Profile photo of angry toddler self stays until morale improves. Square peg from the wrong side of town. Disabled Covid Resistor. Gardener. Antifascist. Married to a beekeeper. Three cats and a geriatric flock. She/Her. Midcoast Maine. š²
Very anecdotally here, but I stuck my neck out 18 years ago for someone who had been assaulted (CSA, too), and in the process lost an entire friend group and itās likely why my own father hasnāt spoken to me for that long. And I wasnāt the victim! This is whatās at stake for people to come forward!
The first two paragraphs state that the youngest school kids today werenāt even born or were infants when the pandemic began, yet it claims low test scores in the same cohort are the result of pandemic protocols like not taking infants to museums or having play dates. Please be serious.
How to de-Nazify an election in 3 easy steps... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1. Write in Andrea LaFlamme 2. Rank LaFlamme, Mills, and Costello as you wish 3. DO NOT RANK PLATNER. AT ALL.
Maggieās favorite toy. She enjoys stuffing the ribbon into her mouth with her cat hands I mean paws. Also, please appreciate the belly that is no longer pink because Anxiety Cat has been letting the fur grow back.
There are thousands of miles between us and our adult kids and I always feel some anxiety about chicks not in my nest, but thereās a confluence of events happening this week, this month, that scatters us all even more than usual that gives me extra anxiety about the actions of a madman.
I get to turn 55 today, which is pretty freaking cool. My body doesnāt always (mostly doesnāt) do what I want, Iām still perimenopausal (deal with it), my two late twenties kids are amazing, and my love of nearly 36 years is steadfastly by my side. Birthdays are weird, this one is good.
My sister and me at church for Easter in 1975. I remember these dresses so well. I love the little details, like my sisterās untied shoe and my bandaged finger.
Two problems with that luxury electric vehicle company is that the base price on anything is $73K and they are hideous(like, seriously ugly.) People are paying that much money for the same basic five grays and seats that look about as luxurious as the cheap seats on Budget Airline?
āTheyāre destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term scienceā¦And theyāre replacing all of it ā the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence ā with fifteen political appointeesā
Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.
I am of course curious about space and the universe but I will never be convinced that turning our minds and resources to space is the right thing to do when we are burning the planet we live on. A perennial argument for me, and most everyone always disagrees with me, Iām aware.
I painted a phoebe birdhouse Alex made and touched up the big sign that faces the road that says āwe are familyā š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļøāš¾, and watched the launch, so today feels pretty productive.