Kayla Smith

Writer. Teacher. Collector of maps and tiny spoons.

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

And so it begins...

[New Orleans Saints @Saints]

Time to vote for the Mississippi High School 🏈 game of the month! Who ya got?

The winner will receive coverage on the #Saints digital channels, thanks to Sanderson Farms.

Poll closes in 24 hours. Good luck!

#Saints | @misshsaa | @Sanderson_Corp

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

So grateful to @CatapultStory for letting me tell this story. #personalessay #musclememory #gymnatics #formergymnast

[Catapult @CatapultStory]

"Our bodies were half-art and half-machine, designed to do impossible things."

As a gymnast, Kayla Smith meditates on the ways we no longer recognize our bodies as we age: https://t.co/EQu1ESEMBH

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@marcellakomisky I’m pretty sure that’s fairly common, unfortunately.

[Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono]

Bernie Sanders pacing around his hotel room, rubbing his temples, muttering “Los billionarios…Medicare por todos” over and over again

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@mandyberman @ohiou Congrats!!

[Curtis Sittenfeld @csittenfeld]

Experiencing a maelstrom of emotions about this apostrophe

[Megan Walker Thigpen @mewthigpen]

Dear @espn,

I noticed, after scrolling through a whole bunch of your tweets, that you managed to retweet just one routine from NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships. I noticed it’s the same routine we’ve been watching all year. You’ve shown no love to any other amazing gymnasts.

[Random House Group @randomhouse]

Some of you never sat alone at recess reading Judy Blume books and it shows.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

But have they tried nothing?

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@kwistent In could have been great, but the books I was secretly reading under the table weren’t my level, and the library had like 12 books I was allowed to choose from. In 5th grade I wanted to read Harry Potter instead of Frankenstein or that terrible Hans Brinker & his stupid skates.

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@kwistent The bane of my existence.

[Curtis Sittenfeld @csittenfeld]

Tonight I defined portmanteau for my children with the sentence "I sharted in my jorts" in case anyone ever tries to tell you being an English major doesn't pay off

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

I’ll weep forever.

[Eize Basa @PonchoRebound]

You've probably heard about how Opportunity's last words to NASA were “my battery is low and it's getting dark.”

What you may not have heard is NASA's last words TO Opportunity: as a final transmission to the rover, they played Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You."

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@mitchholland1 How I once loved sonic chili...

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@PopPopInAttic The grapes didn’t choose their fate. Sounds like descrimination to me.

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

I don’t appreciate this hostility toward raisins.

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@jcourtsull Definitely start with In the Woods and read them in order. (People will say you don’t have to, but I cannot imagine an alternative.) I’ve spent years of my life waiting for each of these books to be released. Years.

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@pengshepherd (I’m a Mississippian who’s lived in New England, NYC, DC, TN, and now New Orleans, and you mapped my life in the most magical way possible.)

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

@pengshepherd This is wonderful news because It means that A) more people will be able to read this phenomenal story and B) people around the world will learn for the first time that Bogalusa, Covington, and Pearl River exist.

[Kayla Smith @KaylaMSmith89]

I feel so honored to have been in the company of any of these fellows.

https://t.co/0PiEPXaWm9