Category — Microblog Mondays

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I didn’t expect that I would start sobbing as I read this story, and you need to read all the way to the end to get the full impact, but I’ll leave this here if you need a good, hopeful cry this morning (gift link).*

* I call it a good, hopeful cry because some cries just make you sad, and some cries make you feel hopeful that there are good stories in the world.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I think this is super solid advice to get you through the next few years, and it begins with the dek: “Sometimes it’s healthy to do something you love less, and differently.”

I’ve switched to only reading news — no opinion pieces. I don’t want the facts chewed up for me. I want my brain to break them down instead. I set a timer for 10 minutes and tell myself that I am sticking to that limit, even if I find something super interesting that I want to read in full. To be better informed, I read headlines and first paragraphs. And, like I said, skip all of the opinion pieces.

I don’t feel like I can remove myself from processing the news entirely, but I can limit and change the way I consume it, check in on how I feel while I do it, and stop for the moment when it is impacting my emotional health.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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We saw BSO’s Billy Strayhorn/Duke Ellington performance a few weeks ago. I thought Jonathon Heyward was conducting, but once we sat down and read the program, we realized it was a guest conductor.

The guest conductor came out, and there was something familiar about him. Had we seen him before with a different BSO performance? Why did his voice feel so familiar, too? Josh reopened the program and discovered that the guest conductor had played Father Rueben on Big Door Prize. A multi-talented man and one of the best guest conductors we’ve ever seen.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

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A recent Carolyn Hax column made me pause, and I was curious what you thought. That, by the way, is a gift link.

The situation: a woman laments two friends who have changed profoundly — both in actuality and expressed through their postings online. Carolyn’s advice is to choose a different medium to connect with them if they want the person in their life but don’t want to be distressed by what they post. “Connect using the least conspiracy-, peculiarity- and lunacy-friendly communications medium.”

Yes, there is always the choice to remove someone from your life, but there are many reasons why someone would not. The question asker wanted to know how to keep these people in their life and minimize their emotional impact, which sounds a bit impossible, though Carolyn’s advice certainly feels like maybe the only possible path forward.

What do you think of her advice?

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I was this many days old when I learned about skants. A pants/skirt hybrid kind of sounds perfect for those of us who do not enjoy skirts but sometimes need to wear skirts.

I have also had a deep wish that stylish aprons would come into fashion. Not a flimsy kitchen apron, but a sturdy apron with lots of pockets that you tie on in the morning like Carmy wears in The Bear. And I wish everyone wore aprons so it wouldn’t look odd if one of us wore an apron.

These are the two fashion choices I’d push if I ruled the fashion world.

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