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The wonder of life is mixed in Monet’s bright colors. #art #artsky #impressionism #Monet

Another new favorite! #artsky

As I’ve mentioned in the past, one of the best parts of art museums is discovering new art/artists to love. Below is a new piece I fell in love with at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. #artsky

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum #isabellastewartgardner

My first trip to Boston; just me, some co-workers, and 16 undergrads, partying like it’s 1773! #spillthetea #boston

What are you reading? Currently, I’m immersed in the best series I’ve read in a good 15-20 years. The sharp wit, delightful characters, and absolute whimsy of the fictional St. Crispian’s of Victorian England, is a delight. 10/10 would recommend! #booksky #books #emmamlion

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

View from my backyard; I want to pull out the old watercolors and go wild in this town. Alas, to quote Dumbledore: “Time is making fools of us again.”

Loving our new (for us anyway) Craftsman bungalow circa the 1920s! Now I just need to think of the perfect name…

Just finished Marie Benedict’s latest historical fiction “Daughter of Egypt”. It was wonderful & I highly recommend! Blending the lives of Lady Eve Herbert & Hatshepsut, this is the story of unseen women & their quest to be rediscovered. #booksky #archaeology #egypt

Enjoyed a great beach day with my oldest. We had a blast swimming in the perfect water and had some excellent beach combing finds! #jerseyshore

Know Your Rights: Travel Edition ✈️ www.instagram.com/reel/Db1z84q...

Just got my tickets to see the incomparable @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social in Brooklyn this September. So excited to read “Hollywood, Ending” bc, in the words of Hazel Grace, “Frankly, I'd read [his] grocery lists.” #nerdlife #booksky

Since my son (almost 2) decided we needed to be up very early today, we took advantage of the beautiful morning and enjoyed a walk by the pond. #nature

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@joannechocolat.bsky.social Saw some of your books at the library book sale today. Smiled and thought: Oh look, it’s my friend’s books. 😂💕 The magic of places like Bluesky that allow us to enter into conversation with those we admire.

Was surprised by a squirrel in my office today. A squirrel. Just making himself at home until my squeal of alarm (initially thought he was a rat) sent him fleeing. How’s your Wednesday going? #squirrel #summer

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state… trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate… Haply I think on thee… thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. -Shakespeare

Realizing that my desire for a great beach read is really just me chasing the high of the absolute satisfaction that was a Baby Sitter’s Club Super Special Edition. #booksky #babysittersclub

Commencement Ceremony 1 today…

It’s a gorgeous, chilly, rainy Spring day…the perfect day for my annual re-read of “The Secret Garden”. #booksky #springreads 🌹

Honorary Member of the Chi Alpha Epsilon Honor Society 🤓 #chialphaepsilon #edu

After at least 25 years of wanting to do it, I finally went short! I love it!!! Middle age definitely has its compensations, not the least of which is just going for what you want.

#wewerespacemen #firefly You can’t take the sky from us!!!! Firefly animated reboot info just dropped from the OG Crew!!!!

Ah yes, Pi Day. The day we celebrate Pi’s freedom from the tyranny of rational numbers! #pi #piday

After gobbling up McConnelly’s Ballard/Bosch series, I’ve moved on to Katherine Reich’s “Bones” series. While very different from the tv show, I’m thoroughly enjoying it and highly recommend. What are you reading? #booksky

Look, I’m not asking for the world here…I just need things to be a little less hard. You know. Just a little less…hard.

🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like…a state of emergency… #blizzardlife

Absolutely perfect. True then, true now.

January blooms on the Christmas cactus (which is neither limited to Christmas, nor truly a cactus).

I like it!

Crazy month, but at last, here is more from the Renoir exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum: As anyone who follows knows, I fell in love w/ Berthe Morisot this past year. Here is a painting by Renoir of Berthe & Eugene Manet’s daughter, Julie. I admit, I particularly love the cat! #artsky #renoir

Being married to a fellow English nerd ( @leonard-apa.bsky.social ) is the best! 6 in the morning, getting ready for our mutual academic jobs, discussing the fate of Romeo and Juliet and to what extent Mercutio’s famous curse played a part in the ending. 🤓💕 #Englishteachers #litnerds #shakespeare

Check out my husband, author Lenny Apa ( @leonard-apa.bsky.social ) on the Dystopia Tonight podcast: youtu.be/0yePykFYJOI?... Discussing his debut novel: “Introducing the Scarlet Scrapper” #writersky #booksky #writerssky

Sharing some delights from my trip to the Morgan Library & Museum, Renoir Exhibition: The exhibit highlighted Renoir drawings/sketches. I was shocked by the large scale of the actual painting. #artsky #themorganlibrary

The incomparable Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, painter (and receiver of patronage) of Marie Antoinette, among many other wonderful works of art, as seen below. #artsky #themet

Christmas tree is up! #mumlife

Another pair of intense eyes, this Mademoiselle is stunning by the sea. #themet #renoir #impressionism #artsky

Sometimes, when you are walking through a gallery, you feel eyes on you. This handsome man’s gaze arrested me; I could not look away. #themet #artsky #renoir #impressionism

A fav of mine (that I’ve been lucky to see several versions of) is Degas’ Little Dancer. While the story behind the young model is very sad, her beauty and grace have been immortalized in bronze. #themet #impressionism #degas #artsky Read more about her here: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Day 2 of my new job as the Program Manager/Education Coordinator for TRIO-SSS at Super Secret University. 💕 Loving every minute of it! It’s so nice to be back in Academia after a year with the baby. #TRIOgal #TRIO

More stunning windows glass art by Tiffany artist, Agnes Northrop. “Autumn Landscape” is apparently widely considered to be her masterpiece. And indeed, seeing it in person will take your breath away. #tiffanygirls #themet #artsky

I often get tunnel vision in museums searching for my favs. Imagine my surprise then when I stumbled upon Tiffany glass! Better, this was created by Tiffany artist Agnes Northrop. #tiffanygirls #themet #artsky Learn more about the Tiffany Girls here: riot.nyc/tiffanys-sec...

My new love is the hippo, “William”. The unofficial mascot of The Met, his gift shop facsimile will now have pride of place in my new office, in effect becoming the office deity. Why is he called William? Read on to find out! #themet #williamthehippo #artsky #ancientegypt

One of my great delights in ancient exhibits is all the “lil guys”. Although extremely significant in their time, depicting deities or offering protections, for us they’re more often adorable little dudes brightening our day. Also, peep who discovered this hippo! #ancientegypt #themet #artsky