One thing I learned: the relationship remains, and no matter what happens next, the mother is always the Mom. Mom, Always. That was something Lisa really wanted to hear, and that is why I chose that name for the site. Also, to me, Mom, Always sounds like Love, Always. Which is all any of us can hope to leave behind.

reading about writing has been pretty inspiring lately

YES!

“In the beginning, it was mostly about logistics,” said Ms. Rosenstrach, who first used the notebook to map out, on Sunday nights, the meals that she and her boyfriend (now husband) looked forward to preparing in the coming week. Now it’s no longer a work of anticipation, but a recollection of the recent past.

The best sitting alternative is perching—a half-standing position at barstool height that keeps weight on the legs and leaves the S-curve intact. Chair alternatives include the Swopper, a hybrid stool seat and the funky, high HAG Capisco chair. Standing desks and chaise longues are good options. Ball chairs, which bounce your spine into a C-shape, are not. The biggest obstacle to healthy sitting may be ourselves. Says Jackie Maze, the vice-president for marketing at Keilhauer: “Most customers still want chairs that look like chairs.”

officially two years behind on my instapaper queue

At the Emory exhibition, visitors can log onto a computer and see the screen that Mr. Rushdie saw, search his file folders as he did, and find out what applications he used. (Mac Stickies were a favorite.) They can call up an early draft of Mr. Rushdie’s 1999 novel, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet,” and edit a sentence or post an editorial comment.

“I know of no other place in the world that is providing access through emulation to a born-digital archive,” said Erika Farr, the director of born-digital initiatives at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory. (The original draft is preserved.)

I was feeling better by Friday, and after that, the whole thing was an overwhelmingly good time, and it was more forcefully emotional than I’d let myself think it would be. But also—and this is going to sound crazy—it was the least stressful span of time that I've spent with my family since I was a kid. Because when you’re getting married and you’ve gathered all these people together for that, everyone will take their cues from you.

“Successful Partnerships to Serve Immigrant Communities”

Via “Family Literacy on the Inside: Bringing the Public Library to Incarcerated Parents”, folks from the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library walked us through the blossoming programs and services offered via their partnership with the county jail on Rikers Island.

i bet that factchecker had an awesome time

love, love, love

Given that so many “extra-virgin” oils are actually inferior oils cut with other products, where should the average shopper buy his oil?

Ideally, at a mill, where you can see the fresh olives turned into oil, and get to know the miller—in an industry where the label means so little, personal trust in the people who have made and sold it is important. Barring this, try to visit a store where you can taste before you buy; an increasing number of olive-oil specialty stores exists throughout America, even in small towns and unexpected corners of the country. In a conventional retail store, certain characteristics of labelling and bottling suggest (though they don’t guarantee) high quality: a harvest date (as opposed to a meaningless “best by” date), a specific place of production and producer, mention of the cultivar of olives used, dark glass bottles (light degrades olive oil), a D.O.P. seal on European oils, and a California Olive Oil Council seal on oil made in the U.S.

this effectively ends keurig debate

shruti says its on netflix!

New insight might also help the board to grok that if they want to maintain a fig leaf of impartiality in the abortion debate and they bring on Jane Abraham—head of the Susan B. Anthony List; the most powerful pro-life funding group around—to their "advocacy alliance" board, they'd better enlist someone like Stephanie Shoriock of pro-choice group Emily's List as a countermeasure. And a board more savvy to opinions outside of Highland Park might persuade Brinker she should sit back on her Neiman Marcus/Chili's fortune and not pay herself $417,000 a year plus board-approved first-class travel from the donations of jogging bald ladies and their family members. 

Lifespan of a Fact
Hot Pink
office Girl
Sorry Please Thank You
Telegraph Avenue

beautiful stuff, makes me excited once i have a place of my own to do this kind of stuff to

snow day watching? three part, five and a half hour

hot pink - adam levin
the newlyweds - nell freundenberger

wish i had read this pre NYE, maybe then i would have avoided the 11pm slot.

via meghan

The tortoise, known as Chelonoidis elephantopus, originally lived on Floreana, one of the islands in the Galapagos chain. Biologists believed that by the mid-1800s, they had been wiped out by whalers, who hunted them for food.

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