I think I understand this impulse. The odds of me ever reproducing are basically zero, but the entire family name ends with me, which I remember having an unexpectedly striking existential crisis over at age 9, when we did our 4th grade family tree project.

Turkeys are nothing to fuck with. One got stuck in the sub ceiling of my husbands work a few years back. There was one woman who had an extreme bird phobia, so she was freaking out as its feet were clicking across the ceiling.

I’m apparently delicious. I was outside for 30 minutes once, watching my legs like a hawk, and still got 15 bites. I’d take my chances with the birds because I could see them!

I had a friend who had that happen to them...in the summer when they were all hot and sweaty...and they didn’t notice...and they tried to wipe their face with that sleeve shoulder...and got bird poop all over their face and in their mouth. Just wanted to share the story.

Yesterday, I went outside on my dock thinking how great it would be to practice some en plein watercolor with my new paints and as I passed a magnolia tree by it, I realized that there were some beautiful white flowers blooming. How great, I thought, and went to smell them. I saw some small tiny baby spiders on the…

I keep getting dive bombed by carpenter bees and bitten by mosquitos. Curse you nature!

Will consider if name is acceptable. I had a middle school science teacher called Mrs. Butts. I want none of that. Who CHOOSES to be Mrs. Butts? And then teaches middle school?

But I digress.

I hyphenated, as theren’t many of us around, but I didn’t want to totally alienate my MIL.

This is supposed to be a harbinger of extreme good fortune!

WHAT IF LADY HEATHERLEE TAKES YOUR SUNAME AND PASSES IT ON TO HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN? PROBLEM SOLVED FOR EVERYONE.

I grew up in Dearborn Michigan which has the highest arab/middle Eastern population outside of the middle east. White kids where the minority at edsel ford high school. Never had an issue and some of my closest friends are of middle Eastern descent.

Even as an Oregonian in a liberal city, I tend to forget the state’s racist roots and how deeply they still run through the community. What’s worse is that Oregon has a really bizarre interpretation of the first amendment (that I believe was based on a case that involved defending some football players who were…

I mean, look, that guy is CLEARLY the pinnacle of mankind that his idol Adolf was trying to create.

I honestly really worry about this. I want to hope I would intervene, but I have a 4 month old who is almost always strapped to my chest when we’re out on public transportation. I want to say that this makes no difference and won’t go through my mind if I see something, but...it will. And more than likely I will opt…

This is probably 90% of the reason the bystander effect exists. This is why we see so many stories where people don’t intervene out of fear. I don’t know what else to say, only that I hope justice is swift and firm.

Right-wing racism has always looked more like a form of mass insanity than a political position with which one can rationally argue.

And discouraging others who may witness harassment from intervening. This is true terrorism.

They are the true martyrs

Stories about people standing up for themselves/others and being punished for it depress me more than anything else.

Terrorist. Lets call him a terrorist because that’s what he is.