Lisa Van de Ven
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It’s my birthday! Gratitude time.
If you’ve helped my career, parenting, life or @mediagfs 🙏🏿
If you’ve asked for advice or let me support your greatness 🙏🏿
Want to celebrate? Send a special $43 (x1, 2, or 3) gf.me/u/y5qkp6
ps thanks for the education & the jokes!
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If he gets 72,000 retweets he gets a lifetime supply of peanut butter. Seems like a worthy cause to me.
Philosopher Bean@BeanPhilosopher
Dear @LidlUS My name is Bean. I eat peanut butter and jelly English muffins for three meals a day. Back in February, my mom bought 72 jars of your peanut butter when it was on sale for 78 cents a jar. I numbered each jar.
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"Genius itself, the way we typically conceive of it, remains infused with the male gaze, or perhaps more aptly, the male haze: It is gendered by implication." I'm a little late to it, but loved this story in @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
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I read #IllBeGoneInTheDark a couple weeks ago and was blown away by #MichelleMcNamara's writing. I could imagine it bringing new light to a case that had never been solved, and now it looks like it's done exactly that! #GoldenStateKiller huffingtonpost.ca/entry/golden-s…
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ICYMI: These three noteworthy books allow readers an intimate view into one of today’s most divisive issues — @lisavandeven #WorldBookDay2018 #WorldBookDay ucobserver.org/culture/2018/0…
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"A note on the sheep: it appears that they are the only animal in all of Catan. Strange. I cannot help but slightly mistrust this place."
This may reveal me as the board game geek I am, but this had me cracking up. mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-d…
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How can recent fiction exploring the refugee experience help guide the ongoing discussion? My essay in the April edition of the @UC_Observer. ucobserver.org/culture/2018/0…
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This story felt sadly familiar. twitter.com/LauraMLippman/…
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Another case of "how did this even make it through in the first place?". twitter.com/MsPackyetti/st…
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@JodiLewchuk You're definitely one of the friends I was thinking of, since I know we've had several of these conversations over the past few years.
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How is this even a thing in 2017? detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
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I feel like I should send this to all of my female friends of a certain age. oprah.com/sp/new-midlife…
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@Donald_Knight It's been a while, but it looks like it's Alexandria, by Hush Homes.
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Why TV needs more nasty women. My culture essay for the @UC_Observer. ucobserver.org/culture/2017/0…
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@MacFrost Hi Carla - I'm happy to pass it on in private, except I can't DM you unless you follow me.
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Can non-Canadians write a Canadian novel? My essay in the @UC_Observer. bit.ly/LYKQp0
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