It’s month, uh, six (?!?) of working from home. WFH posts are now old news. Hopefully you’ve found a rhythm and figured out how to keep cruising through your to-do list. (Still working on that? No shame! Maybe check out this post?) But maybe there are little nagging problems you’re noticing now that working from home no longer feels temporary.
Simple Ways to Improve Your Work from Home Space
8 Children’s Books Worth Rereading as an Adult
What was your favorite childhood book? You know, the one that you checked out 800 times from the library? The one where the cover totally disintegrated? The one that you could have recited in your sleep? I have a deep, abiding love for those books. And I think these children’s books are 100% worth rereading as adults.
6 Reflection Questions for the End of Summer
I feel utterly betrayed when I realize that there are single-digit days remaining in August. Because this summer has not, exactly, been what I envisioned. (You, too?)
9 YA Books to Change Your Thinking
You know what the world needs right now? A good book. Not just because it’s one of the best way to relieve stress (for real), or because we’ve watched everything on Netflix, or because summer is the ideal reading season. But because books are one of the ultimate tools for broadening our perspectives.
4 Summer Smoothie Recipes to Beat the Heat
Let’s talk about my favorite summer breakfast: smoothies. When I was a kid, my parents ran a strawberry patch in the summer. During the weeks when the strawberries were ripe, my dad would often whip up fresh strawberry smoothies after we’d spent an afternoon working in the patch. I maintain that those are some of the best smoothies I’ve ever…
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A Simple Balcony Herb Garden
We have 100% bought into the pandemic stereotype of sprucing up our apartment. And that includes plants. You guys. We went from owning two fake plants to being the proud plant parents of a large number of little sprouts. As pots of herbs started to accumulate on our balcony, we decided we wanted a cuter, more streamlined way to corral…
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10 Books to Read This Summer (With Lemonade in Hand)
This is possibly my favorite reading season. Give me a lakeside hammock, a cold glass of lemonade, and a book, and I will be content for hours. And this kind of atmosphere requires a certain type of book, one with a little quirky humor, delightful characters who won’t bug you when the humidity rises, and a summery atmosphere.
7 Tips for Having Hard Conversations
If you have not had to have a disagreement with someone over the past few weeks, I would bet that you are somehow in solitary confinement, Amish and lacking the technology to access to news from the outside world, or an actual wizard at avoiding confrontation.