I'm so sorry, Suzi. Huge hugs to you and K and CJ, and I am holding your mom in my memory with love. Whenever we came over to your place, she was always the first person we saw, puttering around in the kitchen over one amazing-smelling dish (all meaty, so I never tasted, just savored the incredible scents) or another, and always so gracious and friendly and so clearly delighted to be part of your social life, your world. It was obvious to anyone who saw her for even a moment how deeply she loved her family.
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
My condolences Suzi, peace to you, CJ and K
Suzi, my thoughts are with you.
there's about to be a big media shit storm surrounding the call that had me fragile and crying for days almost two weeks ago. And i just had a long and stressful "informational interview" about how the call was handled.
Oh, erin_o, that's awful. It's such a tragic thing to have happened and I am sorry you have to relive it.
Suzi, I am so sorry for your loss. Much love to you and your family.
I'm so sorry, Suzi.
I'm so sorry, Suzi.
{{Suzi}}
Why did I get into a discussion about abortion with my officemate today? I know that he disagrees with me and that these discussions just get me aggravated, so I've made a conscious decision that, even though we pretty frequently comment on or discuss whatever's in the news, I will not start a conversation with him on anything involving abortion, because it just will not end well. Today, out of nowhere, he brought up Dr. Tiller's murder. I ended the conversation after his third "ewwww." (Which, interestingly, was in response to what I thought was a relatively innocuous comment that didn't really have much to do with abortion.)
"Ewwwww?"
Is he twelve, Hil?
That last "ewwww," where I ended the conversation, was in response to a comment that I'd made, kind of on a tangent we'd gone off on (possible trigger warning here for the rest of this paragraph, I guess), that when a baby is stillborn, a lot of parents want to have the baby cleaned up and wrapped in a blanket so that they can hold and look at him or her, and say their goodbyes. I'd had no idea that would inspire that sort of reaction.