats.
Cadence, who has been well huffed, well kissed, and invited to sit on the lap and get pats.
Everyone, she PURRED.
We're not best friends yet, but we're not NOT friends.
Interesting piece on the mountains of snow, salt and other assorted awful piling up in Toronto, since the storm. And the environmental risks of the mountains.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
WIFE: You're very quiet. What are you thinking?
ME: If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then the opposite of a hospital is an orchard.
HER: Sometimes it's ok to say 'nothing'
Their relatives and/or spouses could also tell them to do this so it's not just them... Maybe they're all like "they deserve to be uncomfortable all day so I will not help them"
I am so tired of living in a society largely built on the sidewalk-dollar-on-a-string prank
listen i just think it’s neat that a year ago i was looking at all the craft fair stuff like “damn knitting is so cool, you can just make stuff from scratch, i want to learn” and this year i got to donate a thing i knitted??? the joy of making is contagious 💛💛💛
Ooh thanks!!
Ooh that does sound fun! #kidlitchat
YES 💯💯💯 #kidlitchat
I'm currently doing an adult murder mystery and have written around the puzzles 😆😆 someday future me will sit down and do it #kidlitchat
Wonderful!! ♥️♥️
I do something that feels scary and bold for every story I write, but some days even just continuing to be a writer in this day and age feels big and bold #kidlitchat
I wrote a mystery where the kids had to figure out a murder before it happened and they make a kind of logic grid to work it out. It was really fun to make and kind of scary to query with 😆 sadly that ms didn't find a publishing home (and yes this was before the Murdle craze!) #kidlitchat
TOPIC: What’s the biggest, boldest, or wildest thing you’ve done for or to one of your stories? Think theme, characters, setting, format . . . Or if there's something you *want* to try, but haven't, WHY HAVEN'T YOU? #kidlitchat
A close-up of a red and white "grand perfection" tulip among greenery. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. March 2026. My garden.
Fresh from my garden, a tulip I planted in the fall. I am sure you would agree that it lives up to its name,
"Grand Perfection!"
#TulipTuesday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
Nobody Dies in the Spring Nobody dies in the spring on the Upper West Side: nobody dies. On the Upper West Side we're holding hands with strangers on the Number 5 bus, and we're singing the sweet graffiti on the subway, and kids are skipping patterns through the bright haze of incinerators, and beagles and poodles are making a happy ruin of the sidewalks, and hot-dog men are racing their pushcarts down Riverside Drive, and Con Ed is tearing up Broadway from Times Square to the Bronx, and the world is a morning miracle of sirens and horns and jackhammers and Baskin- Robbins' 31 kinds of litter and sausages at Zabar's floating overhead like blimps--oh, it is no place for dying, not on the Upper West Side, in springtime.
There will be a time for the smell of burning leaves at Barnard, for milkweed winging silky over Grant's Tomb, for apples falling to grass in Needle Park; but not in all this fresh new golden smog: now there is something breaking loose in people's chests, something that makes butchers and bus boys and our neighborhood nares and muggers go whistling in the streets--now there is something with goat feet out there, not waiting for the WALK light, piping life into West End window-boxes, pollinating weeds around condemned residential hotels, and prancing along at the head of every elbowing crowd on the West Side, singing: Follow me-- it's spring--and nobody dies.
Days like today in NYC always make me think of this glorious poem, “Nobody Dies in the Spring” by Philip Appleman:
On the Upper West Side /
we're holding hands with strangers / on the Number 5 bus, / and we're singing the sweet / graffiti on the subway, …
This, from CNN.com, is very good. Every news organization should be asking and answering that question. And then they should ask the next question: Shouldn’t that disqualify him from being commander-in-chief? www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...
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★ Livia Blackburne and illustrator Julia Kuo deliver “an enchantingly rendered legend” that’s “imagined in folkloric terms” in their picture book collaboration, BING’S CHERRIES
Happy Mario day(MAR10)! I'm celebrating by posting about it on bluesky.
I'm grateful to the authors and other volunteers with @massaabb.bsky.social for taking the lead!
