My tweets

• Thu, 12:04: A daughter's thoughts about physician assisted suicide:This Right To Die http://t.co/YUitONr4gb #NaBloPoMo #death
• Thu, 12:24: This Right To Die http://t.co/R6q47BYVMh @greatersafety @DoNotFaint @story3girl @VelveteenMama #NaBloPoMo
• Thu, 20:24: What my parents' deaths taught me about This Right To Die http://t.co/UWDCvpmKUL #NaBloPoMo #RightToDie #assistedsuicide #Euthanasia
• Fri, 09:23: Had one of those "Dad wasn't dead, was only missing and now he's back" dreams that ended in him leaving again, on purpose. Ouch.
• Fri, 09:24: I know, I know, subconscious. We're over here processing feelings of abandonment after yesterday's tough post, but come on.
• Fri, 09:26: Having me walk into an empty room with an envelope addressed to Bessie (my old nickname) left on a quasi-hospital bed was a low blow.
• Fri, 09:27: Filling that envelope with random scraps of paper scrawled with gibberish was a straight up Dick Move.

#WeNeedDiverseBooks For Readers of Every Age

I may be just one person with one lifetime of experiences to which I can speak. But I will say this: a lack of diverse juvenile and young adult literature actively damaged my sense of self worth. Damaged the pride I had in my culture. I noticed all of the ways that my family was different from all of families represented in fiction. Remembered the way Scholastic said they had the best, and how nothing representing my experiences was anywhere on that list. I was not the best, and I understood that in a way that I am still, at forty, dismantling. - See more at: http://www.runningnekkid.com/content/weneeddiversebooks_readers_every_age#sthash.3Ch21aT4.dpuf