No single book turned me into a reader; that honor is reserved for my mother. That said, the earliest chapter book I remember reading and loving is

I liked stories about little girls with gumption! And I still do.

Sorry.

Oh, so when you're cornered in a place alone with a group of men who pretend to give you two options, one of which is literally gang rape and they're literally holding your cell phone, you can get away from that group and call the cops?

The totality of human history has taught us many things. This is but one of those things:

Dude, I'd platonically snuggle them SO HARD.

Thank you. I find myself explaining this a lot as well. Every time someone new is in my yard I get: "How do your hens lay eggs with no rooster?" Well, I have never been with a cock either but I still lay an egg every month.

I would like to offer a solid AMEN.

This video is 10 times more effective and memorable than Miley's.

Cats don't need to read facial expressions because they can read minds. Seriously, though, all of the most traumatic or painful events in my life have been immediately followed by a cat seeking me out, whether it was the neighbor's kitten who crawled around the building on a 2" ledge and into my window when I was in…

While I'm no animal behaviorist, I do have anecdotal evidence disputing Bradshaw's claims. When I was a kid—surprisingly, I was unpopular!—I heard a cat mewling in an abandoned house. A kitten, really. I took her home, named her Allie (everyone assumed as in 'Alley Cat' but really, because I was as gay as Christmas, I…

My cat Stu was my best friend for 14 years. He licked my tears when I cried. Slept on my bed and kept me warm. Sat on my shoulder as I walked around cleaning my apartment. Made friends with my 2 pet mice. Met me at the door when I came home from work. And waited until I came home from a walk to say his last goodbye…

I used to bust shoplifters for a bookstore and all tge other people in the job were guys. Leave them with a shoplifter, they'd always have an incident. Always. It's ridiculously easy to calm someone down....but they always chose the other way.

I think a lot of lesbians and bisexual women (I'm one) find that sentiment to be extremely frustrating and delegitimizing. It IS a woman being attracted to, wanting to have SEX with other women. I talk to me female and male friends all the time, boyfriend or girlfriend, so the idea that women need a relationship to be…

The reycling site I googled says: spines of hardcover books generally contain a lot of glue and cannot be recycled. Simply remove and discard the cover and the spine prior to placing in your mixed waste paper bin.

An oldie, but a goodie:

What is with these conservative pundits and portraying themselves as the actual historical figure...

Agree with all of that. And it is based in creepiness too. It's only ever used to describe teenage girls involved with an adult male, or one of the boy victims of female schoolteachers.

It probably depends on where you go and what tours you take. When I first moved here, my family and I went on a trolley tour that didn't mention anything about slavery. But there are other tours that deal specifically with slaves in the south.

Ugh. I hope it goes well. I understand not wanting to traumatize children, but you can't really teach history (or religion, or literature, for that matter) if you shelter children from ugly realities at all costs.