HI APW!
So, this week I slept through the night for the first time in… twenty months at least (hi, adorable toddler), but really for the first time in years. So obviously I want to gab about what happened, which is: I saw a (really good) chiropractor. I figured my shitty sleep was due to having a baby who was a shitty sleeper, and my back pain was due to holding a 26 pound bundle of loves-his-mama-a-LOT. NOT SO. One good whack at my neck and my insomnia left the building. CRAZY RIGHT? Crazy enough that I have to talk about it on the Internet. (For anyone looking for a really solid chiropractor in Oakland, or hell, an amazing acupuncturist in San Francisco, hit me up in the comments.) As always, I’m up to swap alternative medicine stories with anyone and everyone in the comments.
Now, I’m going to cheers the weekend, and hang out on the APW Instagram feed where we’re hosting our first-ever takeover this weekend. We’re letting the crazy and amazing team at Fiat Lux in San Francisco take the reins, which means of a lot of amazing rings… and maybe even some boobs. Who knows? See you there.
Till then, open thread and links!
XO
Meg
Highlights of APW This Week
“As long as the photos come back showing us getting married, I’m going to call it a win.”
Motherhood’s tiny disappointments, and learning to focus on the good.
Brent & Jess: custom fingerprint rings, and the stories behind them. (Sob alert)
For richer and for poorer, or mortgaging your future with student loans.
Weddings have never been so rock and roll.
Tackling the challenge of cooking and eating well with Blue Apron.
We’ll be spending the weekend adding everyone’s summer reading picks to our wish lists.
Link Roundup
Quoted! The New York Post asks, “Would you rent your wedding dress?” (Yes, if the options were better.) Plus a name drop from Jezebel.
“I don’t fucking care if you like it,” t-shirt edition.
Can the ladies please just keep one damn thing?
Cool photo collection: portraits of women wearing their ex-lovers’ shirts.
Can full-time bloggers live off rainbows and hugs? Is this even the right way to frame the conversation?
Weed weddings! Oh, New York Times and their fake trend pieces.
Nicki Minaj’s backside backlash highlights hip-hop’s hypocrisy.
An interesting read on Ivy League schools.
“How Tiny Letter Is Making Us Fall in Love with Email Again.”
Confused cats against feminism.
Woody Allen’s thoughts on diversity are pretty terrible.
Jane Austen to be honored on British banknotes.
The down and dirty history of TMZ.
Women listening to men in art history.
And the best thing I’ve read all week. Thanks, Anne Lamott, as always.
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