We had a crazy-busy early fall this year with two of the girls involved in a special ballet production of Peter Pan. Multiple practices a week and three shows mean not much time for anything else. We even missed our family tradition of visiting our favorite corn maze. (That was due to both schedule and nasty weather.)
But all that's done now. Temps have already dropped to winter like weather. And that means time to sit at home, drink hot drinks, and work 1000 piece puzzles. We've done three so far.
Good times.
Now for the links!
- How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race. Andrew Solomon in The New York Times reviews Thomas Chatterton Williams's new book. This seems like a good addition to a complicated ongoing discussion and I hope to get around to reading it at some point.
- Kyle Worley at CT weighed in on a recent controversy and I think his take makes sense: Why It's Easier to Accept David as a Murderer than a Rapist.
- A video of a little girl after her adoption recently went viral. Lore Ferguson Wilbert has a reflective post about that but so much more: Learning to Be Loved.
- On one hand, I love the idea of a direct flight. (Connecting flights are where trips get messed up). On the other, a six hour flight is a lot. 20 hours would be a #nothanks for me: I Just Took the World's First 20 Hour Flight. Here's What it Did to Me by Angus Whitley.
- How Those Memes You Just Posted Could Soon Cost You $30,000 by Whitney Kimball at Gizmodo. (language warning) Tribunals are almost never a good idea, right?
- I love books. And I particularly love children's books. But I have never loved "The Giving Tree." I'm not alone: We Need to talk About 'The Giving Tree' by Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant.
- My game-designer husband is writing a series of articles. When I read them, I knew they applied to more than game design. Here are the first two: Rules are Bad and Time is Precious. I think I'll steal his content and re-purpose it for parenting / homeschooling posts. (Just kidding. Maybe.)
- I LOVE Fiestaware. You should too! Great article about the business side of this Made in the USA company: The Family-Owned Company that Makes FiestaWare Counts on Diversification and Online Sales for Growth by Jim Vinoski for Forbes.
- Encouraging post: Large Families and Being Enough by Sarah at Clover Lane.
- I used to read Small Notebook (a blog) all the time. The other day I wondered what had happened to it. This is what I found: In Loving Memory of Rachel Meeks.
- Motivational post for nearly any task: You Don't Have to Like It; You Just Have to Do It by Kristen at Frugal Girl.
- This one gave me some thoughts to chew on: Neglecting the House of God by Dana Gage at CiRCE Institute.
- After our experience a few months ago with Airbnb this did not surprise me at all: I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb by Allie Conti. Something similar may have been going on in our situation, even though we were in England, not the US. The place was shabbier than advertised. It was really hard to jump through the hoops to express our dissatisfaction. We didn't get a refund. And when we finally left a review the response from the owner was basically, "Some people are just not good travelers," among other things. We dropped it then and moved on, sadder and, I hope, wiser travelers. Next trip, some nice hotels will be getting our money. And I will share every negative story about Airbnb I ever come across to anyone who will read it.
From Living Unabridged
Recent: Meet the Students 2019
One year ago: Introverts are Not Broken
Two years ago: World War 1 Reading List for Adults
Three years ago: Teaching Medieval History
Four years ago: Favorite Thanksgiving Books (The format of this old post annoys me but I can't seem to find time to update old posts right now!)
Five years ago: Books About the First World War for Kids and Teens
