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Has your account been hacked? Two words—Merrick Garland.

RBG maintained what balance she could for as long as she could. Stuff your ‘hubris.’

RBG should have retired while Obama was in office. She knew it, we knew it. This is where hubris gets you.

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Aw, yaaas, I needed this. Sound up, this is so therapeutic...

Best game

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Missing the Tag can be read as a Stand-Alone Action/Adventure Romance in the Bishop's Run series.

With their Happily-Ever-After firmly in place, Tess and Bishop are settling into married life in Tenley, Virginia. It's a quiet little town--not quite off the beaten path, but enough that if you wanted trouble, you'd have to go looking for it.

Have you met Bishop?

Pop-up shops selling leather pocketbooks, purses, cases, and bags spark Bishop's instincts to investigate, believing the goods to be counterfeit, and Tess has her hands full reining her in, reminding Bishop that her present life in the Witness Security program cuts her off from the life she left behind in Baltimore.

With a broken promise, keeping secrets, and another woman pursuing Bishop for sport, more than just the honeymoon could be over for the happy couple.

And erasing a lifetime creates big problems when Bishop's memory holds the key.

The clock is ticking and the danger is closer than they know.

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“A fox’s teeth are very sharp.” (2013-2019) Silk filament on silk-hemp blend with hand-dyed silk chiffon scarf.  Text is Sandman: The Dream Hunters by @neil-gaiman, design inspired by illustrations of Yoshitaka Amano.  Dress by L.L.K.  Photo credit to Kenneth Williams.

Six years ago, my unbelievably talented wife decided to undertake a ridiculously long and complicated project: to embroider a story onto a dress.

We live in a very casual college town where no one ever dresses up for anything, so we began a tradition of throwing formal New Year’s Eve parties, and L being L, she made a dress every year. In 2013, she decided to take it a step further: she would create a dress inspired by Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: The Dream Hunters and then embroider the entire story onto the dress. The dress itself was the work of a few weeks and looked beautiful on her at the party, and then the real work began: planning, mapping, embroidering and embroidering and embroidering. She estimated it would take approximately ten years of doing needlework an hour or two each evening, leaving plenty of time to take nights or even months off. She finished in under six.

I can’t summon words to describe how proud of her I am right now. I mean, I am always proud of her, as she is an exceptionally kind and caring human being as well as a polymath (seamstress, carpenter, baker, programmer, naturalist, and tenured professor of biology), but she has created a true work of art and I hope it ends up in a museum somewhere to immortalize her talent, skill, and patience.

She’s currently trying to figure out her next project.

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EVE

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Happiness Will Come To You.

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Do it.

*pulls out megaphone*

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*puts megaphone away*

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Power couple.

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Would you take a do-over? Change your name, move to a new city, start over? Could you live the lie?

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Hey, butches and butch-loving women–want a good book to read by the water this summer? You should check out “Bishop’s Run” by B. D. Gates, available from Amazon eBooks now!

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Lesfic readers, the sequel to ‘Bishop’s Run’ is out! This second in the series is a butch-driven adventure with romance and action, so add this one to your TBR pile!

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This is amazing!!!

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Lesfic readers, the sequel to ‘Bishop’s Run’ is out! This second in the series is a butch-driven adventure with romance and action, so add this one to your TBR pile!

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Carrie Fisher photographed on August 17, 2015 in London, England.

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Sam Beckett: Al, something went wrong here, I leaped into a dog! Al? We got problems! C'mon, where are you?

via @sierraseybold

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Hey, butches and butch-loving women–want a good book to read by the water this summer? You should check out “Bishop’s Run” by B. D. Gates, available from Amazon eBooks now!

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