Stuff We Like

Here’s some of the stuff making my homeschool life a little happier lately. (We’re Amazon affiliates, so if you purchase something through an Amazon link, we may receive a small percentage of the sale. Obviously this doesn’t influence what we recommend, and we link to places other than Amazon.)

• I have been rocking this awesome t-shirt all week. (I don’t even want to take it off to wash it!)

• I read this, and I loved it. I was a little worried because it’s different from Jemisin’s other books, and it was a much slower build for me. But I love the idea of cities coming to life in people who represent them, and — as a former New Yorker! — I appreciated the loving, funny tributes to all of NYC’s boroughs.

• I’m knitting these mitts for Hanukkah this year.

• This is our current readaloud — I found it on a list of “books for people who love Diana Wynne Jones,” and while I have never discovered any books that are actually like Diana Wynne Jones, these lists often point me in good directions. We’re about halfway through, and it’s pretty fun so far. 

• It’s finally soup season, and this comforting soup is in regular weekend rotation at our house. (I’ve never been able to really get into cold soup — there’s this one fancy chilled onion soup I kind of liked, but mostly they taste weird to me — except strawberry soup, but that’s dessert, so it doesn’t count!)

• Suzanne recommended the book, but I started the TV show instead, and four episodes in, I am HOOKED. 

• I’m in Georgia, where our January runoff elections will determine the balance of the U.S. Senate. (Gulp!) Democrats traditionally have a very tough time getting our voters back out to vote in a runoff. If you want to get involved, you can help remotely by phone banking, texting and writing postcards. Check out one or all of these organizations already doing the work here:

  • Phone banking and texting

  • Write postcards to voters

  • Warnock campaign

  • Ossoff campaign

  • Voter Registration

  • Voter protection and Getting Out the Vote

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