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Hello you special wonderful creatures!
It's fall, my favorite season! A season of crisp leaves and pumpkin bread and whiskey-cider and posts about feminist Halloween costumes! To celebrate this grand time in our lives, we have shared pictures of ourselves with pumpkins. Some of these pictures are very old and some of them are new and some are of gourds, but that's fine.
1st row L to R: Hannah, KaeLyn, Maddie, Aja, Laura M. 2nd row L to R: Carolyn, Nikki, Mey, Riese, Yvonne 3rd row L to R: Stef, Kaitlyn, Carmen, Mari, Laneia 4th row L to R: Laura W. and Gabby, Robin, Heather, Rachel, Chelsey
This past summer was the first in recent memory that we didn't put out a call for new writers. We usually do that in June or so, so that we'd have time to look through them when Laneia's kids were gone for the summer AND/or when we did our annual retreat. This year, we didn't — we had such a large backlog of other work that we doubted we'd have the time to go throu...
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