What I read today - July 31
- Montessori Weaning Cup -- Montessori Baby Week 34, the kavanaugh report
- What It Takes to Mentor Poor Kids, The Atlantic
- Not Just Bushwick: New Study Charts Where NYC Artists Live, hyperallergic
- Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos, hyperallergic
- Who Killed New York City?, The New Republic
"... to preserve the more vivid and humane New York they describe, comradeship is everything. A New Yorker is someone who understands that a New York way of life is, at once, all ways of life. New York is a city of options. Shopsin and Moss suggest that a real New Yorker might attend to those that aren’t found elsewhere by frequenting her city’s small businesses and otherwise being a neighbor." - New York Today: The Greenest Block in Brooklyn, NY Times
What I read this week - July 23 to 29
- Protesters rip ‘bullet holes’ wall decor of Brooklyn restaurant, ny daily news
- Why Millennial Pink Refuses to Go Away, the cut
July 27 - went back to work
- Photos: The Last Secret, Illicit Parties Atop The Old Kosciuszko Bridge, The Gothamist
- Moving, Moving -- Montessori Baby Week 33, the kavanaugh report
- How to Be a Minimalist with Kids, Mother Mag
- Monday, 8 A.M.: Time to Have a Baby, Scientific American
- A look at Asmara, Africa’s unknown city of modernist architecture, Curbed
- Baby feeding bottles that could kill, Baby Bottle Museum
There's a Baby Bottle Museum!!! - Health Care Debate: Obamacare Repeal Fails as McCain Casts Decisive No Vote, NY Times
- WHO WAS SHE? A DNA TEST ONLY OPENED NEW MYSTERIES., WaPo
- Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color, The Atlantic
- The Secrets of Chicken Flocks’ Pecking Order, Modern Farmer
What I read this week - July 16-22
- REALITIES OF A MONTESSORI FLOOR BED -- MONTESSORI BABY WEEK 32, the kavanaugh report
- BABY PROOFING WITH A MONTESSORI FLOOR BED, the kavanaugh report
- Why You Don’t Want to Have a Baby in a Car, NY Times
What I read this week - July 2 to July 8
- Thunder Thighs': The Summer Anthem That Celebrates Every Woman, NPR
- When the Well Runs Dry, Try Dry Farming, Modern Farmer
- The Miracle Milk Cookie, Lifestyle Hunting
- What Do You Avoid? Where Do You Belong?, Urban Omibus
- Hunting for Famous Architects’ Forgotten Design-School Projects, Atlas Obscura
- Beatrix Potter’s Greatest Work Was a Secret, Coded Journal She Kept as a Teen, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - May 28 to June 3
I had a baby... so moving to weekly read lists for a while..
- Get the Epidural, NY Times
- Mothers Photographed With Their Day-Old Newborns, Slate
- How to Raise a Feminist Son, NY Times
What I read today may 16
- Why do we make children sleep alone?, LA Times
- The reason you answer work email on the weekend is actually 500 years old, Timeline
- The Stolen African Slave who became Queen Victoria’s God-daughter, Messy Nessy Chic
- Trump to Expand Funding Ban Tied to Abortion Overseas, NY Times
- My Family’s Slave, The Atlantic
What I read today May 15
- How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In, NY Times
- Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Synagogue Destroyed by Fire on the Lower East Side, Untapped Cities
- Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable, NY Times
- Dakota Access pipeline has first leak before it's fully operational, The Guardian
- If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy, NY Times
What I read today May 12
- The Nostalgia of Estate Sales, New Republic
- Hear the Voices of Brooklyn’s Diverse Past Through a New Digitization Project, hyperallergic
- Pain in the Ass: a Birth Story, Wit & Delight
- The Mysterious Tree of a Newborn’s Life, NY Times
- Sessions orders return to tough drug war policies that trigger mandatory minimum sentences, LA Times
What I read today May 11
- What Becoming a Parent Taught Me About Design and Control, Design Sponge
- Dekalb is More Than an Avenue, Print Mag
- Garlic Mustard: Evil, Invasive, Delicious, NY Times
- How To Pick The Perfect Watermelon: 5 Key Tips From An Experienced Farmer!, Home Gardening Life
- Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them, NY Times
- Against Little Free Libraries, City Lab
- Ivanka Trump's Book Is an Insult to Real Women Who Work, Elle
- Donald Trump Tries to Explain Economics to The Economist. Hilarity Ensues., NY Mag
- Little Free Libraries®: Interrogating the impact of the branded book exchange [PDF], Radical Librarianship
What I read today - May 10
- “There’s way worse videos”: Today’s students on Rodney King, the society pages
- The Surprising Challenges of Making Things Vegan, Atlas Obscura
- This Controversial Company Wants To Disrupt The Birth World, Buzzfeed
- Confessions of a Radical Doula, The Cut
What I read today May 9
- Growing Up in, and Outgrowing, Manhattan, NY Times
<3 the comments - Who Invented Gentrification? A Conversation With The Author Of 'The Invention Of Brownstone Brooklyn', Gothamist
- Swale, the Floating Food Forest on a Barge Opens at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Untapped Cities
- In Kansas City, One Stubborn Cave Won’t Give Up Its Secrets, Atlas Obscura
- The Austrian Immigrant Who Revolutionized Swedish Textiles, Eye on Design
What I read today May 8
- Saving China's abandoned Tulou homes, CNN
- Collected Stories from WWII Veterans Around the World, Lens Culture
- ‘The Ugly American’ was a scathing critique of our bad behavior abroad—and it became a best seller, Timeline
- The inventors of the Pill decided women should still bleed every month, Timeline
- ‘Black branding’ — how a D.C. neighborhood was marketed to white millennials, The Washington Post
What I read today may 4
- A Lesson in Following the Child -- Montessori Baby Week 22, the kavanaugh report
- In Trump’s America, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition, NY Mag
Sounds like being a woman is a preexisting condition. Plz try to avoid - House Voting on Health Bill: Will Republicans Be Able to Repeal Obamacare?, NY Times
- Who Wins and Who Loses in the Latest G.O.P. Health Care Bill, NY Times
- Under The New Health Care Bill, Rape Could Be A Pre-Existing Condition, Huffington Post
what I read today may 3
- Your 5-year-old is already racially biased. Here’s what you can do about it., Medium
- A New Look at the Little-Known Pyramids of Ancient Nubia, Atlas Obscura
- The Consequences of Amtrak Not Owning Its Own Tracks, Atlas Obscura
I remember learning a shorter version of why we were 12 hours late when my mom and I traveled from Ohio to NYC when I was 16.
What I read today May 2
- Brand to Know: The Kenyan Line That Makes Only One Dress, NY Times
- Parents: You Can’t Control Your Baby’s Digital Footprint, Slate
- What Those Baby Photos On Social Media Can Teach Us About Moms, NPR
- Does sharing photos of your children on Facebook put them at risk?, The Guardian
- Mysterious Moving Rocks in the Desert Stumped Scientists for 70 Years, Motherboard
- The Dirt: Clive Blazey, The Planthunter
What I read today May 1
- Teller Reveals His Secrets, Smithsonian
- Shared Destinies: Why Wealth Inequality Matters, Tor
- Makeup vloggers are protesting capitalism, The Outline
I never really understood haul videos anyways - Donald Trump’s Enduring Corruption of the Presidency, New Republic
- Donald Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days, The Guardian
- Ohio's Green Gold, the post athens
- #Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement, The New yorker
- The salacious murder of this New York City prostitute changed the American media landscape, Timeline
- The Importance of Montessori Practical Life for Toddlers, the kavanaugh report
What I read today April 28
- Montessori Puzzle Ball - Montessori Baby Week 21, the kavanaugh report
- Trump to review protections on vast nature preserves, Al Jazeera
- How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It, NY Times
- How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All , The Atlantic