What I read today may 31
- They are the Chinese Restaurant Road Trippers, Messy Nessy Chic
- A Guide to the Secret Bee Villages of NYC, Messy Nessy Chic\
- Photos: The Marlboro Man has nothing on these pioneering cowgirls, Timeline
- I used to be a 911 dispatcher. I had to respond to racist calls every day., Vox
- The Strange History of the “King-Pine”, The Paris Review
What I read today may 29
- Everyone Is Missing A Key Reason The U.S. Birth Rate Is Declining, HuffPost
- If You’re Headed to the Rockaways, Part of the Beach Just Died, Village Voice
- An Unusual Idea for Fixing School Segregation, The Atlantic
- The secret to honing kids' language and literacy, Science Daily
- ‘Roseanne’ Canceled by ABC Hours After Racist Tweet by Roseanne Barr, NY Times
- 'I'm not sorry I said it': Erykah Badu on music, motherhood and wildly unpopular opinions, The Guardian
- DO YOU LIE ABOUT CO-SLEEPING? IF SO, YOU’RE NOT ALONE, Mother Mag
- How Frida Kahlo's Husband Tried to Lock Away Her Letters to Other Lovers, Broadly
- The Malcolm X Murals of America, City Lab
What I read today May 24
- Inside the Champagne Vaults of the Brooklyn Bridge on the 135th Anniversary [Photos], Untapped Cities
- BLACK MATERNAL MORTALITY IN THE U.S., Mother Mag
- The Legendary Met Opera's History Is More Compelling Than Fiction, architectural digest
- Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?, The Guardian
- B-52 Bomber Radicalism, Jacobin
- Looking Back on William Hawkins, the Outsider Artist Who Became Wildly Popular in His 80s, hyperallergic
- The Aesthetics of Gentrification, and New York’s Top-Down Approach to Change, hyperallergic
What I read today May 23
- The Follower Factory, NY Times
- The Crazy Way Teens Are Hiding Their Imperfections Online: Finstagram, Elle
- The hipster is dead, let's start an anti-authenticity movement, Campaign
- Same old, same old. How the hipster aesthetic is taking over the world, The Guardian
- How This Paul Taylor Dancer Knew It Was Time To Retire, Dance Magazine
- Food apartheid: the root of the problem with America's groceries, The Guardian
- For six decades, ‘the man with the golden arm’ donated blood — and saved 2.4 million babies, WaPo
- Inside the World’s Only Sourdough Library, Atlas Obscura
- How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners, Atlas Obscura\
- I Was Forced to Carry an Unviable Pregnancy to Term. This Is My Diary, Broadly
Hard read - WE AREN’T THE WORLD, Pacific Standard
Fascinating
What I read today May 22
- Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon, NBC News
- LISTEN: Episode 80: Age and Authenticity, Design Observer
- The Future of College Is Facebook Meme Groups, NY Mag
I'm gonna go with "kids these days" and shake my head on this one - The 'Transit-Oriented Teens' Are Coming to Save Your City, City Lab
- ‘Ope!’: The All-Purpose Expression of Midwestern Politeness, Chicago Mag
hahhaa I think i say this all the time! - I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor, Vice
- The Age of Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture, Medium
What I read today May 21
- Bushwick Residents March to Block New DeKalb Monolith, Village Voice
- The Curse of an Open Floor Plan, The Atlantic
- The Open Secret of Anti-Mom Bias at Work, NY Times
The comments are such a bummer - The Radical Self-Reliance of Black Homeschooling, The Atlantic
- Dolls That Nurture Boys’ Empathy, NY Times
- Video: The Ecstatic Empathy of Motherhood, The Atlantic
What I read today May 17
- Department of Finance creates a taxing nightmare for nonprofits, NY Daily News
- The L Train Shutdown Scenario Just Got a Whole Lot Worse, Village Voice
- Cleaning Up Canal Street, Jeremiah's vanishing new york
- The Gentrification of Canal Street, NY Times
- Single Moms Talk About Raising Children Alone, Broadly
What I read today May 16
- We Must Speak Up Against Israel's Slaughter in Gaza, Vice
- Palestinian nonviolence relies on global non-silence, The Guardian
- The Bronx Is Blooming, but for Whom?, Village Voice
- How I Learned Not to Call 911, Village Voice
- A FEW MONTESSORI FRIENDLY FAVORITES FROM 15 TO 18 MONTHS, the kavanaugh report
- Babies would rather talk to other babies than listen to your baby talk, Quartz
What I read today May 14
- Splish, Splash and Pedal Harder, NY Times
- The Childbirth Photos Instagram Didn't Want You to See, Bazaar
- What's The Subway Etiquette For Emotional Support Hens?, Gothamist
Gosh, I can't explain it, but I really find this woman annoying. Actually, I find almost all plant-instagramers annoying - Model and her pet hen can't bear to be apart, NY Post
What I read today May 10
- How a Hole Punch Shaped Public Perception of the Great Depression, Atlas Obscura
- A 101-Year-Old Tattoo Artist Is Teaching Girls to Ink for Independence, Atlas Obscura
- I Have a Few Questions for Gina Haspel, NY Times
- How do you move mountains of unwanted weed?, The Guardian
What I read today May 9
- Are sensory bins Montessori or not?, the montessori notebook
- The Launch of HogTree, UNCONVENTIONAL STORIES FROM AN APPLE FARMER
- Benefits of Bearded Iris: Strong Stems & Resilient Flowers, Horticulture
- Rural Kansas is dying. I drove 1,800 miles to find out why, New Food Economy
- Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, The Plant hunter
Recipe to try:
- Savory Chickpea Pancakes, Munchies
- How to Make Paneer Cheese, Food in Jars
What I read today May 8
- The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine, Vox
- The New Era of Abstinence, NY Times
- Why Hawaiians Place Plants Before a Wall of Hot Lava, Atlas Obscura
- Reading American History Through Handkerchiefs, Atlas Obscura
- Giving Met Gala Garms the Art Historical Treatment, Sleek Mag
- A Rare Collection of 19th-Century Photographs of Native Americans Goes Online, Hyperallergic
- Newly Digitized Collection of Early 20th-Century Lakota Drawings Tells a Curious History, Hyperallergic
- Meet Kippee, A Foster Hen Living in a Brooklyn Apartment with 700+ Plants, Modern Farmer
- Growing Community, Gardens, and Land Trusts: Raymond Figueroa, Jr. in the South Bronx, Welcome2TheBronx
- Oh Hi, Gothamist
- So You Want to Date a New York Museum, The New Yorker
- I’m Sorry To Report Instagram Is Bad Now, Buzzfeed News
- Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story (and Country) Is This?, Literary Hub
What I read today May 4
- MOM TALK: RAISING KIDS IN A ZERO WASTE FAMILY, Mother Mag
- 3 Women on What It’s Like to Have an Extreme Habit, Man Repeller
- Sessions terminates US policy that let legal pot flourish, AP
- What’s the point of an MA in design anyway?, It's Nice That
- “Dial down the feminism” creator Alex Bertulis-Fernandes on the aftermath of going viral, It's Nice That
- The Comments on My Selfies Are Different Now That I’m a Mom, Man Repeller
- Boy Scouts Will Drop the ‘Boy’ in Its Namesake Program, as It Welcomes Girls Next Year, NY Times
- Bill Nye's Tips for Getting Kids Excited About Science , Life Hacker
- The Singular Magic of Maira Kalman : At home with the beloved writer and illustrator., The Cut