There are so many more. How can I pick a favorite?

Some series I re-read so often I know them by heart, but that just means that they're comfortable worlds to sink into.

They've become part of me, all of them. I can wrap myself in their pages and feel safe.

Tamora Pierce taught me there is magic in everything, if you care to look for it, and that family is what you choose to make of it.

Diane Duane taught me how to make a good scone, but also that a fun book will unfortunately be over much faster, but it will be worth it to re-read.

He also made "stool samples" he'd give to people he liked. It was a small black film canister with a 'stool sample' label on it, and inside was always a miniature 3-legged wooden stool he would make for it.

He was hilarious and I miss him a lot.

My grandpa, the pharmacist, said keeping a whole potato in your sock would PREVENT colds, because you can't walk with a potato in your sock & so would not be around other people to catch their colds.

He was right, so there's that.

11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.

10/ A second panel was dedicated to telephone engineer George H. Pruitt, who died on June 10, 1945, while trying to save a comrade who had fallen into a river.

Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.

5/ The site of the cemetery was established by Captain Joseph Shomon, the head of the 611th Graves Registration Company, while the task of digging it and burying the bodies was given to the 960th QMSC during September-November 1944.

4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).

3/ One of the two panels described how a million African-Americans volunteered for service during World War II, but had to fight against both the enemy and racism on their own side, including segregation within the army itself that confined many to supporting roles.

2/ The Dutch newspaper reports that two memorial panels installed at the NAC were removed some time earlier this year. They commemorated African-American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from German occupation during World War II.

The Trump admin fucking up state administrative capacity to provide SNAP benefits is not just a feature of the shutdown. This is their long-term plan to reduce SNAP.

Soon, GOP will start talking block grants due to administrative complexity they created.
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