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Written with Sammi Skolmoski, who has done a much better job of keeping a record of these with dates and everything, here.

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Sexy Broccoli (Medium)
Lessons From Roosters (Human Parts)
Talking to my Fiancé About My New Girlfriend (NYT)
Behold The Magnificent Pigeon (The Chicago Reader)
Love Is Like A Sourdough Starter: It Can Last Forever Or Get Super Smelly And Weird (Bon Appetit)
The Crying Chronicles (Spiralbound)
Charts for Talking to People (The New Yorker)
How To Do 50 Things (Forge)
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Sophie Lucido Johnson is an author and cartoonist who lives in Chicago with chickens, bees, cats, and bread. Read more about her.

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A repost from several years ago, since the flying things are very much flying, pollinating, and enjoying life. Since originally posting this, I’ve been stung by three yellow jackets… and (PLOT TWIST!) a carpenter bee! The carpenter bee a

June is National Pollinators Month! So here are a bunch of cartoons about things that fly in order to help flowers have sex. I wrote these with @skullmoski and we have a whole bunch of other dumb cartoons over at @sophieandsammi
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When I was working on my book (KIN!), I read a lot of scientific studies about friendship. This particular one (more than 1,000 people studied over several years in the Netherlands, published in 2009) I keep coming back to. It’s so easy to be l

This is not a plea to stop fighting. Only sometimes, every once in a while, think about how many tiny miracles had to conspire to lead to the moment of you, here, looking at a bird, or drinking a glass of water. It is the rule, and not the exception,

Happy New Yorker Cartoons Covers Day! It’s my first year participating (!), and I was just thrilled to get to cover this political-yet-evergreen one (see what I did there?) by @trattopinto — whose work I loved going through and learning a

I’m very excited to finally show you the beautiful green cover for my upcoming book, KIN: The Future of Family, from @atriabooks. If you’re feeling stretched thin, exhausted, and despairing about your own life and the end of the world, I