Most people can probably relate to the feeling of wanting to raise their kids differently than their parents did. As much as I love my parents, the 90s and 2000s attitudes towards kids’ mental health, achievement, motivation and work/life balance are not ones I care to raise my children with. (See here and here for my takes on college.)… Read More »
17 Self-Care Books to Nourish Your Soul
If you know me personally, likely you know that I’m hopelessly obsessed with self-care and self-improvement books. While I do enjoy a good piece of fiction–you might also be familiar with my Lord of the Rings obsession–inspirational nonfiction is my jam.
But the self-care/improvement section of your library or bookstore can be tricky to navigate. For every good book, there are ten boring, unoriginal collections of clichés. And it’s impossible to tell which are the good ones from the covers. They all claim that they’ll change your life starting on page 1–which definitely isn’t true.… Read More »
The Ultimate Sustainable Agriculture Reading List
Want to know more about the food industry and its environmental impact, but don’t know where to start? There’s a mind-boggling array of literature out there right now that purports to be giving you the straight story about the stuff in your grocery cart–but that literature isn’t all created equal. From diet books to documentaries, from Instagrammers to independent studies, where’s a food industry newbie to start?
Well, literature about the food industry–and really just about food in general–is my genre of choice. It started my sophomore year of high school, when I picked up a copy of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle to read for a class project. But that book totally hooked me. What I learned about the food industry, and about how far removed I was from the food I ate, from those three hundred-some pages ignited a passion inside of me that I didn’t know existed. I had to know more.… Read More »