Quote of the week:
“I felt the world’s suffering as a vast and permanent expanse, an ocean that could on a moment’s whim sweep anyone it chose to its depths” –Joanne Tompkins, What Comes After
What I’m reading:
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
What I’m listening to:
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
I’m also listening to Glennon Doyle’s new podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things.” She’s released two episodes so far–both great
What I’m watching:
The Woman in the Window (Netflix)–It was enjoyable, even though I’d read the book and knew what was going to happen
Writing news:
I’m counting down to the release of No Hiding in Boise–less than a month away now!
What I’m talking about:
- All of the anti-abortion legislation that’s sweeping across the country. I am not pro-abortion, but I am pro-choice
- How most authors don’t make a living wage with their books (read here)
Interesting things I learned this week:
- The average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s
- Mothers and fathers now spend more than half their waking hours multitasking, double the multitasking they did in 1975
- Childless women earn 94 cents of a childless man’s dollars. But mothers earn only 60 cents of a father’s dollar. Fathers, in contrast, get a “fatherhood bonus,” earning as much as $5,000 more than men without children
- Altschmerz is a German word that translates to “weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had”
What I’m grateful for:
All the old photos I’m finding of my dad and me. I was browsing my mom’s albums and came across a few I had never seen before (including this one).
