Kristin shared this one with me and I can’t stop daydreaming about it (Poppytalk)
Fellow Road Hammer team member on the National: Why pandemic drinking could be dangerous for women (CBC)
I found my people on twitter: The funeral sandwich fans are out there! (twitter)
And speaking of sandwiches, a very exciting update to the AD home tour I posted a few weeks ago! Emmy and Daveed are now on a sandwich too! (Instagram)
I can’t think of a more awkward situation… probably because my friends and I did this, when we were teenagers with a boy band from another high school… in a rec room… wearing socks (BER)
Climbers Spend 47 Days Cleaning 2.2 Tons Of Trash From Everest With Tourists Away (Diply)
Stop giving parents advice on parenting from other cultures (and generations)! (Romper)
A Soothing Stop-Motion Animation Bakes a Rich Chocolate Layer Cake Entirely from LEGO (Colossal)
This comeback changed everything about the R.E.M. story, but it also presaged the whole decade to come – How R.E.M. Invented the Nineties With ‘Out of Time’ (Rolling Stone)
I spend 90% of my conversations talking about great podcast listens – every episode of THIS IS LOVE makes it into a conversation. I recommend starting with episodes 32, 31, 28, 20 and 19
So You Want to ‘Save Women’s Sports’? More than 20 states are considering bills to ban transgender kids from girls’ sports. If only people really cared about female athletes. (NYT)
And from this article, I already posted this on Facebook but it’s worth sharing again – The true madness of march madness is that women had to use social media to make a change because simply asking for equal training space gave them a stupid excuse of an answer:
I am nota fan of bathroom humour but I heard good things about this and thought I’d give it a listen. A true crime mystery podcast that made me laugh so much this week: Who shat on the floor at my wedding
Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon – Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?” (Scientific American)
35 Tiny Things To Do For Yourself Today (What’s Up Moms)
We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?) The pandemic shrank many social circles to a skeleton crew. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. (NYT)
“The food movement became the wellness culture, which is just diet culture rebranded by Gwyneth Paltrow.” (Culture Study)
Oh Joy! Reads: Griffin & Sabine – I have this collection and am not thinking they deserve a reread (Oh Joy!)
Talking to kids about what it means to be transgender or non-binary (Reading My Tea Leaves)
And, happy Easter! How about some hot cross buns? (Alexandra Cooks)
There’s a name for that feeling when you crave time to yourself but don’t get it. It’s the mirror image of loneliness—“aloneliness.” (Vice)
I was almost cast as Jenny Humphrey in ‘Gossip Girl.’ Was I not hot enough? (LA Times)
The Man UnMade’s podcast is about normalizing the authority and power of women’s voices in a man’s ear — the interview with Gabrielle Blair of Design Mom is a good listen
I found this book at my mom’s house and just finished it. It was a perfect bedtime read (goodreads)
I asked for an audiobook recommendation and what I got from Amanda was the best book I have read, ever. Know My Name by Chanel Miller stopped me in my tracks while running, forcing me to catch my breath and had me screaming internally. (The Guardian)
And, Here’s The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker (BuzzFeed) …To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought every day for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author, Anne Lamott once wrote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
Oprah’s Tell-All Interviews With Other Princesses (McSweeney’s)
This Kitchen Sink Compost Tea Helps Your Plants Grow Big and Strong (brightly.eco)
How cute, but we all know it’s not California or New York when it comes to bagels (NYT)
The Temper explores life through the lens of sobriety, addiction, and recovery
For anyone who’s said goodbye to their pet (ohtruth)
Winter Swimming and The Power of Ritua – It’s my connection to nature, fitness, self-care, resilience training, and happy place all rolled up into one. (AGEIST)
There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise – When Michaeleen Doucleff met parents from around the world, she encountered millennia-old methods of raising good kids that made American parenting seem bizarre and ineffective. (The Atlantic)
Corey Wheeler Forrest is a wicked-tough fishermom – great film (xtratuf)
‘I get better sleep’: the people who quit social media (The Guardian)
1,200 new German terms coined during COVID pandemic (DW via Jenna)
The history of IWD – these past twelve months will go down in history as the “one big step back” period. (Vox)
Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon (Bloomberg)
(More Julia! – I have been a big fan of her since she married Grace from Design*Sponge): How Writing a Cookbook Helped Me Break Free From Diet Culture (healthyish)
This is absolutely what I’m looking for in a bathing suit review (Amy on Twitter)
