SELF CARE PART 3 BB
Hi Bestie!! Are you holding up OK? It's the second-most wonderful time of the year when both the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Capitals are playing...
Your TLTO 2024 In Review
Hi Bestie!! All year I planned a post rounding up the best things I bought, read, and ate, but I spent most of December with walking pneumonia so we're not...
We're Off to the Hot Dog Races
There is so much incidental baseball history in this one! 4,000+ words of it. Hi Bestie!! I don't want to see a real hot dog ever again — do not send me...
Let's Talk About Birth Control
*Hold on to this email so you can reference it in the future*.*Plus a recipe for pancakes*. NB: Too Loud & Too Old is pro-abortion and pro-birth control. If...
How to Take Care of Yourself (Part 2)
I started this Wednesday morning. Hi Bestie!! I know everything sucks really hard right now. Here is some advice from my very good friend and former boss:...
How to take care of yourself
LOLOLOLOLOL JUST KIDDING LIKE I WOULD KNOW! When I started therapy in 2021 my therapist gently gave me a hard time for not knowing how to participate in...
Polly Bemis, Woman of the West
Still not hot dogs! Hi Bestie!! I have a fascination with women of the Old West. Not women on horses with guns, though these women did ride horses and most...
The Brief History of Ketchup
A nice prequel to my hot dog article if I ever finish it! Hi Bestie!! Have you ever been asked a question and been so certain you knew the answer that you...
The TLTO Guide fo Disaster Preparedness
I Don't Care If You Hate It! (I don't expect you to memorize this or check it in a disaster, but sometimes in times of stress we remember a kernel of...
Fruit Pajamas
Don't leave, I have a bushel of fruit puns! Hi Bestie!! The item of the summer (a made-up concept!) is a pair of fruit pajamas. You need them for lounging....
I Hope There Are Thermophilic Spiders on Venus!
If you're afraid of spiders, you can skip this one! (No pictures!) Hi Bestie!! I have drafts in the pipeline but write to you having enjoyed Premium Couch...
I love to walk but AT WALK COST
Don't worry, everything's fine! The East Side, when I really, really hated the route. Hi Bestie!! I love walking. You know that. Let's talk about Big Walks....
The TLTO Summer Reading Challenge
Katherine Makes You Read Her Favorite Books This Summer Hi Bestie!! No preamble necessary: it’s summer, and several mental rambles have led to creating the...
I'm Your Homesteading Honeygirl
Hi Bestie!! I'm only teasing myself; I'm no homesteader. (I have read every Little House on the Prairie book.) I'm a decent gardener. I think that's a hobby...
The Ramapo Fault
Katherine, you don't have to share every embarrassing story. Hi Bestie!! Are you sick of earthquake content? Too bad!! We had an earthquake in New York City...
Remembering Flaco
It would be disrespectful, after remembering Pale Male. This is yet another issue that acknowledges death. If this was forwarded to you, you can subscribe...
Polar Swimming 🧊
No bears, polar or otherwise, were hurt in the writing of this newsletter. The board for February 4, 2024 Hi Bestie!! I’m a polar bear! I did my twelve...
An Unreasonable Fantasy Part II
This newsletter talks a little bit about hunting and animal meat. Hi Bestie!! I write to you on a small ice floe in the Arctic and everything around me is on...
Charismatic Megafauna: El Jefe
Call it a prequel! Hi Bestie!! I’m was maybe hiking in the woods with a bunch of little kids when I drafted this. Why change the intro now that I’m back in...
Shark Saturday (Part Four: Katherine Goes to the National Aquarium)
Or a story of two (three?) aquaria. The bubble tubes at the National Aquarium. Hi Bestie!! How are you feeling after the holiday? I’m feeling weird! But I...
New Island!!
Not Fukutoku-Okanoba, but an underwater volcano from Spongebob. Hi Bestie!! I’m all over the place this weekend. But if I could be anywhere with you (that’s...
Shark Saturday (Part 3)
100 percent not the shark we're talking about. Hi Bestie!! My life has been consumed with job hunting. (It was before, but now my last remaining job has...
The Frontier Was Always Stolen
The one where you remember that it’s occasionally hard to be my friend, but you’ll also learn something new! Is this a hit piece? I hope not. I woke up...
Cold Brew
Coffee Concentrate, May 2012. I bet this was a MESS to clean up. Hi Bestie!! I know it’s fall, but I started a long screed, about the Drummond Family, and I...
The Best $5 I Ever Spent*
*Not for the first or last time, surely. The bag of googly eyes, from Target's website. Oh, hey, Bestie!! Do you want some googly eyes? I was walking around...
Dribs, Drabs, Drebs, Drubs, and Dobs
Hi Bestie!! If I get to make the rules here, can't I send a newsletter that's only Dribs and Drabs? Didn't Taylor Swift say something about leaving the...
Shark Saturday (Part 2)
Sharks and musings about wishing I was high on cold medicine. Hi Bestie!! Shark Saturday is BACK. (Read, completely unrelated, Part 1, here.) I took a...
URBAN FAUNA: Remembering NYC Icon, Pale Male
I don't even know who I stole this photograph of Pale Male from! Hi Bestie! Who could have guessed that so much of this newsletter would be dedicated to the...
Something About Smoke I Guess?
Hi Bestie!! That smoke week was something, wasn’t it? The air quality in New York City today is Good, for the first time since…last Tuesday, I guess. I...
A Completely Unreasonable Fantasy
Hi Bestie!! I am in Maryland this weekend and we had Texas Roadhouse for dinner, because my (sainted) mom has heard my lecture more than once. Inspired by a...
Sour Cherries (With a Pancake Recipe)
Hi Besties!! I started a newsletter Wednesday while serving jury duty*, but it’s not ready, and I am thinking a lot about cherries. I started this newsletter...
Don't Tell Ryan Murphy About Marguerite de la Roche!!
Hi Bestie!! I’m going to yell about something dark!! Death—including child death—follows! One of my favorite things to do is read about small, remote islands...
Fuuuuuck Tiger Woods
Hi Bestie!! Only one subscriber (is that gauche?) has met my mom, but you’ve met me, so I think you can understand the tone implied in the email she sent her...
Sue's Lips
Hi Bestie!! It's been too long. It's so nice to see you again. I'm going to try to rub out a quick one (your mom liked it)* while my other unhinged ramblings...
URBAN FAUNA: The Prospect Park Alligator
Warning: This newsletter contains unrestrained rambling and also photographs and cinematic renderings of very large reptiles. Hi Bestie!! I am back from a...
Bummers All-Around
I spent several hours sighing this morning—and I mean 2 a.m., it was still last night to me—thinking, “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my GOD” while I did my taxes....
Shark Saturday (Part 1)
My neighbor and I were on a failed mission to get my nephew a Christmas present (I went drunk shopping at Five Below and it all worked out!) and wandered...
Hi Bestie!
Hi! I’m giving you an enthusiastic wave, can you see it? When I was a little girl, my dad either left for work at dawn or in the afternoon (…which is how I...