Hey nerds, let’s keep this just between us for now but I found out last night my daughter goes to school and is friends with Rene Auberjonois’s grand daughter and I’ve been gleefully geeking out about it ever since.

Today’s essay is as much for me as it is for you.

Was he yelling “I can’t breathe” when it was happening?

Beatrix, age 15, on Former Officer Derek Chauvin’s prison stabbing

This is how she’s earned her new nickname, Woke Wednesday.

33 could have been the only Battlestar Galactica episode made and it would still work all by itself as one of the best television series ever aired.

(Also, it seriously can stand on its own. A complete story. Gripping, intense, complex, yet full of hope.)

Manifesting this on the tree for the coming year.

Bethany is out of town on business so I have a different yoga partner this morning.

Seriously, you can’t have your name be Shake Shack and only serve vanilla, chocolate, and Oreo. Plus, have your logo be a burger. Get your game together people! What?! Am I wrong?

— Beatrix, age 15

This is going to be an awfully big tree. 🌲

You can only change you. If I’d learned this lesson sooner it would have saved me years of heartbreak and disappointment.

In conversation, Bethany and I referenced the M.A.S.H. episode where Radar makes a lamb out of Spam.

Beatrix: “Jibberish just touched my ears!”