5/29/2023 0 Comments The leaf detectiveSLU Foodbank at Immanuel Community Services, South Lake Union. I am thankful that they are still going strong, and still a vibrant part of my neighborhood.” I appreciate Helen and the whole staff at Toyoda Sushi. It must have been exhausting! It was clearly a labor of love. During the pandemic, Helen and the rest of the staff persevered in order to find creative ways to keep serving our neighborhood and to keep the sense of family and community going. Sometimes when I meet a person and I find out through conversation that they also go to Toyoda Sushi regularly, I feel like I have found a long-lost cousin! It’s a big celebration and a lovely, warm experience every time we walk in the door, complete with photos and greeting cards on the wall from members of the extended family of the community members. As a result, people are in a friendly, positive mood and often chat with each other while waiting for a table or while seated at the Sushi Bar. Helen Toyoda is always sure to ask how our kids are doing and greets us in a way that lets us know she is genuinely glad to see us. The way the staff treats us makes the meal nourishing to the soul and emotions as well as the taste buds and body. “Toyoda Sushi is a friendly and delicious family restaurant and it is so much more! Those of us who eat there are meant to feel like treasured members of a community. Helen Lee Toyoda/Toyoda Sushi, Lake City.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments And Then by Taylor FitzpatrickAfter the procedure, the first month recovering while taking care of a newborn was a difficult one. They help facilitate the control of bowel contents.įor Taylor these muscles were injured and needed repair. The perineum, or area between the vagina and rectum, contains important specialized muscles, including the external anal sphincter and others. It allows gas or stool to escape or pass into the vagina. “This then led to me undergoing surgery which included having my rectovaginal fistula repaired, as well as repairing the external anal sphincter muscle and perineum.”Ī rectovaginal fistula is essentially an abnormal connection between the vagina and rectum. Kleeman, he informed me that I had developed a rectovaginal fistula,” Taylor shares. She went in for another follow up appointment and was referred to Steven Kleeman, MD, a urogynecologist at Mercy Health – Urogynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine in Cincinnati, OH. Luckily, the baby was delivered quickly and did very well after delivery.įast forward six weeks, Taylor noticed she was leaking gas and stool from her vagina. When his head popped through, the doctor realized that the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. Taylor Fitzpatrick’s birth story was unfortunately not a typical one.Īfter 30 minutes of pushing, her son’s heart rate was rapidly increasing. In short, the master assassin got fused with the super smart dude, and is also a quantam wonder. He is also a quantam man who is able to heal wounds and bend tissue. Then Garrick shows up, having killed the HAZMAT team and fused with Felix Smart, gaining complete knowledge off the 21st century. Due to a mishap, Charles has a yellow monkey hand and a knife sticking out of his chest.Īgent Orange (Felix) is called, he takes a HAZMAT team with him to the past, and Riley ends up in a jail cell with Chevie (Chevron Savano) taking care of him. So the first people to come to the future are Charles and Riley. So if you put two and two together you will understand that Riley and Albert were going to kill Charles Smart, but got transported with him into the 21st century instead. Her boss is professor Felix Smart, son of Charles Smart, who built the time travelling WARP pods.Ĭharles Smart was the assassination target. This is when special agent Chevron Savano enters the mix an underage agent who is American but ends up in London working with WARP (witness anonymous relocation program) after an assignment goes wrong. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Pony Play by Sean MichaelThe story is less than 50 pages but was full on the kink. Luckily, groom/Master Daniel fit the criteria and was as unattached as Jack. All Jack wants is someone to call his own who will accept him kinks and all. Harnesses and nipple piercing and reins.Jack learned he was a true pony boy/sub in this 24/7 lifestyle. While suspending reality with my treats of apples and carrot sticks (a true pony boy diet), Jack and Daniel played in some yummy scenes. Why? A grown man is sort of kidnapped and left with a stranger to participate in an act that he did not consent to? There were minor quibbles but he just went along with it.I neighed with disbelief during those moments. (Side note: The MC's names are Jack and Daniel.LOL) I had to suspend reality and take a trip off the reality trail for a moment of two. His ex leaves him with groom/Master Daniel at a BDSM/pony play training stable. Jack is sort of kidnapped onto a kinky two week vacation by his ex-lover. However there was great equipment detail that I looked into deeper on a pony play fetish helps visualize the bits, harnesses, etc. This story is filled will pony play, penis piercings and enemas, oh my! I will admit this is not my first prance around the pony play paddock. And what a kinky little filly this was (I have so many bad horse jokes, it's not even funny.okay maybe a little) Sean Michael's "Pony Play" is book #3 from the standalone series Sealed with a Kink. 3.75 STARS- "I'm going to let you come, colt. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Endangered Species by Nevada BarrHer fellow crew members have the usual interactions with Anna - all-boy with their bragging and joking. Yeah, I know she’s grieving, but, jesus, what a dishrag. ‘That’s all right, ‘ Anna said generously. She certainly takes Anna’s suspicions well. She comes off tough but has a practical side with a sense of humor. As for Anna’s side of the story, motives are running amuck, and we experience them through Anna’s perspective in third person protagonist point-of-view. Stanton’s consultation with Molly over those death threats proves interesting - I’ll need to read Blind Descent to see how that romance progresses(?). It’s something of a slow, easy read in between action-packed scenes - nothing like a few gunshots and hostage taking to liven things up, *grin*, - as Anna slips in behind the scenes to investigate a double murder. This story takes place on Cumberland Island in Georgia. Explore it on Goodreads or Amazonįifth in the Anna Pigeon thriller mystery series and revolving around Anna, National Park Service employee. Mystery, thriller in a Kindle edition that was published by Berkley on Novemand has 404 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. Jane was lively, half-Welsh, a graduate in French and Italian of Bedford College London, but also emotional and motherly, which was lucky as Priestley left the upbringing of the six children entirely to her. Jane, Priestley’s second wife, was nothing like his more famous third wife, Jacquetta Hawkes. After the standing ovations the Priestleys dined with the company and were showered with gifts of champagne, chocolates and enough tobacco to last Jack till Christmas. On Priestley’s 51st birthday, 13 September, he finally saw his play in the Kamerny theatre, seated in a box. “No comfort, no lav, no sleep, no food,” she wrote, and when they touched down at Minsk, “lav a wooden hut, so filthy as to seat, I had to do what others had done and use the floor!”īut they were royally welcomed by the Writers’ Group of the Society for Cultural Relations with USSR, who included Alexei Tolstoy and Boris Pasternak. “Everybody smoked piano-accordions were brought out and played and sung to bottles circulated and there was a birthday-party atmosphere, very Russian and very genial,” wrote Priestley. So in September, Priestley and Jane travelled to Moscow from Berlin in a Red Army Dakota piloted by a cheerful woman, without seats or seatbelts but with a metal bench, their luggage piled in the middle. The original Leningrad poster of An Inspector Calls The LP went platinum that year, and ‘Margaritaville’ became an anthem to his loyal fans, who call themselves Parrotheads. His breakthrough came with the beachy, easy-living strains of his hit ‘Margaritaville’, from his 1977 album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. On that tiny spit of sand, just 100 miles from Havana, he played local clubs and gradually forged his trademark tropical rock sound, combining folk, calypso, rock and pop to create an indelibly new genre. “The whole idea of having a brand or anything, that never occurred to me until I got to Key West,” Buffett told Forbes in December. The party started in the early 1970s, when Buffett landed in Key West, Florida, after a few years in Nashville as a fledgling country musician. 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This applies for all of our delivery methods. Please be advised that due to COVID-19 precautions and increased shipping volumes, you may experience delays in receiving your order. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Das kapitalMarx's historical materialistic views are exemplified when he claims that the Gods we worship reflect the means of our economic production. We attribute this fascination to some inherent power in the object rather in ourselves and begin to fetishize it. Thus, we see in these commodities a part of us: namely our social relationships in production. He believes that we attribute agential, magical powers to our commodities because they are the only form of social interaction at a time when production is so isolated and alienated. His most interesting claim is regarding commodity fetishization based on our patterns of production rather than consumption. Marx thought it a strength that just from a purely descriptive lens he could show how capitalism was inherently exploitative. Along with this rejection, his claim that capitalism is ipso facto exploitative falls apart. This is all supposed to be a purely descriptive work. This is largely rejected in academia today. Marx presents a labor theory of value which posits that value can only be generated by labor. With that said, I’ve decided to share these unedited notes on the off chance they are helpful to other readers. These notes were created during my reading process to aid my own understanding and not written for the purpose of instruction. My preferred way of engaging with books is reconstruction. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Tuck everlasting book 2Its enduring meaning to readers nearly half a century later makes the case that children can and even yearn to grapple with darkness-that, indeed, denying their very real, very universal fears is far more frightening. While its lessons hinge on its central fantastical element, its themes are grounded in some of the heaviest elements of reality people of all ages must confront. Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting will last forever - in the readers imagination. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. Babbitt’s book won numerous awards, was adapted into two movies and a Broadway musical and translated into 27 languages. Mae Tuck climbed out of bed and began to dress: three petticoats, a rusty brown skirt with one enormous pocket, an old cotton jacket, and a knitted shawl which she pinned across her bosom with a. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of. Saddled with a secret she must help to conceal as outsiders seek to profit off of the powerful elixir, Winnie learns that it is the fact of life’s ending that gives meaning to all that comes before. In it, young Winnie Foster comes to know a family, the Tucks, who have been granted the seemingly enviable but actually burdensome miracle of immortality after unknowingly drinking from a magical spring in the further reaches of her family’s property. The girl was afraid of dying, so Babbitt wrote a story for young readers that faced death head-on. Natalie Babbitt got the idea for her now-classic 1975 novel, Tuck Everlasting, from her four-year-old daughter. |