2019-20 PublicVoices Fellow OpEdProject, GenXer, Writer, BearDown UA Wildcat, Eller College OM alumni, Beatles fan. Fairy Godplanner when called upon 🧚♀️
I am so flattered and honored that @MsMagazine just published my plight and perspective during this plague, which is also my homage to Judy Brady Syfers #Iwantawife https://t.co/Mr3kkjg8Th Let’s not still be having this conversation 50 years from now, too! Deal?
@rolandgavince “I owe it something,” is a great way to put into words how you feel after you’ve really gotten past something, especially those expensive times when someone does ya dirty!
They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.
I have my great grandmother’s skillet and I want that layer of the past on there. It makes me happy to know all the meals that went before, and all the meals that may come after me! 🍳🥞
@tagsalegirl@DocPriyamMD Heartbreaking. Had a similar situation with an uncle (much less time in limbo, thankfully) in many years ago. Reading and learning about consciousness and NDEs, etc., has helped me feel more peaceful about it, but it took a long time. It’s still so new for you 💙💙💙 I’m so sorry
The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.
@PanickedFoodie In AZ they have an insurance board that you can file appeals to. That’s how I got Aetna to pay for my epidural they declined for being out of network—at one of two hospitals that they let you choose from to deliver.
Ireland passed a living wage for artists, they found for every $1 invested in artist the artists returned $1.39 back, and so they are rolling out a program of basic income for artist, incredible
My scale now requires 2FA. I’m not even kidding. It used to just do its little scan of the state & weight of Midlife Maggie & zap that info into the Withings health app. I’ve had it for years. THIS IS OVERKILL.