​issue #13 - the issue on kitchen tools, travels, and laws

Thank goodness it’s Saturday.

Really, thank goodness.

#ThingsILove This Week

• I dug up my time blocking cube to help me stay focused, and it’s really made a big difference. Also helping with my productivity? Focus@Will for amazing work playlists, and having a mini legal pad within reach to jot down notes at any given time. And of course, my Silk+Sonder planner.

• Who’s still watching Grey’s Anatomy? I gave it up after Sandra Oh left, but caught up this year during my sick days and I’m fully back. Last week’s episode on sexual assault left me in tears, and I applaud them for tackling hard issues - both medical and social - in such a respectful manner.

• I overextended myself this week, so will be laying low this weekend. I plan to live in my new maternity pajamas, feet in these slippers, slathering my legs with this magnesium cream, and drinking so. much. water.

• What I read/am reading this week:

  • Shades Of Milk And Honey - a very clever retelling of Pride And Prejudice. Like the Lady Astronaut books, the writing isn’t the best but the story more than makes up for it. It’s pure brain candy, which is exactly what I needed.

  • Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow - I have a lot of thoughts about the Star Wars prequel trilogy, one of them being that I wanted more Padmé. This book helped satisfy that, and also got me amped for Episode IX’s release later this year.

  • Farewell To Dreams - medicine, mysterious murders, corruption, gangs, dirty cops swirl together in a small Pennsylvania town. The pacing of this book was erratic (dragged over some chapters, action-packed in others). I haven’t decided whether to continue reading the trilogy, but I quite enjoyed Farewell as a standalone book.

  • Beyond The Point - this weekend’s book, which came highly recommended by my friend Ashley. I’m looking forward to digging into it.

The Top 5

1. When Did Basic Kitchen Tools Get So Nice? (Eater)

2. Research: When Juggling Work and Family, Women Offer More Emotional Support Than Men (HBR)

3. How My Mother's Travels Shaped My World View (CN Traveler)

4. What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend (The Cut)

5. How to Build a Skincare Routine (Girls Night In)Disclosure - I'm an investor in Girls Night In.

The Catch Up

Monday

• Farm bankruptcies shed new light on perils of Big Agriculture (Axios)

• The Dismal Career Opportunities for Military Spouses (The Atlantic)

• For the first time, a state’s National Guard command staff is made up of all women (Washington Post)

• Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow (Business of Fashion)

Tuesday

• Sheena Allen Is Bringing Financial Opportunity To Underserved Millennials (Forbes)

• The opioid epidemic is increasingly killing black Americans. Baltimore is ground zero. (Vox)

• The Brands Going The Extra Mile To Enforce Body Positivity (Swaay)

• 'It was madness': Game of Thrones stars on how it changed their lives (The Guardian)

Wednesday

• Lori Lightfoot elected Chicago mayor, making her the first African-American woman to lead the city (Chicago Tribune)

• Drug Sites Upend Doctor-Patient Relations: ‘It’s Restaurant-Menu Medicine’ (NYT)

• The border crisis is in this freshman congresswoman’s backyard. She could be the one to fix it. (The Lily)

• Rainbow fashion offers joy in a joyless time (Vox)

Thursday

• A Journalist’s Murder Prompted Her to Run for Office. Now She’s Slovakia’s New President. (Mother Jones)

• The snap decision society (Axios)

• Tsundoku: The practice of buying more books than you can read (Treehugger)

• Obamacare fight obscures America’s real health care crisis: Money (Politico)

Friday

• You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead. (USA Today)

• A jobs surge, then a technological disruption (Axios)

• How an inconspicuous slaughterhouse keeps the world’s premature babies alive (STAT)

• Women Candidates Are Getting Shut Out Of Mainstream Media Coverage (PGN)