Maria Konnikova, The New York Times Book Review ‘[MESSY] plays to Harford’s prodigious strengths: the ability to tell engrossing human stories, and the ability to use those stories to convey complex, statistical ideas that make your life better. I had encountered many of the ideas in this...
Even though it goes down like that, I just love Mother’s Day. I am proud to be on this crazy motherhood journey with a whole community of women. Some of us are in the trenches of raising young children together. Others are dealing with teenage years and struggles (shudder). Some are ...
The night I finished the book I ordered half a pint at dinner and lifted my glass to the positive influence a company can have. I didn’t really like the taste, butif Jesus wants to greet mewith half a pint instead of a Thai iced tea or Diet Coke, I will gladly accept it. What ...
One of the challenges of doing a show centered on the battle of the Equal Rights Amendment is that not all the feminist leaders were directly involved in that particular battle. So we wanted to be really creative about ways to bring in the story of the birth of intersectional feminism. I ...
I am floored and overwhelmed and all sorts of words that mean I’ve been a happy, weepy mess the last two days. I knew theEtsy giveawaywould be fun, but the comments have shown just how cancer has touched so many lives, but also just how you all keep your loved ones in your heart...
s a bit much. She is a little too obsessed with “tidying up” and it is heronlyinterest which she herself states. (Much of this has to do with the tiny apartments and homes that most people have there as opposed to our homes in America.L However, I do recommend her book and have...
Then when the book arrives you can catch up, or just skip whatever days you missed and jump right in where you are at. When does the fast begin? We officially begin Thursday January 2nd! Some people like to kick off at the first of the year and that is perfectly fine but since a...
in their own lives is to make someone else feel less powerful in theirs. That’s on them. I don’t owe them answers or help carrying their baggage. This was a jolting reminder of what a dark place the Internet can be, especially for moms who are new here and just looking for ...
This is the book Kansas must have read before it wrote “Dust in the Wind.”“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity,” the author keeps repeating. “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.” The insights into hu...
An emphasis on the latter two things distinguishes Mark Blake’s excellent new book“Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac.”The secret is that Blake, who’s also written books aboutPink FloydandLed Zeppelinmanager Peter Grant, treats Fleetwood Mac like any other band: He includes interesting...