Well, my second daughter was just born, so I know of what it is I speak - and yeah, more than twice the stress.

I actually did ask my dad to go to one with me (13-year-old me's thought process was pretty much limited to, "All my friends are going so I want to go too!"), and he did refuse, because he said he wanted me free to make the best decisions for me without a pledge like that hanging over my head. At the time I was all…

OK FINE here are some recent incidents:

I'm reading The Glass Castle now.. its so great! I'll have to look at her fiction next.

Ooh, I've been meaning to read Half-Broke Horses since I saw an Amish mother reading it at the train station. Partly because I loved The Glass Castle, and partly because I want to know what the Amish read.

I do that all the time because I read so much and super fast as well. If you haven't read A Girl Named Zippy it is a good funny memoir.

Shit, I read EVERYTHING. I can't even literally shit without reading something (on the toilet). I'm a very fast reader, so when I go to the library sometimes I have to look in the back at the card to make sure I haven't read it before...because some books are Earthworm Books. You consume them and discard them at the…

Adults should feel embarrassed about reading literature written for children.