LoreleiB

She has some heavy hitters. So good, but gird your emotional loins to read them lol

My dad is autistic, my full blooded brother is autistic, both of my children are autistic, their bio dad is autistic, my niece and nephew are autistic, and just two weeks ago my half sister, their mom, was saying she’s pretty certain she’s autistic. Tell me again how it’s Tylenol and vaccines??

Dang! I just borrowed the 1st in Libby so I’ll be starting after I finish The Incandescent. Thanks for the warning! Though I’ve ready so many incomplete series lately I fear I’m getting jaded to it🫣 I just try to immediately start a new book so I don’t wallow 🙃

How do specials teachers do this in 30 min/week? We need classroom management too, and when you see the entire school it’s hard to just know their NAMES, much less build a relationship in the 5 sec it takes to scan their book (librarian). I would gladly accept advice that doesn’t involve bribing.

I’m so frustrated by the lack of options for classroom management (esp in specials that see kids 30min/week) that don’t involve bribery. Or pitting kids against each other in “challenges”. These approaches feel wrong. Aren’t we supposed to be building empathy & cooperation & intrinsic motivation??

Super real for some of us in the metro Phoenix area of Arizona. It was 118 last week according to the thermometer on my porch. It’s flipping exhausting just existing when it’s that hot, even with AC in all buildings and vehicles.

WHY DOES EVERY MALE LOVE INTEREST IN EVERY FANTASY BOOK MAGICALLY SMELL LIKE CINNAMON ALL THE TIME??! Like, that’s not what men smell like! And the women…😫As if I needed one more thing to be insecure about, I have to worry that I don’t smell like fucking mint and flowers 24/7🤦‍♀️

I received my sticker order from Karen a few days ago and am totally in love, her work is SO GORGEOUS! She also included 2 sticker freebies including one w/a girl and a fox, and foxes are my daughter’s current obsession so she was ecstatic. Thank you Karen!🫶

Ah, I do that too! Love chai- that’s my 2nd fav. I do a rooibos or decaf version. Another iced tea blend that’s also tasty is spearmint and lemongrass. So refreshing and light. So nice to talk tea with someone☺️

“Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”- all the way baby! Except in the dead of summer and then I add a few ice cubes😜Also obsessed with the scent of bergamot, I just love bergamot I guess. Butterfly pea flower is amazing also if you haven’t tried any tea blends w/that ingredient yet. It makes a great iced tea!

Omg I ADORE Earl Grey! I have a London Fog pretty much daily- I make two tea lattes for work every day with collagen protein and one is always Earl Grey cuz it’s my fav. It’s just so comforting. I am also in the Phx area so I totally need these!

After all the absolute nonsense that happens- sending kids out to run in open air instead of staying inside a building?? Etc- the end is the biggest anticlimactic wtf I’ve ever seen where they just get into a car and start driving to a hospital. That’s IT. No explanations, no resolution, nothing.

I remember really enjoying Rear Window as a teen and watching it a couple times. I swear I’ve watched others but none made much of an impression on me I guess. I should have taken that as my directive to start w/ Rear Window I suppose but…birds!!

Highly do not recommend The Birds as the 1st Hitchcock film to show your teens. Wtf did we just watch. I’m all “Hitchcock is a film icon & legend we have to watch at least 1!” & we were talking about crows & birds all afternoon cuz autism so I thought this is great… they don’t trust me anymore😆

I adored it! Fantastic characters. So refreshing the FMC wasn’t 19😆 Eagerly awaiting the sequel. Star Eater was also really good if you want a stand-alone to cure the book hangover that’s coming when you finish Asunder…(if you’re anything like me😉)

They may have been trying to capture at least SOME profit off the perhaps millions? of us globally that don’t have access to the BBC & for whom DW is such an important part of our lives, we would pirate to watch if not streamable. I don’t care if it’s Disney but it needs to stream somewhere.

Why must I continue unknowingly reading part 1’s of multiple-book series??😭 Just finished #ShieldOfSparrows and damn- fantastic. I adore Odessa. I love all the mystery. But it very much leaves loose ends and now I have to wait for probably a year to get answers argh!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful soul with us🫶

#DoctorWho Wish World was another great episode. I love how they are bringing back but updating and refreshing the takes on classic Who characters/events. I am thoroughly invested in what’s happening and can’t wait to see how it’s resolved next week. (PLEASE let there be resolution!)

I just saw a post about how reading novels is so important to building empathy, but then I see your beautiful poetry and am struck by how effectively poetry does that as well. I think poetry is often our hearts and souls in print, and it’s so important to encourage reading it specifically too.

Great to know, thank you!☺️

I just got this for my library, I think from Scholastic? It looked adorable, and my kids are always asking for manga, but my main source of funding- Scholastic dollars from book fairs- doesn’t leave me access to very much. Was so excited to see this and I hope they love it!

Are we twins?😆 I’m a newbie & mostly I loved my school last year BUT the school secretary ran it, & was a control freak. So I found a new school where I keep getting told “yes, absolutely, whatever you want”, & it’s HEAVEN. Also I’ve accomplished miracles this year bc I’m in charge. #bfc530

I’m sorry sweetheart 🫶 I don’t think some people realize how much variation there is from body to body sometimes. In many cases “something is better than nothing”. Pooping in a box for example doesn’t take skill lol. But here it could lead to severe illness bc of false negatives due to user error.

Also there’s a ton of “kids” out there that love graphic design and/or photography and would kill to have a big break like a book cover and do it practically for free. My daughter is one of them. You don’t have to be slimy to get what you want. Sometimes we just have to look to forgotten people.

For sure. So we just go about our lives thinking we are safe when we are not, and could have been getting lifesaving treatment but instead we don’t find out we have issues til it’s too far gone. I’m just not sure about this method. It’s a huge risk.

This was my immediate reaction after “yay cool”, was “wait…how am I gonna know I am scraping my CERVIX??” Not everything “up there” is cervix, and some women like me have our parts kinda out of sorts bc of babies and prolapses and surgeries. I’ve had a Dr struggle to find mine before.

BUT- I closed my eyes during a lot. This is abso-fucking-lutely NOT a safe movie for horror wimps & I don’t want anyone to have trauma from it & not warn them appropriately bc this movie is too important to not be appreciated properly. But for me, it was worth it.

I watched Sinners today. I wept during the multigenerational music scene. It was the absolute most glorious cinematic moment I have ever experienced.

Literally said at least 4 times during the movie to those I came with “now THAT is a smart woman!” So refreshing. Horror movies aren’t exactly known for smart characters who make smart choices lol