🔖📝 I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and anything I don’t use goes there in case I want it later.

Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia 📚

Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The Kimberly Hirsh story

[Caption: a woman with hair that might be wet or might just be slathered in gel looks confused.]

Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie 📚

📚 I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.

What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a bunch about the thing you’re writing about and you clearly aren’t familiar with that literature, but offers not a single suggestion of a citation you’re missing.

9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon!

1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally going to read GIDEON THE NINTH this afternoon!

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In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty mess who was clearly somebody’s mom. I thought, “I’m cute! This sweaty mess mom look suits me!” I believe as Dr. Mom I am coming into my full power.

📚 (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!

Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of turkey is not how I expected to spend my Saturday morning, but here we are.