Mom 🌈, grieving mom, editor • 💜 for Miles • 📚, reading, writing • director of publishing @GirlFridayProd • author @ljtracosas • she/her
Atlanta, GA
Joined January 2016
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👋 @BrunoMars @silksonic
Mother's Day was unbearable.
My 9yo son, Eli, died 8 months ago from a brain tumor. He LOVED you!!
His favorite song was #JustTheWayYouAre, he would say "eyes, eyes" when he was a baby.
Can Eli get a shout out on Friday13th? I will be up front!!
RT!! – at Louisiana, USA
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When you are celebrating this holiday season, plan ahead for a safe way home.
Yesterday my daughter should have turned 9 ...but she's frozen at 2.
Don't do this to another mom.
#DontDrinkAndDrive #DontDriveImpaired #ArriveAlive #Christmas #NotOneMore
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Check on your friends who were grieving a few years ago.
They’re still grieving now. The pain didn’t go away. Most people have simply stopped seeing it.
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Sometimes I look at photos of Beans and really struggle. I think, “she was real and she is gone.” It reminds she was such a real person who I loved so much and is gone. It gets heavier and heavier it feels as days go by.
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July is Bereaved Parents Awareness Month. If you a family that lost a child. Reach out to them to see how they’re doing. The worst feeling for many bereavement parents is feeling forgotten.
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One of my favorite ways to nerd out is fact-checking a fictional story. Today's adventure for a forthcoming story involves the Mayo Clinic, Coach (as in Coach bags), T'challa's necklace, Yale's annual tuition in the early 90s, and Child Protective Services.
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Word of the day (on repeat) is 'hurkle-durkling': 19th-century Scots for lying in bed/lounging about long after it's time to get moving.
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Can we talk about the word “refrain”???? Because that heaux is BIZARRE. You can refrain from doing something, but also a refrain is a repetition. I love her, but refrain is a MESS.
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It's almost Fathers Day. Rather than celebrating, I will spend Fathers Day working to prevent other dads from losing children to gun violence. I need your help sending a message to DC. Let's make #DadsForGunSafety the biggest # of all time with 1,000,000 RT's. Let's do this.
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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."
~ James Baldwin
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Here are the names of the 4 people fatally shot at Young’s Asian Massage:
Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33
Paul Andre Michels, 54
Xiaojie Tan, 49
Daoyou Feng, 44
The 4 Atlanta victims’ names have yet to be released.
Remember the victims, not the shooter. #NoNotoriety #StopAsianHate
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Our guidance to newsrooms in the wake of the Atlanta shootings:
1/ Take caution with language in coverage that could fuel hypersexualization of Asian women. In describing the businesses affected by the shootings, avoid terminology & connotations of prostitution or sexualization
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Our hearts are with the families of the AAPI women slain yesterday. Hatred is infectious and cumulative - it begins w pejoratives about race and evolves into acts of unspeakable violence. We must do more than condemn. Our responsibility is to protect and defend. By word and deed.
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"It was a really bad day for him and this is what he did..." is a strange way for the Cherokee County Sheriff to describe the Atlanta gunman's murder spree. #gapol
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The pain felt by the families and communities targeted by this violence is excruciating. Every single time another family is ripped apart our communities are devastated.
cnn.it/3vt4xPD
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My heart is broken tonight after the tragic violence in Atlanta that took eight lives. Once again we see that hate is deadly. Praying for the families of the victims and for peace for the community.
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“What I want from the river is what I always want:
to be held by a stronger thing that, in the end, chooses mercy"
--Oliver Baez Bendorf