What are you as much as this weekend? My mother is visiting and we’re going to a brand new pasta restaurant and seeing Cyrano de Bergerac, which I’m actually enthusiastic about. I haven’t been to a play in years! Hope you’ve one, and listed below are just a few hyperlinks from across the net…
Is the Dirty Shirley the drink of the summer? (NYTimes)
Jeopardy champ Mattea Roach, 23, brainstorms out loud through the present and strikes her wrist forwards and backwards, which some folks discover overly informal. “I bear in mind saying to a buddy, ‘I’m not going to court docket. I’m not going to a job interview. I’m going to a sport present,” she stated. “I revered the establishment by enjoying the sport rather well.” (NYMag)
English flowers, if you happen to’d wish to take a deep breath.
Discovered! The perfect summer pants. (Get 20% off your first order site-wide with code COJ20, good till Might thirty first.)
Parenting math problems. “In case your purse accommodates 5 M&Ms, two cough drops, and one sleeve of Ritz cracker crumbs, how a lot Cheerios mud is in your bra?”
Netflix’s ‘Old Enough’ as considered by a mom in Japan. “Youngsters in Japan are taught from a younger age that after trying each methods earlier than crossing the road, they’re to lift their hand excessive within the air to make themselves extra seen to vehicles. As soon as the kids cross, they flip and respectfully bow in due to the drivers who waited for them.”
Additionally, Smitten Kitchen’s new cookbook!!!!!
Do these sunglasses make everyone look sexier?
The fears AAPI women are living with in the U.S. “I’ve develop into hyper-alert in public in a manner that I haven’t in many years — perhaps not even ever. Little luxuries like with the ability to learn on the subway, examine your e mail — I don’t do any of that as a result of I’ve to have my head up, eyes peeled. I’ve to surveil. That takes a psychological toll.”
Plus, two reader feedback:
Says Ameika on four fun things: “Why has nobody talked about a dill pickle on the facet of the grilled cheese? My children complain bitterly if we’re out of my selfmade pickles as a result of the grilled cheese shouldn’t be proper! Wanted to chop the richness.”
Says Jen on what if trying for a baby isn’t working: “Years into IVF, after many losses, I used to be so demoralized and lonely and stumbled throughout the infertility subreddit on Reddit. That subreddit was a lifeline to attach and be taught with out having to go away residence, which was fairly useful if you’re feeling like crap. The group is science minded, thoughtfully managed, and endlessly sort. Please learn the foundations as a result of it’s intently managed to permit folks going by way of infertility to keep away from laborious matters – comparable to success or loss – until they wish to learn them.”
(Photograph by Pete Souza.)
