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

• Summer Thursdays. Let’s all jump on board and make it a thing (Latonya Yvette)
• Nebraska: “Honestly, it’s not for everyone.” (Thrillist)
• During university and then a 7-month-long house renovation, I became a bit of a toaster oven/kettle guru but this is a whole other level – A 3-Course Meal In A Coffee Maker (swissmiss)
• This news will not affect my social life… I am more social at 8:00 am than at 8:00 pm on any given Saturday. (Dazed Digital)
• 6 components of micromastery… remember, it should be F-U-N (Well and Good)
• A hot topic in my house this week: Cadence: Is 180 the ultimate goal? (McMillan Running)
• Where’d You Go Bernadette (Slate)
• Please don’t ruin my childhood (Huh) Gahhhhh, I’m crying already.
• I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art. – Toni Morrison (The Nation)

It’s the weekend, own it!

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

• We understand, gentlemen. Fatherhood will not domesticate you. We understand, ladies. You are a fertile moon goddess. Let’s have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct (The Washington Post)
• Having a Sister Is Beneficial To Your Mental Health *no comment (The Hearty Soul)
• On the topic of siblings, this made me laugh (Bored Panda)
• Having kids has a spectacular way of both increasing the amount of cooking required of you and reducing the chance that what you’re cooking is the thing you wanted to eat. Family Meal Planning for Real Life (Parenting NYT)
• 100 Days of Sunsets (Poppytalk)
• This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself (CNN)
• It is now easy enough to engage women’s skepticism toward ads and magazine covers, images produced by professionals. It is harder for us to suspect images produced by our peers, and nearly impossible to get us to suspect the images we produce of ourselves, for our own pleasure and benefit. Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman (The Guardian)
• Tools to Help Japanese Schoolchildren Find Balance: Unicycles (NYT)
• Portable Bidets. Yup. (Design Milk)
• The news causes stress; stress causes wrinkles; wrinkles cause more stress, which causes insomnia, which causes three iced coffees, which causes plastic straws, which cause climate change. That’s right. I watched the news and made climate change happen. I’m sorry. Want to Change the World? Talk to Kids (Glamour)
• In this article, I’d like to make a simple argument (backed with lots of shitty images I created in MS Paint): that when it comes to productivity, things are not what they seem. How To Be More Productive by Working Less (Mark Manson)
• If we are being honest, self-care is actually kind of boring. Self-Care Is Not An Indulgence. It’s A Discipline. (Forbes)
• If everyone is politely nodding along now, assume that it’s because they’ve permanently labelled you the office fool who always makes bad decisions…Things to do during your karaoke songs too long instrumental interlude (The New Yorker)

It’s the weekend, happy sailing!

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

• “Swimming is really a life skill — your child doesn’t have to be on the swim team, but they should know how to swim… How to keep yourself safe around water is just as important as other developmental milestones.” (NYT)
• I like Laura Dern, I love Laura Dern’s house (Architectural Digest)
• Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert… and men showed more health benefits from tying the knot. (The Guardian)
• This would be so lovely in a guest room (Urban Outfitters)
• He’s been making women pay ever since… Literally. Paul Gonzales scammed his online dates into buying him expensive dinners. Then they made him pay. (The Daily Beast)
• What if we really did do the work to create a world where the sisters of Shakespeare and Mozart, or any woman, really, could thrive? A woman’s greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself. (The Guardian)
• Let’s all get a B-Box! A beehive designed for use in close proximity to humans, like near your house or in an urban environment. (Kottke)
• “Put it on the G-cal” The Scheduling Woes of Adult Friendship (The Atlantic)
• There’s always a place to turn around and get where you need to go. Always. How to Live Your Life? You’ll Need a Plunger, for Starters – We asked readers to share their hard-won wisdom. Take a look at what they said. (NYT)

Am I sad it’s already August? Heck ya.

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Hey Emac, it’s Friday’s online finds: Cozy up and dig in.

• Cities have effectively traded away their children, swapping capital for kids. College graduates descend into cities, inhale fast-casual meals, emit the fumes of overwork, get washed, and bounce to smaller cities or the suburbs by the time their kids are old enough to spell. The Future of the City Is Childless. America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births. (The Atlantic)
• To be a happy camper, you need the right stuff: The Very Best Camping Gear, According to Soooo Many Reviews. We do not have the right stuff. (Food52)
• When and how do I cultivate joy for my children with the reality and the news? (Latonya Yvette)
• Gemma Rasdall, a self-described bizarre combination of  ‘workaholic, sailing sea gypsy and artist’, is living the (/my) dream! With a puppy! (The Design Files)
• In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream. Maybe one of the reasons rape has so often been portrayed as “a stranger leaps out of the bushes” is so we’ll imagine rapists acting alone. But in so many cases rapists have help in the moment and forever after, and the help is often so powerful, broad, and deep—well, that’s why we call it rape culture, and that’s why changing it means changing the whole culture. (Lit Hub)
• Pickle sandwiches (Twitter)
• Smart kid. 13-Year-Old Scientist’s Research Shows Hand Dryers Can Hurt Kids’ Ears (NPR)
• Calling BS on your career peaks at 50, and woe to those who don’t accept their decline gracefully… “The women I know aren’t declining. They’re getting stronger and more engaged in careers, often second careers they love. They are starting businesses. Some are taking greater risks, often to make a greater impact. Some wealthy women at this age are stepping out from the shadow of their families to become leaders of new movements.” (Forbes)
• Men are walking around empty-handed, uncompelled to be useful. Men Know It’s Better to Carry Nothing. (The Cut)
• Canadian teen Maggie MacNeil wins shocking gold at swimming worlds and we all go whoa! (CBC Sports)
• More than simply taking basic good care of yourself so you’re fit and healthy enough to work, this is optimising yourself so as to life-hack your way to performing ever better under a value system that holds work in such high regard. We might turn to self-care to sooth our stresses and also to boost our productivity, but, as the rise of burnout might suggest, self-care does not actually seem to be fixing burnout. “We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix…” (Dazed Digital)
• Andddddd… Now that people are used to finding self-care at the tap of a touchscreen, the convenience of connected fitness machines have also made them more attractive over the past few years. The future of fitness is together but alone. (The Verge)
• I am the same age as the Walkman. Kids, do you know what a Walkman is? (swissmiss)

Rolling into the weekend – Let’s do this!

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

• Since he started working for the USPS in 2004, Aubrey has found ways to make his uniform his own. (Man Repeller)
• How couples meet (swissmiss)
• The Truth About Cast Iron Pans: 7 Myths That Need To Go Away (Serious Eats)
• Look, Son, Maybe Men Just Aren’t Built to Play Soccer (New Yorker)
• We browse for Instant Pots, pet-hair-removal gloves and spa bath pillows when we’re at dinner, when we’re driving and when we’re drunk. Shopping isn’t just convenient; it’s inescapable. The shiny and new is seldom more than a click and a day away. (Globe and Mail – Via Kristin)
• Reading What Your Kids Are Reading (Dinner a Love Story)
  PS. I think this is a great tip for grandparents too!
• I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor—here’s one of the biggest mistakes I see parents making (CNBC)
• Why are we taxing bus riders to pay rich people to buy McMansions and luxury electric SUVs? (Citylab)
• Round animals on Instagram will make you smile.

Lace-up, it’s the weekend,

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