Life of a Random

This week we're discussing diversity in couples. As always, GO CHECK OUT BRIANA'S POST. Oh, sorry, *smiles sweetly* didn't mean to scare you. Please go (That was better, right?). For a more detailed list of rules, you can go here . Diversity in Couples This is a very relevant topic, that hasn't been dealt with enough. According to me. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this post because I'm already two days late (bad, Skylar) but it's definitely something that is very important, maybe even more so to me since my mom and dad are different races and, when they met, they had different religious beliefs too.  But for now I'm going to focus more on the "race" part. Mostly I'll be focusing on it as it relates to America, but if you have comments and input on it whether you're from America or not feel free to. :)  This is SO important. America is a nation of diversity, with many different kinds of people. Why isn't ...

Today is a day for a short, sweet post. I debated posting this for next week's Sunday Swoons post for  Briana's feature on Reader, Writer, Critic , but I decided I would do it today since it's closer to Sunday (I'm such a genius). This week's theme is: Romance Pet Peeves (That Happen All  the Time in Cookie Cutter YA) Briana basically covered all the bases ('case she's awesome like that) so I decided to sort of wander onto a different topic that's been on my mind recently. And which I hope you'll discuss and agree and disagree with in the comments. ;) So...hm, how do I lead into this? Every relationship ever written in fiction (but I'm going to focus on YA) begins with the common symptoms: tingling, nervousness, jumpiness, jitteryness. All around acting like you stole from the cookie jar. Multiple times. There's that boy/girl. A connection. Something that feels like an electric shock, which personally doesn't sound to com...