Ancient Grains Archive
Flashpoints in the Mommy Wars
Ancient Grains, Family
Sep 05, 2013
218 BC: The Working Mother army in Iberia, excluding the forces in Africa, totaled, according to Polybius, 90,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry and 37 war elephants: it was thus one of the largest in the Hellenistic world and equal in numbers to any that the Stay-at-Home Mothers had yet fielded. Hannibal's Mother departed
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Texts From Treasure Island
Ancient Grains, Books, Texts From
Sep 05, 2013
fine
sfine
syou want to know where the treasure is?
i don,t care
i dont care
i'll tell you
You will?
tell you about treasures
tell you about all the treasures i wanna tell you about
Thank you
Thank you so much
this could end the fighting between the men
no but Jim
Jim Jim Jim Jim
listen
I'm listening
I'm ready
listen to me
the real treasure is friendship,
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Glorious Link Roundup Morning to You
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Sep 05, 2013
Mom of shirtless teen hunks is hiding you on Facebook because of your bra straps.
"Richard probably had more than enough food that he could share with his worms," said Piers Mitchell, a professor of biological anthropology at Cambridge University, one of the researchers. Mitchell said it
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We Are The Weight Watchers. We Watch the Weight.
Ancient Grains, Health
Sep 04, 2013
We are the Watchers of Weight. We watch. We wait. We watch the Weight, and we watch for the Weight. We have been waiting for you for some time now. I am--
I am no longer as I hoped I would be, for the day when you came.
Had you come but a few
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A Literary Agent Answers Your Fevered Questions: Querying, Graphic Novels, and Books for Children
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 04, 2013
Previous installments in this series can be found here. Have a question for Ginger? Ask her!
What do you think about the usefulness of joining something like QueryTracker to find an agent? Cold-calling and blindly submitting seems futile and terrifying in equal measure.--Allison
QueryTracker is helpful;
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Imaginary Back-to-School Shopping for Adults
Ancient Grains, Dreams
Sep 04, 2013
YOU CAN ERASE TIME WITH THESE LITTLE BASTARDS
What Girl Is Most Like a Child?
Ancient Grains, Music
Sep 04, 2013
Previously in this series: Which girl is the most dead?
Men in rock songs want two things: they want women who act like children, and they want children who act like women. Send a man into a topsy-turvy world where infants tower in ten-inch stilettos and grown women sprawl on the ground
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The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About Tipping
Ancient Grains, Humor
Sep 04, 2013
Previously: The Comment Section For Every Article Ever Written About Intimate Grooming.
1. Why don't restaurants just tack on a service charge and distribute it to the staff, and then they can all live equitably together in a cooperative housing development with a chore wheel, as they do in Europe? Wouldn't that
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