19.6.16 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: A Place for Us, by Fatima Farheen Mirza. One of my summer goals is to join a book club, and I did! I found it through Meetup, and only got the book from the library about a week before the book club meeting. So I sped through it and managed to finish …

Magic at Bookworm Gardens

When I read about a Wisconsin garden based on children's literature, I knew I had to visit. Bookworm Gardens is based on the idea of bringing children's books to life one garden at a time - which is such a charming concept in itself, but is also just as charming in real life. Bookworm Gardens …

Summer Beach Reading

I evaluate every book I'm thinking about reading in summer in terms of it's potential as a "beach read" - whether or not I have any ability to actually read at a beach! As I see it, summer book choices should have a certain magic and humor to them. They don't have to be fluff …

19.6.1 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Summer Cannibals, by Melanie Hobson. I've been really feeling the nonfiction this year, but I'm back at the novels! When I saw it on a display table at the library, mostly I was attracted to its beautiful cover and the title, both of which made it look like the perfect read for …

Starting Over: Life Lessons from Crocheting

I recently started crocheting a shirt. I bought the pattern and the yarn, and then I did something I usually don't do - I crocheted a swatch for size comparison. This swatch allows you to measure your crochet style with your yarn against the pattern designer's crochet style with their yarn. This is especially important …

19.5.25 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Triggers, by Marshall Goldsmith. More research about habit formation. Most valuable lesson so far: situation leadership and the idea that all of us have within us the planner and the doer. The planner is the one who wakes up in the morning and has grand plans for everything she is going to …

Summer 2019 Bucket List

A new city means new adventures! We moved to Milwaukee in January, aka the dead of deep-dark winter. Everyone we've met has told us that summer in Milwaukee is amazing and that there are festivals all the time and that every day is magical. Now that I'm pretty sure winter is over, I've started thinking …

Tiny Habits Program Review

What do you do when you want to build a new habit into your routine? A few years ago, I was trying to make sure I took my vitamins. I had them in a kitchen cabinet, within easy reach of cups and water, and taking a vitamin is just about the fastest thing you can …

19.5.18 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: How to help women in states with extreme anti-abortion legislation. This week my heart has been heavy with the consequences these bans have on our sisters in these states, as well as the painful, harmful rhetoric going along with them. Reproductive agency for those who can get pregnant (trans and non-binary folks …

19.5.11 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Insight, by Tasha Eurich. This book is all about increasing your self-awareness, which is the ability to see ourselves clearly. Apparently, we aren't very good at this - we have very little skill in accurately gauging how well we understand a topic, and the more confident we are, the less we objectively …