Quote of the week:
“After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.” — Leesa Cross-Smith
What I’m reading:
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (so lucky to get an early copy of this one!)
What I’m listening to:
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Call Your Girlfriend podcast: “Burnout“
The Double Shift podcast: “The Childcare Game-Changer“
Fab Fertility podcast: “A Reproductive Immunology Success Story with Author Hollie Overton” (Hollie is a friend and I’m so happy for her and her TRIPLETS!)
What I’m watching:
I Care A Lot
Moxie
60 Minutes interview with Simone Biles (LOVE her)
Writing news:
- All the Love: Healing Your Heart and Finding Meaning After Pregnancy Loss will be released in LESS THAN 2 WEEKS (on March 23).We are doing an online launch event on that date–register here (it’s free!)
- People Who Knew Me will be re-released on May 11
- No Hiding in Boise will release on June 15. Goodreads is doing a giveaway now (ends Monday!)
What I’m talking about:
- The Covid relief bill. It’s one of the most popular pieces of legislation EVER (70% of the American public in favor) and yet ZERO Republicans voted for it
- Meghan Markle. Wow. Her honesty with Oprah was so refreshing…and disturbing. I’ve never been that interested in the royal family (it’s always seemed very odd and antiquated to me), but now my indifference has turned to active dislike
- How economic recovery hinges on daycare for kids (good articles about this here and here)
- The real phenomenon of pandemic brain fog: “Managing too many details can definitely make you feel ‘foggy,’ and make you feel like your memory has declined” (from this article)
- Job gains for women (yay) (read here)
- How women are still losing it (ugh) (read here)
- How institutions have failed women: “Mothers do not need more advice on how to manage their anger. They need to be funneling their anger at the institutions that have so thoroughly failed them. And we should be asking ourselves what we can do to support them. We need to prioritize safely reopening schools over bars and restaurants. Congress needs to fund new sources of paid leave so that parents, fathers and mothers, can perform the essential social function of raising children” (from here)
- The white-women-QAnon phenomenon. Seems like many of them were pulled in via posts on social media about the horrors of child trafficking, which is a very real issue… and then it spirals from there when the Facebook algorithms go to work serving up more content that gets increasingly weirder. The latest episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has a great segment about this
- How Zoom (with large faces right up in our personal space) triggers our “fight or flight” survival reflex, according to a new study out of Standford (read here)
- Why people are choosing to quit their jobs during this pandemic (read here)
Weirdest thing I googled this week:
Johnny Damon arrest video
What I’m grateful for:
This Instagram post from Michelle Penelope King.
