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Book

Cook Once, Eat all Week

This is a cookbook. In case you didn’t know, I don’t cook. I try, I like the idea of cooking, but the actual execution for me has always been difficult. I got this cookbook because I like how she walks you through pre-making most of the ingredients, using only a few main pieces for the week in different ways. Step by step, no interpretation necessary. Unfortunately though, it’s meat, meat and more meat and we’re trying to cut down (see video from last week). Oops. We’re trying the first one anyway this week. It was entertaining to get Kyle to step back from interpreting and just follow the instructions with me. He’s skeptical. We’ll see how the actual meals go.

Book

Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman

So I had this book on last week, but I got stuck this week and just started writing out pieces of it. Word for word. You notice a lot more when you actually write it down. This time I found a few lines that really stuck out as I was writing them. One was, “The rules on what is possible and impossible were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. You can.” The other was, “They [adult friends] couldn’t go and do the things that mattered, and that they had really wanted to do; and that seemed as big a tragedy as any problem of failure.” 

Book

View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

Like I said, I’ve been reading a lot of Neil Gaiman these days. This book is a compilation of various speeches and essays he has written. It’s interesting to hear that a lot of the writing he does is to figure out what he thinks on a specific topic. For example, American Gods he wrote to figure out how he felt about living in the United States. As a side note, it’s very handy getting ebooks from the library on my phone, but I’ve decided I still like reading real books on paper better.

Book

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

I seem to have read a lot this week. It didn’t feel like much but these emails always end up surprising me. This book was a quick read and pretty well done. It dealt with a lot of issues like racism, relationships, adulthood and parenting but in a very easy story. I’ve thought about it a lot since I read it and that’s usually my metric of whether I liked a book or not. It would be a good one for a book club if you’re interested. 

Story Time

Pig Fell Asleep

So this was fun! The story is really developing but it’s not done, so I’ve made it a place of it’s own that you can keep adding to. Feel free to add more than once! There are no rules. Or, if you don’t want to add to it, just go read it because it’s pretty amazing, and not at all where I expected it to go. Maybe I’ll illustrate it when it’s done. What do you think?

Article

Digital wellbeing is about more than just screentime

Pretty interesting study done by Google that shows specifics on what digital content people actually find is making their lives better. It’s interesting to see an actual study on how people feel about their screen time. Nothing too shocking though. This article also has some neat web interactions that I’m always looking for. At least it does on desktop.