19.7.27 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety, by Sarah Wilson. As I've gotten older, I've definitely noticed my anxiety increasing - not to the level of a disorder, but in a way that affects my sleep and what I feel willing and able to do in my daily …

19.7.21 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell. I'd been hearing about this since it came out earlier this year, and honestly, based on the cover I thought it was just going to be memoir about a woman learning to let go of busyness and embrace quiet and slow, …

TV Shows that Stuck with Me

You know when you watch or read or see something, and you just can't stop thinking about it? That's how I feel about Mad Men in general, and one plot line specifically.   There's a subplot in season 5 (spoilers, I guess? The episode aired in 2012, so if you haven't seen it by now, …

19.7.13 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: The Seas, by Samantha Hunt. This strange little novel takes place in a poor seaside town that has been hit hard by dwindling economic resources, leaving its residents depressed and trapped. Our main character is a young woman who believes she is a mermaid because her father told her so, before he …