Right! Because it wasn’t actual STL pizza!! Like look I loved my time living in that city but holy Jesus, whatever Satan spawned that pizza style should be scorned and cast into the depths of Alabama

Holy shit I considered grad school at UNC’s Islamic studies center. JFC

Better than STL tbh

Yeah, I have a few covers I like better - but not this song!!

OG one from Let It Bleed!

Yeah not entirely sure how I clicked that button!! Walaykum salaam…

Anyway. Take care of your friends and family, and reach out at moments you may not think are too significant. No one wants to beg to be remembered on a tough day, that doesn’t really make one feel better.

I don’t really know what my point is here other than grief is messy, I shouldn’t hold people to unreasonable expectations they don’t know I have, and I wish we had a secular yahrzeit tradition in America.

Wanted to know that people remembered her, it was a real gut punch in a very unreasonable way not to hear from more than a handful of people. My in-laws. My husband. My two best friends. My stepsister. No one from my mom’s extended circle of friends and family.

Remember the big events in my friends’ lives. Yesterday, though, all the extended family I love back home? Seems like every one forgot the day. I know it’s stupid to expect others to maintain a tradition my mom cared about, but they also benefited from her care for years, and on the day when I most