I was introduced to her work when A Rose in Winter was excerpted in Good Housekeeping. So yeah, decades ago. Edit: also books with sex and happy endings written by women are no more trashy than books with sex and depressing endings written by men. Why the one gets disparaged and the other wins literary awards is one of the great mysteries of the age. (Or not.)

I took a Coursera archaeology class several years ago and I remember being shocked by the standards of when a burial site legally becomes a potential archaeology site. I think it was 100 years. Which means that WW I cemeteries, if the owners of the land agreed, could be dug up and the remains displayed in museums. Certainly Civil War sites could be. Not that I think that’s likely to happen to graves of the dominant culture and religion. But it did, for me, bring the issues around digging up other people’s burial sites into sharper focus.

I order online from Walgreens. No complaints.

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All of this. Except I did keep a desem going for a year or so. I might do it again when my schedule is more stable.

I’ve done six hours each way for one day trips several times. I’m older now, though, and not sure I would do it that way again. Maybe for something really important like a funeral when I absolutely could not be gone the extra night.

Eshakti. You can choose sleeves, length, and neckline on any of their styles and I’ve been getting my deliveries in under 2 weeks.

I think the line is consent, specifically trying to involve other people in your play without their consent. People dressed up as 14th century nobility can refer to each other as “milady” and “milord,” but they can’t require their coworkers or the cashier at the grocery store to do so. Kids can pretend to be cats, but they can’t require their friends or teachers to treat them like cats. Other people can voluntarily join the fantasy world, they cannot be drafted into it.

Should, but does not. People on reality, game shows, and similar are not paid as actors. JB got money through licensing deals and possibly being credited as a producer on the show.

Once as support person for a friend, and once as the landlord in an eviction. I didn’t speak in either; the property manager handled the eviction hearing, but it convinced me that I definitely didn’t want to be a landlord long-term. (We moved right in the middle of the 2008 housing crash and couldn’t sell our house so we rented it out for several years. Never Again.)

We do pot roast or chicken in a covered cast iron pot, kebabs, mac&cheese, lasagna, roasted veggies, baked potatoes & sweet potatoes, every type of flatbread imaginable, sometimes regular bread. One thing that I do every time we use the pizza oven is fill a mini cast-iron skillet with green olives (pits in) and garlic cloves in olive oil. Roast until the olives are wrinkly and the garlic is soft. Save the flavored oil to dip things in.

We have this one: https://www.ilfornino.com/ilfornino-professional-series-wood-burning-pizza-oven-one-flat-cooking-surface/ We bought it at the beginning of last summer and used it at least once a week until the end of October. We roasted veggies in it for Thanksgiving, and now we’re probably done with it until spring.

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Knights of Columbus. It’s a charitable service club for Catholic men.

Even that wouldn't catch families who couldn't find an opening at a child care provider because openings have been taken by other kids who would have been cared for by family members if they hadn't died of/been disabled by COVID.

But if the sustainability of the system was balanced on a hair 4 years ago (and it was) then it only takes a small shift to throw it off.

Mary Robinette Kowal’s Glamourist History series — starts with Shades of Milk and Honey Sherry Thomas’ Lady Sherlock series — starts with A Study in Scarlet Women

You don’t need to talk to her about your boundaries. They are not something you need to negotiate, and they aren’t about teaching her to behave in a certain way. They are for you to remind you when to get out.

For some people the giving thanks in Thanksgiving is giving thanks that God gave this country to the white Christian settlers by guiding their ships across the ocean and preparing the people who were already here to welcome them, admire them, and embrace their own role as helpers in the superior civilization the newcomers brought. Making Thanksgiving about being thankful for family and friends and good health and plentiful food instead of about God’s plan for the New World is taking away their holiday.

Make a roux with equal parts fat (butter or oil) and flour. When it’s bubbling add broth/stock to get the thickness you want. My usual is 1-2 tablespoons butter and flour for each cup of broth. Salt/pepper/other seasoning to taste.

I am quite sure you would lose that bet.

When I do brining I usually make the brine the day before. It works fine.

I would not phrase it as the parent “sitting in on” the class. You need to say specifically “your child needs a one-on-one adult helper for this class. The assistant teacher and I can’t do that, so if he’s going to participate you will need to be his helper.”

Lincoln sounds nice with his first name, it’s a classic name, and it’s his suggestion. It’s perfect.

Alzheimer’s and some other forms of dementia cause anger. I think that’s further along the aging process than you mean, though.