Just two beautiful, accomplished women who share a mutual inability to know where to look during selfies. Above the phone? A little to the right?

I GET TO SEE NICOLE TODAY

I'm just making these up as I go, now!

We're gonna spend a lot of imaginary money today, ready? Let's start with this jellyfish rug for the playroom! So expensive, yet so impractically off-white. Why not get a pair?

It started with "Secret Places in Death Valley: The Boxcar Cabin" (sparked by the conversation we had about the Death Valley Germans in last week's link roundup) and things just went nuts from there.

I am in DC today, and I do not know how Claire Underwood never seems to experience the effects of humidity.

According to Bruegel, "being dead" means hanging out with your skeleton pals and tormenting the living -- which is a way better afterlife than the current alternates

1 . Surely Our Unhappy Marriage Will Be Revived In Paris

2 . Our Marriage Deteriorates Even In Paris

3 . Perhaps If We Were To Try...An Open Marriage

THE GROWLMONGER AND SITBEAST IS WREATHED IN ENFROWNMENTS UPON HIS THRONELET AND I MUST HAVE HIM

Childhood is a magical time. But some magic spells are better than others.

"If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is never make assertions. That is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell — we show. We do not claim — we prove. It is not your obedience that we seek to win, but your rational conviction. You have seen all the elements of our secret. The conclusion is now yours to draw — we can help you to…

"The child said I could eat the bear."

I fell down a mountain.

Rebecca is a Quaker living in Atlanta with her wife, two dogs, and cat. She is an aspiring children's librarian.

Hi, Rebecca! Can you tell me a little bit about your religious background growing up?

I grew up super fundamentalist, almost Quiverfull, and am now an atheist Quaker. My wife and I were married under the care of our Quaker meeting a few weeks ago.