Sherri Lynn Kenyon wrote a series under the name of Kinley McGregor called The Lords of Avalon. It's romance based on the King Arthur myth. She's only written a couple of them, as she tends to focus on her paranormal and sci-fi romance series more. I know she also wrote one or two pirate themed romances early in…

Sharon Shinn is fantastic. She wrote an excellent sci-fi version of Jane Eyre, called Jenna Starborn, that I just love.

If I had kids and they behaved that horrendously that I'd do something like that, I'd take the money from the return and add it to their college savings account. An education would benefit them more in the long run anyway. I probably wouldn't exchange the toy, though. If the thing was seriously bad, maybe donate…

I was thinking the same thing. When I think about times when I felt truly happy as a child, they all involve doing something together as a family. Sometimes they involved books, but they never involved toys or video games.

Or, instead of making fun of these gifts, you might consider that maybe, these people didn't have very much money. These are all relatively inexpensive gifts. These can possibly be gifts from someone who can't afford much, but they wanted to give you at least something because they care about you. They didn't want…

I could listen to this forever. I can't remember how many people they used to create her voice. Was it 3? 4? Just amazing.

That was like... Christmas themed tai chi?

Some of the toughest, strongest people I've know are LGBTQ. They've had to be strong to put up with ignorant bullshit. I would think that a better way to emasculate a guy would be to call them a homophobe, since they're the ones who are scared and hateful and ignorant.

Some of us kids who grew up not believing in Santa knew better than to ruin it for other kids. When other kids brought it up, I just didn't say anything, or I played along. I think I learned to do that because I kinda played along for my grandparents who signed their gifts "From Santa."

I was spared the trauma of learning Santa wasn't real by my very smart mom. She never told me and my brothers that Santa was "real." She simply told us that he was a symbol of giving. To me, he was a fairy tale to enjoy, like any other fairy tale. I was never disappointed to find out my mom lied to me about him…

I would seriously love to have my cousins' dad (since he's not blood related and divorced from my aunt, I don't have to call him my uncle) read these. He is a serious ass hole to servers. I refuse to eat at the same table at a restaurant anymore. These stories reinforce that. I wonder how much urine, feces, and…

I'm a big fan of punishments fitting the crime. It seems like a far more effective thing for Anonymous to do would be to hack into her twitter and other online accounts and shut them down to silence her ignorance. Although, honestly, targeting her seems like a waste of time when they could be targeting universities…

That is a brilliant idea, right there!

There's not much to say in response other than that I respect where you're coming from. As a white person who has had black friends tell me they need to keep some distance from me, I've had to learn to get it. It hurts when my best intentions are rejected, but that's absolutely nothing compared to the history of…

I usually try to let parents seated next to me with their kids that while I don't have any kids, I'm a kid person and I've worked with kids of all ages, even infants. I tell them I'm okay with babies crying and children being rambunctious. If that helps them feel a little less stressed, then it probably also helps…

My sis-in-law works at Apple. I'll let her know that Apple's plot for world domination through feels is proceeding as planned. Mwah ha ha ha! Mwah ha ha ha!

It occurs to me that this wouldn't be such a big issue if so many parents weren't so squeamish about teaching kids the appropriate names for their sexual anatomy. I mean, we don't have loads of slang terms for just about all the other parts of our bodies. Just a thought. ;)

No, no, no! Just own it! Nobody will know, you're online! ;)

That's awful. Don't people have better things to do than send death threats to people and their families? Sorry to hear your friend and her family are being targeted by those jerks.

Don't worry, it's just a reminder that while there's ignorance all over the world, there are also people who prefer to be educated all over the world as well. One screwed up person doesn't represent an entire country.