Bougainvillea

And now the bougainvillea is at it too

I want to ask them to take it a little easy

because I want them to last all summer long!

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Together

Somehow I managed to get Big A to agree to go to UU with me

and he signed up for his own name tag even!

Miracle!

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Books not Bullets

And then the four of us went to see

the Tomb Raider movie

where Nu proceeded to fall asleep...

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Miranda Night

When you take the biggest Hamilton nerds you know to

the 'other' Miranda play...

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Jasmine's blooming

There's still snow outside, but in here

it smells like the Madras Marina 

'cos the jasmine's a-bloomin'

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TFW

That picture of yourself in academic drag you took when people were consistently mistaking you for an undergraduate (because genes, but also gender, and also race) surfaces and you realize that your fake glasses looked like fake glasses.

Troppo, Lansing, College Admissions event.

Reaching Across the Aisle #Enough

Stood in front of the impromptu installation "Reaching Across the Aisle"  that students had put up.

Just 17 chairs with the names and ages of the Parkland students on them... 

(the two in front are for the parents in the CMU shooting from two weeks ago).

I walked through and began to cry--I was part of a chorus. 

They could have been my students someday. 

They could be my kids any day.

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