Amy Newman

Freelance Writer. Wife & Mom. Occasional attorney. Star Wars nerd. Avoider of hugs & small talk. East Bay Cali by birth, Alaskan by choice.

[Amy Newman @amysuze]

@JosiasKLuna I don't always take my phone with me and when I do it's easier to glance at my watch than pull the phone out of my bag.

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@dilemmalord Apple Kool-Aid. My mom even wrote a letter to them asking if they had any leftover they could send.

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@conz How about having only half-started? For 15 years I've had a pay-as-you-go cell phone plan (I think they even got rid of it but I'm grandfathered in). I rarely text and have no data so can only access the internet on it via Wi-Fi.

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@WhileWfh It's not fun being a wheelchair user here in winter. My daughter uses an electric one and bitches at me half the winter about why did I choose to live here.

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@Lizb7Rawlins SSG for sure doesn't provide therapists.

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Share a gif from a TV series that you've seen every episode of.

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@Lizb7Rawlins The other night I was *thisclose* to saying, "I delivered a dead baby, I win!", which obviously doesn't help but sometimes it gets to be too much for her and us. But he managed to talk her down.

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@Lizb7Rawlins Yes, that's my daughter. She's also in counseling but gets in a loop & honestly often seems to thrive on the negativity & picks fights. My husband tries to relate to her re: the anxiety but hers is always worse. (1/2)

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@NathanLunaAKTN My daughter was at the mall when it happened but has zero idea anything happened

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@Lizb7Rawlins @InTriguEe907 I mean I am not discounting that many working parents do rely on school to fill their childcare needs because it's too expensive and too unavailable. But that's a side benefit...this made it seem like it's the reason.

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@Lizb7Rawlins @InTriguEe907 The whole editorial read as though the most important thing about school is that it acts as daycare for working parents.

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@Lizb7Rawlins I feel like after so many days of having to check ASD should break protocol and post saying it's on. Though I guess there's the possibility that tomorrow could be a slick show & they'd have to cancel, so I guess they could only post "As of now it's on. Check @ 5:30 per usual."

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@MissMayfieldAK A bunch of us on the local FB group this morning started calling and saying we were basically trapped.

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@chumcan Is this about the petition the downtown restaurant is trying to get people to sign about the sidewalk snow being dumped into parking spaces?

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@kitaq My daughter is sitting at her Chromebook waiting to see if the announcement pops up on her dashboard.

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@citehchris Find the person who recognizes they have to work to get you to open up/speak and are willing to do it. That's how my husband claims he got me. Though 20+ years later he may wish he hadn't, since he's one of the few people I talk to. 😂

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@cphelpsak @AK_El_Jefe My kids attended a charter school for elementary. I would not have been able to get them there this week because my street hadn't been plowed and cars with a higher clearance and 4WD were getting stuck. So it's about the busses but not just about the busses.

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@AK_El_Jefe I'm sector 48 (South Anchorage near Dimond Freddies) and my street finally was at 2:30, because a bunch of us called to say we were trapped.

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@ozymomdias My hubs has always hated bedtime. When they were little it was too long & drawn out. Now that they're teens it's when they usually lose their sh*t b/c phone privileges end & apparently "I'd like to know just 1x what it's like to have my phone in my room at nite like my friends!"