Stuff We Like :: 2.8.19
The weather here is just crazy: At the beginning of the week, it was cold enough to snow; yesterday, it got up to 70; tonight, it’s getting down to 36.
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT HOME/SCHOOL/LIFE
on the podcast: Suzanne and I are talking about the big homeschool questions on our minds right now (and hoping some of them sound like interesting future podcasts!)
on the blog: Revisiting HSL’s initial mission (it’s still our mission) and the soul-expanding power of quitting
on patreon: It’s our live chat weekend!
on instagram: You don’t have to know where you want to end up to choose where you want to go next
in the archives: A science of infection reading list and why homeschooling is always easier in hindsight
LINKS I LIKED
Those “quick hands” cooking videos have always felt a little off-putting to me, but I didn’t know why.
Oh my gosh, so much this! I cannot take seriously anyone who says utilize when she just means use.
I loved this — I definitely am not where I was at 27, but I totally identify with the idea that we change so much and so little at the same time. (Especially since I had a student ask me today if I missed being young!) (I don’t, though.)
I love Facebook for keeping up with people it might be hard to keep up with otherwise — but this is why I keep my circle of friends small enough that I never feel like I need to put the word “friends” in quotation marks.
This was fascinating: The racism and colonial entitlement in feminine frontier fashion.
This is delightful: A list of things that I actually would like men to explain to me, please.
THINGS I DIDN’T KNOW BUT NOW I DO
The news has always been too much, especially in the 19th century.
The socks and sandals thing dates back way before the 1970s.
A day on Saturn is 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds
BOOKS ADDED TO MY TBR LIST THIS WEEK
On the Come Up (we’re reading The Hate U Give for book club right now)
The City in the Middle of the Night (I loved All the Birds in the Sky)
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (because I know almost nothing about Garfield, and I want to fill in some gaps)
WHAT’S MAKING ME HAPPY
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