What I read today August 20
- Can I wear a head wrap even if I’m not Black?, how not to travel like a basic bitch
- One Manhattan West’s Mushrooming Steel Reaches Top Floor, Midtown West, YIMBY
- Developers spent $200K lobbying for Inwood rezoning, Curbed
What I read today August 17
- Carlos Magdalena is the Plant Messiah, The Planthunter
- Plant Obsessives Unite!, The Planthunter
- Erin Lovell Verinder’s passion for plants that heal, The Planthunter
- When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels, Harpers bazaar
- American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World, NY Times
- The Costs of Motherhood Are Rising, and Catching Women Off Guard, NY Times
- Serena Williams Opens Up About Her Complicated Comeback, Motherhood And Making Time to Be Selfish, Time
- VIDEO: Ancient Song Doula Services
What I read today August 16
- The Ups and Downs of Being a Canal Lockmaster, Atlas Obscura
- Aretha Franklin, The Undisputed ‘Queen Of Soul,’ Dead At 76, Huffington Post
- A new birth control app has been approved by the FDA, Motherly
- There Is a Hidden Epidemic of Doctors Abusing Women in Labor, Doulas Say, Broadly
- MOM SUES FOR BAIT & SWITCH IN MATERNITY CARE, Birth Monopoly
What I read today August 15
- Our Child Sized Kitchen: A history, Our Montessori Life
- Our Montessori Home: In the kitchen, Our Montessori Life
- Montessori Kids in the Kitchen, The Montessori Notebook
What I read today August 14
- In the Future, I'm Fat, Broadly
- The Image of American Hyperbole, The New Yorker
- Tattooing in the Civil War Was a Hedge Against Anonymous Death, Atlas Obscura
What I read today August 13
- 10 MINUTES WITH GUS AT 20 MONTHS -- MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEK 36, the kavanaugh report
- Everyone Cares About Pregnancy Discrimination, The Atlantic
- The Challenge of Finding Homes for Rural America’s Foster Children, The Atlantic
- GROWING UP JOBS, Vanity Fair
- The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America, NY Times
- Should you raise your kids religious? Here’s what the science says, Quartz
- Tina Knowles Lawson on Her Black Art Collection, Beyoncé, Solange, and Creativity, Vanity Fair
- The Doctor Doesn’t Listen to Her. But the Media Is Starting To., The Atlantic
- He Spoke for the Tree. Then He Got Fired., NY Times
- Rebranding Motherhood, NY Times
- Dad Feels Undermined and Defeated by Partner’s Lack of Limits, janet lansbury
- Confessions of a Pushover Parent (And How I Turned This Around), janet lansbury
- The Oral History of Four Loko in New York, Grub Street
- Voting Rights Advocates Used to Have an Ally in the Government. That’s Changing., NY Times
What I read today August 8
- THOUGHTS ON COLOR LEARNING AND EASY DIY COLOR MIXING FOR TODDLERS, the kavanaugh report
- The Real Reason There Aren’t Enough Teachers Of Color, Huffington Post
- Tomato Toast with Chives and Sesame Seeds, Bon Appetit
- The story of the Toys “R” Us rebranding that never saw life, It's Nice That
- Why I Had To Quit Being A Birth Doula, The Establishment
- In major defeat for Uber and Lyft, New York City votes to limit ride-sharing cars, The Verge
What I read today August 7
- Inside the Edible Academy, New York Botanical Garden’s State of the Art Facility, Untapped Cities
- EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing, Architects Newspaper
- ‘Approved by Donald Trump’: Asbestos sold by Russian company is branded with the president’s face, Washington Post
- What's Up With Intermittent Fasting, and Should We Be Doing It?, bon appetit
- 8 Montessori-inspired phrases to use for each stage of potty training, Motherly
What I read today August 6
- The Case for Rooms, City Lab
- How To Travel Across The Grand Canyon And Navajo Nation Respectfully, hownottotravellikeabasicbitch
- THE BOOMING BUSINESS OF LUXURY CHICKEN DIAPERS, The Outline
- It’s Electric Moped Time, America, City Lab
SCOOTERS - Beyoncé in Her Own Words: Her Life, Her Body, Her Heritage, Vogue
- Zephyr Teachout Is Running for Attorney General. But Her Real Target Is Trump., NY Times
What I read today August 2
- Kenyan Wildlife May Have Inspired Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, Hyperallergic
- A DISCOVERY BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COULD REWRITE HISTORY, Cincinnati magazine
- The 'Subway Hands' Instagram Explores Our Strange Fascination with People Eating on the Train, Munchies
- The Healing Potential of Turning Vacant Lots Green, City Lab
- On Philly’s vacant lots, a network of edible forests, The New Food Economy
- When Is a Burrito More Than Just a Burrito? When It’s a Lifestyle, NY Times
- Tulipomania: A Tale of Obsession, Greed and Flowers, Planthunter
- How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions, Daily Beast
- A Toxic Tide Is Killing Florida Wildlife, NY Times
What I read today August 1
- Bed-Stuy Residents Cry Foul Over Patchwork Fixes For Pesky Sinkhole, CBS
- Saving Mexico’s Heirloom Corn With Gorgeous Furniture, Atlas Obscura
- A Midwestern chain told Hawaiians to stop using ‘Aloha’ with ‘Poke,’ igniting a heated debate, Washington Post
- The 2018 Midterms Are All About Health Care, New Republic
- Women’s Media Is a Scam, New Republic
- OK, Abolish ICE. What Then?, New Republic
- Dr. Seuss’ forgotten anti-war book made him an enemy of the right, The Outline
- A Mohawk Midwife’s Birth Stories, Yes Magazine
- The Super-Secret Outlaw Doula in Backwoods California, narratively
- SLICK WOODS TALKS RIHANNA, SEXUALITY, AND BABIES, Elle
- Supreme Court Says Kids Can Sue Trump Over Climate Change, Mother Jones
- How to Spend Your Privilege, The Cut
What I read today July 31
- Baby Activity - Warm Lavender Playdough + Baby Playdough Caddy, How we Montessori
- SOME {SCREEN FREE} THOUGHTS ON RESTAURANTS, the kavanaugh report
- There’s a Lot of Indie-mag Influence in the Rolling Stone Redesign, Eye on Design
- How Matisse’s Cut-outs Took Over the Illustration World, Eye on Design
- Studio Visit: Windy Chien, Honestly WTF
- Justice Among the Jell-O Recipes: The Feminist History of Food Journalism, LA Review of Books
Via Hyperallergic, but written my a garden member! - She Gave Millions to Artists Without Credit. Until Now., NY Times
- The Whitney Is Not an Art Museum, National Review
- Model Adesuwa Aighewi Releases Her Directorial Debut On The Beauty Of Muslim Women, Forbes
- A Painter Illustrates the Charm and Tragedy of the American Dream, Hyperallergic
- How Our Conversations Around Mixed-Race Identity Have Evolved in the 21st Century, Hyperallergic
- Open-plan offices have a surprising effect on workplace communication, Quartz
- My Struggle with American Small Talk, The New Yorker
- Three Identical StrangersHas a Long-Lost Twin, The Slate
- Childish Gambino Collaborator Denies “This Is America” Plagiarism Allegations, Pitchfork
- LISTEN: AMERICAN PHARAOH, Jase Harley
- I’ve Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong., ProPublica
- The Black Panthers still in prison After 46 years, will they ever be set free?, The Guardian
- How to prune basil for the longest, most abundant harvest ever: a game changer!, Vomiting Chicken
What I read today July 30
- Our Gentle, Montessori Inspired Approach to Toilet Learning: Stage 2 ‘Training Pants’, altheas atelier
- When Being a Good ‘Dad’ Gets You Promoted to ‘Mommy’, NY Times
- Getting My Sister Hooked On Opiates, Again, The Establishment
- Archaeologists May Have Discovered a Church Built on the Site of Constantine the Great’s Conversion to Christianity, hyperallergic
- Public Tantrums (Why They Happen and How to Avoid Them), janet lansbury
What to read today July 27
- Tracking Down Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Words on Health Care, Huff Po
- Target’s CBGB Tribute Draws Backlash, Followed by an Apology, NY Times
- Greenpoint superfund site will give way to 325 apartments, Curbed
- City Council passes Airbnb bill that will regulate NYC host activity, Curbed
- Targeting the East Village, vanishing new york
- Mapping the rise and fall of one of the most prominent artists’ communities in Brooklyn, freunde von freunden
What I read today July 26
- An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: our child died at Sandy Hook – why let Facebook lies hurt us even more?, The Guardian
- WATCH/LISTEN: Facebook Live by Mama Glow
- 25Park (Alison Brettschneider) And Why White Women Are So Hard To Trust, Medium
- Instagram Removes Post For Women Of Color To Mourn Nia Wilson For ‘Hate Speech’, Huff Po
What I read today July 25
- HITTING, BITING, PINCHING -- MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEKS 31 TO 33, the kavanaugh report
- Breast-Feeding or Formula? For Americans, It’s Complicated, NY Times
- Empowering Kids In An Anxious World, NPR
- Donating Paid Leave Time to Pregnant Co-Workers Isn’t a Trend. It’s a Travesty., The Slate
- How To Spot A Front-Runner On The ‘Bachelor’ Or ‘Bachelorette’, Five Thirty Eight
- How The Bachelorette Failed Becca Kufrin, Vanity Fair
- It’s 4 A.M. The Baby’s Coming. But the Hospital Is 100 Miles Away., NY Times
- The Daniel Tiger Doctrine, The Atlantic
- WATCH: This Pie Tells One of the Most Essential Stories About Muslims in America, The Slate
- Abu’s Homestyle in Brooklyn, Where the Bean Pie Is King, NY Times