Grace Pritchard Burson

All people who know me are subjected to the story of my four paternal grandmothers and their characteristics, in order of seniority:

Number 1: kidnapped by bandits,
Number 2: new age religious leader
Number 3: owned some Rottweilers apparently
Number 4: professional exorcist

SERIOUSLY

Going back to the archaic conditions of ...

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early 2023

I once sang backup to John Denver.

A close examination reveals a plate containing raspberry, lemon, apricot, prune, and poppyseed hamantaschen.

Can a man so unwilling to commit govern New York? In this essay I shall… 1/347

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Mood

Chotiner: And when you engraved "One Ring to rule them all" on the—
Sauron: I don't understand why everyone keeps taking that out of context.
Chotiner: Well, do you mean to rule us all?
Sauron: I'm here to talk about Gondor's illegal encroachment in Ithilien, Isaac.

Father's father was the son of a shopkeeper in Providence, RI, went to Harvard on the GI Bill (my dad was born his junior year), and became an architectural consultant.

Mother's father was the son of an insurance man in Evanston, IL, and went to Dartmouth bedore the war; he became a foreign service officer (who, it eventually turned out, was incapable of learning the necessary languages, so he spent most of his career in DC).

That tracks. Simple carbs are often the easiest to stomach during the queasy times.

It was original flavour, actually, I ate them constantly during the first trimester 🤣

I constructed him out of many bags of Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers!

Right?! And before that he was inside ME 😭

Yeah, overall I'm in favour of people not being flung up the cursus honorum too rapidly, it worked out for Obama but in general cultivating a good deep bench and adequately equipping them is a Good Thing

Peter, aged 17, seen from the waist up, standing in the church kitchen, with shaggy hair and wearing a blue patterned hoodie, with his sleeves rolled up and arms crossed, laughing at someone out of frame.

Cool, smart, funny adult (ok, this was last October so he technically wasn't an adult yet, but he looked about 23 in the photo, so):

Peter, aged 2 months, passed out cold in his absurdly brightly coloured plastic exersaucer, wearing a yellow and green striped hat.

Tiny little baby, 2008 (I adore this picture):

Me and who

Facebook post from Bernard Drainville, a CAQ member of the Québec parliament, responding to a public service announcement encouraging people with cervixes to get screened for HPV (posted in French, automatically translated): "The intention is more than commendable and I encourage all women to get screened for HPV. I'm here wondering why we can't even name women. Why do we erase women? So as not to dislike a tiny minority? That's enough."

Delighted to see this transphobic ass being read for filth by one francophone after another in the comments.

Like I said, I happily do that, and when I do, all the atheists yell at me about how dare I claim that I'm not just as bad as they are.

I've seen serving chaplains saying that they are in fact hearing an uptick of this stuff among the troops

How about AI? Domestic abuse? Fossil fuels?

This tendency among my fellow liberal Christians is why I gave myself the specific goal of being loud about my faith.

We've historically been quiet out of fear we'll be seen as pushy, judgy proselytizers. Christian Nationalists filled the void left by our silence.

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A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

I have a whole bunch of Target bags but I'm in Canada where Target doesn't exist so there is clearly a Story behind them

I dunno, I'm starting to have some questions about the current bunch 🤣

And when we do, we get shrieked at for "no-true-Scotsman"-ing and told to "come get our people."

You can't fucking win.

I gotta say, this "my kid turned 18" thing is still deeply disconcerting, but the infinite layers of in-jokes that we have accumulated over the past fifteen years of being a household of two, and which we can now both riff on with a more or less adult perspective, is pretty awesome.

LAETARE SUNDAY FOREVER