• If you only read one thing this week, read this: Female Rage Doesn’t Exist In A Vacuum.
• Girly Book Covers and Man Book Clubs
• In Defense of Unlikable Women (characters). “Like it or not, failure of empathy in the face of unlikable women in fiction can often lead to a failure to empathize with women who don’t follow all the rules in real life, too.”
• The End of Empathy.
• Stealing Books in the Age of Self-Publishing. *sigh*
• Why Do the Poor Make Such Poor Decisions? Despite the inflammatory title, a decent article.
• The Families That Can’t Afford Summer.
• Hey America, do accidents happen anymore? Especially when a kid is involved? Some reflections on the Cincinnati Zoo/Harambe fiasco.
• Let’s end on a light note, with the video of the week: the Life of a Lab in 2 minutes.

Things of Note:

You guys. It actually happened. I finally unearthed my craft table from the mountain of wedding stuff and random piles that it’s been living under for basically the past year!!! I can now do fun artsy crafty things again! Like, I dunno, screen printing. You remember that shop I used to have? Yeah. I also want to play around with watercolors and hand-lettering some more.

Of course, I managed to clean my office right before I’ll be leaving town for a week, but hey- it’ll be waiting when I get back.

What did you accomplish over this past weekend?
 

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