I'm barely seeing Evangeline lately, she's been napping every day

So by the time she's done with her nap in the evening, her dad is almost home, you know?

Still, I do have one cute Eva-cdote from Tuesday.

The nieces wanted to ride on their hobby-horses (horse heads on sticks?) to go back to the school to pick up Ana's bag. Ana's is white. Evangeline's is brown, with a white spot on the forehead.

Evangeline: Connie, you know what? I'm gonna call my horse Milky. *glances down*
Me: Milky?
Evangeline: No, BROWNIE. I'm gonna call him Brownie.
Me: Because he's b-
Evangeline: Do you know why?
Me: Because he-
Evangeline: Because he's brown. Except for his forehead. That's white. He's brown and white. I'm gonna call him "Brownie Milky".
Me: Like chocolate milk?
Evangeline: YEAH! Brownie Milky. Brownie Milky.

How is it possible...

...that there are people who can consistently spell "pacifier" but think that somewhere, somehow, there's an s in "pacify"?

A few articles.

A report by Amnesty International on the shocking (!) rate of death in childbirth in the US.

Apparently more than two woman a day die of pregnancy related causes... if this information is even accurate, which it might not be.

And those two woman? Are probably black. Black woman are four times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications than white woman, even though they aren't any more likely to suffer from complications such as hemorrhage.

I'm not actually shocked or surprised by this, of course.

Here's an article about the fight in Ethiopia to eliminate bride abduction. It's fascinating. (Also, it gave me nightmares. This article gets its very own trigger warning for its descriptions of rape.

Oh, and I have two quick posts on Jewish literature, particularly fantasy:

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