Those are stunning

You get them where you can. Notorious mobster Al Capone was brought in on tax fraud because that could be proven. The people harm was a legal grey area. The glade harm was easier to fight in court. I was just visiting family in Scotland and we had the craziest conversations about life in my country

Last year I grew far too many cucumbers after planting exactly zero. I would have loved a friend with a good recipe. We could get together to make it and plan future collaborations

We have to protect trans people. We have to protect those with the most significant disabilities. We have to protect people without paperwork. If we move the bar even one inch closer to those who believe they are safe, we've already lost. There's a whole poem about this.

This problem is far bigger than this administration.

Let's not forget that this has been going on for years under multiple administrations of both major political parties. Our dislike of a particular person or party will get in the way of addressing the problem

Now you know what time he needs to go to bed to get adequate sleep on weekdays

While not the point of the article, it's interesting to see that there are more suicides than homicides. I'm not sure how to feel about that

It was a sad day when my Puerto Rican neighbor moved away

And when dealing with that level of diversity remember that the bottle might be against their religion or cultural norms

I once wrote a short story set at a Rube Goldberg exhibit at a museum. Now I'm reimagining it as a horror story instead of a romcom

Plenty of middle aged women were uncomfortable with certain aspects of society's transition (pun intended) to including trans people. Most talked about it with their kids and became more comfortable. It helped that their discomfort was never as strong as their desire to fight bigotry.

English speaking people don't agree on the pronunciation of that word. My British family says it so differently from how I say it that it would be reasonable to think they were different words.

I don't understand it either. All I can do is my best to mitigate the bad. And visit my Scottish family every so often to be inspired by what is possible