Hey APW,
I’m… having one of those weeks. I’m trying to switch my brain back and forth between writing my book (I’m going to crowdsource questions from y’all soon, to make sure I’m answering All The Things), and running a business, and they’re such totally different parts of my brain that it feels like there is a lot of STATIC happening. But you know what? January is over. Ours started with two hospitalizations, had a huge trip in the middle, and ended with me being really sick… all while being constantly sick, and BYE JANUARY.
With that, we’re doing date night this weekend. Something that hasn’t come close to even being a passing thought in at least a month. So cheers to that! What are you up to?
Open thread, hit it!
xo,
meg
Highlights of APW This Week
Learning the rules, so you can bend them, shape them, and break them.
How to wear red lipstick on your wedding day.
“How we planned our Bay Area wedding with classic old school charm.”
What it feels like to be legally married after seven years.
Glosite: your first step in wedding guest management.
How to choose a wedding venue.
Marriage identity as a single mother.
A modified ModCloth wedding dress that will knock your socks off.
DIY a $20 paper flower backdrop.
“Should we be waiting to get married?”
Link Roundup
Best-selling author, researcher, and medical pioneer’s obituary opens by describing her as overweight and plain of feature.
What happens when transnational adoptees learn about race?
Career advice by Latoya Peterson.
“Should I be a poorly paid writer or a better paid publicist?”
What it’s really like to be a submissive and a feminist.
Carl Djerassi, father of the birth control pill, dies at ninety-one.
Helen Mirren shows you how to ride the subway.
Why you should tell your children how much you make.
A very thorough review of Black or White.
The problem with those feminist Super Bowl ads.
Do the NFL’s anti-domestic violence initiatives actually exist?
In which David Duchovny writes a novel from the perspective of a cow.
If you don’t have anything nice to say, say it in all caps.
The Vanderbilt trial shows why bystanders have no incentive to stop rape.
Maternity leave policies are hurting working moms.
Will you be wearing these ginormous pants in 2016?
The love and struggle of producing a left-wing circus.
Be suspicious of the new Harper Lee novel.
Harper Lee’s editor on the new book, which he learned about “yesterday.”
“Questions I have about the Harper Lee interview.”
Dad takes cosmetology lesson to learn to style his daughter’s hair.
What it’s like for a woman to send a rejection letter to a man.
How using they as a singular pronoun can change the world.
University recognizes a third gender: neutral.
Four body shaming excuses we don’t want to hear.
Old Masters at the top of their game.
The last thing we needed to see was that Nationwide commercial.
Was brown paint busy when they painted this Bobby Jindal portrait?
Passing for white at Vassar.
