Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.

I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.