Time to make some popcorn, find out what gaffes the Republicans are making today, check in to see what's happening to Rush Limbaugh, and then wait for the election returns late tonight. Super Tuesday primaries will move to my neck of the woods with Georgia and Tennessee in play, as well as Ohio, Virginia (where only Romney and Paul are on the ( Read more... )

This first story was made for me: Strange New Critter Found Under a Rock just one county over from where I live, LOL.  
Giant Crawdad Species Found in Southeast TN
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Is everyone else in the Eastern U.S. sick of the weather? Do I see lots of hands raised? Of course!

I've been totally escaping that reality by staying inside working on my novel (okay when I'm not goofing off somewhere else), although I am worrying about length because my characters want to have long conversations, so their romance is taking over ( Read more... )

The news was depressing yesterday about the car companies in Michigan and the stock market heading downward again. I have no idea what is going to happen next.

But there was actually a huge piece of good news yesterday for tree huggers like me.

Obama signed the Public Lands Omnibus Act with is going to protect 2 Million acres of wilderness, and ( Read more... )

Several people have asked me about these coal ash spills into the Tennessee River, and I guess I was waiting to see what happened next before I wrote about it.

And yes, my icon is meant to be ironic.

I would almost suspect some sort of terrorist sabotage of these electrical plants, except that we have had record flooding since the first of the year ( Read more... )

I looked around YouTube for videos of all the horrible tornadoes here in Tennessee, in Arkansas, and North Alabama (yesterday morning).  I posted these on HPN, but I'll put them here, too - incredible stuff.

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