#Grandparents

A number of things to share today. Let's begin, as is habit, with the latest writerly finds on the Practicing Writing blog—including a free online #memoir summit, #bookpromo advice, and
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THREAD: This is a hard moment - but it’s a brief moment in our long history. It’s six months until we get to a technology to end the Covid epidemic
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I love this thread, and I am really, really resentful of people who make it seem like parents should have it all together and be nothing but grateful right now,
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My parents are doctors so we took both doses in March. Last week my family tested +ve. All of them had mild symptoms. All of them are on the road
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The most frustrating thing about Trumps Covid incompetence: if he had JUST seen more than today’s stock charts, if we had done a true, 90 day national lockdown with public
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A Thread.Y'all remember in Roots when Kunta ran away and they cut off his foot? And remember how that plantation was supposed to be the one all the enslaved Africans
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1. I am mourning for my friends and acquaintances who are losing their jobs and businesses. When the lock down began in March, this was the first repercussion that crossed
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Can't really fault Southern twitter and gang sometimes, as stupid as they might sound in most cases related to #Arewatwitter, we this rich yea! pulling out Benzes, G-wagons and Rolls
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they just can't stop being racist. "her ancestry does not go back to american slavery."how'd black people get to jamaica?fyi: my great times whatever grandparents did not get there on
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I’m still annoyed that someone on this website thinks I’m from NYC. It’s time for a rerun of how Ol’ Doc Pilot’s family settled the West:https://www.timesofisrael.com/frontier-jews-find-more-green-acres-than-goldene-medina-in-rura
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Yesterday I said goodbye to my best friend, I was blessed to be gifted with the greatest Nonno who taught me lifes most important values. Most of all, him &
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Reading this article (in which I'm quoted near the end), I realized why I have such a strong visceral reaction to some of the negative coverage of @ProfEmilyOster's work on
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10 years ago today, I boarded a plane to Barcelona with a one-way ticket, my possessions in a rucksack and less than €100 in my pocket. I was 22 years
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My kids still ask why they can’t talk to their grandparents and I tell them “well, it’s because they couldn’t stop being racist even in front of you”Seriously fuck this
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So apparently, it's believed that Awulian migrated from Bahr-el-Ghazal! Alakiir had two brothers (Akei & Juach, I believe) who were quite handsome but troublesome. They'd date girls & reject them
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This tweet has triggered me. I am weeping. My mom died when I was 16. I wish she was here because the difficulty I'm experiencing now with my family was
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