I'm sharing this amazing post by Seanan McGuire because sometimes we (and by that I mean me) need to remember that all the crap we are bombarded with these days isn't truth and isn't real.  Also, I want my daughter to read this and was worried I would lose it.  Also, also, if you aren't following Seanan McGuire, why not?  She is one of the most ( Read more... )

I posted some of these on my original post, but there is more information this morning, I thought I'd make a new post.  If you don't know what this is about, here is the CNN article. Also, this is now the greatest natural disaster to hit the US since Katrina.

The salvation Army is collecting items for distribution.  Items needed immediately include ( Read more... )

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I woke up this morning to this Monster twister leaves ruin in Alabama college town and this Storm Death Toll Rises to 214 in the South. 
ETA: The tornado that hit Tuscaloosa was a mile wide. 
ETA: NPR's report of the storm; Storms leave path of destruction throughout Shoals; Death toll for South is now ( Read more... )

This is brilliant -- How to Steal Like An Artist, by Austin Kleon -- particularly these bits:

An artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: hoarders collect indiscriminately, the artist collects selectively. They only collect things that they really love.
 . . . 
Steal things and save them for later. Carry around a sketchpad ( Read more... )

Last night I needed to describe a house -- a huge magnificent Victorian that I am in love with.  Ya'll, it used to be a funeral home.  How perfect is that for a vampire's house?  (Also, funeral home or not, I would buy this house if I had an extra million dollars.  It is that gorgeously Victorian and gothic and fantastic.)  Anyway, Mara (my MC) is ( Read more... )