Quote of the week:“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge–it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” –Min Jin Lee, Pachinko  What I’m reading:The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper (finished it this week)The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (truly terrifying) What I’m listening to:Pachinko by Min — Read More

Quote of the week: “Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If you’re not afraid of it, then it’s not real change.” –Nathan Hill, The Nix (just finished this book and it’s made the list of my all-time favorites) What I’m reading: The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe What I’m listening to: The Nix by — Read More

Quote of the week:“Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.” — Zadie Smith in her new essay collection, Intimations (which is fantastic) What I’m reading: The Highly Sensitive Parent by Elaine N. Aron (finished this week) A Burning by Megha Majumdar (finished this week) Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith (halfway through) What — Read More

Quote of the week: “An apocalypse is a good thing, and I’m delighted to welcome you to this one. In Greek, the word apocalypse means to uncover, to peel away, to show what’s underneath.” —Nadia Bolz-Weber What I’m reading: The Highly Sensitive Parent by Elaine N. Aron A Burning by Megha Majumdar What I’m listening to: — Read More

Quote of the week:“Instead of asking, ‘How can you think this way?’ try asking, ‘How did you come to think this way?’ Maintain dialogue. Be curious.” —Esther Perel What I’m reading: The Highly Sensitive Person in Love by Elaine N. Aron I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing — Read More

Somehow we are at the end of June and summer has begun. Turns out time flies not only when you’re having fun, but also when you’re an anxious mess in the face of an uncertain world. Quote of the week:“Only seek advice from people whose lives you admire” –one of my best (and wisest) friends — Read More

**Apologies to subscribers for not receiving my last few posts via email. It’s been fixed** It’s been another emotional week. I had a good cry this morning. The pandemic, the protests… there are so many things right now. And my cat ran away.  Quote of the week:“Most people resist change, even when it promises to — Read More

Last Friday in May. My family is still quarantining, though the world around us seems to be reopening (for economic reasons; the statistics, at least in our area, do not show any actual slowing of the virus). Strange times, folks. Quote of the week:“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who — Read More

Welcome to my first Weekly Roundup, where I review the things grabbing my attention.  Quote of the week:“We can’t be grateful all the time. Gratitude is deeply important and healing, but this is a time where we also have to make room for complaints. There’s a reason we have ten words for ‘complaining’ in Yiddish. — Read More