As long as you don’t smoke around me and don’t smoke at entrances to buildings. You and I will be cool. I prefer not to breathe it in as it can activate my asthma.

Ditto to you! I love historical fiction as well.

Most of my stuff is set in the south because that is a world I get better than most having lived there my entire life. My setting for the southern gothic is a fictional small town that looks suspiciously like my hometown.

I’m working on a Southern Gothic romance with witches and monsters. Because, why not. :) I usually write world war II historical fiction.

I’m not sure about Sir, but I love Rumi. And are we sure they intend to pronounce it “sir john” or maybe it will be pronounced with a long e. Even if it is pronounced Sir, he’ll fit in among his peers. Lots of children are getting less usual names in the circle his parents run in.

Yay to Marriage for All. Thank you for the update!

I’m thinking about quitting my “career” to become a teacher. My career is killing me. I know that teaching is a career too (my parents were teachers), but I need a career where I get to embrace my love of history and social studies and I love teaching and kids. (I’m talking to other teachers before I make this…

ALL THE STARS

I think it is time to create an alternate campaign. We could suggest that the government wants to reduce the population by bringing back old diseases that we can prevent through vaccination. They have cleverly engaged outsiders like Jenny McCarthy and Robert Kennedy Jr to promote their cause.

Oh they are. I tell them that I have nephews and that is enough for me.”

cosigned, granddaughter of two farmers and the niece of another.

Thank you for sharing this!

Another 30 something southern woman who quit men awhile back! Solidarity.

Isn’t it against the law in some states to do what he’s doing? Could he be charged?

You cannot beat gerrymandering. I’m sorry, but that is the way it is. Approximately 40% of SC voters are democrat. That means, that out of our 7 districts, 3 reps should be democrats, but the SC Legislature (and legislatures all over the country) choose to impede democracy by drawing lines in ways that insure a…

I think that was what bothered me. He was keep Julia Roberts character on a string....

How do we get these younger folks to understand what it was like? I remember the fear. I remember the AIDS quilt and ACT UP. I remember people dying. It was scary.

One name for you.....Gabrielle Giffords.

He was practically a cartoon of the genteel white racist southern lawyer from 1952. The kind that goes to the Baptist church every Sunday and is married with a family, but has a secret mistress and a second family on the poor side of town. Or perhaps a secret apartment where he meets with friends for licentious…

The color is gorgeous. If she colors her hair, I’d like to know the shade. Because beautiful.