Debra Wexler

I hear rumors that there are a bunch of new folks joining. If any of you are #education nerds, here's my starterpack of education reporters and wonks. #edusky go.bsky.app/EUtjscv

It's truly hard to believe that it's been 24 years. As always on this day, from @colsonwhitehead.com: www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Ok - I am really going to need to carve out decompression time in the coming months so hmu with your recommendations for cozy mystery novels, bingeable sit-coms, European procedurals, and other worthy distractions. Please and thank you!

Apropos of nothing, I was just remembering the misery of having to do square dancing every year in elementary and middle school. Who decided that was essential knowledge and when did it stop being required?

Today I passed a stoop sale with a sign saying they accepted all bitcoins.

"We seek ourselves in this city each time we reminisce about what was there 5, 10, 40 years ago, because all our old places are proof that we were here. One day the city we built will be gone, and when it goes, we go. When the buildings fall, we topple, too." — @colsonwhitehead.com ❤️‍🩹🗽

Enough already.

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In 2022, I was privileged to help celebrate Dolly Parton's giving when she received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. Her generosity is hard to measure, but here's the story of the impact the Imagination Library had for one family in her native Sevier County. RIP to a legend & a truly good one.

This is the Bad Place.

I have been a Cubs fan my whole life but until today have never seen them play at Wrigley. One for the books.

1971. I could give you five but frankly "knackered" has it covered.

My husband is currently on the phone with his 80-something year-old trying to walk them through how to use a QR code. Anyhoo, can't help but wonder what the equivalent will be for our kids in a couple of decades.

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