NEA Fellow 2024. Writer, English PhD, no longer an academic. Writing a book about my true crime childhood. Very ADHD. I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 42. she/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mlz23krozk2oBaseball fans on social media are the worst complainers. I know it suuuucks when our team loses, but there are 162 games per season. I wonder if any of them have the fortitude to survive marriage, or childrearing, or anything hard.16 May 2026 23:51 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlz23krozk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mjxvia5cuc2iMy husband has started collecting baseball cards as a coping mechanism. It’s expensive, sure, but my main question is who writes the blurbs for the players? They have so much fun overwriting these (“With a frame that oozes physical upside…”). I want to write for Topps.21 Apr 2026 02:06 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxvia5cuc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mjhs43vfrs2fI watch Y&R with my 75-year-old mom every day. The current storyline where Victor Newman has kidnapped multiple people to extort them into giving his business back—and his daughter keeps excusing it—is pretty infuriating, given the current political climate. Hold. People. Accountable.14 Apr 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhs43vfrs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mioy6gylfk2kI have to stop reading the comments on YouTube, especially when we have a new coach and pitchers coming back from Tommy John and two new pitchers. Everybody wants to jump on the “we suck” train as early as they can so they can say “I told you so” if we tank. I just wanna be happy baseball is back.04 Apr 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mioy6gylfk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mgvlahcxb223My husband switched jobs, which means new health insurance and prior authorization for two meds that my two separate doctors already prescribed. When I called both the pharmacy and the doctors’ offices, they both told me to contact the other one. Health insurance in the U.S. is so broken.12 Mar 2026 23:42 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgvlahcxb223https://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mgtaq4qmy22iDo you ever just think about moving to Arizona to escape Daylight Savings Time? Yeah, me too.12 Mar 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgtaq4qmy22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mgdef3np5k2eI’m watching Y&R with my mom, and Victor has now kidnapped four people to get his company back. Apparently this is his business strategy right now. My mom: “Well, he’s bored. He doesn’t have a company to run.”05 Mar 2026 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdef3np5k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3mekjayzs6c2zI have never disagreed with the Betty Crocker cookbook more than when it told me to start by creaming butter and cocoa powder to make frosting. (Then add powdered sugar and vanilla, and last, milk. Frosting isn’t supposed to have the texture of concrete.)11 Feb 2026 03:16 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mekjayzs6c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3maobm4stok2tI’m just going to say that therapists who deal with kids and teens are doing the actual lord’s work and I wish we could give all of them all the money and praise.23 Dec 2025 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3maobm4stok2thttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3m7vg2jsjcc2nDo you all ever think about how you can purchase rolling papers legally (for cigarettes), but if you’re found with marijuana and the rolling papers, you can get charged for not just marijuana possession but also for “drug paraphernalia”? I know it’s all context, but still, it’s an extra charge.13 Dec 2025 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7vg2jsjcc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3m6ijriu5rc2bHas anybody else had trouble with pharmacists and pharmacy techs confusing dexmethylphenidate (Focalin) and methylphenidate (Ritalin), and no amount of saying the words clearly (or their brand names) seems to get them to understand?25 Nov 2025 23:49 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ijriu5rc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3m2q5xqjujc2zWhat do we think the chances are that the government shutdown ends by next Wednesday? I’m supposed to fly to Phoenix to see my grandmother on her 98th birthday next week.09 Oct 2025 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2q5xqjujc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lytwrjphos2xPerimenopause symptoms for me are putting my 14-year-old stepdaughter to bed, medicating the cats, then coming into the bedroom to change the sheets and all of a sudden my body is ON FIRE like I’ve run a marathon, and I will have to lay under a fan 15 minutes to AN ACTUAL HOUR just to cool down.15 Sep 2025 04:10 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lytwrjphos2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lyikrwpf722fLast night I watched Hamilton at the movie theater, and there were some seniors there, and the man said he didn’t realize Hamilton had rapping, and he was surprised it was so good. He just thought he was going to a *regular* musical. It’s kind of sweet that people can still be surprised in 2025.10 Sep 2025 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyikrwpf722fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3ly7mucptqc2rWhy I love baseball: Yoshinobu Yamamoto was throwing a no hitter for eight innings and two outs (score 3-0), and then Jackson Holliday hit a solo home run. A double, a hit by pitch, two walks, and a single—and two Dodgers relievers—and the Orioles won, 4-3, with two outs in the 9th inning.07 Sep 2025 02:19 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly7mucptqc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3ly7coa2l2k2lPlease, I beg of you, MLB, please stop inviting national anthem singers who sound like my grandmother warbling at church.06 Sep 2025 23:17 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly7coa2l2k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lxdwpn6jw22xEF Tours is really out here trying to get us to pay $230 per month for 21 months to send our 14-year-old on a 9-day trip to Italy in 2027. That’s $4,830. We love her, but we only paid $10k for our 2.5 week honeymoon in London, Paris, and Italy two years ago.27 Aug 2025 02:01 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxdwpn6jw22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lx62r4auxc2uWe have confusing tariffs, inflation that won’t come under control (thanks in part to tariffs), masked federal agents roaming the streets of DC, masked ICE agents disappearing immigrants, cancer research is unfunded, Palestinians starving, and Trump’s tweeting his opinions about MLB’s Hall of Fame. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Aug 2025 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx62r4auxc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lx62jtmq2s2uReally need the Orioles to extend Gunnar Henderson for many reasons, including the fact that I wanna know if Ben McDonald will still call him “the kid” when Gunnar is in his thirties.24 Aug 2025 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx62jtmq2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lx62bqaatc2uDamn. There’s another pitcher in the MLB out of ULL (Arrighetti of the Astros). I’m sure I didn’t have this one as a student, but I still don’t know about Brandon Young.24 Aug 2025 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx62bqaatc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lwzjzj5i422fAm I the only one playing whack-a-mole with scam callers over the last month? Every day they call (unknown callers are silenced but I still see them and get their VMs) and I block the number, but they call from a new number the next day.22 Aug 2025 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwzjzj5i422fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lwpr4g43jc2gAnd also can someone phone up Mike Elias and David Rubenstein and tell them to lock Trevor Rogers in ASAP? If we can flush $45 million for a talented but always-injured player, we can find allllllll the money for Trevor J’Daniel Rogers.19 Aug 2025 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwpr4g43jc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lwpqxoqck22gAs awful as this season has been for the Orioles (and their fans), I almost don’t want it to end because I don’t want anything to change w/r/t Trevor Rogers. If he keeps pitching like this… 🤞🏻19 Aug 2025 01:25 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwpqxoqck22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rlhazelwood.bsky.social/post/3lwosx2ocd22gI’ve been watching my mom’s soap opera with her for months, and I have some questions about just how many million-dollar or billion-dollar companies can be in Genoa City. Everybody has a company.18 Aug 2025 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:6vlpc63ip6sextsov4yrjchd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwosx2ocd22g