“So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo is a strong foundation to understanding the way that racism is manifested in the present-day, in the United States. I think that it makes a good introduction for white people who are aware that racism exists, but have not done extensive reading or development on …
Change can be really challenging at an individual level – it can be hard to get up earlier, or get more sleep, or work out frequently. That doesn’t compare to the mountain of challenge of organizational change, of getting groups of people who are entrenched in their ways, to change. This book was a really …
I disagree with Jordan Peterson about a lot of things. I believe that privilege is a real thing that impacts all of us, I believe that everyone should respect transgender and non-binary people’s gender identity and pronouns, I believe that the majority of differences between men and women are the result of how we are …
I might be the only woman in America who read Untamed during this pandemic and didn’t love it. I read it in July, actually, but didn’t get around to writing about it until now because I just didn’t have much to say about it. I didn’t hate it, exactly. It was okay. Nothing special, really. …
This book was sweet and wonderful and the perfect thing to take my mind off the fact that we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic and online school starts next week and everything feels uncertain. I loved the perspective this was written from – third person omniscent, which is pretty uncommon. The book …
I generally like Malcom Gladwell’s work – I find his books to be a good mix of theories applied to real world events and issues. One takeaway from this book is that people are very bad at telling if someone is lying to them, if that person seems like they’re telling the truth. The opposite …
Last week, I might have been exposed to COVID-19. This exposure would have happened between Monday and Wednesday. I found out on Wednesday night, and got tested on Thursday morning. I feel fine. I don’t have a fever, I can taste and smell things. No shortness of breath or cough. When I got tested, they …
I’ll be honest – I went into this book with preconceived notions of sliminess. The title is off-putting – it feels like a manual for social interactions, targeted at people who were raised by wolves. I love a podcast called “By The Book” – they read well-known self help books, then live by the self-help …
On April 1, I started to feel like this pandemic was something that I needed to document. I often feel the need to document things – I’ve been blogging for almost 13 years now (wow, that made me feel old) and I’ve been writing in a journal for 18 years, on and off. That’s a …
This is not my first time reading Atomic Habits. I decided to read it again because I wanted to take a look at my current habits, how those have changed over the course of time and in this pandemic, and see how I could adjust them to optimize by day to day actions. James Clear …