Science reveals endless untold wonders worthy of celebration and awe.
This is my beautiful, hilarious, astonishingly brilliant mother on her 70th birthday today. She gave me life and she exudes it, loves it, celebrates it, every single day of hers💫
I opened a cardboard box this morning and inside I found the last few years of work in tangible, lovely book form and then my heart exploded #galleys #bookstagram #forsmallcreaturessuchaswe
This whole time that I’ve been on here looking at your pictures I was supposed to be writing a book.
I love this picture of my mom so much. It was taken in 1966 on her first day at NYU. She had no idea what life had in store for her. She’s many years away from motherhood but I can tell in this picture that she is already my mother. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, past, present, and future. And especially to my brilliant, beautiful one ♥️ #anndruyan
This is me last night with #danieldennett and #gregepstein on a panel about being secular for a philosophy class at Harvard called “Saints, Heretics and Atheists”. The students asked interesting, thoughtful questions and we gave long, rambling answers. I had an absolute ball.
I love movies. In part, because ever since I was a little girl my mother let me stay up late to watch the #Oscars with her and one of her best friends. It was an annual ritual to honor a particular art form. And it taught me that it takes lots and lots of talented people to make a movie, and most of them aren’t famous. It also taught me that politics and art and history are forever intertwined, and rightly so. A gold star for the first person who can name what movie this ladies room wallpaper is from 🎥🎞 Happy Oscar Sunday, everybody
This is my book. It’s very, very close to being done. But I promise if you order it, when it comes it will look like a real book and not a dogeared stack of papers that have been lightly sprinkled with salad dressing and feelings. #firstpasspages
I am skeptical and secular and I try to withhold belief without evidence. I don’t subscribe to reincarnation or ghosts. But I understand why they are such powerful ideas, why they stay with us. I am visiting a place I used to come as a child with my family. My dad and my grandparents are now gone. And I’m here today with my small daughter. I see them in her, their expressions, their features. Around every corner of this place there is a lost memory from my childhood. And, for me, it feels no less sacred to think of it as a function of our genes and neurons. It still takes my breath away. 📷: @ohbrihtney
This is a picture of my husband throwing our daughter in the air as she squeals with glee on the same beach where my father and I shared just these kind of giddy joys. Thinking of all the great dads, past and present, on this Father’s Day ♥️
This volcanic archipelago is a real schlep to get to, especially from the east coast, especially when a member of your party happens to be a toddler. But it’s so, so worth it.
We have a serious #octopus obsession in our household. They are astonishing, intelligent creatures who communicate by changing color and need puzzles to keep from getting bored in captivity. We have spent a lot of time admiring these two particular individuals at @newenglandaquarium, but we’ve never seen them quite as gregarious as they were today 🐙💙
We have a serious #octopus obsession in our household. They are astonishing, intelligent creatures who communicate by changing color and need puzzles to keep from getting bored in captivity. We have spent a lot of time admiring these two particular individuals at @newenglandaquarium, but we’ve never seen them quite as gregarious as they were today 🐙💙
We have a serious #octopus obsession in our household. They are astonishing, intelligent creatures who communicate by changing color and need puzzles to keep from getting bored in captivity. We have spent a lot of time admiring these two particular individuals at @newenglandaquarium, but we’ve never seen them quite as gregarious as they were today 🐙💙
The bachelorette weekend is really such a great ritual. Congratulations to my lifelong bestie, the beautiful, hilarious bride-to-be, @jessicaeth 💗
Geology, man.
I just learned that the architect I.M. Pei has died. I have loved many buildings he created, but none more than @hfjmuseum. My husband and I were married there in 2013. Some seventeen years earlier, a memorial for my dad was held there. In both cases, the architecture of the museum, its openness and its stature, played a central role in my experience of the day, like a kind of canvas itself, upon which I could paint my emotions. Goodbye, Mr. Pei and thank you. #impei
The last two posts were both pics of the ocean in landscape, which looked kind of weird together, so I thought maybe if I post a third one it will seem like it was on purpose? ….Ok, will stop with the vacation photos now as I am back home and this is getting ridiculous.
Hi. I got these for you.
#seasonsgreetings 🌍☀️💙🥂
For a second I thought she was taking a cute selfie with her baby, but she‘s just holding up some grapes…. okay, great….thanks for listening.
Boston is growing on me. It’s been three and a half years and I have come to love its charms. There is history here. And it’s the perfect place to go on manageable adventures with a small, curious child. But nothing will ever cure me of the way I feel about New York.
Thanks for such a lovely time tonight, @penguinrandomhouse. Among many highlights was getting a chance to fulfill my dream of awkwardly screaming “I love you so much!” to @tanehisipcoates and then running away. #bookexpo19
Since I was a little girl I have been fascinated by time travel, but I must confess that before I read this excellent book by #jamesgleick it had never occurred to me that the idea of time travel had to be invented. I guess I thought it had always just been with us. But in the grand scheme of things, we only just started telling time travel stories. Maybe we need a few more millennia of these kinds of stories before we figure out how to actually do it. Like we did with flying. 🕰💼 #timetravel #bookstagram
