You know? You’re right, Shawn’s Wine Shop. #affirmations

Light reading over a late lunch.

My new Broken Lands postcards from @makecontact arrived! Look how beautiful they are!

Even Sprocket is horrified by the state of the writing room.

Writing Room Cleaning Day. Because even Sprocket is horrified by the state of this room.

pushbartoopen:

For the ladies (Taken with Instagram at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)

Ali, this does not jive with my Civil War research. Please explain.

This batch has FEET!!

offonatangent:

This is a subject that’s been on my mind a lot these past few weeks, driven largely by the absolutely deserved attention cycle given to Robert Caro’s LBJ biography and volume 4, THE PASSAGE OF POWER. It’s not just that Caro is a throwback, someone whose career was the product of a time when…

Sprocket, Editorial Assistant Dog. Right where she can be most totally in the way and yet pretend she’s trying to be helpful.

It’s hard to find this quite as silly as I was initially inclined to find it, because my brain has automatically started seeking ways to turn napkin-folding into something weird I can use in a book.