I vacillate between a compunction to organize and an amazing ability to be a procrastinating slob. At the moment, I’m leaning more towards the compunction to organize: my condo, my life, my finances, and I thought Marie Kondo’s book might give me some tips. And so I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2014). Organizing seems pretty straight forward to me, and began reading wondering how Kondo would have enough to fill a book. How many different […]
How To Fake Adulthood
Grace Helbig is the self-proclaimed older sister of the Internet. The whole thing, everyone. I’m a few years older than she is, and even I would consider her my older sister. I would also very much like to drink with her. Helbig made her name with her DailyGrace YouTube channel, and can now be found three days a week at It’s Grace. She and her two co-conspirators, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart, make up the holy trinity of YouTube fans everywhere. I’ve never been one […]
Advice on Love and Life
This compilation of advice columns was recommended to me by my 25-year-old daughter, the same daughter who introduced me to Cannonball Read and whose taste in literature I admire 99% of the time. Not a devotee of the chicken soup series, I was—to put it mildly–reticent to read something subtitled “Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar.” But after reading one question to “Sugar” and her reply, I was totally hooked. “Sugar” is the name taken by Cheryl Strayed, best-selling author of the memoir […]