https://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lr43hecnuk2w“It was late May, housecleaning season, when Roger fell in love with a woman at the dump. He never saw her. He just liked the way she threw things away.” Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White. How could I not spend the entire day reading this book? 💙📚 #booksky08 Jun 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr43hecnuk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lomtyzoxnc2nTo whoever it was on #booksky who recommended this book: Thank you. It was marvelous. 💙📚08 May 2025 02:20 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lomtyzoxnc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3liuycwq6js2zI’m rewatching Malcolm in the Middle and I love how Hal plays all sweet and innocent like we don’t know about that batch of meth he’s cooking up in the shed out back…23 Feb 2025 23:27 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3liuycwq6js2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lictggfb5k2hMe (seeing a potted plant at CVS register): Nice plant. Cashier: My mama had to get rid of her plants ‘cause they were making her sick sucking up all the oxygen. Me: Plants don’t suck up oxygen. They suck up carbon dioxide & make oxygen. Her: Everybody’s different. Me: You’re right about that.16 Feb 2025 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lictggfb5k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3li3w7hdovs2lWhether you observe Lent or just celebrate Mardi Gras, maybe spend 40 days thinking about how this utterly valueless item causes such harm to the environment - from manufacture to transport to disposal. #BanTheBeads. (Pics a week after my neighborhood Mardi Gras parade last year🤨)14 Feb 2025 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3li3w7hdovs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lhvncvvu7s2wGillian Anderson and David Duchovny have both aged so well. So why this promo that makes them look like a woman with pink hair and face tattoos just walked into their church?11 Feb 2025 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhvncvvu7s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lhunjxbc7c2nSo many people are complaining that they couldn’t understand a word of Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics in the Super Bowl halftime show. Am I the only one who couldn’t understand a word of Ben Affleck’s Dunkin commercial?11 Feb 2025 02:49 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhunjxbc7c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lholglsly226Working on a gloomy Saturday after three weeks of a cascade of horrible news listening to Classical California KUSC trying to drown out the neighbor’s dog’s incessant yapping and Hagrid’s Theme starts playing. For just a moment I was transported to a safe, happy place. #harrypotter08 Feb 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lholglsly226https://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lhmgyklzok2kAs you make plans to celebrate Mardi Gras, please please skip the beads. https://tulanehullabaloo.com/65356/news/poisonous-plastic-toxic-truth-about-mardi-gras-beads/07 Feb 2025 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhmgyklzok2khttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lh4ynisojs2fI don’t recall what the Paper Wrap event at fifth grade Field Day was, but apparently I excelled at it.😬01 Feb 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh4ynisojs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lgobkatorc27A fire, a blanket, and a book recommended on #booksky. What could be better.26 Jan 2025 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgobkatorc27https://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lglwb5tlbc2hDid a bookcase purge. Heading out to distribute books to the Little Free Libraries in my neighborhood. (I will not bring any books home. I will not bring any books home. I will not bring any books home…) 😬 💙📚 #booksky25 Jan 2025 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lglwb5tlbc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lggic72mac2zMy best friend called me yesterday. When I answered, she said, “You have a collect call from Gilead. Do you accept the charges?” 😂😂😂23 Jan 2025 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lggic72mac2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lg4f4rh4yk2wJust finished The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (2015). It was excellent. I would not have found it but for #booksky where someone recommended it. 💙📚19 Jan 2025 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg4f4rh4yk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lffxup6i2k2gI have this vintage raincoat with the oddest label. It says “Misty Harbor Wish: Health to wear this - Strength to tear this - and Wealth to buy a new one.”10 Jan 2025 19:54 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lffxup6i2k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lf3d2mo3722eLoving the new Apple Watch the hubs gave me for my birthday. Particularly the feature that tells me to get up and walk for one minute when I have been sitting too long. It’s so convenient because it takes almost exactly one minute to walk from my desk to the snack bar in the break room and back 😬06 Jan 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3d2mo3722ehttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lehvdhf4ls2i“Oil can what?” The funniest line in cinematic history. 📽️ #filmsky #moviesky29 Dec 2024 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lehvdhf4ls2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3le3cs7ud4k25The little parish I grew up in held mass in the priest’s basement. My parents loaned these wine goblets for communion. When mom was purging for a move to a condo years later, I rescued them from the donate pile. I no longer go to mass and rarely drink, but I always trot them out for the holidays.24 Dec 2024 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3le3cs7ud4k25https://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lci5plubgk2gI love reading memoirs. Three of my favorites: I’m Down by Mishna Wolff The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (quite possibly the most extraordinary book I have ever read) What memoirs do you recommend? #booksky 📚💙04 Dec 2024 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lci5plubgk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lcdch6yqns2z“My great-grandparents had come to Minnesota as part of a mass emigration from Norway that began in about 1880. … I suspected that they hadn’t relocated to the coldest place on Earth and then taken up disemboweling pigs because things were going well in Europe.” Hope Jahren Lab Girl 💙📚 #BookSky02 Dec 2024 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdch6yqns2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/barbsey.bsky.social/post/3lbpyx46p522wGive yourself a gift this holiday season and pick up a copy of Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire. 💙📚24 Nov 2024 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:ukwsovid752bini6extio2if/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbpyx46p522w