Kristin Hanson

@khansonwrites.bsky.social

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Mom 👦🏻👧🏼🐶 Freelance writer 🖊️ Author of Mortimer the Terrier's Second Chance, a Self-Esteem Book for Kids 📖 Catastrophizing in moderation 🫣

A woman sits with her head in her hands looking sad. She is wearing a very silly headband with reindeer on it
A package of Old Bay goldfish crackers. The paper container is bright yellow in the style of an Old Bay seasoning jar with the goldfish logo on top.
Several people are walking across the green of a golf course that backs up to a body of water. Behind them is a huge plume of smoke mushrooming above the trees.
A view of the intracoastal waterway from the bridge linking Hilton Head Island to the South Carolina mainland. There are puffy blue clouds in the sky above the dark blue-gray water.
A boy is practicing Karate. Dressed in a white go, he stands on one foot with the other raised mid kick. His hands are raised to his face.
The first Formula 1 race of 2025 is under way in Melbourne, Australia. The race is broadcast on a television hanging on a wall over a mantle.
Protesters carry homemade signs in front of the Maryland treasury building in Annapolis. These signs say “You forgot the eggs, Donnie!” and “No dictatorship for my grandkids.”
A flat screen TV hangs on a wall. It has a graphic that reads: “Pixar Place Hotel Welcome Hanson Family.”
A form for people to apply to join the Washington Commanders football team bandwagon.
A woman is holding a small child, their backs to the camera. They are looking at a bright display of pink flamingos draped in Christmas lights. A sign says “Happy Holidays Hon.”
An excerpt from a newsletter where Roger Bennett shares an insight from John Oliver how being an “athletic listener” is the secret to his incisive off-the-cuff observations.
A tugboat is adorned in glowing Christmas lights as it slowly motors through a harbor at night.
A black, tan, and white dog stands at attention as she looks across a yard and sees an inflatable dog holiday decoration that looks just like her.
In a notebook, hand-drawn letters in different styles say “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.” Doodles of holly leaves, poinsettia flowers, and a Christmas tree are drawn off to the side.
A tall glass of dark beer sits on a table. The image on the glass reads “Guinness Open Gate Brewery.”
A woman wearing a rainbow striped winter hat holds a beer and purses her lips, looking very irritated.
A hand holds a small square pillow . On the pillow is an image of mistletoe and, beneath it, the caption: “This year I decided to put mistletoe in my back pocket so everyone can kiss my ass.”
A page from a tear-off calendar for Friday, October 11 says: “I’m a loving person who says “fuck” a lot.”
A page from “Stugotz’s Personal Record Book” featuring the author’s top 5 people in sports and entertainment who connote something you would find in a restaurant.”
A laminated yellow placemat sits on an orange tablecloth. It was made by a child named TJ, and says “Happy Thanksgiving, I am thankful for my parents, my sister, my house, and my computer.”
The cover of the book “Love and Whiskey,” which chronicles the little-known history of Nearest Green—a Black man who served as the first master distiller of Jack Daniel’s whiskey. The photo on the book’s cover features a black-and-white image of one of Green’s descendants next to Jack Daniel.
Three men sit very close to one another in the back seat of a small car. The man in the middle is talking while the other two look very uninterested in listening.
A hand holds a box of Pillsbury ready-to-bake turkey shape sugar cookie dough. The box features an example of what one of the cookies looks like alongside the Pillsbury dough boy mascot who has turkey tail feathers.
A two-year old girl in a pink jacket and jeans is trotting down a city sidewalk in the mid morning sunlight.