Susan Orlean

@baseballpajamas I'm so sad about my chickens. Trying to figure out if I sate risk it again.

@kbyrne91 @nekocase Is Burt Reynolds available to chicken-sit? That would be pretty awesome.

@WhatSayCo Yes, I hope so. And Elvis! And ... My dad! And other cool people! And chickens!

@cabri This is like a neutron bomb dropped on my house. When Chicken Orlean got sick.. It felt different. Terrible in a different way.

@anncomp10 thanks. I just feel helpless. Poor chickens.

This is the horrible part of having chickens. They're defenseless. No coop is secure enough. It's heartbreaking.

@johnmoe HILARIOUS.

@GlennF HILARIOUS

@Kathy_Crowley HILARIOUS

@ralphehanson HILARIOUS

@helenspitzer HILARIOUS

Weirdest unsolicited comment ever, from a woman passing me in the Chicago airport: "Your pants are HILARIOUS."

@mikecane Got it! I am newish to cats so I'm glad I asked.

Hey, are you supposed to trim cats' whiskers? Mitty is starting to look like a walrus.

RT @DeftlyLefty: @susanorlean I hope your cats will still read an old-fashioned printed book from time to time.

Yes, I just installed three games on my iPad FOR MY CATS. #thankyoufriskies

The cats are eating the dog's food. The dog is eating the cat food. The circle of animal mismanagement is now complete.

I just don't understand cats at all.

@lillafriend End of June. I have to get a hen for the poor traumatized rooster and then figure out what to do.

@lillafriend Only the rooster. All the hens were killed. Ugh.

@chrisswartout Our rooster survived. But he couldn't protect them. :(

@MDTeresa Very bad. All gone except for the rooster. Really, really sad.

RT @GlennF: @susanorlean According to my son's love of Pokemon, your cat is just evoking into a different life form with higher damage points.

RT @nytjim: RT @AP: Facebook resisters say their lives already fulfilled without the social network: -CJ

It's so hard to sit outside the life cycle of the animals you love, watching it spin. And so fast.

RT @atrak: The most common lie in modern life: "I have read and accepted the terms and conditions."

@davidquigg This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. In my LIFE.

@JustBethanne @tommycm I have never heard such a bald-faced lie in my LIFE.

Oh my god! Baby bears! at Katmai National Park in Alaska: #TNI

@yuweiquan I've had them since they were babies. They were my girls.

@lisacongdon Heartbreak. I had them as babies. And saw them grow up.

Four-and-a-half hour flight about to begin. Cue the screaming babies!

@dansinker My thoughts exactly. ARMY STRONG, BABY.

@itsjustkate Did you have your baby yet? (I've been away! Forgive if I missed the big announcement!)