Boo! I’ve written to all the appropriate representatives, but since I live in Texas and I’m female, I’m sure my opinion will not be taken into account by them.

It’s sadly funny how you’re pretty much screwed no matter what you hair is like. I have stick-straight hair that is built for slick buns and bobs. Unfortunately, when I’m in my formal workwear I’m told these hairstyles make me look “forbidding”, “haughty” or “severe”. I actually sleep with my hair in braids now to get…

I dunno, but I’m thinking of new and inventive uses for speculae...

“Foil Pokemon cards of romance novels...” That is SO accurate! I spent a fair amount of my teens as a library assistant and the glee with which the romance novel ladies would fall upon the new offerings each month was terrifying. They knew what days we put out the new books and would just “happen to stop by” right…

I once frequented a small second-hand bookstore and picked up a couple of romance novels for a friend. I noticed a column of strange symbols on the inside of the back covers: hearts, smiley faces, initials, stars, etc. I asked the cashier about it. It turns out there were a bunch of old ladies who lived nearby and…

Turmeric is a yellow-orange root. I wonder if part of the effectiveness of the face pack is the presence of retinoids.

I always think of the girls who worked in the match factories. They had money deducted from their pay for basic business expenses like materials to make the matches, the boxes to pack them in and so on. They also were not allowed to leave their work stations for a lunch break. So they ate food that became contaminated…

Connie Willis wrote some great time-travel stories and one of the more interesting details is the risk-rating of different times and places for different individuals. At one point, the only person in the time lab who isn’t being tossed about in the time stream is a black guy because every era and area involved in the…

Amen on the Birth Control!

Based on both my husband’s and my family trees, we’d have 11-16 children by now. NO THANKS!

Here’s a link to the free e-book version of “Woman in White”.

No such thing as “product safety”: Arsenic in the wallpaper, cosmetics and cleaning supplies, lead in almost anything and electrical devices without fuses.

I feel you pain, my sister is an LMT and has an excellent professional reputation, but that doesn’t keep people from thinking she does more than massage or that she doesn’t take her role as a healthcare provider seriously.

I’m not an historian, not do I play one on TV. But that gal has some rose-colored visions of the Victorian era. I grew up living just down the road from a “living history farm” where they worked hard to accurately portray the day-to day lives of a small working farm in the late Victorian era. It was endless, back…

:) It’s an easy swap to make. I have to go back and re-read stuff all the time.

Last I checked, Scott Walker was still Governor of Wisconsin and pissing all over workers’ rights at every opportunity. Christie is a pure yankee, nice try foisting him off on us, even spiritually. As for Cruz? Blame Canada and Cuba...I seriously suspect an international conspiracy. :) There are plenty of asshats…

Um....maybe y’all better look in your own back yard a little bit closer. I’m not too sure Messrs. Scott Walker and Chris Christie are exactly a credit to the North. (Just the first two that popped into mind. If I had the time, I’m sure I could list a plethora of non-southern asshats.)

Maybe her vagina is just that scary?

Get well soon!

Any time someone goes all regionalist (as a Texan I get a fair bit of this), I like to point out that no single place in the world has a monopoly on assholes.

I guess LSU’s use is OK, too. :)