Not trying to snark, but for real: how can we possibly be arguing semantics when power animal, spirit animal, totem, and familiar all have such specific definitions in regard to different religious traditions. C'mon, I'd love to believe that most Americans are somewhat literate on animals in world religion/history,…

Not Anansi Boys - I'll add that to my Kindle list!

AWOOOOOOOOOO? Please let me study at your feet!

YES! I need to find a way to work in either that or some of the other NA myths into my novel. I'm pretty good with most branches of Christianity and I'm getting up to speed on Judaism, next stop are Mid & Far East rooted systems (particularly excited about Shinto, Hindu, and Islam). I'm still working my way through my…

Most of the universities to which I applied have pretty great comparative theology departments and I've always had a particular love for creation/destruction and afterlife myths, so I'm looking forward to designing some classes to coincide with the novel I'm working on.

I would love to meet those professors. I'm really looking forward to adding a diverse slate of elective divinity classes in conjunction with my CW MFA.

This is the greatest gif to ever gif.

Commercial for noise canceling headphones. It's actually a REALLY cool commercial. It's a slow single shot and dolly move that pans across a raging dorm party (like 6 rooms and a couple of hallways). My brother was actually the only one of a few actors that had to execute choreography in all the rooms. Yup, that…

The funniest part of the story was when my mom called me all excited, "Your brother got that audition he went on!"

I'm more than happy to tell you, if you really want - my brother was on an episode of a show like that as a husband who had to deliver his wife's baby during a hurricane.

You are my personal heroine. I absolutely loathe the word cunt personally (which is saying a lot, because I love words in general), so if I ever use it to describe someone...it's really bad. Not because I think female genitalia is bad (I love mine), but because I think it's such a disgusting way to refer to my awesome…

Here's my REAL question, though: does GregBrian even PubMed? DO YOU THINK HE BOWHUNTS???

No money is worth the amount of exploitation we'd have to be a party to. I went in with both eyes open to be on a talk show (long story), and it was hell for both of us. After that, we both swore never again, no matter how much it paid.

This situation is exactly why my husband (he's an AC) refuses work on any reality show.

Similar thing happened to me. A surgeon had told my parents and boyfriend that I was going to die and to start planning funeral arrangements. My boyfriend walked into my room, sat by the side of the bed, held my hand (from what he told me much later) until I woke up, smiled, and asked me to marry him.

SWEET! I'll trade you my bourbon pecan pie and quinoa & cranberry stuffed sweet potatoes.

FINALLY. Someone who knows how to cook!

A-fucking-men.

Oh wow, you have the exact same experience I have with them! It will happen, I'll think, "Wait I remember this" and immediately it takes me back *exactly* to when I dreamed it and I remember that particular moment vividly too. It's bizarre, but kinda cool too.

The Internet can go home now. You won.