Weekend Reads #146
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Weekend Reads #145
Over the past year, nearly 3,800 incidents have been reported to Stop AAPI Hate. Incidents happened to women more than twice as much as men, and over 42% of the incidents happened to Chinese Americans. It’s clear they’re spurred in part by racism linked to the ‘demic which was fueled by our past president. But COVID didn’t… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #145
Weekend Reads #144b
This has been a tough week. I think many of you can relate. The reality that comes with a one-year anniversary of the ‘demic hit me like a ton of bricks (or like a week of terrible sleep). It made me realize how incredibly exhausting this year has been. Last March, I was fearful about… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #144b
Weekend Reads #144
March 1st 2020 vs March 1st 2021 pic.twitter.com/CPzalHWuRm — Meghan Hug (@meghanhug) March 1, 2021 On Instagram, you can tap Archive and see all your Instagram Stories up to a certain point. Not sure if it’s for everyone, but I can go back to December 2017. Since this year started, I’ve had a habit of… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #144
How My Friends Treat Themselves for Valentine’s Day and Every Day
It’s Valentine’s Day, but this year it feels so very different. After a year of waiting and hoping and stressing and losing, let’s use this holiday as a time to care for ourselves. We deserve to treat ourselves for surviving this year, for making it work even when everything is breaking. Remember the oxygen mask… Continue Reading How My Friends Treat Themselves for Valentine’s Day and Every Day
Weekend Reads #141
Back in the early days of blogging, there was a taskbar at the top of Blogspot blogs with a button that if pressed, would send you randomly to another Blogspot blog. With this button, I found bloggers across the blogs discussing so many different topics, sharing details about their different lives. Through this button, I… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #141
We Need to Talk about The Dig on Netflix and How it Portrays Women
This weekend, my husband and I watched The Dig, a new movie on Netflix that stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes. We chose this movie because my husband recently learned about the true story behind this movie. He watched some documentaries and did additional research and had been sharing what he learned with me for… Continue Reading We Need to Talk about The Dig on Netflix and How it Portrays Women
Weekend Reads #139
What does a grown-ass woman do for her 46th birthday in the middle of a ‘demic on a weekday? Well she hops a plane to Vegas, hits all the hot spots, makes out with a stranger, eats at a fancy restaurant with all her friends, and then ends the trip with a concert in a… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #139
Weekend Reads #138
It’s not frivolous to discuss political fashion. There is a lot of thought and care put into what politicians (and their families) wear, and this has been a fact since the dawn of time. The color choices, the silhouettes, the fabrics, the designers… it all has meaning. For some political figures over the years, fashion… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #138