Laura Cartwright Hardy

@lauracartwright

Accidental lifelong Arkansan, deliberate lifelong liberal, very married with a passel of grandkids. #WPS

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Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· May 16

Rita Haworth Hardy says hey and congratulations. She’ll be 9 in October. (Haworth was my MIL’s maiden name.) #GSD 💙

A smiling black and blonde German Shepherd lies on a white oak hardwood floor by a Persian rug on which sits her filthy tennis ball. Her name is Rita Haworth Hardy.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· May 14

This is a photo of Tom Junod’s new memoir, “In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man.” In the blue and black photo, a dapper man with a cigarette whispers to or kisses the cheek of a dressed-up woman, who clings to his neck, apparently at a party in the 1950s or early ‘60s.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Apr 24

Thank you, @letsgomathias.bsky.social, for this important, fascinating, horrifying, and somewhat hopeful (? maybe, kind of?) book. I highly recommend buying a copy (because you'll want it for reference) and reading it as quickly as you can.

The cover of To Catch a Fascist: the Fight to Expose the Radical Right by Christopher Mathias is bright red with three-arrows fascist symbol piercing an angry venomous snake.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Apr 20

Got one already.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Mar 1

So sweet! We have Rita, who’s 8 but acts like (a sometimes elderly) puppy.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Jan 18

This is Rita. She’s 8 and was interrupted to pose in the middle of opening Christmas presents.

Rita, an 8-year-old blonde and black (and gray) German Shepherd dog, stops to pose for a picture when opening Christmas presents on her bed.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Aug 20

Well, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, I saved your latest book for a time when I needed it and just finished it today. So beautifully sad and optimistic and honest. At times I felt like crying and at other laughed out loud. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This is a photo of Sarah Kendzior's newest book, "The Last American Road Trip," sitting atop a MacBook decorated with stickers. The book jacket shows lots of sky, brown plains, and tall electrical towers with wires.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Aug 3

Thank you so much, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social, for your beautiful book about plants. Can't recommend it enough. 💚 🌺🌿🌾

This is Zoe Schlanger's book "The Light Eaters." The cover is black with white and green lettering and a plant in hot pink and other neon colors.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Jul 18

Rita Haworth Hardy (Haworth is late mother-in-law’s maiden name).

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Jul 7

Today would've been Mother's 90th birthday, had she not died suddenly in late April 2023. Willette Tacket Cartwright Lollar was an Arkansas beauty who was widowed twice, went blind of a rare condition in her 80s, and never lost her smile. 💐

Blonde-haired 5-year-old posing in 1940. Today would've been her 90th birthday.

Willette Tackett Cartwright Lollar's Russellville (Arkansas) High School Class of 1953 graduation photo.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Apr 3

Rita is a black and blonde German shepherd. She’s on a soft, tiny kitchen rug with her favorite bright light-green ball.

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Mar 17

PSA: If you haven't read Katherine Stewart's latest, I highly recommend it.

This is a photo of the cover of Money, Lies, and God. It shows the U.S. Capitol in a sepia tone surrounded by darkness

Laura Cartwright Hardy@lauracartwright· Jan 24

Same. A chickadee landed on my head the other day for a split second. And our little Rita has an excellent vocabulary, as have all her predecessors. 💙