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About Thistle

Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

Wellness Wednesday #28: Bikini

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Thistle

A couple months back, I celebrated the two year anniversary of the abdominal surgery that helped me to feel comfortable in my body again. Not long after that surgery, I bought and wore the first bikini that I’d had since 1999 … Continue reading →

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Top Books for Readers Who Explore Diversity

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Thistle

Diversity is very important to me, and so for today’s Top Ten topic, I’d like to post far more than ten wonderful books that highlight different kinds of diversity, for readers looking to branch out of their typical reading. Included below … Continue reading →

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Girl at War, by Sara Novic

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Thistle

Ana Juric is a Croatian refugee. When she was ten, her life and family was ripped apart by civil war. Now, as a twenty year old college student in NYC, she is just beginning to face the long term effects … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Translations

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Thistle

When I recently read Love in Lowercase, I decided to take a look back over my books-in-translation numbers over the last few years. What I found was absolutely pitiful. I knew Love in Lowercase had been my first translation in … Continue reading →

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Humans of New York: Stories, by Brandon Stanton

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Thistle

This book really needs no introduction. Stanton photographs people in NYC (and elsewhere when traveling) and asks them questions. The last Humans of New York book I read contained mostly photos, where as this one was photos paired with the … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday #27: Cursed Feet

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Thistle

I imagine most people have trouble with one part of their body or another. Me? My feet. Stupid, cursed feet. I was born with crooked feet, not bad enough to be called club feet, but bad enough to need casting … Continue reading →

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The Forgetting Time, by Sharon Guskin (audio)

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Thistle

Noah is a disturbed four year old, and his mother, Janie, doesn’t know how to help. Doctors and therapists can do nothing for him. Noah is growing ever worse, terrified of water, knowledge of things he’s had no exposure to, … Continue reading →

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Things I’ve Learned About Single Momhood

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Thistle

The biggest issue with your spouse working for a company in another state is the potential time spent in that other state. For the second time this year, Jason just got home from a week in Nashville. From Easter until … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – A Quarter Gone

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Thistle

It’s hard to believe 2016 is a quarter over already. It seems to have gone particularly fast this year, though for me perhaps that’s because of how time dragged for almost two years, before exploding into massive change this past … Continue reading →

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Love in Lowercase, by Francesc Miralles

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Thistle

Samuel de Juan is a mid-30s professor living a solitary life when a cat shows up on his doorstep on New Year’s. Little did he know (ha!), by opening his door to that cat, Samuel would open his life up … Continue reading →

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