Thought it'd be easier to mass-update here, instead of texting the MANY inquiring parties separately. After seven weeks on backorder, following an alarming "we're not sure we'll be able to fulfill your purchase" email, my limited-edition, pre-order-only Fiona Apple "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" official sweatshirt has arrived. Thank Shesus. We can all finally start sleeping better. 🙏🏼✌🏼🙊 But seriously, #fionaapple and I have been through a lot since I fell hard for her in middle school, and #fetchtheboltcutters is, as always, freakishly apropos and prophetic and haunting and fun. Though every song MYSTIFIES my Anthony, for me, these are the anthems soundtracking this most bewildering + frightening + m-f'ing-angry era of my life. "I move with the trees / in the breeze / I know that time is elastic." Long live my 👑 queen 👑.

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Cameron thought this "fancy garnish" (and this photo capturing this "fancy garnish") was hilaaaaarious. 🦖🍸 Twas such the stressful/scary/strenuous week. But apparently I've arrived, somehow, in my Friday night fantasy scenario. (In bed, books and Belvedere within reach.) And despite this delightful anomaly, sometimes you STILL find a vicious beast in your vodka. At some point, these last few years, I've learned to sip around them.
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(And seriously, when possible, buy books from @prologuebookshop . They're indie and knowledgeable and lovely. No incentive to say that, except that it's the truth.) #notaninfluencer #justlovebooks #saveindiebookstores #abbeyclelandlopez #prologuebookshop #614columbus #cbusgram ...

Slow Sunday morning scrolling through old photos. Nearly all of my LA pictures look something like this. I miss LA and the unleashing effect it has on me -- my own personal Vegas, but the transactions and encounters carry on long after I leave. Excluding my pregnancies, I’ve never stayed away this long (since moving there in 2007). How glorious a reunion it'll be, but when, nada clue. 🖤

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Chatty 24 hours in Abbeyland. Some very good updates from three of my dearest people, and a happy email I've been waiting on, hoping for.... Note to Self: Stop forgetting, even momentarily, that things can get better, easier, lighter.

(Also, if you really truly prefer Veronica over Betty unfollow me now on the grounds that you're a scary/gravely confused individual. 😏😳😆)

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Honestly? Not a great midnight officemate. 🤷🏼‍♀️ #abbeyclelandlopez ...

I live in a house. I am someone's wife. And occasionally, when Anthony works overnight, and the children are finally asleep, and the words begin to swim on the page, alerting me I may begin doing more harm than good, I sneak up to the guestroom and turn on Fiona or Tori or Tracy or Joni or Amy or Carly and end up looking something like this. I've never identified as a "housewife," but I'm thinking it's reasonable that these components [ house + wife + occasional throwback beauty habit ] fit me squarely in this demo, this demo that OUR White House's worst-ever tenant assumes supports his racist policy. But here's the thing, the "housewives" I know, you know, married women in houses who may also occasionally wear curlers -- this must be the definition, right? I'll ask Betty Friedan and Matthew Weiner later -- we are ambitious, critical-thinking, open-minded, big-hearted types with soft bellies and sharp talons. We read. We analyze. We feel. We DO. We contribute more value to the people in our care the first hour of any given morning than he has all term, and likely all his life. We don't like messes because we are the ones who do the picking up. What a monstrous deplorable mess this insecure toddler has made. I've always loved witches, in part because of their dope wheels (🧹), but now I'm thinking it's a powerful symbol witches and housewives share. I, generally and specifically, LOVE people and LOATHE politics. Because of this very dilemma, November can't come soon enough. Brooms up, ladies. 🧹🏛🧹
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