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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:17:24 -0500

“Recycling & Trash”

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:13:51 -0500

“Recycling & Trash”

Love is caring for each other even when you’re angry.

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:11:58 -0500

Love is caring for each other even when you’re angry.

Awesome library closing notification! #zombies

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:56:45 -0500

Awesome library closing notification! #zombies

Well, I didn’t make the finalist list, but it was still...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:04:58 -0500

Well, I didn’t make the finalist list, but it was still fun to try. :)

Why do so many adults tell kids life after school is the “real world”? A child’s...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:32:45 -0400

Why do so many adults tell kids life after school is the “real world”? A child’s experience of the world is JUST AS REAL as anyone’s. #truth

Healthy Halloween Treats For Kids…With Vodka?...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:35:00 -0400

Healthy Halloween Treats For Kids…With Vodka? http://perspectives.rea-hedrick.com/2012/10/21/healthy-halloween-treats-for-kids-with-vodka/

There are days…

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:06:48 -0400

There are days…

bindersfullofwomen: Nobody puts baby in a binder.

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:32:51 -0400

bindersfullofwomen:

Nobody puts baby in a binder.

Let’s follow Paul Ryan’s example of PRETENDING to...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:38:14 -0400

Let’s follow Paul Ryan’s example of PRETENDING to help the poor. PRETEND to vote for him. (READ the full news story here: http://gawker.com/5952118/paul-ryan-slammed-by-charity-president-over-soup-kitchen-photo-op-he-did-nothing)

The downside to aerating my yard: It’s going to make...

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:42:00 -0400

The downside to aerating my yard: It’s going to make cleaning up after the dog a bit of a challenge.

Looks like someone needs to do a quick brand check. (Taken with...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:09:00 -0400

Looks like someone needs to do a quick brand check. (Taken with Instagram)

megancraneandcaitlincrews: For all of us writers: a manifesto.

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:25:04 -0400

megancraneandcaitlincrews:

For all of us writers: a manifesto.

"The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that stories..."

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:28:35 -0400

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The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that stories featuring female protagonists or written by female authors also apply to them. Boys fall in love. Boys want to be important. Boys have hopes and fears and dreams and ambitions. What boys also have is a sexist society in which they are belittled for “liking girl stuff.” Male is neutral, female is specific.

I heard someone mention that Sarah Rees Brennan’s THE DEMON’S LEXICON would be great for boys, but they’d never read it with that cover. Friends, then the problem is NOT with the book. It’s with the society that’s raising that boy. It’s with the community who inculcated that boy with the idea that he can’t read a book with an attractive guy on the cover.

Here’s how we solve the OMG SO MANY GIRLS IN YA problem: quit treating women like secondary appendages. Quit treating women’s art like it’s a niche, novelty creation only for girls. Quit teaching boys to fear the feminine, quit insisting that it’s a hardship for men to have to relate to anything that doesn’t specifically cater to them.

Because if I can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and want to grow up to be an archaeologist, there’s no reason at all that a boy shouldn’t be able to read THE DEMON’S LEXICON with its cover on. My friends, sexism doesn’t just hurt women, and our young men’s abysmal rate of attraction to literacy is the proof of it.

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- The Problem is Not the Books by Saundra Mitchell (via albinwonderland)

(I thought it would be fun to reblog this, since I wrote it in the first place. :D Man, I love tumblr! -SM)

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Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:11:48 -0400

Social networking websites: They’re sharing more than you...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:15:00 -0400

Social networking websites: They’re sharing more than you think

In the wake of the current ‘Girls Around Me’ privacy maelstrom, I wanted to share this post from October 2009 where I show you how to see for yourself that, even WITHOUT your consent, websites are sharing information about you.

mothernaturenetwork: How did tornadoes in Texas toss...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:36:36 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

How did tornadoes in Texas toss 18-wheelers?
Tornadoes have an easier time flipping trucks when they’re empty, resulting in a weight imbalance between each end of the truck.

booksdirect: “The Book of the Future”

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:42:21 -0400

booksdirect:

“The Book of the Future”

So nerdy, and yet so cool! This hilarious iPhone 4 case will...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:55:35 -0400

So nerdy, and yet so cool!

This hilarious iPhone 4 case will guarantee that you win any dorkathon you choose to enter. The plastic case — which covers the back and sides of the phone — is shaped like a raw hard drive, complete with vendor sticker, fake screws and even SATA connectors.

It would probably work just as well as a sticker, but this case obviously offers extra protection, too. The design is almost ridiculously authentic, betrayed only by the little hole through which the iPhone’s camera can peek. I see this going one of two ways. If you are spotted by another nerd, they’ll love it. But if some normal person spies your case, they will probably assume that the back fell off your iPhone.

"I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:05:59 -0400

“I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but that’s because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”

- Brent Weeks (via martinaboone)