Freeform Friday

This weekend everyone is Irish for the night, and I'm happy to drink my annual pint of Guinness to celebrate the occasion. I delight in food traditions for different holidays, and it's not St. Patrick's Day without Irish pub nachos and these layered mint brownies. I hope you have a festive weekend, and I hope you enjoy my favorite links from the past week.

DeVos' blundering 60 Minutes interview got annotated and is Genius.

The toddler feelings helpline is spot on.

What a fun idea for a special occasion movie night.

Where to eat in one of the world's culinary hot spots.

My feelings on March Madness.

I never tire of watching the designs of Saul and Elaine Bass.

I want to meet the people who are selling this house.

When Peeps attack! Ha!

Loving my new rain coat.

Telling kids to "Walk up, not out" inappropriately asks students to take responsibility for the mental health problems of their peers. Being nice to others doesn't fix the gun problems in this country.

Black children will be the victims of armed teachers.

[Photo of beautiful Belle Isle from Pure Michigan on Instagram.]

Freeform Friday

We're staying cozy at home for most of the weekend, and I'm looking forward to chatting about our mindfulness exercises at book club this weekend. I'm so impressed with the difference practicing one new exercise each week makes in how I go through each day with more gratitude and awareness. I hope you have a lovely weekend, and I hope you enjoy my favorite links from the past week.

If literature's complicated male characters were on Tinder.

This shark migration is both fascinating and terrifying.

What the f possesses Alexa to laugh for no reason?

I marathoned my way thought this wonderful book in a weepy and rewarding 24 hours. The author is featured in a short video here, and the article that inspired the book is here.

What shoes do you wear to work? These are my current favorites, and now I want these in about three colors.

Here's my favorite cool weather sweatshirt.

Always on the lookout for a new weekend breakfast idea, this TJ's inspired recipe looks delish. 

We occupied ourselves for a whole afternoon with this fantastic stuff.

[Image from Our Moveable Feast on Instagram.]

Freeform Friday

Hello weekend! We're headed to a wonderful new restaurant tonight, and I'm excited to see what all the buzz is about. We also have tickets to a performance of Music from Harry Potter at our local symphony, and it's the first time we've been together as a whole family. I can't wait to see all of the Muggles and wizards in costume. I hope you have a lovely weekend, and I hope you enjoy my favorite links from the past week.

I'm still searching for a show I like as much as The Crown and hope one of these will to the trick.

This new movie looks amazing. Did you read the book, too?

Love these out of the ordinary Harry Potter costumes.

We could have told you that.

Hey! Visit Ann Arbor featured my picture from a favorite local landmark.

I'm kind of obsessed with this amazing airfare search engine.

Excited to check this city off my bucket list this summer.

Anyone try  this free app that helps you breeze through customs?

Put an egg on it! Here are 47 egg recipes to consider.



[Bookshelf envy compliments of The Wing via Quartz.]

Freeform Friday

Tonight we're going to a wine tasting that friends are hosting at their newly remodeled house. Good wine and conversation is just what I need to unwind at the end of this long week. I hope you have a cozy weekend planned, and I hope you enjoy my favorite links from the past week.

A laugh out loud Moth story.

Paleofuture is a fascinating spot for connecting predictions from the past to the present.

Get Out's Oscar nominations are a welcome surprise from the stodgy Academy.

I love the Shib Sibs' videos (and I extra love them because Maia was my student once upon a time).

This was our jam in class today.

A fascinating story about Malcolm X's childhood in Michigan.

Eat your heart out, Pence.

It's not like you needed something official to prove this, but here it is if you need to hear from the pros.

Have to say I'm shocked but not surprised by this cheat sheet on how to be an empathetic human.

[Image from Wright Kitchen on Instagram.]

Freeform Friday

Over dinner, my son recently asked what our favorite day of the week is, and without hesitating I replied, "Saturday!" The lack of pressure that Saturday brings with it is an elixir for the soul, and when we get a rare four-day weekend, it feels like we get three Saturdays in a row. Ever grateful for this extra-long weekend, we're taking full advantage with a short road trip to visit family, dinner with friends, and an exciting show with the kids.

I hope you have a lovely weekend, and I hope you enjoy my favorite links from the past week.

New erotica for feminists.

R.B.G. is a judicial rock star.

Building block skills taken to the next level.

Looking forward to celebrating the release of school with the release of The Incredibles II.

Cold winter days have me dreaming of cozy, sun-filled houses like this.

A real American hero.

Plagiarism software unveils a new source for 11 of Shakespeare’s plays.

Reading Ovid in the age of #MeToo.

An ambitious project to photograph all 531 standing Frank Lloyd Wright buildings.

My brain is in overdrive over the amazing presidential portraits released earlier this week, and now I'm itching to get to the DIA to see this famous portrait.

This presidential face-swap is the stuff of my dreams, folks.

"No way to prevent this," says only nation where this regularly happens.

Russian bots flooded Twitter after Parkland shooting.

[Image from Ina Garten that *almost* make me wish I still worked in a flower shop.]

Freeform Friday

We've been living our best hygge life in the midst of this swirling, whirling snow storm -- snowshoeing in the woods, movies in front of the fire, and cuddles on the couch. Of course, this is all a lead up to my book club meeting this weekend for a hygge-filled afternoon discussing The Little Book of Hygge. If you haven't read it yet, you must. Especially if you live in a cold climate. It's a total game changer.

I hope you have a cozy weekend, and I hope you enjoy my favorite links from the past week.

This montage of films that bring to life famous paintings is out of this world wonderful.

Ready for some more trademark pet violence from Wes Anderson? I know I am.

Binge worthy: Mary Beard's Meet the Romans and Ultimate Rome (for free on YouTube!).

Ina's most fabulous moments on Barefoot Contessa.

Quincy Jones doesn't give a fuck. And here's the interview to prove it.

What a fun scavenger hunt approach to museum going. 

I could spend days browsing these tiny homes (like this geodesic dome and this shipping container home).

Laser scans reveal Maya "Megalopolis" below Guatemalan jungle.

Thank you, Nancy Pelosi.

"Feminism — pack it up, go home. We have our own fucking chips now."

[Image from Our Moveable Feast on Instagram.]

Freeform Friday

This weekend I'm hosting a girl's movie night, and it gives me an excuse to make two cookies from my new recipe book. Otherwise, I'm just deliriously happy to be at home after a loooong work week. So cozy. So cuddly.

I hope you have a lovely weekend, and I hope you enjoy my favorite links from the past week.

How amazing are these ice yachts?

I can not put this book down, and I find myself saying "huh!" out loud several times per page. So. Good.

I'm dreaming of summer vacation and figuring out how to pack light with the help of this and this.

Slow-cooked pulled pork Cubans? Yes, please.

I've been thinking about this insightful, timely film all week.

Penzey's is a savvy company who’s figured out how to capitalize on the political outrage of the Trump era and social media’s way of amplifying it.

This made me laugh.

Deep in Clinton country, voters stand by their candidate.

A great clip from the Grammys of familiar faces narrating Fire and Fury.

Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush reminds America how bad he was.



[Image from Pure Michigan on Instagram.]