The best part is that you can “borrow” books for free if you’re a member of many libraries!

I still buy used books because most used bookstores I go to are really cool, independently owned places and I want to support them while building a rockin’ personal library. 

That sounds beautiful! I aspire to have a wall of books, one day. My best friend’s parents have half their living room lined with 10 ft high built in bookshelves, always full to the brim, and that image is very comforting to me.

Weirdly, in my experience, Liturgical christians (catholics and Episcopalians, mostly) tend to be more open-minded. They’re all about the rituals. They worship god and the mother, mostly, and as long as you’re not a complete dick and say your prayers and confess once in a while, you’re good.

My husband is not a woman, but still a bit traumetized by growing up in an “accept Christ or go to hell” household. He apparently started to doubt religion at like 8 and was so convinced that that doubt would send him to eternal torture that it kept him up at night for hours. That is NOT normal for an 8 year old.…

In Cairo, at least when I was there in 2009, they had a womens’ car on the trains, because even though many women wore full body coverings, they were still often sexually assaulted.

Average Anna gets what, one STD? As Tiffany Haddish so enthusiastically exclaimed in Girls Trip, “It’s Chlamydia, y’all, that shit should get cured!”

The paperwhite really does feel like reading a paper book. Reading books on the kindle app my phone still has that “screen effect” that keeps me up, but the paperwhite really feels like a book, and I routinely conk out while reading on it, just like I would with a paper book.  Not great if I really need to read the…

I hope to construct a den in the duplex we convert to a single family home. I plan to put in hella built in bookshelves. I don’t care if it’s mostly because it looks cool, I think it’s good to raise a kid in a house full of books. If the power, or internet goes out, you should have resources. You should have…

Her second book, Spark Joy, is a bit more permissive than her first. She openly says that if having a lot of a certain item makes you happy, then you should keep them. She talks about clients she’s had who LOVE shoes who still have collections of 40+ shoes after going through the “does this spark joy” process. The…

I have minimally culled my book collection. I mostly took my textbooks from grad school and tried to get cash for them. Most other books stay. I actually heavily debated the books I’d sell. I considered “might I buy this if I found it in a bookstore in five years?” If I thought I might buy it again, it stayed.

I have a kindle paperwhite, which I bought when it was on a cyber monday discount. I was previously a 100% library/used bookstore person. I love the smell of an older book, that aging paper smell, it’s great.

Holding them closer to the camera because he thinks it’ll make them look bigger.

Ugh, yes, please don’t use the most flattering picture that’s ever been taken of you. It makes it really, really awkward when you meet in person. I met one woman, and I don’t even think her picture was actually her. Like she found a professional picture of a model that looked enough like her and used that. It was very…

It’s not that hard to set up a timer and take a photo that doesn’t look like a selfie. Better way to get a body shot than the dreaded “bathroom mirror” picture. 

Ah, see, some might be grown in Australia, but they can be grown anywhere with a tropical or subtropical climate, and are actually indigenous to the americas.

To me, it sounds like you’re actually in a really good place to start a relationship. Many people cling to romantic relationships because they don’t feel whole without them, or because they can’t afford to live alone, or because they lack other meaningful relationships. None of those are true for you! You’re…

Unless you have diabetes or a metabolic disorder where you really need to avoid sugar, there is no issue with sugars in fruit*. A dietician will not tell you to avoid fruit since they’re such a great source of fiber and vitamins.

Heck yes. Lychee and persimmons all day. 

I would rank dragonfruit eaten near where it is grown pretty high. I’ve had it in Thailand and Nicaragua and it was absolutely delicious and quite cheap. Dragonfruit I’ve had in the US, on the other hand, is expensive and seems to lose a lot of flavor in shipping. Not worth it, ranks much lower. 

Bonus because if Rage gives Beto permission to use it, it’ll break Paul Ryan’s heart into a million tiny pieces. I can just picture him doing angry situps while crying.