Books
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Book Review
Carrie Brownstein, guitarist from the rock band Sleater-Kinney and comic co-star of Portlandia with Fred Armisen, wrote a memoir that quickly was listed as a New York Times Bestseller. This sums up my Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Book Review: I love Carrie Brownstein. Reading the memoir went quickly – I finished it in about 2 days. It surprised me just how good of a writer Carrie is, given that she’s a talented musician and sketch character actress. A strong narrative arc and flair for dramatic confessional lifeisms punctuates each stage of Sleater-Kinney’s career. I knew the storyline would be hard to read – coming of age is always…
Best Wellness Podcasts
Wellness can cover so many different aspects of your life. When I set out to make this wellness podcast list, I first had to define what I meant by wellness. For me, it’s all about balance and positivity. Healthy living includes fitness, eating well, and caring for your head space, but it also includes finding a good work-life balance and staying motivated to do your best work. So the following are the best wellness podcasts I tune into while I sit in traffic and prepare for the next part of my day That’s So Retrograde That’s So Retrograde came highly recommended to me, and there’s a reason why it tops…
Best Notebooks of 2017
Now that 2017 is well underway, I wanted to loop back around on my organization situation to review where the cards – or rather notebooks – have fallen. What am I actually carrying around in my bag? Which notebooks do I write in every day? Do I have too many notebooks? Sure, some may say that. But I love them all. I’m not going to call out the ones that didn’t make it off the shelf, but these are really the best notebooks of 2017. Best Notebooks of 2017 Inkwell Press A5 Quarterly Planner I’m still going strong with the Inkwell Press Quarterly Planners. I used these last year and…
In The Company of Women Book Review
In The Company of Women, Grace Bonney of Design Sponge’s latest book, brings together interviews with over 100 women who are makers, artists, and entrepreneurs – and good company it is! I’m always fascinated by women who work as creatives and small business owners. How do they make it work? What did they do differently than I did? How did they get to where they are now? Years ago I followed what I thought were my dreams and went to art school. For someone like me who thrives on stability, the regularity and security of an office environment is much more practical if not as imaginative. I’m so inspired by…
Dispatches From Pluto Book Review + Lemuria Bookstore
Mississippi. The softly sibilant state most often spoken in the shortest span of time. When was the last time you said it without counting in the same breath? My mother’s family is from Mississippi, and for as long as I can remember in our youth we would make a yearly visit to my grandmother and cousins. First in Yazoo City, then in Jackson when my grandmother relocated after my grandfather passed away. Southern magical realism is a popular writing style – and one of my favorites. The truth is always stranger than fiction, and a tall tale doesn’t cast as long of a shadow or light as a child’s imagination playing…
