She kept checking in on me periodically to make sure I was OK, but when she realized I was perfectly happy and just lost in a book, she left me to it. I also read Scarlet Letter and a few other things that summer, with the joy of coming at them as novels, not Things to Study.

The summer I finished high school, my dad sent me to Egypt to stay with relatives and get in touch with my heritage. I did not have enough books. Late in the summer, my aunt let me at her stash of books from lit classes, and I inhaled Madame Bovary like oxygen because I'd been starved for reading.

That's so sweet 🥺

The middle grade novel it's based on is amazing (read it from the library and immediately bought my own copy). It hit hard when I read before becoming a parent, so I imagine the movie is going to destroy me.

I don’t always agree with the boomers but please stop making me download an app every time I wanna use a product please for the love of god

He really is the sweetest kitty. Only one I'd even try that with 😂.

Ha, I mean, the internet IS for cat pictures after all 😂.

Bonus #ShowMeYourKnits - feline knitwear edition, featuring Scamp in varying levels of willingness to put up with my nonsense.

#ShowMeYourKnits is hats and scarves this week, so here's a smattering from over the years. Hats are my go-to pallete cleanse project when I need a quick win. Not pictured: an iconic Whovian The Scarf.

My thoughts on lexile reading levels. Use 'em to meet assignments, sure, but outside of school, let kids read what they want. Some things will be "too easy" but comforting, and others will be a stretch. But if a child is voluntarily reading for fun, NURTURE that.