Sunday, March 29, 2009

BRA ART...

This is a delightfully wacky way to raise money for breast cancer screening devised by the South Carolina Quilters.

This one is called "Nursing Bra"

Check it out all the brilliantly witty and clever designs here




R
EAD ROMANCE OR PERISH: A BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ROMANCE NOVELS


The following comesfrom a transcript of the Keynote Address Stephanie Laurens delivered at the Librarians' Day Luncheon at the Romance Writers of America National Conference in San Francisco, July 2008.

"Many societies, especially technologically advanced societies, have a habit of forgetting that humans are a biological species - we prefer to think that we are masters of our destinies, and not subject to a slew of biologically imposed, Mother Nature-dictated rules and regulations that we can't break. We forgot that, as a biological species, we are critically dependent on our environment, so now we're facing catastrophe on that front."

It makes for fascinating reading and you'll find the whole address here

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