Sunday Snippets: Leo season

Leos unite! Love being a summer baby.

The Dutch are returning looted artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Does it matter?

The Sunday Story: Permission to share

Employees consider suing employers for ‘geographical discrimination’ against remote work

Prince George's Dinosaurs: Here's what to know about the dig site where paleontologists find fossils with the public

'Missing' Houston man Rudy Farias says his mother brainwashed him

FDA approves Opill, the first daily birth control pill without a prescription

MINIMALISM IS NEAT, BUT CLUTTER MAKES A HOME

The Science of Analysis Paralysis

Sunday Snippets: November light & voting

The sunrises in the fall are just so lovely, glinting off the colorful leaves.

ALSO VOTE!!!!

Are we entering the Great Disengagement? Women and millennials are feeling the biggest disconnection from their employers—but a looming recession is preventing people from quitting

My Friends’ Brooklyn Apartment Has the Coolest DIYs (and the Cutest Dog)

At 18 weeks pregnant, she faced an immense decision with just days to make it

Two Moms Harnessed The ‘Productive Rage’ Of Roe To Open An All-Trimester Abortion Clinic

5 Reasons I Don’t Want a Bigger Home

Tat London Founder Charlie Porter Married Her Boyfriend Of 10 Years In A Fuchsia Carolina Herrera Gown

COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab

‘Fast Furniture’ Is Cheap. And Americans Are Throwing It in the Trash.

Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters

Sunday Snippets: January 6th

I just want people to actually face consequences after this committee finishes their hearings. Ya know, for the fucking treason that was committed.

What’s Next for Melissa Lucio, Texas Woman on Death Row

The Depp defamation suit should outrage and appall you

How Do I Stop Looking For My Depression In Our Kid?

Burning Dead Dreams

Free US school lunches were a dream come true. Now, a hunger crisis looms for 10 million children

A new quarter honors Native American leader and activist Wilma Mankiller

Surprising New Research On How Climate Change Affects Your Sleep & Overall Health

This 52-Year-Old Early Retiree Left the U.S. for Portugal With His Family—and Spends $2,450 a Month: ‘We Cut Our Expenses by 50%'

Treasure hunters allege the FBI made off with Civil War-era gold and covered it up

A sighting reveals extinction and climate change in a single image

Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” Created After Emmett Till-Based Project Was Censored

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need

1912 CRAFTSMAN FOR SALE IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

1850 FARMHOUSE FOR SALE IN SALTVILLE VIRGINIA

Sunday Snippets: End of the year

Almost three weeks until 2022. I'm almost more ready to say goodbye to 2021 than I was for 2020.

Man embraces minimalism and cuts down his possessions to just 44 things

Ann Patchett on Creating the Work Space You Need

People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021

I'm Black. My Son Is White. Here's What We Deal With When We Leave The House.

Poland plans to set up register of pregnancies to report miscarriages

Why Archaeologists Have Long Been Interested in Trash

Sunday Snippets: Halloween

Kiddo wanted to be a firefighter for the second year in a row and he delighted in his costume. One of my favs from a kid was Harriet the Spy. I loved that book.

Dads spend time in Louisiana high school after 23 students were arrested in string of violence

The Angry Mama

Sikh men created a lifeline using turbans and jackets to rescue hikers at a park

The Afterlife of Rachel Held Evans

The parenting problem the government can't fix

We need to stop buying stuff – and I know just the people to persuade us

Sunday Snippets: Last months of 2021

Who the hell knows what 2022 will bring? I'm terrified of the upcoming elections, terrified that Congress will sit on passing any type of climate change bills, just terrified in general.

You're swamped? Join the club.

A 60-sq-ft London Kitchen Gets a Spacious Makeover

Climate activists partially sink model row home in DC’s Tidal Basin

These Unclaimed Afghan Studio Portraits Bear Witness To Decades Of History

The Biden Administration’s Expulsion of Haitians Is Unconscionable—and a Missed Opportunity

Scenes from the Twilight of a D.C. Wendy’s

Texas is in the spotlight. But transgender activists say their fight feels uniquely grueling and ‘lonely.’

You Aren't Lazy. You Just Need To Slow Down

Tens Of Thousands Of Black Women Vanish Each Year. This Website Tells Their Stories

PHOTOS: How Struggling Families Manage To Feed Their Kids In A Pandemic

A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean

What Do We Do With All This Rage?

To Gather Together-Poem

Could The Escaped Zebras Survive Roaming Around Prince George’s County Forever?

Indigenous traditional owners win back Daintree rainforest in historic deal

Sunday Snippets: Almost my birthday

Turning 35 this year. 34 was trying and I'm glad to see it go.

7 / Ambient Loss, Having Children, & the Necessity of Storytelling w/ Camille T. Dungy

The Pandemic Stopped Time, But For 30-Something Women, The Clock Kept Ticking

The Problem We’re Now Facing With WFH

Lessons from an Uber-Minimalist Kitchen—Plus, Where They Keep the Clutter

Storm Chaser Patiently Waits and Finally Captures Rare Quadruple Microburst

The Spanish hospital laundry worker who keeps winning poetry prizes

Mental Health Response Teams Yield Better Outcomes Than Police In NYC, Data Shows

Norwegian church holds name change ceremony for a transgender woman

Behind The Lens, These Women Created Photographs That Leap Over Decades

Climate change is forcing us indoors — and childhood will never be the same

By Default: How Mothers in Different-Sex Dual-Earner Couples Account for Inequalities in Pandemic Parenting

Sunday Snippets: Tomato vines

There is something quintessential summer about snipping tomato vines and the smell they leave on your hands.

How the COVID pandemic redefined ambition

WORK: THE AMBITION AND ACCOUNTABILITY CONVERSATION

You Need A Better Out Of Office Message

A Complicating Energy

Living Memory

‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise

How the #FreeBritney Movement Is a Disability Rights Issue

Wait For It

Atikamekw families in Quebec still haunted by dozens of stories of ‘ghost babies’

Cancel Amazon Prime

Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations

Sunday Snippets: Stand with Palestine

I don't pretend to know every nuance of the Israel-Palestine fight, but Palestinians deserve the right to life and their houses and clean water.

40 Years Ago, Poet Lucille Clifton Lost Her House. This Year, Her Children Bought It Back.

The pandemic shaped my family for generations. Not COVID — the 1918 flu

The Party Whose Success Is a Problem

Maryland Governor Grants Posthumous Pardons To 34 Black Lynching Victims

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

‘I regret having children’

Mobile Health Clinics Could Revolutionize Reproductive Care in the South

Why Are Boomer Parents Always Withholding Important Family News?

The latest Israel-Palestine crisis isn't a 'real estate dispute.' It's ethnic cleansing.

Wyoming stands up for coal with threat to sue states that refuse to buy it

‘It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit.’ Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl

Windows on the world: pandemic poems by Simon Armitage, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest and more

The minimalist awakening: how it became ‘in’ to buy less

Illinois parents arrested and jailed for kids missing school How the fuck does this help anyone?

Sunday Snippets: February

January was a long month. Each month forward, however, means more vaccinated so that's hopeful.

A reporter shares her minute-by-minute recollection of being trapped in the Senate on Jan. 6

AUSTIN MAY USE MONEY CUT FROM POLICE BUDGET TO ESTABLISH PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING

The State of COVID-19 Race and Ethnicity Data

Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?

Traffic stop leads to deportation of El Paso Walmart shooting victim

SNOWED UNDER IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY.

The Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story Unemployment statistics can’t capture the full extent of what women have lost.

7 Questions to Help You Let Go of Sentimental Things

Larger Link Round Up: Part 1

I have a Pinterest board of links that keep accumulating and I figured, why not throw them here for others to enjoy? I'll break all the links down across a few posts.

Losing Weight

In my case, it was my husband who started pointing out my inflated sense of responsibility. “Why are you doing this?”, “Yes, I see – but what do you want to do?” Turns out, I don’t have more resources than everybody else – just like our house does not have any miracle extra space. Making space for somebody else’s priorities just means you have fewer resources to spend on yourself. And that’s ok – if you chose to do that. But sometimes you may be living with extra weight you’re not aware of.


Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong

But the story of Henrietta Lacks also illustrates the racial inequities that are embedded in the US research and health-care systems. Lacks was a Black woman. The hospital where her cells were collected was one of only a few that provided medical care to Black people. None of the biotechnology or other companies that profited from her cells passed any money back to her family. And, for decades after her death, doctors and scientists repeatedly failed to ask her family for consent as they revealed Lacks’s name publicly, gave her medical records to the media, and even published her cells’ genome online. (Following an outcry, the genome was soon removed.) Nature later published the genome of another HeLa line1 after the Lacks family reached an agreement with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to approve its release.


Motherhood on the line

Like many girls and women who migrate, Fania wanted to make decisions about her body. Her story of motherhood is not about a defining act of violence. It is about the mundane issues that women and girls in many parts of the world face every day: lack of financial autonomy, the idea that girls should be the first to sacrifice their education, the stigma and shame associated with female sexuality. As Fania would discover, women seeking asylum in the U.S. face additional risks, including being separated from their children or coerced into sterilization.

Coronavirus Was In U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says

Researchers found coronavirus antibodies in 39 samples from California, Oregon, and Washington as early as Dec. 13 to Dec. 16. They also discovered antibodies in 67 samples from Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin in early January — before widespread outbreaks in those states.


A new way to think about the transition to motherhood

When a baby is born, so is a mother -- but the natural (and sometimes unsteady) process of transition to motherhood is often silenced by shame or misdiagnosed as postpartum depression. In this quick, informative talk, reproductive psychiatrist Alexandra Sacks breaks down the emotional tug-of-war of becoming a new mother -- and shares a term that could help describe it: matrescence.


WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH ALL THIS GRIEF?

I do not know how to talk about this grief. This American grief that I now carry in my heart, in my bones, in every cell and sinew of my being. This grief with which I wake up and go to sleep, this grief that has caught me, some nights, on the way back from the bathroom. It’s too big for me to frame, too vast for me to organize. It’s been overflowing the banks of each and every day since March 13, when the nation began to shut down and then looked up to see that we were dying.


Post-It Dreams

But it is the private material culture that speaks to our survival; how we exert dominion over our imaginations in a world that constrains our bodies so violently to a place, a history, a stereotype, a disposable data point.


Why Your Digital Detox Didn’t Work — & What To Do Instead

Rather than opting out of the attention economy in service of participating in capitalism in other ways, i.e. being more productive, Odell critiques the value of productivity itself. She encourages us to spend less time on Facebook and Twitter not so that we can become better workers, but so that we can be more human. “Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new,” Odell writes, “whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.” I discovered that this obsession with productivity was why my digital declutter didn’t make me happier. Newport’s focus on optimization centers on the output we can achieve when we’re not distracted by our technology. I guess that’s to be expected from someone whose repertoire includes titles like Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World and So Good They Can’t Ignore You. I may have been more focused after my digital declutter, sure, but what was I focused on? Work. Production. Doing more by way of digital minimalism, not less.

Sunday Snippets: Do the work

Those who have white privilege, do the work; be it donation, reading, advocating for others, etc. Find where you can help and do it.

The inescapable pressure of being a woman on Zoom

I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore

Black People Need Stronger White Allies — Here’s How You Can Be One

Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide

'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Chris Evans ('Defending Jacob')

'Trying to stay alive': 70 protesters sheltered in stranger's home during D.C.'s curfew

A Partial Map of Black-led Black Liberation Organizing

FBI Asks for Evidence of Individuals Inciting Violence During Protests, People Respond With Videos of Police Violence

Why we can’t stop thinking about George Floyd’s neck

Betsy DeVos Tells Connecticut: Ban Transgender Athletes, Or Say Goodbye To Your Federal Funding

New USPS Stamps Feature Prominent Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Sunday Snippets: Caitlin Doughty

If you have a few hours to spare, please go binge her channel on YouTube "Ask a Mortician". Super informative, respectful and hilarious. Seriously. I'm also gulping down her first book when I have five mins before bed that isn't filled with toddler antics.

Trevor Noah Is Paying Daily Show Crew Furloughed by COVID-19 Out of His Own Pocket

The Restaurant Bail-Out Won't Save My Pop-Up. The Government Won't Save Black America.

No phone or email for nearly 4,000 inmates at three federal prisons in effort to fight virus

Irish dig deep to support virus-hit native Americans, repaying 150-year-old debt

Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree.

French Doctors Find COVID-19 Case From December — A Month Before 1st Known Case There

A 355-Square-Foot Apartment That Makes the Most of Every Inch

Alison Roman, the Colonization of Spices, and the Exhausting Prevalence of Ethnic Erasure in Popular Food Culture

Native American health center receives body bags instead of coronavirus supplies

‘The grief is so unbearable’: Virus takes toll on Navajo

30 Things Your Home Doesn’t Really Need

Sunday Snippets: Happy holidays!

Hope the end of the year is everything you need it to be.

School Boundary Analysis Plan Outlined

Groundbreaking South Carolina Bill: Compensate People for Forcing Them to Give Birth

There's A Gay Guy Dressing Up As Mike Pence Collecting Money For Planned Parenthood

'Anything you want, take it’: A downsizing party after 45 years in the same house

India builds detention camps for up to 1.9m people ‘stripped of citizenship’ in Assam

Riley Howell, Who Died Stopping UNC Charlotte Shooter, Honored As Star Wars Jedi

She Helped Inspire The Wire And Oversaw The Weinstein Investigation. Meet Rebecca Corbett.

Sunday Snippets: Shutdown

Domestic violence shelters are starting to close, schools are rationing food for lunches and lots of other bullshit because Tiny Hands Twittler is mad Dems won the House. Fuck him with a cactus.

Top 25 News Photos of 2018

The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers

Marie Kondo and the life-changing magic of just buying less

'Tidying Up with Marie Kondo' Is Inadvertently About Women's Invisible Labor

'Impromptu fight club' in Montgomery County has youths on edge

NYC Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike, Feel Effect of Gov’t Shutdown

Here’s an Idea: Do Not Ask Celebrities—Or Any Women, Actually—When They’re Having a Baby

Sunday Snippets: Mmm, fall.

So freaking true

Plus, and more prosaically, it is just much harder to concentrate when you read online. Email, IM, social media, and spiral-arms of infinite, alluring content are a click away. Once you pick a page, ads and hyperlinks beckon. In their 2014 paper, Hooper and Herath suggested that people’s comprehension suffered when they read the Internet because the barrage of extraneous stimuli interrupted the transfer of information from sensory to working memory, and from working to long-term memory. Experts have posited the extinction of the “deep reading brain” if we do not learn to tune out the Web’s distractions.
I remember sitting for hours reading and now my brain just won't focus.

#thefuck?? Really? Someone decided this was a good idea?

Awwww!!! So cute

Damn.

I'm 28 years old and I've been suffering with these things my entire life. I talk for hours with my roommate about not answering my mother's texts and just the sight of one spirals me into a madness of calling myself all sorts of vitriol for being a bad daughter. I'm a bossy bitch in the streets of New York but my crippling secret and silence about my abuse still brings me to tears more days than not.

I know that feeling. I used to have panic attacks driving near the exit where my father lives. I was guilted by strangers, for the estrangement between my father and I. 

Because cats & cats

Heartbreaking I hope these families can get the closure or some peace soon.

The fuck? & More from #Ferguson

Exactly  Very telling.

Adorable & More animals wanting to play

Living simply...in a dumpster? An interesting read.

*facepalm*  What the hell Vogue?

#Ferguson & More

& the other video about Michael Brown

When you put it that way....makes my stomach turn

#Ferguson Town Hall

9/11- Yup & Part of the reason I have an issue "remembering" 9/11 (Not to say it wasn't an awful awful day. But the Islamophobia that was ramped up is not okay.)