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Our favourite travel blogger, Kayla Smith, documents yet another of her travels- this time in Shwersbire, England!

Another thing I noticed, mostly from my second week onwards, is that this town does not, in fact, have much of a nightlife. All the shops are closed and vacated by sundown, and now I even believe I can recall odd looks from locals when I would sit still watching the sunset while everyone else was readying to go home, if not already there.

- Excerpt from the Where Ya At? section on the nightlife of the town, Report 004, Shwersbire, England

Read the full post on Kayla’s Blog (link to post)!

Kayla’s Travels, (link to blog, www.AussieTravelsWithKayla.blogspot.com)

While most pregnant women return home from the hospital with a newborn baby, Kayla Smith and her husband, James, returned home with a white memory box, a painful reminder of what could have been. "We obviously would rather have our baby than this box," Kayla said, "and it's really sad to leave the hospital without your baby." The couple found out they were pregnant on Mother's Day last year, automatically growing their family to four. Their daughter, Addison, is 2.5 years old. Kayla said everything was going well up until her 20-week anatomy scan. James said the ultrasound sonographer kept going over the baby's heart, and in their own hearts, they knew something was wrong. The baby, who the couple named Brooks, had several fetal anomalies, including serious heart defects. The couple met with a maternal-fetal medicine doctor and pediatric cardiologists. Unfortunately, all of the prognoses were the same. Kayla said Brooks had Critical Aortic Stenosis (CAS) and Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). "Based on what they were saying, it wasn't going to be operable," James said. "So, when we're told it's not operable, no choice is easy going forward." Kayla and James were also worried about preeclampsia, which Kayla developed with Addison. Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication that can cause high blood pressure and other dangerous complications. The couple said they were faced with a "crap buffet of choices." "We didn't want our son to suffer, and also, I felt like there I was putting myself at risk [since] getting preeclampsia was very likely towards the end of my pregnancy," Kayla said. At 21 weeks, the couple traveled to Washington state to get an early induction of labor. Under Idaho's abortion laws, Kayla could not get that care in state. As of last year, abortions are only legal in cases of rape or incest with a police report or if the pregnant person will die. Kayla isn't the only woman dealing with an impossible situation. Dr. Stacy Seyb, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, said doctors around Idaho are referring people out of state. He said the lack of reproductive options in Idaho hit low-income families the hardest. "Not everybody has the money to pick up and go to another state, spend a few days, maybe even pay cash or money … some places want it upfront," Seyb said.

Breathe - Alex (Ryan Destiny) & Olivia (Kayla Smith)

Star 3x4 | “All Falls Down”

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"so far in Feb"

Kayla Brianna Smith

New Young Adult Releases! (April 25th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith

The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst

Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

Becoming A Queen by Dan Clay

No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding

When We Had Summer by Jennifer Castle

An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves

That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby

Robin & Her Misfits by Kelly Ann Jacobson

Vape by Cynthia Kadohata

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Happy reading!

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New (2023, Jessica Harmon)

Aurora Teagarden Mystery #19

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They said, "If you keep carrying on like this, you won't even be the person people root for in your own stories." I said, "Good."

from Artemis Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer

Front Page of Shreppand'e Newspaper, Week 4 April 2019 Issue (#SE0190426) dicsussing the recently ever popular snake inspired body modyfications. For better quality check out the pdf version.

“Yet, here we are, and good intentions and happy thoughts don’t fix problems.” It's Getting Worse: The Gender Pay Gap Among Senior Marketing Professionals Is Widening | The American Lawyer … #lmamkt

“Yet, here we are, and good intentions and happy thoughts don’t fix problems.” It’s Getting Worse: The Gender Pay Gap Among Senior Marketing Professionals Is Widening | The American Lawyer … #lmamkt

Important, sobering, essential analysis done by ALM. Thank you, Kayla McCaleb, Patrick Fuller, and team. Change is needed. Yesterday. Thank you, Patrick Smith, for the wonderful chat today and for including my reactions in this coverage. Link to article: https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2022/09/20/its-getting-worse-the-gender-pay-gap-among-senior-marketing-professionals-is-widening/…

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The first trailer for Teen Mom Family Reunion Season 3 has dropped…and it’s just as cringy as you’d expect.

MTV gave viewers their first look at the upcoming season, which— as The Ashley told you back in September— will feature various couples (and random singles) from the franchise coming together in Colombia for a “couples therapy”-type retreat. On Monday, The Ashley told you that the season will premiere mid-March, and the trailer has confirmed that to be true, as the show is set to premiere on Wednesday, March 13.

The ‘Teen Mom’ cast members who are participating in this dumpster fire include Maci Bookout and her husband Taylor McKinney; Catelynn Lowell and her husband Tyler Baltierra; Cheyenne Floyd and her husband Zach Davis; Jade Cline and her husband Sean Austin; Cory Wharton and his girlfriend Taylor Selfridge; Kayla Sessler and her boyfriend Ryan Leigh; and Mackenzie McKee (‘member her?) and her boyfriend Khesanio Hall.

Also joining the group—despite having no significant other with them— are Briana DeJesus, Kiaya Elliott and Leah Messer.

(As The Ashley told you earlier, Ashley Jones and Bar Smith were also supposed to be part of the cast, but the couple got into a nasty fight in front of producers at the holding hotel in Colombia and were sent home before ever making it into the cast villa. Click here to read more about that!) 

Anyway, in the trailer, it appears that the moms and dads will be letting the good times roll (and the body parts flop!)

“You get parents away from their kids, it’s bound to turn up the heat!” Catelynn says. 

As Zach flops his naked self into the pool, we hear Cory yell, “I’ve always wanted a ‘Teen Mom’ orgy!”

“It’s all about love, marriage and a little bit of drama,” Cheyenne tells us as we see someone (whom The Ashley can confirm is Kiaya) be carried off the beach after getting hurt. (The Ashley is told Kiaya was injured while on a jet ski, but was not seriously hurt. However, one source tells The Ashley that “Kiaya did have to wear a neck brace for a day or so.”) 

Next, we are taken to the retch-inducing scene of the couples taking some sort of sex lesson. We see Catelynn sitting on Tyler’s lap, and Jade sitting on Sean’s lap, as they are told they’re going to learn “how to moan.”

We then get to sit in on some of the therapy sessions with the couples, including one where Maci reveals that someone (assumingly Taylor, who’s sitting next to her) told her that he “would not want his daughter to become the mother that I am.”

“We’re either going to make or break everyone’s relationship,” Jade tells the camera, as we see Cory’s girlfriend Taylor slam the door during a fight with Cory. 

‘Teen Mom Family Reunion’ Season 3 premieres Wednesday, March 13 on MTV.

white girl graduates w a degree in anthropology , digs up a archaeology site on supposedly protected land by Mandan/Bismarck area and then thinks that she’s qualified to speak on how the Palestinian GENOCIDE is a war against hamas bc the situation is “complicated” like hello. shut up. kill yourself maybe. like im so serious you need to fucking go girlie pop !

Small Press Expo 2023: Carousel: Comics Performances

Small Press Expo 2023: Carousel: Comics Performances #smallpressexpo #spx #spx2023

The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch! Since 1997, R. Sikoryak has hosted Carousel, a series of comics readings and visual performances by cartoonists and theater artists, presented around the U.S. and Canada. This special edition of Carousel at SPX features exhibiting artists and guests, performing live. Join us for an audio-visual…

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