As an animator and director for a day, she made sure we twinkled each light and cleaned the water just right and took extra care for the illustration's dragons—about whom she is also writing a novel.

Wouldn't that be awesome? To just have ONE thing that was completely surrounded by happy, good vibes, and no one trying to tear it apart?

At first I was going to be all, "NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS!!!!" Then I saw LVB himself was on-board, and all was right with my world again.

My brother and I may or may not have performed a "synchronized swimming" (read: flailing about in the water in somewhat similar fashions at vaguely the same moment) routine to the Reading Rainbow theme song one summer. Just off our boat. In the middle of a lake. And kept trying to sing-shout the lyrics ourselves,…

"Basically what I'm saying is it's on the rapists to not rape because that's the basic human obligation."

Agreed!

My thoughts exactly.

Were there bagpipes? If so, I would have totally turned into a white-gown-covered puddle had I been the bride. *sigh*

I fully support this.

I'm a Wisconsin-native/moved to MN for some school/moved back to WI girl, and I agree. While there are a few exceptions to the "MN Nice" rule, and I'm sure my WI bias will never wash away, I genuinely feel that people in WI are nicer and on a deeper level. Just last week, I had an entire conversation with a man at…

I WISH I had had this advice my senior year of college. I lost a very very close friendship over a similar issue. She & I had been roommates since our sophomore year of college. Our senior year, we got our own apartment together, worked at the same place, just generally loved hanging out together.

As my 32nd birthday is just over a month away, this makes me incredibly happy - thank you!!

I was a tiny little pipsqueak of a kid until about age 7, then the weight just seemed to pile on from out of nowhere. (I learned later the same thing happened to my mom; my weight issues definitely trace back through my mom's side.) I went to a parochial school, where classes were very small in an already very small…

I saw it too, and just sat there with my jaw on the floor, thinking "W.....T.........FFFF?"

Thank you!! My first though, too!

I had a very similar thought!

Reading the Cracked piece now and I just want to cry. I hate that we're still trying to make people fit a certain mold by stripping away their natural beauty & quirkiness. Maybe it's a "grass is greener" thing, but as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Midwestern girl myself, I think we're pretty plain-looking (see:…

Was thinking the same. Love it. Please post photos when you have it done! (So I can avoid directly copying you. :) )