Debra Wexler

Woke up this morning to discover that there was no milk for our coffee, but CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, the bagel shop is open and delivering. (I am truly ruined for all places besides New York City.)

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I’m a little jealous of those who don’t know who she is because that means you haven’t yet watched “Hacks” — now is a good time to remedy that!

Why am I so bad at sleeping? You’d think I would be able to master this basic life skill after 50+ years.

Got the Sunday Scaries? Here's a highland cow for you.

My iPhone Health app just suggested I complete a mental health check-in, but I’m feeling like this really isn’t the right month for that.

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...

So last evening I had 1K followers, and this morning I have 13K+. I'm not yet sure what list I got put on but HELLO.

Full disclosure: I post mostly about education, but also a fair bit about NYC & cute animals. As a welcome gift, here's a baby rhino having a nosh at Lake Nakuru, Kenya.

People just really don’t appreciate how extraordinary CUNY is.

People don’t talk about it enough but one of the great recent technological advances is the introduction of ornament balls that bounce instead of break after falling off the tree.

I’m rewatching “Bad Sisters” before diving in to season two, and John Paul is truly an all-timer among villains.

I have to say, I am in Manhattan this afternoon and it is decidedly NOT a ghost town.

“Unlike other one-semester high school personal finance courses across the country, more than 160 students enrolled in the KIPP DC College Preparatory's NAF Academy of Business program study budgeting, saving, investing and managing risk, as well as other topics, right through graduation.”

Here's how this DC-area high school is attempting to close the wealth gap

Over the course of three years, students take courses on saving money, building wealth and budgeting, setting them up to achieve economic mobility and success.

Such good news.

CNN @cnn.com

American journalist Alec Luhn has been found alive, after he went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park.

American journalist found after going missing on hike in Norwegian national park | CNN

American journalist Alec Luhn, who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park, has been found alive, according to the Norwegian Red Cross.

Voting in Park Slope and I have never seen this polling place as close to as crowded as it is today, even during a Presidential year. #nyc

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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?

I (53F) just asked my husband (57M) to confirm that it's Thursday and he told me that it was Wednesday just to mess with me. We've been married for nearly 30 years and he's generally pretty great. But is this breach of trust something we can come back from?

Went out to dinner at a restaurant in France last night and there was a menu section for “children and difficult people.”

So…what’s the insomnia situation like on here?

I’m a 5-foot-nothing woman who has only feared for my safety on the subway once in decades and that was when it was “showtime” and I was a little nervous one of the guys might accidentally kick me in the face. (He didn’t.)

I am currently on a giant Zoom call for parents of juniors at my daughter’s high school, and let me tell you, in the year of our lord 2025, people still do not know that they need to mute themselves.

Elephants are the best

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WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

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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!

Education scholar friends: People don’t necessarily understand the value of education research in the same intuitive way they understand the value of research into cancer, etc. Drop examples of high-impact edu research in the thread below. #edusky
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Education Department slashes funding for research contracts, grants — POLITICO

About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.

Yet another #NYC brush fire, this one 10 acres in northern Manhattan. But it's okay, the Mayor says we'll just keep putting them out. No big whoop.🙄

FDNY battling brush fire in Washington Heights amid drought warning

Firefighters are on the scene of another brush fire burning in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon.