This is up there with, "love your neighbor as yourself," as the most conveniently forgotten bit of the Gospel.

I don't think it has to be that way. My little sister's campus was 85% Greek, and the cost of belonging was less than the cost of traditional room and board. While it certainly wasn't a problem-free system (see Delta Zeta scandal), there are places where not every sorority girl is skinny and traditionally beautiful…

I got cats. And I do FaceTime with my parents a lot.

This one was a late teens read for me, and time and again I come back to it as a reminder that we don't have to live in the unsustainable world we've created if we don't want to.

This. This is my favorite series in the whole world. I was so excited when she started writing them again!!!

An ex loaned me these and I read them and was okay with them but didn't love them - but my sister borrowed them from off my nightstand and now she has a complete set. I wonder if the difference was that she was younger.

I met her! She was at a literary conference at my college as the keynote speaker - my sister and I gleefully went and enjoyed her talk and afterwords she signed books and was so nice.

It's still a great read. More poignant, maybe, as an adult. It will be fine.

I walked out of a friendly viewing of the movie. Ugh.

My dad gave these to me to read when I was like, ten.

Well, now I am inspired to curl up with my copy of Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. I love my city. Fun pics.

For the orientation-minded, I would guess this is looking north on Wabash from VanBuren, but I could be wrong.

My cats are dumb about it. They try to reach underneath the iPad to catch the mouse. *headdesk*

That's my worst diet nightmare, right there.

This is a super sharp look. I approve.

I don't know how I feel about this. Except the part where invasive FUCKING SNAKES are dying, and as hypocritical of a person as that makes me, I am full of glee.

If you are busy making life a competition for scare resources like power over others, you will not help other people become empowered.

Some day I will figure out why MRA-types want to hang out on site described as "for Women."

Uh. Patriarchy is not just men being in charge. It is the whole system by which men remain in charge, and women can and do become complicit in it.

Go patriarchy, for raising young women with no empathy and support for one another.