My hand holding an “I voted” sticker

Let’s go, Virginia! ✅

LoTR (any of them)

Peonies

Red roses and a guy fawkes mask

Anniversary flowers 🌹🌸💐

😘

Selfie at a restaurant

Same restaurant

Selfie at universal

Selfie in caverns

You have supported every endeavor, taught me to not only set (but enforce) boundaries, and that I am worthy of love.

May we find each other in every lifetime. 🫶🏻

Selfie at a friends house

Selfie at Animal Kingdom

Selfie in front of Millennium Falcon

Selfie at fancy Paris restaurant in Disney

I didn’t know it then, but 15 years ago you saved me from myself. And for the last 15 years you have reminded me that I have nothing to prove to anyone; that I am perfectly imperfect just the way I am.

Selfie with Kyle at home

With Kyle in front of our Christmas tree

Selfie with Kyle at Irish pub

Family photo with our dogs

For us, 15 marks 15 years of proving the haters wrong; the ones who thought we got married for the “perks” (😂) of the Army; the ones who thought we wouldn’t last a year.

Me and Kyle sitting next to a pond

Selfie with Kyle before Ranger Ball

Selfie with Kyle taking sake shots

Selfie with Kyle at a Red Sox game

15. In biblical numerology, 15 is seen as a combination of three (perfect completion) & five (divine grace); the 15th day represents the full moon, representing immense energy, a time of magical power; in tarot, the 15th card (The Devil) represents the duality of base consciousness & higher self.

Bluey meme about life lessons and ice cream

Ok, Universe…I really need you to be on my side for a minute. I’ve had more than enough lessons lately. Can I just have some ice cream and a breather? 🫠

Back view of the museum

Close up of a minaret

View of the museum across the river

A view of the river from my balcony

Audience at my talk

Me discussing Anne Bonny & Mary Read

Me concluding my talk

Me and Heather in front of a dancing statue

Grateful for a wonderful audience (and my friend, Heather) at my talk on pirates at the Henry B. Plant Museum 🫶🏻🏴‍☠️

I hereby demand dogs at every lecture.

If I give a talk at your university and you do not bring your goodest floof, congratulations, you’re dead to me.

A selfie

I clean up ok sometimes 😂🫶🏻

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And that was the end of it (according to everyone else). I developed CPTSD. I’m almost 40. And I still struggle. #BelieveWomen

I told my parents about my SA. But it was the neighbors’ son/our family friend (I was ~12/13 and he was 16/17) and he told them a different version. They believed him. Even though my mom was a victim of SA by a close friend herself as a teen.

If your response to the Swalwell accusations is “I believe these women, BUT” then you DON’T actually believe them and can fuck aaaaallllll the way off. 🤬

Are you in (or near) Tampa? Come see me tomorrow! 🏴‍☠️

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Winnie.the.Pooh This is the best take, I'm never reading prologues or epilogues wif they wanted me to read it! They would call it chapter 1 !!! 13h Replv

Eldritch Blob It's like a meal you have the main course and then you have the garnish in the beginning and after, there's the *crispy bits* 12h Reply

Vanessa Bacca Same girl F epilogues and F prologes they are not the book bye jaja 12h Reply Lee yap Prologue and epilogues are usually just author 10h Reply 2 Silent_donut Agreed. Wtf else could you possibly be telling me in an intro that couldn't be included in the 300 pages of the book? 2h Reply 1 Gloria_from_cleveland I have never and will never read a prologue or epilogue. Thats not for me 6h Rep v

bopbopbippity991100 no wait same, to this day i've never read a prologue OR. an epilogue 1h Raniv

I’m going to fucking scream

Pilgrim I literally never read a prologue on principle alone. If it's that important, it should be in the book.

Doyle789 I agree completely. The epilogues and prologues aren't part of the story. If they were important they would be part of the story. People write forwards for books, that's just another person writing about what they thought about the book or author... I assume that's what author is doing in the prologue and epilogues

Erin I agree. I feel like it's stuff that wasn't good enough to be in the book 20h Reply 100

dude epilogues and prolouges to me are equivalent to dvd bonus features and are therefore skippable unless you're really into it 8h Reply • 255

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

After a shit sandwich of a weekend, today has been a colossal shit buffet and imma need the universe to calm tf down so I can regulate my burnt out nervous system before I explode. 😭 kthxbai ❤️‍🩹

Screenshot of an email from the department of education informing me that the SAVE Plan has ended and I have to enroll in a new student loan repayment plan

I knew this was inevitable, but fucking hell, it sucks. There goes any discretionary spending or saving for the next few years.

I think pineapple on pizza is good

try a pineapple, bacon, and jalapeño pizza sometime

Supreme Court overtuned a Colorado law banning conversion therapy. It's 8-1 with Ketanji Brown Jackson as the lone dissent.

Surprised by the vote, but not the outcome. MAGA is on a march to erradicate the LGBTQ community and the Supreme Court will help them.

JT a brindle boxer

Today would’ve been JT’s 12th birthday ❤️‍🩹😭

If you are able, I'd really appreciate if you could ask your library (local &/or university) to buy a copy of my book.

I stand by it being Open Access; everyone should have access to education and scholarship.

But I am also unemployed, so any copies sold really do help a lot! Please consider it!

My people pleasing perfectionist brain struggled with being unable to attend the rest of the conference this weekend. But I’d be lying if I said spending the weekend in bed wasn’t exactly what my mind and body needed after falling down the stairs on Thursday and having food poisoning Friday night. 😮‍💨