Weekend Reads #146
The best reads on the Internet this week, suggestions on what to watch, read, and listen to, and a song for your weekend.
Weekend Reads #145
Over the past year, nearly 3,800 incidents have been reported to Stop AAPI Hate. Incidents happened to women more than twice as much as men, and over 42% of the incidents happened to Chinese Americans. It’s clear they’re spurred in part by racism linked to the ‘demic which was fueled by our past president. But COVID didn’t…
Weekend Reads #144b
This has been a tough week. I think many of you can relate. The reality that comes with a one-year anniversary of the ‘demic hit me like a ton of bricks (or like a week of terrible sleep). It made me realize how incredibly exhausting this year has been. Last March, I was fearful about…
Weekend Reads #144
March 1st 2020 vs March 1st 2021 pic.twitter.com/CPzalHWuRm — Meghan Hug (@meghanhug) March 1, 2021 On Instagram, you can tap Archive and see all your Instagram Stories up to a certain point. Not sure if it’s for everyone, but I can go back to December 2017. Since this year started, I’ve had a habit of…
Weekend Reads #141
Back in the early days of blogging, there was a taskbar at the top of Blogspot blogs with a button that if pressed, would send you randomly to another Blogspot blog. With this button, I found bloggers across the blogs discussing so many different topics, sharing details about their different lives. Through this button, I…
Weekend Reads #139
What does a grown-ass woman do for her 46th birthday in the middle of a ‘demic on a weekday? Well she hops a plane to Vegas, hits all the hot spots, makes out with a stranger, eats at a fancy restaurant with all her friends, and then ends the trip with a concert in a…
Weekend Reads #138
It’s not frivolous to discuss political fashion. There is a lot of thought and care put into what politicians (and their families) wear, and this has been a fact since the dawn of time. The color choices, the silhouettes, the fabrics, the designers… it all has meaning. For some political figures over the years, fashion…
Weekend Reads #137
After putting away the Christmas tree, the house had such a different energy. A fresh, light energy. Sitting in front of our living room bay window, the tree was beautiful but it blocked a lot of natural light. It also had a pretty big footprint for our relatively smaller home. Having it gone made everything…
Weekend Reads #136
I started writing this post before Wednesday. I considered removing everything and starting over, focusing on what happened this week, but decided not to. It’s the weekend, a time to rest. That doesn’t mean we stop fighting and learning and questioning. It just means we take time to recharge our batteries. Instead of doomscrolling, a…