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I'd eagerly have to say for me, BOTH. I've always been one who chose fashion over function. I've even been known to walk around toting one bag INSIDE the other, simply because I didn't have time to change purses. In comes my new "purse methodology". I now change purses every Sunday evening. It allows me to make sure I'm constantly changing my purse look, and keeps my rotation of purses moving at the same time.How do you store your purses? I have an entire top rack of my wrap around walk in closet, especially used for my purse storage. They are arranged by size and color, I know, very OCD of me. I have my "special" purses stored in their original cloth purse bags, and my everyday purses are lined up like soldiers, all in a row. This system seems to be working out great for me and definitely keeps me organized!

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What do you get when you put a gigantic balloon filled with a highly flammable gas up into the air? First, you get an amazing spectacle that was getting press around the world for the amazingness of what it could accomplish. Then, you get one of the largest disasters in the history of air travel. I’m talking about the Hindenburg, of course. A huge blimp full of helium that was supposed to be the biggest, brightest and best of what would be a new revolution in air travel that would change the way the world got from one place to another. It didn’t change much- it blew up. No one is really sure why the fire started, but what was supposed to be the future ended up very publicly falling apart and shattering public confidence. Sound familiar?

I’m talking about the stock market, of course. Credit default swaps were a bit of a Hindenburg incident, and there very well could be more.

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I like China Mieville's work a lot, not least because he operates in the fantasy genre, without writing about elves and unicorns.  YOU know what I mean.  Fantasy has the potential to be so much more, and Mieville takes it there.

Mieville has announced that he wants to write one novel for each kind of genre, and this is his take on the mystery genre.  And it is, as you might expect from a China Mieville novel, mind-bendingly bizarre. 

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Most guides say that if you wait to talk about menstruation with your child until she has her first period, you are waiting too late. That is a bit of a stretch when menstruation begins at ages 7 or 8. One thing that I’ve done in my home is allow my daughter to see my menstruation products; after all, as I potty trained her and she modeled me, she saw them anyway. Simple explanations like, “Big girls bleed every month and these catch the blood,” and, “Mommy’s body bleeds to help it stay ready for a baby,” have worked for me in this light. My daughter ultimately starts asking if we can have another baby, of course; she’s much more interested in a potential sibling than her mother’s period.

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As a young girl, I always felt like a freak. Having to wear a B-cup by age 8 and having to bring pads to school for your period by age 9 should not be commonplace events. I remember the morning I woke up with my period. It was during our third grade standardized state test week, and I thought I was bleeding to death. My mother had to give me a quick talk and send me to school with a note about my “condition.”

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Fleas... again! I just got rid of them... and the cost to to treat fleas is astronomical - or so I thought.

Its really aweful when our little buddies pick up fleas (and it happens alllll the time). They scratch and itch and I cringe - fleas are really gross and they can carry some nasty little diseases with them (hello, Plague?). When our little babies get the bugs we spring into action, wash everything, and really just want to get the whole ordeal over. Recently, my own little girl ("smiling" in the picture) had a nasty flea attack and it seemed like nothing would work - the fleas have become immune to our spray stuff. Nooooooooooooo!

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Saying No to Anti-Muslim Bigotry.

The growing Islamophobia that is being driven by small minded, short-sighted and very foolish politicians, hoping to score political points, are following Bin Laden's playbook, which calls for plays, on the field of politics, designed to divide Muslims from Westerners, and from Christians, to convince Muslims that Christians are crusaders who want to convert or to kill them, and that for the survival of Islam, Muslims must turn to him, and to help him to achieve his prime political objective, which is to recreate the Khilafat in all Muslim and Muslim majority lands.

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