I think it's normal - perhaps even inevitable - for aspects of real life experience to leak into writing in some form, whether it's just our perspectives on life or important events. An example would be the LGBTI elements in fiction we were just talking about. Many mainstream novels have plots roote...

I call people "girlie," sometimes. "Hey, girlie, how's your day going?" is a standard greeting for me when I'm talking to someone I consider a friend. Some peoples be overly sensitive, though, so I tend to keep pet names to friends only. Unless it's someone's child. Doesn't matt...

I hate being called "bud," "bro," "sir," "son," "dude," or any variation thereabouts. This has nothing to do with excessive familiarity and everything to do with the masculinity of the epithets. I don't really care if someone is just not thinking as ...

I think of green tea as my favorite family of tea, as well. Chai is lovely, but I don't always choose it. For black tea, I gravitate toward Earl Grey and other citrus-scented lovelies. Assam is wonderful, as is the classic Russian blend Opty mentioned earlier. For green, good Ceylon green tea with j...

I hear that bad handwriting is a sign of high intelligence. Woot! I also write in a mix of cursive and print. Sometimes quite haphazardly. I started writing my first (really shitty) novel in the 8th grade Ha! So did I! Hooray!! I've heard of the Parasol Protectorate. Something like Changeless, Blam...

Two things: One, I certainly wouldn't be offended by being called "girlie." It sounds cute, to me. And if I were, I think I'd just say that I didn't like to called that instead of insinuating the person calling me it was being nasty. Two, I do however understand that a person may simply no...

I would like some chocolate chip blondies.

Also, we had fish tacos for supper! How pizazzy!

Question that is food-related:

What kind of tea do you all like? And how do you like it?

Oh, I wasn't trying to get into a religion discussion, I just wanted to post that for Maxine's peace of mind. Hope it helped. Maxine and Kino, my handwriting is also not very readable, and it's slightly embarrassing to admit, but I'm happy that other girls don't always have neat handwriting - one of...

Computer is fixed and running smoothly! I don't want to jinx anything, but I can't even express how relieved I am not to be worrying about it anymore.

Maxine, if it helps, there doesn't have to be a conflict between not believing non-heterosexuality to be immoral and being Christian. Moral pro-gay and Christianity are perfectly compatible. Fundamentalists generally believe that the belief system of their religion can all be found by a simple readi...