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All three of the How To Train Your Dragons movies. So. MANY. FEELINGS.

"The Missing Ingredient" by Rebecca Roanhorse, from the anthology "Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love". The story doesn't start off as anything distressing; a teen is at odds with her mother. The mother's obsessed with the faltering restaurant she started with her late husband.… Read More

Pretty much the entire run of Avatar: The Last Airbender. But especially any episode with Uncle Iroh. He's the uncle we all need, dealing with anger, grief, acceptance, and forgiveness, and helping Zuko to grow and flourish.

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. It uses a grandmother's telling of the Sleeping Beauty story as a framing device, and to devastating effect. The bulk of the book is about a girl's journey to discover that same grandmother's mysterious past in WWII Poland. I read the whole book in one afternoon… Read More

Abyssinia Ethiopian Restaurant in Sacramento, CA! This is my favorite place in the city, hands down. The food is unlike any other cuisine I've tried: richly spiced stews, sauteed meats and vegetable dishes that often tempt me to skip the meat entirely! You eat the meal with injera,… Read More

Unpopluar opinion: I never watched it, and probably never will. *shrug*

The moment I knew? After nine years of marriage filled with me sacrificing my health and dreams to uphold his, the breaking point was this: We were flat broke. One of his dreams was to go to a Wrestlemania event, and that year it was planned for a location nearby. I scraped, saved,… Read More

The ending of Sliding Doors, when the happy version of Helen dies. She and James went through some major drama, but she'd really gotten her life together. She owned her own business, found personal success, then BAM! After resolving said drama, she's hit by a van. The movie ends on… Read More

sanctuaryxiii: It could be "Crandalls' Castle" by Betty Ren Wright. That's about a haunted castle with a ghost cradle.

sanctuaryxii: Could it have been something by Christopher Pike?