Martha Wilkie, MS

Manhattanite, Outreach Director at @OurBrainBank, preservationist, gardener, food wrangler, writer, editor, mom.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@AsadFromNYC My kid won the Battle of Fort Washington costume contest a few years ago (Fort Tryon Park).

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@caityweaver @TheAtlantic Scene: My husband and I at an estate sale (at least billed as such, owners were on site).

Husband: I’ll wait in the car, this is creepy.

Me: What, we’ve been to a million estate sales, what’s different?

Husband: the sellers aren’t dead yet.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@ryderkessler @MollyJongFast This was read at my wedding — I moved to Manhattan in 1992; my husband is 5th generation NYer.

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@kinetizen @JoyceCarolOates Right, but no one is limiting *whole* milk (besides schools I guess) in any way, that’s just stupid.

Funny, I used to enjoy raw milk* (legal in CT, you can buy it in the grocery store), but stopped due to this MAHA nonsense.

*From a farm I’ve been to and trust.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@TsarinaBomba Place in Rhinebeck, NY called {pretty to think so}. First time i heard of it was a magazine review, thought I was having a stroke.

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@mattsutaaki When I was a kid, I’d listen to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater — like old time radio except produced in the 1970s. Often terrible, but always entertaining.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@emilykmay My son once met kid at a fun event on a Saturday. I chatted with the nanny who suggested we get them together again. I said sure. Turns out the nanny was one of two weekend nannies (divorced parents), and there were two more weekday nannies. Poor kid had four nannies. 😳

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@russ_owl Bright side: our cats thought they were the most awesome cat toys ever.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@russ_owl Exterminator said they can fly 100’ into a building 😳

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@russ_owl My son was 11 or so and thought it was HILARIOUS to scare me with fake ones. We were in the country, accustomed to critters, but the way they scuttled around freaked me out. Finally brought in professionals.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@svershbow Like the barely understandable “bad connection” was deliberate so I wouldn’t notice it wasn’t a real person? Bad.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@svershbow Recently called a plumber on a weekend. I’m used to an answering service, but this was a crackly connection & the person seems awfully dim (wouldn’t accept my address even though I repeatedly said they know me). When the plumber arrived, he admitted it was a new AI system 😳

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@russ_owl Read someone here recently saying with great confidence that the whole invasive discussion was stupid because “it only started when people started recording which plants were where when.” Like not understanding *why* some invasives are dangerous at all.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@alyssaleann People kept taking our chargers, so I tied bright red ribbons on them. Dude still took them, but apologized and offered to mail back.

Me: Thank you! Didn’t you see the red ribbons?

Dude: Yes, but my girlfriend likes to decorate for Christmas, thought they were ours. 😆

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@alyssaleann AirBnB-ed our place, gross thing men would do: Grill meat on cookie cooling racks (ignoring a Weber grill and firepit). Destroy pans (and then wrap plastic bags over the smoke alarm). Trash the place with a post-prom party ( denied it, but left school flyer). Run well dry. 🤮

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@alyssaleann One funny bit: after the well ran dry (following a week rental of six men), we were forced to spend thousands on a new water system. Plumber said, “They must’ve been taking those *Hollywood* showers.” 😆

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

@emilykmay As someone happily living in a 1200 sf Manhattan apartment (2 parents, 1 kid), these discussions slay me. My BIL and his husband share a 400sf apartment no problem.

[Martha Wilkie, MS @marthasantiques]

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