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"Turtles should be grasped gently along the shell edge and near the mid-point of the body.", quoth your "Here" link. If it's a snapper you're courting disaster--their neck can reach around to at least 50% the length of the shell*. Use two hands on the back third of the shell. *based on review of literature and near personal disaster. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfmLKlrdGcqZ6dm6OutcHRnqWorJWofLF7wGaZmpqpYsCvrc%2BpoKefXanCs8DLnmRvaJV0wrW5vqymrqqTmoqxu9KtXZynnaKyr8DSdqurrZVbwrW5vqacnaGlooq4scE%3D

I’m Lyn Slater AKA as Accidental Icon, reformed social media influencer, writer, activist, social worker, former professor and someone who’s just an ordinary woman with an interesting life. I’ve written a book called, “How To Be Old”, coming Fall 2023 from Dutton/Plume. ncG1vNJzZmikqaPAra3Tnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wrYynnLBlk52uscDEq2acp52isq%2FA0g%3D%3D

Motherhood as a Lifestyle Choice Weren’t we all those cocky women who thought we would do it better than anyone if and when we were going to have a child? I found my partner early. We moved in together and adopted a cat. My orange tabby got exclusive use of my lap for the five years and the fertility treatments it took to make our first of two human beings. Then they all shared the space for the next fifteen.

I so agree. I think we are finally waking up to how the elites have been manipulating everyone all along. Think about policy over the past 30 - 40 years. Most of it has benefited the elites at the expense of the working class. Even Obama sold out to the banks (a fact for which I will NEVER forgive him having grown up in the rust belt). He was supposed to be a champion of the people but kissed corporate butt from day 1.

Cathleen, it is my current comprehension that the dangerously mislabeled "Green Revolution" starting in the 1950s — with its then DDT and now other herbicides/pesticides, terrible large-scale mono-cropping practices, GMO seeds, anhydrous ammonia application, and so on — is responsible for disrupting the natural food chain. I say this in response to your comment, because I grew up in the 60s/70s on a family farm in the Midwest, where none of those death-cult practices were going on.

This beautiful song pretty much sums up early parenthood for me. It was June 2011 and our first daughter was just 3 months old. I played this song over and over and it spoke to me like no other, full of metaphor: The endless washing of tiny baby grows - "Pegging clothing on the line". Trying to get your crying baby to sleep in at 4am - "Standing on the landing with the war you shouldered all the night before"

Dear David....I can’t wait to try your version, as I have made Martha Stewart’s similar recipe many times, with all kinds of fruit combinations. I love your style or presentation. Question: we are going to France soon, and I want to check out Angelina’s chocolate places. Years ago a store in St. Helena carried their chocolate mix, and I haven’t had it since, though i tasted a very similar product at Boulette’s Larder.

To combine my reply to both of your comments. First, I am guilty of afterthoughts, the concert element being not as well thought-out as the main point. And you may be right that it is not a tell for impending AW-hood. Perhaps something else. Which got me thinking... Anyway, my gamma-explainy circuit is irrepressibly compelled to point out that I was not trying to be right, but I did note that my original point was kind of muddy.

Theodor Herzl's letter to Cecil Rhodes ---“You are being invited to help make history,” Herzl wrote to Rhodes. “[I]t doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial… [Y]ou, Mr. Rhodes, are a visionary politician or a practical visionary… --- https://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/actually-herzl-was-a-colonialist/