I've got a coworker I frequently have to call or visit to tell him to read his email. It makes me crazy. But I get revenge when he's working from home. I call the house phone first. It is upstairs. While he's racing to answer it, I wait a beat and call his cell, which is usually downstairs. And then tell him to read his email. Usually the laptop is in yet another room. It's petty, and he knows I do it on purpose.

An aunt told me, my mother, and my sister to forgive the cousin who threatened to have me deported and blackmailed my parents. Said it might cure my migraines. I asked her if it would cure my mother's cancer, and to her credit, she played along. I told her, however, that the bitch didn't have to make the first gesture, but neither did I, and my sister and I agreed we were willing to go up in flames on this one.

Hair cut.

On two separate occasions I've had experiences with editors not noticing email attachments even though I mentioned those attachments right in the emails. Not in the same state, so I dunno how to be proactive in the future. Send followup emails saying "hey, did you notice the attachments in my previous emails".

ita, one way a lot of Jews would deal with that would be mourn that particular relative as dead. Too bad she died before forgiveness could become an issue. But you know, just never forgiving her is good too

I accidentally opened a collection notice that should have gone to my landlady's roommate. In my defense that particular letter had my apartment number on it. I just wrote a note "opened this by mistake!" and put in their box.

Ginger beat me to the link regarding the HUGE movement to do glamour shots for shelter pets.

The shelter movement in general is moving away from 'need' messages to highlighting the sweetness of adoptable pets. The practice is increasing success percentages exponentially.

Theresa Berg is on the forefront of this movement. She teaches both amateur and professional photographers the ins and outs and offers a lot of free support.

Also, Tom, a local photog in this area does loads of high-end photography with families and pets using natural lighting exclusively. No studio...she says she prefers to capture people's pets (and kids) in their natural habitats. She did shots of my former bf's husband and Shih Tzus that are just lovely.

I have to say, I'm unspeakably grateful for the studio shots I had taken of Bartleby and myself not long before he died. Still, he was nervous in that environment and I can see that in the photos. I so wish we'd done something at home.

Anyway, given the quality of the white dog photo (and your other stuff, of course) I don't think you'd have to do a whole lot of uncomfortable extroversion stuff. Especially since you've already been 'published.'

IO9 is trying to generate upset that fairy tales are being treated in a way that makes them gory and disturbing. Seriously? I didn't think that was how the cool kids thought anymore.

Didn't fairy tales start out that way?

yes.

Have they never read Bruno Bettelheim?