My fav Harlan Coben was when, after a couple in which people had implausible jobs they barely went to (that wouldn't have bought the house they live in anyway), they made one without specifying profession at all, the Man just went to Unspecified Work and Wife just went to Unamed Charity Job.

We're in Canada so fewer guns, but they were startled at the level of violence health care workers deal with before they even bother calling the police.

Police came to our inner-city health centre Emergency Department to do 'person with a weapon response' training, & kept posing scenarios where the staff just stared at them and were like "Oh we deal with that one pretty much every day. That one every week. Oh yeah, we see that regularly too."

My younger sister was nominated for a community service award by a neighbour for all the work she does with her local school, and she won it! I'm so proud of her.

Slightly Biased Milk Hotel

it’s so hard to read the news
and so beautiful outside
and the world that seemed so wide
now seems so broken
all the things we love and keep
in our dreams and in our sleep
startled birds that we have
suddenly awoken

I hesitate to 'like' this because it sounds so horrific, but you have my sympathy!