Photo of the Hemsley building on Park Ave. Nobody decks the halls like NYC!
Happy Monday Y’all! Hope you are enjoying a happy, safe and restful holiday season. I’m just getting back from vacation to DC, New York, and everywhere in between. Lots of driving. Lots of eating. Lots of family. Lots of making…art, food, things with glitter. Throw in a few late-night board games, cocktails made in milk jars, a round of semi-intellectual fart jokes, and that about sums it up. More on that later. As this was also a partial vacation from technology, I am still catching up on matters of bidness, but in the mean time, here are some of my most favorite recent distractions.
Bruce Springsteen’s list of 28 books that shaped his mind and music.
Eleven little-known words for specific family members. You might have a machetonim and not even know it.
The Rolling Stones swinging 60s French villa of debauchery.
Speaking debauchery…pretzel chocolate chip cookies.
Some seriously impressive libraries.
Eleven smells that are slowly disappearing.
NASA is using glitter to solve giant space telescope problems. If that doesn’t legitimize my glitter hoard, I won’t know what will.
Welp. Now we know how I’ll be ringing in the new year.
Chris Rock on Cosby, Ferguson, Obama…just about everything that needs to be said but nobody else knows how to say.
Ten amazing kid-friendly art projects.
Ever seen a baby pigeon? Nope. Me neither. This is why.
This thing. This thing is too weird to not share.
We use “niblings” in our family to refer to our nieces and nephews. It’s convenient for phrases like, “What are we doing for the niblings for Valentine’s Day?”
Wow. What a list! That Rolling Stones thing is kinda mind-blowing. I mean, holy cow. Yep, it was quite an era.
The Seriously Impressive Libraries and Disappearing Smells seem to be an odd team. Libraries used to always have that wonderfully musty-old-paper smell that sort of just wrapped around you when you walked in. It was the most calming place to be, between the quiet and the smell. Modern HVACs have almost removed that wonderful aroma.