Re: Loving It: Archive

You should buy some t-shirts.

(If you need some, that is.)

So yesterday I made an impulse purchase, which I really never do. I needed t-shirts, though, because I wear them basically every day, and when I was in Whole Foods I saw a great looking pink one for $10. That’s not much more than I’d pay at my standby H&M, and this one was made from organic cotton and recycled polyester.

I bought it, I wore it today, and I am in love with it. It fits me just how I want my t-shirts to. It’s super soft. It held its shape all day. My bra doesn’t show through. Etc. I liked it so much I dug the tag out of the garbage so I could find the company’s website.

I’m not usually a product promoter on Tumblr, but you should seriously consider checking out their stuff. Right now, the company’s donating 25% of all their profits to relief efforts in Japan AND to encourage you to buy, they’re providing a 10% discount on everything (type RELIEF when you check out). Oh, and shipping’s free. The only drawback is that they’re out of quite a few sizes, so you may have to be flexible on style or color. (I got the Basic V Neck in Crush, Sunset, Eve, and Midori - all really pretty.)

And by the way, it seems to me their sizes run a little big. My shirt is a small, and I’d say I’m usually a medium.

Oh, and by the way again, the photo of the Basic V Neck isn’t that flattering, so don’t be put off by that. It looks great in person.

ANYWAY! Phew! That’s enough detail about what was supposed to be a simple suggestion. Go! Buy some awesome t-shirts! Send some money to Japan!

Mar 31, 20114 notes

Mar 31, 201112 notes

“But I just want to say here - to lock it forever in print, if only to honor my mother - that an awful lot of my advantages as a child were built on the ashes of her personal sacrifice… And this is my beef, by the way, with social conservatives who are always harping about how the most nourishing home for a child is a two-parent household with a mother in the kitchen. If I - as a beneficiary of that exact formula - will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionately cumbersome burden on women? Such a system demands that mothers become selfless to the point of near invisibility in order to construct these exemplary environments for their families. And might those same social conservatives - instead of just praising mothers as ‘sacred’ and ‘noble’ - be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without women having to scrape bare the walls of their own souls to do it?” —Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed

Mar 30, 20114 notes

THIS is why we need diverse courts - an equal female/male split and as much ethnic and socioeconomic diversity as possible. It’s completely unrealistic to think a bunch of Ivy League-educated white men will always make fair decisions about people whose lives are nothing like theirs.

I’m not even saying the female justices are right - only that it’s very, very telling that they and the men on the court seem to be approaching this case in fundamentally different ways.

Mar 30, 20113 notes

Seattle

We stayed here:

(Quirky and modern - very friendly, very fun. There’s a hidden door in the lobby, for example, that leads to their sushi restaurant.)

We saw this:

(Of course, touristy, but worth it, worth it, worth it.)

Also this:

(Blooming trees!!!! Remember those?)

And this:

(I love Washington beaches.)

And this:

(A fountain using rooftop rainwater.)

And this:

(This is what I think of when I think of the Pacific Northwest. Well, this and pine trees so tall they look exaggerated.)

And if you go, you should eat at Beecher’s:

(For amazing cheese.)

Also at Sitka and Spruce:

(For “hyper-local” and hyper-delicious food.)

And also at Place Pigalle:

Where, if you’re very lucky, this may be your view:

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I also attended lots of interesting talks at my conference. Interesting enough that I wasn’t constantly wishing I was out roaming the city, so that’s saying something. No pictures of that, though, lucky for you.

Mar 29, 20116 notes

“If you have a rhythm, if you get up every morning and work for a few hours, and you like the getting up and the work, and you don’t think about how great it will be when it’s done, but rather how great it is every day that you get to get up and do the work, your creation will be tremendous. Don’t think about the finished product. Stop rewarding yourself with something that doesn’t exist, and may never exist. Instead, think about how delightful it is you get to do this, you get to make this, and how delightful it will be to get up and do it again tomorrow.” —Don Miller (via forever insatiable via ground swell: made to do)

Mar 23, 20117 notes

3 good things about today's weather

(WOW it’s ugly in Chicago today.)

1) Waking up for a 3 mile run, looking outside, seeing rain and hearing thunder, going back to sleep for an hour. (Storms are much better when you’re in bed, don’t you think?)

2) Feeling justified in buying myself a hot coffee halfway between my train stop and my friend’s condo.

3) Using damp clothes as an excuse to put on my pajamas immediately upon arriving home. (Hello comfy pants. Hello fuzzy socks. Hello green long underwear shirt.)

Mar 22, 20116 notes

Seattle Must-Dos?

Hey all - I’m headed to Seattle this weekend for an education finance and policy conference. I’ll have evenings and Saturday afternoon/night free and am staying downtown. I’d love to hear your suggestions! What should I do? Where should I eat? What should I avoid? Oh - I also need to do a 7-mile run while I’m there. Does anyone know a good route?

Thanks friends. :)

Mar 21, 20117 notes

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I have never felt so at home as I do in Chicago.

Me neither. I’ve said this before, but I love Chicago like I love people. When we left four years ago, it felt like a break-up. I worried when we moved back that I had been idealizing it and wouldn’t be as in love with it, but no no. It’s still my city soulmate.

Mar 15, 201125 notes

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Mar 9, 20119 notes

“For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” —

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via RealSimple)

Nice reminder for me after my last post. There will always be insane people doing insane things, and I don’t need to give them any more of my energy than is necessary.

Mar 7, 201111 notes

“Just to review, the way this game is played is that a legislator will conceive of an absolutely insane anti-woman law, stoke outrage, then make a big show of relenting on the crazy part of the law in order to get what they want — making abortion illegal — enacted. They will then aver that this is the result of ‘negotiations’ in which ‘all sides’ have been ‘heard out’ resulting in a ‘compromise.’”

Mar 7, 20112 notes

Ahhhhhhh....

Monster group project finished! Taking a Glee and breakfast break before I get on with the rest of my day.

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Play

Mar 6, 2011190 notes

Note to Self (And Other Tumblrs)

If you ever need fuel for your self-righteous fire, just blog about it. Your Tumblr peeps will immediately cooperate.

Mar 5, 20112 notes

Siesta Key Highlights

Because you don’t need to hear about every chapter I read, mile I ran, degree the temperature stayed above freezing, or tropical drink I drank, here are my favorite memories from each day of my vacation.

Day 1:

Grilling veggie burgers and drinking Miller Light on the beach with the grandparents. Putting on my DePauw sweatshirt when the sun set and it got just cool enough to need it. (I mean, I didn’t really need it. Let’s be serious. But my Midwestern hardiness disappears pretty quickly down there.)

Day 2:

First sunrise run on the beach. Wading in the Gulf afterward.

Day 3:

I’m going to cheat - there are actually two best memories from Day 3. First, I ran at sunrise again and this time ended my workout at a coffee shop in the “village.” I finished my drink on the patio and considered whether life could possibly get any better.

Later I went back downtown and wandered around by myself. I bought a bathing suit that makes me look like a flamenco dancer of the sea (this top plus this bottom), a lemon cupcake, and a “mango basiltini” from Lelu Coffee.

The basil for my drink came from a live plant the bartender grows by the window. I thought that was pretty fantastic.

Day 4:

For sure, driving to Tampa with Kelly to visit my friends’ newly adopted baby girl. I probably should not post a picture of her face - not my baby, not my decision to make. But here are her teeny tiny feet!

(P.S. 5 pounds is so small! I think I gasped when I first saw her.)

Day 5:

I was actually pretty bummed our last day there. I didn’t want to leave at all and was stressing about work at home.

Oh, but I saw some dolphins on my sunrise walk. Right around here.

And here’s a picture of me with my cute as can be sister at our last sunset.

Mar 3, 20116 notes

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