We’re nearing the end of January and I have yet to write about Belgium, or December, or my 40th birthday, or probably other things that merit time in this space. In the interest of ever getting to any of it, here’s a year-end link dump for your mid-week perusal.
Reading
- You Were a Child Once, Too
- Toward an Applicable Theory of Just Not — Autostraddle
- The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics — New Yorker
- Going Zero Waste is a Lot of Work. Does Too Much of It Fall to Women? — Vox
- Toxic Masculinity and the Brokenness of Boyhood – The Atlantic — This is SO IMPORTANT.
- Reader’s Block — Kottke
- Anne Helen Petersen’s newsletter is a challenge and a delight
Parenting, kids, motherhood
- The Unspoken Complexity of “Self Care”
- At Samin Nosrat’s Table, There’s Enough to Go Around — Glamour
- Glossary of Mom Terms — Cup of Jo
- Did Moms Exist Before Social Media? — NYT Parenting
Relationships, self care
- ‘Sleep Divorce’ and the Case for Splitting Up at Night — The Atlantic
- Women’s Happiness and the Other Gender Gap — Vox
- Your Morning Routine Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect — The Atlantic
- Self Care Strategies for the Holidays — Shutterbean
- How Not to Kill Your Partner (Just Kidding) — Cup of Jo — in the comments, someone differentiates between relationship issues and roommate issues, which is SUCH a useful distinction.
Food, cooking
- Cooking Complex, Time-Consuming Meals Taught Me to Be Patient With Myself — Vice
- Cool Beans — Eater — On dried beans and the Instant Pot
- 15 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Started Cooking — Jenny Rosenstrach for Cup of Jo
- Gramercy Tavern Gingerbread — Smitten Kitchen — sticky and wonderful on the Christmas buffet
- Mussels with white wine and garlic for New Year’s Eve
- IP potato leek soup
- Four Corners lentil soup — My New Roots — made for the first of what I hope will be a recurring soup night with friends
Work, working
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