![]() ![]() ![]() When I was teaching them to share, maybe I should have given them a written list of things that were okay and not okay to share. ![]() Well it's not because I am writing, which I should be, but I don't want too, so I haven't, at all today actually, but would be a totally better reason for why I am up, but not better because I would rather be writing, but better because I hate my girls are sick! Did you come out of that okay? Good! So, my 9mth old caught what my 7 yr old had (I totally had to pause to remember if my daughter was 6 or 7 & I swear that it's because it's now 2:11 in the morning & not because I am a bad mom who doesn't know how old my daughter is, but it could have been that I have a VERY bad memory, but that's a different blog post) & what my 5 yr old will catch next and then pass on to me until my husband NEVER gets it, because he somehow manages to steer clear of the germs my girls so selflessly, love to share with me. ![]() Yeah I just had to shake my head to remind me why I was writing this blog post. Why am I up at 2:05 in the morning you ask? What's that? You didn't ask? Well I'm going to blog about it anyway, because I feel like it's a step up in being somewhat proactive than updating my status on Facebook & plus I don't think I could fit this entire post in a Facebook status update. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peggy and Ken Butler organize an annual Pennsylvania Firefly Festival here, offering an intricate, quiet and fleeting experience where science and poetry live side by side. People come from around the world for this. What they do, in a world of mass-produced experiences, is organic and natural and utterly unplugged. Of hundreds of types of fireflies, these are perhaps the most remarkable. It sweeps north as temperatures warm, up from Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains to, on this night, the thick woods of the 500,000-acre (200,000-hectare) Allegheny National Forest, 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Pittsburgh. The display happens every year in North America as spring ebbs into summer. But these possess the unique capability of flashing in glorious, almost otherworldly unison. This is what it’s like to walk smack into a pack of synchronous fireflies - “lightning bugs,” as many of us called them in childhood. ![]() ![]() Finally, Gamache invites Michel Brébeuf to come and work at the academy. Gamache also hires his son-in-law and fellow homicide detective, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, to work as his second-in-command at the academy. ![]() Gamache fires many of the existing professors but allows Professor Serge Leduc to stay in his position, even though he knows that Leduc is one of the most corrupt individuals in the academy. Gamache knows that there has been corruption and abuses of power within the academy and wants to reform the institution. At the start of the novel, Gamache begins a new position as the head of the Sûreté Academy, where new cadets are trained for the police force. ![]() Because of these events, Gamache ended up resigning. During his time as the Chief of Homicide, Gamache was instrumental in uncovering significant corruption within the Quebec police force. ![]() Armand Gamache is the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Quebec and now lives in the small town of Three Pines, Quebec, with his wife, Reine-Marie. ![]() ![]() The series wraps on Chapter 44, entitled “Grace Under Pressure.” Dreading the inevitable confrontation with his parents, who vocally oppose his homosexuality, Amal Chakravarthy decides to take an unplanned side trip to Graceland Tattoo and Piercing – ostensibly searching for TJ. Eventually, they reach their destination, both of them far happier, arguably far healthier, than they were when they first set foot in the car. Of companionship, alternately friendly and sexual, but almost always playful. Weaver’s breezy buddy dramedy webcomic The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, despite the title, tells a big story. Rhode Island, not heaven, though one would be forgiven for any conflation of the two.Į.K. They don’t know each other, but they’re headed to Providence together, anyway. ![]() ![]() Amal’s sloughing off expectations that he settle down with a woman, sire a cadre of children, and continue lying about his heterosexuality. TJ’s sloughing off a drug-running career and hopes for a safer future. They both need an escape from the Bay Area and a hard reset of their difficult lives. ![]() ![]()
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This is a totally different person who incidentally happens to be Korean and has issues with her mother.” ![]() It's pretty irresistible, especially as a new writer, cannibalizing my own life and putting a little fake nose and glasses on it and trotting it out into the universe saying “No, this isn't my story at all. There's this weird thing about writing fiction where, even if you wanted to be wholly divorced from your own life and experiences, that's what you end up drawing from. The truth is, a lot of what I do is publicly workshop my own baggage for money. People always ask me, why do you write YA? Part of it is writing stories that I wish I had access to when I was younger, not only from a representation standpoint. 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