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Good Fall, Friday morning to you! Did you have a nice week? Were you lucky enough to get snow? It was cold and grey but otherwise a beautiful week here.
Food
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Butternut Squash Lasagna! Yes, please I will take the entire pan. Doesn’t this lasagna from Alexandra Cooks look scrumptious?
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Steak and Ale Soup from The Cozy Apron.
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Small Batch Garlic and Herb Rolls from A Flavor Journal.
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Pumpkin Cheesecake with Turtle Topping from Saving Room for Dessert
Fleur de Sel Hot Chocolate perfect for a cold day.
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Easy and Beautiful Centerpiece from My Sweet Savannah.
8 Foods to Add and two to Avoid to Help Beat Anxiety and Stress
On Being Happy and Jealous of a friend at the same time.
100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Is your favorite artist on the list?
Millennial’s Face A Much Higher Death Rate Than Gen-X-ers.
7 Powerful Reminders to Focus on What Matters
Books
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.
So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
Sorry I’m Late I Didn’t Want to Come
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life. Chronicling the author’s hilarious and painful year of misadventures, this book explores what happens when one introvert fights her natural tendencies, takes the plunge, and tries (and sometimes fails) to be a little bit braver.
With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic.
Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have forgotten. After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River. There he meets the postman who delivers mail by boat, the store owner who nurses a broken heart, the ladies of the Mystic Order of the Royal Polka Dots Secret Society, who do clandestine good works. And he meets a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of this tale of a magical Christmas when something so amazing happened that those who witnessed it have never forgotten it. Once you experience the wonder, you too will never forget A Redbird Christmas.
For Kids at Christmas
The Tailor of Gloucester Read for Free Here with Kindle Unlimited.
The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester’s wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running out of food and thread, as well as time! How will he possibly complete the beautiful coat and embroidered waistcoat? Luckily, there lives in the dresser, some very kind and very resourceful mice who set about helping the poor tailor with his work. Not only are they exceedingly helpful, but they are also, luckily, far far too clever for the tailor’s sly cat, Simpkin.
Finds
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| Faux fur Wrap from Anthropologie |
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| Plum Tie Blouse J Crew |
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| Hot Chocolate Pot |
I hope that you found something you liked this week here and that you share all of your finds. Have a wonderful and safe weekend.
I tried to make baked canapes last night. Epic fail! I need your HELP !!!
Love you so much !!!
Yes, we did get snow here.