I wish I had a thoughtful editor’s letter for you today. I don’t. Instead, I have a suitcase that I need to unpack (that didn’t even leave the house, as we cancelled our trip to California for our cousin’s wedding due to rising COVID cases). I have two speaking engagements to prepare for this week and next. I have in-person meetings that are filling up my calendar in June (with backup, virtual arrangements planned in parallel). I also have some hope that my youngest will be vaccinated next month (and my oldest son’s booster appointment is already scheduled for this week). And given that this newsletter is already tardy, I’ll leave you with the one thing that’s brought me some sense of productivity and peace these past few weeks - my daily planning page (adopted from Lauryn Evarts, The Five Minute Journal, and my friend Rahaf’s new planning system). And if you’d like to join me tomorrow for a conversation with my friend Rebecca about grief, you can grab tickets here! I’m also going to be speaking about the motherhood penalty next week at the WIN Summit (which is virtual!), and you can grab your tickets here (code LIFTUP gets your 25% off). What I Read This Week
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The rest of the week’s reads (and conversations!) are below: Your Questions, Answered Remind me where you went for microblading in the city? Thanks! Can you please share the journal prompts you found on twitter again? I had also shared this thread from Nicolas Cole, and I love the prompts that Tara Schuster shared in her book. Are you taking a step back in terms of eating out in restaurants, going to shows? We still PCR trust weekly and do rapid tests the day before, day of, and day after gathering or if we have any symptoms. And we’re going to be wearing KN95 masks indoors to the wedding we’re going to this weekend. Books or podcasts to help with inner confidence?
Podcasts Indian inspired outfits for a American garden party wedding? About the Cuyana backpack in stone. Does it dirty easily? And how does the leather hold up? From a quality perspective, the leather holds up like some kind of magic. I’ve had my Cuyana tote for 8 years in stone and it still looks brand new, as does my backpack. Struggling with going from 1 kid to 2. Huge mom guilt for my first baby. Any tips? What helped me was carving out some rituals I did with Rho every single day that was just us. He would keep me company when I pumped and I had a basket of puzzles and books we would do and read together when I was pumping. I took him to his activities after school (acknowledging my privilege of having a LOT of help that I could pass the baby to), and Sri and I did every bedtime and wake up with him in those early month. I also found this post on Mother Untitled with some really great advice and tips as well. When do you think we’ll see a downward trend in Covid cases again? COVID has evaded nearly every model and proved to be far more resilient and we removed protective restrictions far too early, inky opinion, to safely mitigate against it. I don’t know if we’ve hit the peak of this wave, but I don’t expect the same kind of steep drop we saw earlier this year because all public health safely measures are gone, so I expect we’ll be stuck here for some time. Just finished Paxlovid and worried about a rebound infection. Any lit you’ve seen on that? I think this reinfection is still too early to have enough data to identify why it’s happening, but it is something that Pfizer and other researchers are carefully monitoring. How would you describe your personal style?
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