today is the 95th anniversary of the nineteenth amendment, which gave american women the right to vote. which means all the american ladies reading this better exercise their constitutional right to cast a ballot when the time comes. your female forebears didn't suffer jail and beatings and forced feedings for nothing.
i will never tell you who to vote for. but i will tell you to vote.
retreating arctic ice is exposing plants that have been buried for about four hundred years, and that are
coming back to life once they're no longer frozen. and not as zombie plants, either.
you can get a snow globe to hold your sugar. much cuter than a standard jar or a canister.
the first openly trans woman on the white house staff used to work at the massachusetts state house. she was also the lgbt coordinator for somerville. all of those things are really cool.
this looks interesting and possibly fun (as stolen from
recessional):
Give me the title of a story I've never written and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any or all of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, my soundtrack/theme song for writing, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, and/or something else that I want readers to know.