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The winners of the Third Day Naturals Bug Mist giveaway are Katherine Kirkpatrick and Patty Wheeler! Congratulations to both of you! You will be contact shortly by email {if you haven’t been already}, and you’ll need to give you mailing address so that your package can be shipped to you. A big thank you to Third Day Naturals for doing this giveaway! Also, if any of you want some Bug Mist of your own {I’m getting some myself!}, you can get 15% off all the awesome TDN products by using the code MOM15 from now until the end of this month {May 2016}.
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Please note that there will be no posting on Afterthoughts for the next 10 days or so. Following my Dallas trip, which begins Tuesday night, we will also have company {aka my husband’s youngest brother} commandeering my office for a few days. Lucky for me, my husband has to get ready for company while I’m off having a nice time. Did I mention that my sister-in-law {she’s married to my husband’s twin} is going to be my roommate in Dallas? I cannot tell you how excited I am. I haven’t seen her in 18 months!
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This week’s links collection:
- When you take acetaminophen, you don’t feel others’ pain as much from Ohio State University.
- I found this particularly interesting as I have been pondering again the verses in Corinthians that talk about God comforting us in our pain, so that we can then comfort others. Spiritually, experiencing pain is often an empathy tutor. It seems this is true biologically also?
- COPPER PAJAMAS: AN 18-YEAR OLD SCHOOL GIRL BEATS SCIENTISTS TO A MRSA REMEDY from MRSAid
- It’s awesome that a teen figured this out, and it’s also an incredibly sensible, noninvasive, non-side-effect-causing approach. I’m totally stoked about it.
- Convicted Sex Offender Leads Transgender Rights Effort in North Carolina from Breitbart.
- Sort of proving everybody’s point that no one really cares if trans persons are in the bathroom, but rather than this is an opportunity for sex offenders to enter the bathrooms as well.
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This month in 2013:
As usual, I was reading and making connections. Loved this book!
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Episode 8 of the Scholé Sisters podcast is out today! This is the last episode of Season 1. Season 2 will start back up at the end of August a run through the beginning of December. I’m already planning the schedule, and if you have any requests, I am still open to ideas.
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