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About Thistle

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

Leave Only Footprints, by Conor Knighton (audio)

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Thistle

Subtitled: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park After Knighton and his fiancé broke up not long before their wedding, he was searching for a project that would help take him out of his head while still allowing him to … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Subscription Boxes

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Thistle

Y’all – I love the idea of subscription boxes. My first experience with them was back in 2015 with Ipsy. $10/month for five sample-sized makeup/beauty-care products was an awesome deal. I can’t remember how long I subscribed, maybe six months … Continue reading →

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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, by Aubrey Gordon

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Thistle

This is a book about anti-fat bias and the pervasiveness of fat-shaming, diet culture, and discrimination in our society. Let me start by saying something very, very honest: Reading books like this one make me want to claw my skin … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – A Battery of Tests

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Thistle

I’ve mentioned before that it seems like everything is happening all at once, now that things are happening generally. Over the last few weeks, I’ve had two different sets of bloodwork, three sets of x-rays, an ultrasound, and visits with … Continue reading →

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An Unusual Love Language

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Thistle

By now just about everyone has heard of the five love languages**: words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch, acts of service, and receiving gifts. If I had to choose a single personal love language – because honestly, I respond … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Why I Don’t Read Diet Books

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Thistle

I love health, nutrition, and fitness books that focus on science and aren’t trying to sell diets, but miraculous, cure-all diet books? No. Sometimes, though, I check them out from the library for a particular reason and have to skim … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 55 and 56

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Thistle

Still sitting in equilibrium here in SA. There’s been little news or developments, and we’re in a race against this disease with vaccines now… Week 55 – March 26 to April 1 205,777 cases, 3,152 deaths, 190 seven-day rolling average … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – Hikes of 2021, #24-29

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Thistle

Lots of state parks this time around! I’ve been doing a bit less over this period as I’m trying to protect my foot, still waiting for my MRI and to find out if it’s broken or has soft tissue damage … Continue reading →

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Becoming Odyssa, by Jennifer Pharr Davis

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Thistle

Subtitled: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail. In 2005, Pharr Davis was just out of college and not sure what to do with her life. All she knew was that she wanted to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, solo, and … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Podcast and Song Recommendations

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Thistle

Last year, I found my first ever Podcast that I enjoyed – Real Life Ghost Stories Podcast. Since then, I’ve found two others. The first is the weekly Unsolved Mysteries podcast, which only began this year. The second is The … Continue reading →

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