There is also a bio pic in the works about Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and inventor of the theories behind the computer. It’s a good time to shop around your script about some great, but uncelebrated woman scientist!

I live in an area with coyotes and bears. Going after a coyote with an assault weapon is like setting off a bomb in your house to kill a spider. Clapping or yelling works pretty good. Unless you want to arm your outdoor cats and small dogs for their protection....Personally, I’m not in favor of armed cats, though. …

Thanks for this interview, Kelly. I’m fascinated by the m/m romance market and I’m sure someone could write a really good dissertation on it. I’d like to read a good gender/queer theory analysis.

Go, kids! May this be your revolution. The previous generations have utterly failed.

Not so surprised, really. Everytime I’ve seen Matt de la Pena at a conference, he was surrounded by a group of adoring women in their early to mid 20s. Lots of bar events after the conference with him and about 10 young women. I can see how that could have gone terribly wrong.

I love the small, locally owned groceries that sell discounted bags of slightly bruised fruit or overripe bananas (perfect for banana bread). I used to buy those from a coop when I was a grad student. So much better than large chains that throw perfectly good food away when people could use it.

This reminds me of late 19th/early 20th century theories that we should prevent the poor from eating exotic, stimulating foods like garlic because they cause the blood to be warm. The poor would luxuriate in that tasty Italian food and therefore not work, as opposed to the hardworking, deserving Northern Europeans…

You can tell your family that people who molest one or two children in their family get caught all the time. I personally know of a case (it was his daughter) and he went to prison. I’m not even sure if the local paper covered it. The reason we only hear about the serial molesters is that the other kind are so…

I wonder if the artist was Japanese. Giant weird colored eyes and no nose are pretty standard for manga.

Are the people trying to force undocumented teenagers to give birth against their will on American soil the same ones who turn blue in the face about “chain migration?” Do they realize that the babies these children are forced to give birth to will be American citizens? Citizens with (gasp!) non- citizen parents and…

Sorry, staying up all night with my dog with projectile vomiting and diarrhea has broken my irony meter.

I doubt it is so much ethics as a fear of bad PR for the Olympics. That’s the cynical part of me anyways....

A 27 year old with 4 kids? Yikes. And supporting 5 kids (and likely a SAHM) on a police officer salary? I wonder what church they belong to.

What??? I have to know more about this. I think a movie should be made.

Surely there is some kind of incarceration that could keep a blind man safe from other prisoners while also seeing that justice is done. But then, maybe not in Oklahoma.

Actually, my family knows someone who died of this flu last month. She was healthy and middle-aged. The important thing is to go to the ER or your doctor if your fever goes over 102 or lasts more than 2 days. What kills people isn’t the flu. It’s when the flu turns to pneumonia, which causes sepsis, a bacterial…

Never made sense to me either. You don’t want meat sitting around all day after cooking. Highly recommend the Instant Pot pressure cooker, though. You throw a bunch of veggies and chicken or other protein in when you walk in the door, do your evening routine with pets and/or kids, and dinner is done in less than an…

If she does have kids who like dolls, they will probably appreciate your hand-sewn outfits even more than the American Doll ones. My grandma sewed clothes for my dolls. The detail (and love behind it) are amazing. I have all of her doll clothes up in the attic. They are unique and precious to me.

There is a window for the pure thrill of plastic watercress sandwiches. Sadly it has passed for me. I’d give it to my children, though!

Please recommend mystery movies or tv shows that are not about serial killers or the violent rape/murder of young women! I’m just sick of it. Refuse to watch Criminal Minds. By looking at Netflix, you’d think genius serial killers lived on every block, rather than being extremely rare aberrations. I like the…