June 3, 2019

Gleanings

Whew! A bumper crop of good things to read online this week (or “on the line” as my youngest daughter said to me today when she was trying to explain something she’d seen on the internet). Gleanings was on hiatus last week while I was on vacation, which means I’ve got even more than usual to share this time. Thank you, as always, for reading!

•  First, I stumbled upon a Chuck E. Cheese training video from the 1980s when I was procrastinating on my master’s thesis. 
• I was already in love with notebooks and spying before I met Harriet, but she made that okay. 
• How Claudia Kishi Inspired A Generation Of Asian American Writers
• What are children to do when they realize that the adults in their lives are making it up as they go along.
• This year I even considered scaling back the unicorn party as a sort of white flag gesture.
• What my mother likely hadn’t considered until that moment was that my books, and my Anne books in particular, were the constants in my life.
• You want to be building community, so that when you need to access community, community’s there for you.
• This is what it looks like to have a feminist husband.
• What I’ve learned from being vulnerable is we are not alone, we are all different, and we all desire to be accepted and accept ourselves fully in this journey we call life.
• it’s the swim cap, it gives me a facelift
• What are your indelible words?
• My goal is to make this summer all about having fun in the water. 
• Holy cow. Can you even believe an amazing baker is whipping up ’embroidered’ cakes?
• nanaimo ice cream bars (!!!)
•  I have learned the hard way that this is a lesson that everyone comes to in their own time–if a friend is fretting endlessly about what to wear to a party, “What makes you think everyone is going to be looking at you?” is not an immensely helpful thing to say.
• Over the years we’ve lived here, I’ve grown to love the homing pigeons that live a few doors down. 
• I’d be a faster reader if I read one at a time, I imagine.
• It’s a bit of a shame that the in-between has not really had its time to shine, isn’t it?
• I’m especially glad that I can keep the old and useless and rejected in use a bit longer.
• If any of the eyeballs in your manuscript make sparks or are steely or artless, I would further invite you to try to make that happen and ask someone to tell you exactly what you’re doing with your eyes.
•  Women acting collectively in open and angry defiance can change history…