motherhood, mental health, and my luxurious voice: things i clicked on in January

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Hello!

It’s January, of the year 2025, which is an abhorrent thing! Time, it moves!

Yesterday was my birthday, and I woke up to my kids singing at me in bed while manhandling a candled, cold English muffin. There were some amazing cards (and some less amazing gifts) and one of the 8 year old’s, in Spanish, read in its entirety: Happy birthday and thank you for helping me clean the kitchen after Christmas and also thank you for making so much pasta.

(No, I don’t cook.)

His twin’s, in English, went on and on (two-sided!), thanking me for being the “money giver” and for always laughing at his “luxurious voice.”

I’m in the USA for the month, and today as I was finishing my run in Berkeley, a man gave me an oddly expressive smile as we passed each other on the sidewalk. Just as my creepster radar started raise, I looked down at the sidewalk, and my eyes glanced off the slogan on my new sweatshirt.

Let’s Taco Bout Mental Health!

Now, links;)

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for people who like quotes

- from an art piece by Jenny Holzer. (Exhibit here.)

for people who like to be informed

the insurance crisis that will follow the LA fires

there is no safe word: the inside story of the neil gaiman allegations

the social media sea change

Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Big Business Ambitions, 5 Years After Their Royal Exit

for people who taco bout mental health

an alternative to going overboard

i don’t like myself in french

the anti-social century

for people who think about motherhood

why i didn’t want to tell anyone my mother died

the post-partum trauma plot

struggling to make ends meet on $180k because your childcare costs $80k and dave ramsey is mad about it

mastrescence, and the transformations of motherhood (i am LOVING this book; currently sitting on 3 copies!)

for people who travel

the wild business of desert island tourism

plan the perfect scottish vacation

or, go on the manor house reading trip of your dreams with

Mel Joulwan & Dave Humphreys

of Strong Sense of Place!

for people who write

jhumpa lahiri’s writing career began in stolen notebooks

writer math

when bad things happen to good novelists

for people who want to buy things i want to buy

this book (foxes unearthed)

these jeans

these gloves

Did you see anything great? My tabs need more friends!

Claire