Storyteller. Comedian. Dad. I've got four shows that I perform. I've given two TEDx talks. My penis is the least interesting part of me. She/Her/Hers
Feb 19, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Hi. I'm a glass nerd who grew up in Corning, NY during Corning Glass Works (now Corning, Inc) heyday as a consumer glass manufacturer. I get a bunch of my glass nerdiness from my dad, whose team created Corelle, plus also from our old neighbor, Dr. Donald Stookey. 🧵
I'm sure you're familiar with Dr Stookey's work. He's the guy who accidentally invented pyroceram, which was marketed as Corningware, the opaque version of PYREX.
Yeah, him. He also invented the glass that darkens in bright light, as well the re-entry tiles on the space shuttle.
Feb 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
Time it was
And what a time it was, it was...
Feb 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Oy my god. "Serious people," he says. We live in a world where a dominant political party, filled, ostensibly, with "serious people," routinely repeat not only UNproven, but DISproven allegations that are repeated by their friends in media & social media until they're accepted.
• Welfare Queens driving Cadillacs
• Yellowcake uranium
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Arbitrary late-term abortions
• "Post birth" abortions
• Groomers
These are all buzzwords of "unproven allegations" that nevertheless made it into the national discourse.
Apr 23, 2022 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
(TW: Child abuse)
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When my oldest son was 10-12 years old, a wave of child sexual abuse revelations & accusations started getting a lot of press. That was the age many of the victims were when they said the abuse started. So I took a special interest in this story.
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Lucky for me I was working in a newsroom at this point, so I was able to pitch the idea of a report on predatory behavior, and what parents should look out for to protect your kids, so I got paid to do the stuff I would have done after work.
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Jan 12, 2022 • 30 tweets • 8 min read
September 29th was a travel day. I was traveling to Pittsburgh to get my daughter so she could go to a doctor’s appointment here in Rochester (she was still on my insurance, which is functionally useless in Pennsylvania).
This was a route I had traveled dozens of times over the last five years, first while she was in college, then during a fellowship, and now that she decided to live there with her fella.
Jan 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I’m having a hard time processing this. I have been, on numerous occasions, very close to fainting *and just ignored it.*
I have such poor communication skills with my body and I am certain it comes from having a father who considered acknowledging pain to be a feminine trait.
This was a man who had a finger chopped off and was back at work 2 hours later.
Who used to climb into machines carrying molten glass around to make adjustments on the fly.
Who ignored chest pain because he wanted to play a pickup game of volleyball at 52 and died.
Jan 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I've seen a lot of people talking about Betty White & Arthur Duncan, but what I don't see is the awareness that the reason Betty was able to continue to feature the Black tap-dancer on her show is because she was also the producer of the show. That didn't happen.
Literally.
I believe Betty White was the first woman to produce a television show. That was some serious effort on her part to get enough control that she, an unmarried, 30-something woman, could create a successful TV show.
And it WAS successful. Very much so. Until Arthur Duncan.
Jan 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Has anyone here ever actually fainted? I think that's what I did. I always thought fainting involved going unconscious. This was much more of an out-of-body experience.
I was trying to make it to my bedroom, when the nausea got real bad. I braced myself, and closed my eyes.
Suddenly I was aware that my body wasn't in an upright position anymore, and I had a really dissociated reaction to it. Sort of like "oh, we're doing THIS now." Then I stopped moving, and there was something cool on my face.
Aug 10, 2021 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
This thread will be talking about body issues, weight and exercise and their impact on my life. I know that many people are triggered by these things, so it's my hope that those who have issues reading about them can pass this thread by.
10 years ago today, I weighed 176 pounds. On August 20, 2011, I weighed 173.5 pounds at 4am. I wanted to carry the least amount of weight possible up Mt. Washington, NH. I'm sure I weighed a pound or two lighter when I got to the top, but there wasn't a scale for me to stand on.
Aug 9, 2021 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
I have two responses to this. I have no idea how long it will take me to express them.
The first is to the folks who do this, parent-to-parent:
How dare you? How dare you put your own views, fears & beliefs above the welfare of your child? You're not protecting or helping them.
You are torturing them, because their reality makes you uncomfortable.
Too bad.
The absolute worst thing you can do as a parent is to make parenting about yourself. Nothing involved with raising a child should be about you.
Apr 11, 2021 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
1. People are dropping Robert Moses on this tweet like he's the only racist road builder out there. I'd say Mayor Pete underselling when he says "SOME of our highways." Moses may have been the LeBron of racist infastructure, but he was not the only player.
Here's a little 🧵.
2. First, be aware that the Eisenhower Interstate System had ulterior motives built into it. Yeah, it was great for moving commercial goods from Tucson to Tucumcari. Of course it made it easier for us to See the USA in our Chevrolets, but it also it was great for moving rockets.
Apr 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Once I was the King of Spain!
Ah! My unspeakable wife: Queen Lisa!
And what a time it was, it was... 
