weekend reads

Weekend Reads Woah, Nellie, this article blew my mind. The lifestyles of the rich and quarantined. (Washingtonian) How to make yourself immune to secondhand stress. (Harvard Business Review) The German model for America: The long and public reckoning that followed the Holocaust shows a path forward for a United States that desperately needs to confront…

This week, our neighbors decorated their yard for Halloween and I didn’t realize how much I look forward to it. We’ve been neighbors for a long while, I remember half walking, half carrying Em to their house to be the first place she trick or treated because they do such a beautiful combination of campy,…

I think there have been plenty of voices this week for you to have to read and listen to. So sit in a comfy spot, put in some headphones even if they’re not playing anything (my favorite way to have people leave me alone while blocking out distractions), grab a beverage of choice, and let’s…

How to Help Our communities are being inundated with painful stories and images of Black people targeted, harassed, arrested, and killed by police and racist vigilantes. As Black people all across the country grapple with the aftermath of an unprecedented global pandemic, somehow Black people also have to figure how to stay alive while jogging,…

I wrote this post and was finished before 3 pm yesterday. I was psyched, I often write Weekend Reads into the evening prior. I closed my laptop, checked in with the family, had a 4 pm friend video chat with a friend and 5 pm business video chat, and then said I would close my…

Usually, I work on Weekend Reads all week. I start the post and as I read articles or think of something I add it and save the draft. Sometimes, I even have two in draft – the one for the coming week and the one after. But this week, Weekend Reads is being put together…

I remember you first contacted me when my sister was in the hospital for a brain tumor. You asked an innocent question and I took out all my fear and anger and worry about her surgery on you. I was walking from one wing of the Georgetown University Hospital to another, a place where you…

I was flipping channels the other week and came across Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian and award-winning bestelling author.  She was being interviewed about her book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times.  The book goes into how Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson handled tough times in America, making difficult decisions,…

This week we bought school supplies and ordered back to school clothes. My daughter starts middle school at the end of this month, something she’s been looking forward to for so long. Middle school is a topic of many of her books and the shows and movies she loves, but this year she’ll be attending…