It’s Friday’s online finds: Cozy up and dig in.

• Repost: Homemade holiday gift ideas (Shutterbean)
• And if you’re riding the DIY train, how about some crepe paper festive clementines and poinsettias
• “The Good Place” Creator Michael Schur Explained The Real Message Of The Show (BuzzFeed)
• And speaking of goodess: Swissmiss!!! “I asked on Twitter and Instagram what small makers/shops I should support. All of the links below are from the suggestions I received… Running a small bootstrapped business myself (Tattly) I know first-hand what a difference it makes when kind humans share your product. ⁣Small businesses usually don’t have marketing budgets. We rely on word-of-mouth. ⁣So, dive in: (swissmiss)
• Recycling isn’t working – here are 15 ways to shrink your plastic footprint (The Guardian)
• And for almost 40 years, Patagonia has supported grassroots groups working to find solutions to the environmental crisis. But in this time of unprecedented threats, it’s often hard to know the best way to get involved. That’s why we’re connecting individuals with our grantees, in order to take action on the most pressing issues facing the world today. (Patagonia Action Works)
• Homemade egg nog with rum! (Joy The Baker)
• It may not be a shock that I want most of these things: Gift ideas for teens (Design Mom)
• Why do Americans… Is something I question often but today’s Googling brought me here: Why do Americans write the month before the day? (The Guardian)
• Where Type Designers Sell Experimental Work In Progress. (Future Fonts)
• For decades, libraries have relied on fines to discourage patrons from returning books late. But a growing number of some of the country’s biggest public library systems are ditching overdue fees after finding that the penalties drive away the people who stand to benefit the most from free library resources. ‘We Wanted Our Patrons Back’ — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity (NPR)
• I Love Top Ten Lists [me too!] Writing an anti-Top Ten list is, a decade in, like throwing an “alternative wedding”—an even showier version of the thing that you’re supposedly opposing. (The New Yorker)

Pop a cork, it’s the weekend!

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It’s Friday’s online finds: Cozy up and dig in.

• A new crop of restaurants is embracing family-style, communal eating, creating a necessary spirit of communication and collaboration for our fractious times. This feels less like a restaurant than a dinner party — and that’s the point. Across the United States, restaurants are subverting the traditional power dynamic between chefs and diners, refocusing the meal not on what’s eaten but how (NYT)
• Living with Dyslexia in the Nova Scotia public school system – screaming on the inside (Maritime Noon)
• E.T. and Elliott reunite – crying on the inside (COS)
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Jumpsuit / have you ever bought clothes on Amazon? (Strategist)
• THE BEST HOLIDAY MUSIC LIBRARY EVER (The Lazy Genious Collective)
• Speaking of music, I have been dreading the day my little Apple Shuffle dies. I use it to listen to audiobooks while running and it’s the reason why I still have wire headphones… but, check this mighty thing out! I am very intrigued! (Mighty)
• Pure joy in the land of Instagram. Like this and this. (NYT Cooking Comments)
• Baltimore Museum Of Art Will Buy Works By Women Only Next Year (NPR)
• The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years (Slate)
• And loving this book lamp! (SuckUK)
• I need to practice (Taste Of Home)
• I have no problem with Dirty Blondes from Dartmouth (CBC)
• And I also have no problem with Montreal Bagels! (NYT – thanks Mat)
• Come for the British royals, stay for the hats (Elle)
• More on changing the narrative of winter: Sometime this fall — using a combination of Stoicism, stubbornness, and a sort of magical thinking that Jason-in-his-30s would have dismissed as woo-woo bullshit — I decided that because I live in Vermont, there is nothing I can do about it being winter, so it was unhelpful for me to be upset about it. I stopped complaining about it getting cold and dark, I stopped dreading the arrival of snow. I told myself that I just wasn’t going to feel like I felt in the summer and that’s ok (Kottke) — And here’s my cousin’s post in case you missed it!
• Infidelity, Netflix Style (A Cup Of Jo)

Relax, it’s the weekend!

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It’s Friday’s online finds: Cozy up and dig in.

• GIRL: I Changed My Body for My Sport. No Girl Should. (NYT)
• BOY: The key to letting boys actually be boys? See them as the emotional beings they are. (The Washington Post)
• GIRL: Why should words like happy and likable and popular be seen as synonymous with mean when we’re talking about girls? We treat a girl’s confidence as a sign that something unjust or poisonous is lurking just below the surface. (Ask Molly)
• BOYS & GIRLS: Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds (NPR)
• What Happens When Birds Get Drunk? And what you can do to help. (Audubon)
• ‘You ain’t shit ’cause your good at sports. You ain’t shit ’cause you’re popular. You’re gonna be a good person. You’re gonna be kind. And you’re gonna do the right thing. You’re gonna stand up for yourself, always. You’re gonna stand up for each other, always. And you’re damn sure going to stand up for other people. Always.’ (Glamour)
• 120,000 Ribbons Float Above Former Berlin Wall to Mark 30 Years Since the Peaceful Revolution (My Modern Met)
• I’ve struggled with whether to allow my daughter to engage in the odd farce of curating an online image at such a young age, but I’m hesitant to ban her from relatively safe activities I know I would’ve loved as a teenager. (The Cut)
• Who Says You Need a Bed Frame? Eight chic ways to style your mattress on the floor. (Domino)
• If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home? In the age of global warming, traveling — by plane, boat or car — is a fraught choice. And yet the world beckons. (NYT)
• The New Motorola Razr Is Proof That a Smart Flip Phone Can Be Cool as Hell. Forget the “2006 just called” jokes. This phone is legitimately worth your attention. *I loved my Razr!* (Esquire)
• I’m so inflexible! And there’s a human stranger lying on top of me! Stretch Is The New Massage (Into The Gloss)

It’s the weekend, game on!

Also, it’s NOT too late to order your calendar – all the information can be found here. Thanks!

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It’s Friday’s online finds: Cozy up and dig in.

• I heard a crowd roar from a couple blocks away. It had started! People were running! Were they tired? Were they dressed appropriately? Were they okay?! Spectating a marathon is nothing if not an empathy binge. – I Love Not Running Marathons! (Man Repeller)
• And, Head up, wings out! And have fun kicking ass! 7 MYTHS OF WOMEN’S DISTANCE RUNNING (Oiselle)
• My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest.
  If you’ve never had to mask the fruits of your success with a floppy-eared, stuffed bunny rabbit so you won’t get harassed by the cops on the way home from your gainful employment, you have white privilege… As to you “being part of the problem,” trust me, nobody is mad at you for being white. Nobody. Just like nobody should be mad at me for being black. Or female. Or whatever. But what IS being asked of you is to acknowledge that white privilege DOES exist and not only to treat people of races that differ from yours “with respect and humor,” but also to stand up for fair treatment and justice, not to let “jokes” or “off-color” comments by friends, co-workers, or family slide by without challenge, and to continually make an effort to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, so we may all cherish and respect our unique and special contributions to society as much as we do our common ground. (Yes Magazine – thanks Patricia)
• Who wants to try this? How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later: A day of dopamine fasting (NYT)
• Comic Sans Turns 25 – this is exciting for all you who use WORD to design posters <insert tacky-happy clip art> (Open Culture)
• The ‘Footloose’ Dance Warmup That Gets These High Schoolers Ready to Race. Should I mention this to my coach?!? (Runner’s World)
• Self-partnered: the sudden, surprising rise of the single positivity movement—From Emma Watson to Lizzo – the singer who puts the ‘sing in single’ – more and more people are throwing off outdated stigmas and embracing a happy life on their own (The Guardian)
• Airbnb responds (VICE)
• Duh. (Lifehacker)
• 5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes please (NYT)
• Déguste (Colossal)
• Don’t stop doodling kids! (My Modern Met)
• The World According to Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Because we can never have enough Phoebe Waller-Bridge. (Vogue)

“I have really always wanted a cocktail that you order with total confidence; you know, that thing that you order and everyone’s like, Holy shit, she knows what she’s doing with her entire life.” – Phoebe Waller-Bridge

It’s the weekend and we are halfway through November – rock on!

Also, it’s NOT too late to order your calendar – all the information can be found here.

Thanks!

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It’s Friday’s online finds: Cozy up and dig in.

• I am so excited but nervous to watch the new Little Women movie. I don’t want to hate it, but I don’t want to love it as much as the 1994 version. If I can’t handle Jo saying no to Laurie (played by Christian Bale), how the heck am I going to deal with Jo saying no to the Timothée Chalamet version of Laurie? These are the things that keep me up at night. (The New York Times)
  PS. I want a t-shirt that says: “As a girl, my heroine was Jo, as a woman, it’s Louisa May Alcott.” – Greta Gerwig
• New goal for my many lists: “Today I’m going to be trying to become a VSCO girl because that’s my life goal, you know, I’m not focusing on college, not focusing on my grades, because that’s irrelevant,” (Vox)
• Get an Emdash is my new favourite URL
• Things I Do To Manage My Self Worth and Self Care (Latonya Yvette)
• Nike is going down – how they treat women is disgusting (NYT)
• There seems to be this idea out there, like, ‘Oh, millennials — they’re so obsessed with plants,’” … “It’s like, ‘Oh, she’s thirty-something and she doesn’t have kids? She must be filling that void with plants.’ Doom and Bloom: The Growing Millennial Obsession with Houseplants (elemental)
• Now I kind of want an iPad Pro (Rambling Renovators)
• The beautiful and ugliness of sports: When a soccer player’s hijab started falling off to reveal her hair, her opponents gathered around to provide cover while she fixed it (twitter) / Ohio High School Runner Disqualified for Wearing Hijab at District Meet (Runner’s World)
• Oh man… this freaks me out. (Vice)
• Pasta Grannies (Instagram)
• I made my own (vegetarian) version of this and it was so good, I think I’ll eat it every single day, for the rest of my life (A Cup Of Jo)
• I have never felt this way. Nope, never: On Being Happy for and Jealous of a Friend at the Same Time, “It can be hard to be really close to someone who’s trying to do the same thing that you do.” (The Atlantic)
• … we’re doing a big backsliding with this whole Trump administration, but they’ll be gone in another year or so. I’m convinced of that. Then we can get rid of all the stuff that he did, start over again. Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard talks about the sustainability myth, the problem with Amazon—and why it’s not too late to save the planet (Fast Company)
• The first thing I do is open the blinds to bring in the light. I always say hello to the morning. Marie Kondo Interviews Elizabeth Gilbert on Tidying the Mind (KonMari)
• The importance of tending to friendships – It was true that as parents of older kids, socializing with other moms was no longer part of our job description. Music Together classes and supervised playdates were long gone. Friendship was no longer automatic, but did that mean it was somehow less important? (Motherwell)
• Japan’s “Mundane” Halloween Costume Party was the best thing on the internet last week(Kottke)
• No, wait, this is even better: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations. Now it’s war: Gen Z has finally snapped over climate change and financial inequality. (The New York Times)
• A lot of this resonates with me: Work can be the thing we do in order to enjoy our free time—it doesn’t have to be a lifelong career, and we don’t always need to be pushing to be the boss. Forget having it “all”—why aren’t women allowed to just have “some,” and be happy with it?
  If You Don’t Want to Have Kids, You Don’t Have to Want a Career Instead. (VICE)
• AND did you hear about my twenty-twenty calendars?!? Thanks to everyone who’ve ordered one already! And don’t forget, wall-calendars are now available at Inkwell!

It’s the weekend, and I am getting away! Can’t wait to spend some time here with my girlfriends (The Quarterdeck)

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