u/WerewolfBarMitzvah09

Very quick background: my youngest kid is preschool age and for months now he is obsessed with sword/sabre dueling and observes footage really closely and then reenacts a lot of what he sees and honestly does a good job of it. I don't know much about fencing personally, but I showed him some Olympic fencing footage and he was really captivated by the sport and said he would love to do this.

As someone who has no background in fencing, is preschool age way too young to start with some basic classes- is it better to wait another couple of years to try? Definitely in no rush to put him in classes or anything at all, just curious since he's so interested in it.

My husband's family has a super high tendency of hip dysplasia (he has it himself, all of his female first cousins had it, all of their daughters had it, our middle child had a minor case of infant DDH at birth as well, it's possible my FIL also might have had it his whole life too though he's never gotten officially tested)- I was just curious if there's any ongoing scientific studies exploring potential genetic variants or abnormalities that might help to explain why it runs so heavily in some families?

So I have to admit I was pretty disappointed overall with Battle of Jakku, which is giving me a lot of pause about Out of the Darkness. For those who have read both, is it worth continuing on with Out of the Darkness (particularly if you were also not a huge fan of Battle of Jakku) in regards to storylines, art, etc. or if I wasn't enamored with Battle of Jakku, Out of the Darkness will probably not be up my alley either?

Just for fun, I'm trying to find some instances of fiction- novels or short stories- where a character is either shown to be reading a specific Christie mystery or discussing one with another character.

u/rare_cranberry_7861 thank you so very much for the lovely long letter, first day cover and thoughtful postcard! I shall be following up with a card your way to answer some of your questions <3 I hope you are having a wonderful spring day.

u/Ok_Reveal2698 wow what a cool outer space card, and all the stamps are absolutely amazing! Especially love the Amidala and Webb telescope stamps, thank you :)

u/passingavery Love the Ron Weasley card, my kids will be quite excited to see it when they get home from school- and that bird stamp is awesome!

I got my DXA scan about 10 months ago at this point where I got my osteopenia diagnosis. I'm in my 30's and since the diagnosis I've been making a big concerted effort in terms of strength training (doing it daily in terms of reps for 15-20 minutes), added in some bone health exercises like squat jumps, got my vitamin levels checked, have been taking collagen peptides for a little over a year now and other things of that nature and am curious if maybe my scores will have improved. Has anyone tried to take similar measures and had a DXA scan show improvement after about a year?

My oldest is turning 10 soon and his favorite Star Wars movies are Episodes I and II, and he would love books either fiction or nonfiction relating to those movies. Besides the novelizations and the Star Wars Journals (I read those as a kid myself, the Anakin and Amidala books) are there any other TPM and AoC books or comics to recommend for that age? He's a pretty good reader in terms of reading level.

u/ArizonaErie I adored this maxi card of one of my favorite parts of ROTJ! So fun!! I haven't seen any SW series recently (on my to do list) but I can highly recommend the documentary "Empire of Dreams" about the making of the original trilogy

u/credo99 Absolutely love the Dr. Aphra card from the 2015 comics run- I just read almost all of it in the last few months and it's soooo good- thank you, may the 4th be with you!

u/reindeerfrog Han Solo is one my all time favorite SW characters, I was so excited about it plus the wonderful outer space stamp :) The Finland-themed birthday party involved korvapuusti, Moomins, lots of coffee, and Käärijä!

u/Pebble_Pie the AT-AT card is perfect and so fun, I will definitely try to avoid the Dark Side ;)

Both cards are going on a place of honor on my wall!

If anyone's been to a show lately and knows where to find the set list I'm so curious! I'm hoping to catch him on tour this fall and am curious what songs he might potentially be performing (I'm sure there will be some newer ones in the mix of course).

A while back I asked about auditioning for a musical theater production using a song from OMWF and got some helpful responses. I decided to go for it and sang Going Through the Motions. The director told me he was a big Buffy fan after the fact and was so excited that someone auditioned with a OMWF song. I ended up getting in! Nervous, but excited. Thanks for all the advice and encouragement and would definitely recommend anyone else considering doing theater auditions with an OMWF song to consider it :)