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The picture above is real. This flyer was waiting for me in my mailbox. It’s a real flyer. For only $99 (using the special code), you too can become a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS). According to the web site, “This intensive online autism certification training provides the education you need to confidently and competently offer safe, effective transformational strengths-based interventions, strategies, and approaches to support your clients regardless of age or developmental stage!

I would be lying if I said I knew what I was doing creating this newsletter. Truth is, I want to use this space for exploring. That’s the word that comes to mind. I want to explore things I like, things others like, what we don’t like, and more. I could sit on TikTok all day (I already do) and post there, but there’s something refreshing about a space where you read the words of others.

Morning all, I’m here, somehow, with matchsticks in my eyes and full of coffee! It’s been a very tough week this week, and all the emotions have been mixed into one. It’s been a very special time for us but it’s also been very hard. I know it will get a little easier as the time goes on, and Solly is such a lovely little boy already, we simply adore him!

Around 4:00 p.m. on the afternoon of Thursday, June 13, 2023, the 2800-person town of New Richmond, Ohio, lost its innocence, and a mother lost her three sons. Thirty-two-year-old Chad Christopher Doerman lined up his three, four, and seven-year-old boys in the backyard and executed them in front of his wife and fourteen-year-old stepdaughter, Alexis. His wife, thirty-four-year-old Laura, tried to stop him and was shot in the hand.  image on Chad Doermans’ facebook page

Imagine the opening to Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout You.” If you know the song, you’re probably hearing it in your head, maybe you’re even picturing the person you always think about when listening to it. It’s in C Major and the first four bars are sustained whole notes: E, C, D, and C. If you hum it as is, it’s not a sad tune. However, there’s something about the way Frank treats those four notes that lures you into a pensive state.

My babies!!! I realise now that I did not yet deliver on my promise of showing you my new tattoos, so that’s this morning’s treat!! I went last week with my new bestie (who’s also called Lucy) and she got a little fern, while I got the smug little flower from the cover of Make It Make Sense (left) and the CUTEST LITTLE CAT YOU’VE SEEN IN YOUR LIFE (right).

Immediately after he lost his consciousness, Ulan’s vision went black in an instant.  He was engulfed by a vast darkness; a place where neither the senses nor the passage of time could be perceived. How much time had passed like that? The consciousness that had suddenly faded away began to return gradually, like the rekindling of a smouldering fire. Simultaneously, memories he thought he'd forgotten surfaced one by one. Huh? What’s going on?

Empowered by the Helmet of Fate, Doctor Fate is a Lord of Order who has been fighting the forces of Chaos with magic since 1940. In the comics, the Helmet of Fate has taken a turn for the worst in the Lazarus Planet comic book event. Batman wears the helmet as he fights a devil and the helmet is destroyed and left on Lazarus Island. Working for Amanda Waller, Peacemaker infiltrates the island and locates the broken pieces which then form into the Helmet of Hate.

Share Here’s the link for today’s conversation (noon to 1 p.m.) with Iowa Public Radio host Charity Nebbe: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86879634328 Charity and the crew at Iowa Public Radio are Iowa treasures. In today’s conversation, we will focus on her podcast: Unsettled. The expectations and norms of being a woman morph from generation to generation. It can be unsettling. Nebbe doesn’t shy away from any aspect of these shifts. What does it mean to be a woman?