View fullsize Keeping us (barely) sane over the past very long feeling week
View fullsize A word about this Office of Digital Strategy team: It's not always an easy task being in politics, let alone in an election year, or especially in digital while the landscape is shifting, all while working in the White House itself to cap it all off.
View fullsize We will never have another president like Joe Biden.
View fullsize Last full week at the WH means: (1) Signing the pool underneath the Press Briefing Room, the alleged origin of the term "press pool" (2) Presidential Records Act compliance (hello lawyer friends) (3) Final meeting of the Senior Staff in the
View fullsize Happy birthday to Nathaniel, a guy who never sits for meals but somehow seems to have an appetite for birthday cookies and ice cream and Pocky sticks at all other times. A good kid, and also true threenager...right on schedule for his third birthday!
View fullsize (An email we sent that I'm pasting in full here) Hello friends and family, We are delighted to introduce you to our son, Zachary Crawford Tom, who was born on Tuesday January 7th, 2025 at 10:03am, weighing 6 pounds 11 ounces and measuring 20"
View fullsize Nathaniel picking out our tree, and other pre-Christmas festivities!
View fullsize I liked the back half of November a lot more than the first half. Dispatch from DC includes: Thanksgiving hosted by @mclintom and @pltom, which meant a chance to do teatime with my grandma and getting a briefing room podium shot of my 94-year-youn
View fullsize The full range of October in Washington, DC!
View fullsize Of the many words he's acquired this summer, I truly think "ice cream," "popsicle," and "slushie" have been among the most used. As they should be!!!
View fullsize May/June 2024
View fullsize Happy birthday to Nathaniel! Here's to two years of your silly antics and matching outfits with your mom and dad!!
View fullsize Family! Red clay tennis courts! Alhambra! And Nathaniel started off 2024 with some strong Hangover Part 4 vibes (last pic).
View fullsize Of the silly holiday-party-in-DC posts, among the silliest: the only item (physical or digital) to leave with us from the CIA party...since there were no electronic devices allowed inside!
View fullsize The Christmas elf, his menagerie, toys, hat...and smile!!
View fullsize A sampling of autumnal vibrations
View fullsize The idea that I would ever be in the position to share a work update via a statement from @POTUS feels wildly improbable, super undeserved, and honestly something like an out-of-body experience. So, I'll do my best to say it quickly: this week, I wil
View fullsize A wonderful week with friends! Missing Natalie here, who was napping during the group photo, but her shared love of the lawnmower bubble toy will have to be our best stand-in for her instead.
View fullsize A trip to the beach — to bucket hat or not to bucket hat?
View fullsize Matching trunks from Memorial Day Monday!