Quote of the week:
“Sometimes I think,
I need a spare heart to feel
all the things I feel.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
What I’m reading:
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins
What I’m listening to:
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
What I’m watching:
I haven’t been watching much lately, but I am keeping up with the new seasons of Top Chef, Shark Tank, and Couples Therapy. I also watched the 20/20 special about the Gainesville Killer (I’m a true crime junkie).
Writing news:
No big news this week. Just your usual reminders:
- People Who Knew Me will be re-released on May 11
- No Hiding in Boise will release on June 15
- My sixth novel will come out in 2022–stay tuned for details!
What I’m talking about this week:
- The guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin. THANK GOD. I’m still saddened that there was even a question that he’d be found guilty. These words from the New York Times resonated with me: “Chauvin’s conviction does not automatically signal a new era of police accountability. The Floyd case was the exception of all exceptions. A video, watched around the world, showed Chauvin pressing his knee onto Floyd for more than nine minutes. That footage led to weeks of protests that were among the largest in U.S. history. And at the trial, the so-called blue wall of silence — that is, many officers’ willingness to protect colleagues, regardless of their misbehavior — crumbled. ‘For so many, it feels like it took all of that for the judicial system to deliver just basic accountability,’ President Biden said late yesterday.” Barack Obama’s words also resonated: “True justice requires that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day. … And it requires us to do the sometimes thankless, often difficult, but always necessary work of making the America we know more like the America we believe in.”
- How female academics have had less time for research due to childcare responsibilities during the pandemic (read here)
- A study that defines the specifics of the mental load that many women/mothers carry (read here)
- The below meme, which continues to make me giggle
Weirdest thing I googled this week:
Grief lymph node.
Interesting things I learned this week:
- Several studies show we replace as much as half of our social network every 5 to 7 years (read here)
- The oldest cat in the world lived to be 38 years old
What I’m grateful for:
My mom and sister. My family is going through a lot right now, and I’m so grateful we have each other to lean on.
