Kimberly Hirsh

🔖 Read How I Build My Common Place Book (Greg McVerry)

McVerry generously summarizes his workflow:

• Document impetus of thought (often after the fact)

• Collect initial bookmarks
• Ask in networks, bookmark your queries
• Collect research, and block quotes or use social annotations
• Begin to formulate thoughts in random blog posts
• Start to draft the long form thought
• Publish an article on my Domain.

I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, and blog posts on this topic. I have so much more to add.

Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to re-read this 2018 blog post in which I calculated that I wrote 98,000 words in the first 5 semesters of my doctoral program.

🔖 Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe

“she said she often distrusts that other people will take care of things. ‘That’s why I tend to step up and do it myself.’”

Pool’s open!

Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a hybrid of fey imagery, Glam Rock glitter, and the lighter side of 80s Goth.”

🔖 Read Why I Blog Part 1 and Part 2 (Kyle Mathews).

As always, The Trans Advice column is helpful. The latest: Should cis folks use gender neutral pronouns?

Your pronouns shouldn’t be some sort of political statement or show of support for others, they should be how you want to be referred to.

I love Discovery and I’ve enjoyed Picard and Prodigy, but Strange New Worlds feels like nostalgic Trek in a way that of the new shows, only Lower Decks does. I’m happy to have such an embarrassment of Star Trek riches. 🖖🏻📺

🔖💻 Read Why blog? (Chuck Grimmett).

Well said. These are my reasons, too.

Voting selfie!

🔖💻 Read Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick (Tom Critchlow).

I like this homesteading metaphor. Neither gardens nor streams quite work for what I do with my personal site. This is closer.

🔖💻 Read revisiting architectural blogging (Alan Jacobs).

🔖💻 Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).

🔖💻 Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).

🔖💻 Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).

🔖📚

Angela Garbes Is Reclaiming Realistic Motherhood thecut.com

Read: www.thecut.com

🔖📚

“This is the Book I’m Meant to Write Right Now” sarafredman.substack.com

Read: sarafredman.substack.com

This interview is huge. Life-alteringly huge.

Angela Garbes, who usually line edits as she writes:

I can’t revise an idea, no matter how good it is, in my brain. I can’t revise it if I don’t write it down.

Interviewer Sara Fredman says:

I personally feel torn between feeling like motherhood is the most significant thing I do and that I’ll ever do in my life and also feeling like that’s a trap of some sort.

🔖📚

Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? | The New Yorker newyorker.com

Read: www.newyorker.com

An amazing essay in conversation with Angela Garbes’s new book, Essential Labor.

a person can get paid more to sit in front of her computer and send a bunch of e-mails than she can to do a job so crucial and difficult that it seems objectively holy: to clean excrement off a body, to hold a person while they are crying, to cherish them because of and not despite their vulnerability.

Her husband’s job provided health insurance and regular paychecks; Garbes writes that it “may take me a lifetime to undo the false notion that my work is somehow less valuable than his.”

It feels shameful to admit that I don’t have the desire to hustle up that same ladder.

Parenthood likewise forces an encounter with the illogic of the market: good fortune means getting to pay someone less than you make to do a job that’s harder and probably more important than your own.

parenting toward a more just world requires more than diverse baby dolls and platitudes about equality.

She quotes the writer Carvell Wallace, who, after the 2016 election, told his children, “One of the most important questions you have to answer for yourself is this: Do I believe in loving everyone? Or do I only believe in loving myself and my people?”

How can mothering be a way that we resist and combat the loneliness, the feeling of being burdened by our caring?

motherhood has also granted me a chance to see what my life is like when I reorganize it around care and interdependence in a way that stretches far beyond my daughter.

🔖

Raising Us Wrecked Her Career But My Mom’s Thriving In Her Second Act romper.com

Read: www.romper.com

My mom was just hitting her second act stride when leukemia knocked her down. I hope that as the treatment side effects are better managed, she’ll be able to get back into it.

I just wrote the beginning of a fiction story after being inspired by Amanda Cook’s “Weaving Serenity” in issue 1 of @wyngraf. I also found a writing tagline for myself: “Kimberly Hirsh writes about badass moms doing awesome shit.” 📝📚

It’s a rough time right now so I’m trying to notice small joys and one of today’s is that I learned how to use regular expressions in advanced text editors to remove timestamps and extra lines from Zoom transcripts.

In case it would help other people, here’s how I did it. I would have something that looked like this:

9
00:00:36.900 –> 00:00:40.560
Kimberly Hirsh (she/her): Do you agree to participate in the study and to have the interview audio recorded?

With the help of this guide from Drexel and replies to this Stack Overflow post I now can remove the number, the timestamp, and the two extra lines created when I remove those. Here’s how I do it.

1. Open the VTT file in my advanced text editor.
2. Use the find and replace feature.
3. For the thing to be replaced I use the regular expression ^[(\d|\n)].*$. You don’t need to know what a regular expression is. Just copy and paste that little code bit into the “Find” box.
4. Make sure either “Regular expression” or “GREP” is selected.
5. Click “Replace” to test it once and be sure if it works.
6. If it works, click “Replace all.”

For BBEdit:

7. Paste ^\s*?\r in the “Find” box.
8. Make sure the replace box is empty.
9. Repeat steps 5 and 6.

For Notepad++: 7. Then switch so that “Extended” is selected instead of “Regular expression” or “GREP.” 8. Paste \r\n\r\n in the “Find” box. 9. Put a single space in the replace box. 10. Repeat steps 5 and 6.

I hope this is helpful!

🎙️ I listened to the first episode of A Beautiful Anarchy on my way to pick up the kid. It was about imposter syndrome. There were some really beautiful bits that I’ll add to this post later.

📚 I joined Austin Kleon’s Read Like an Artist book club today and am also going to read his past choices. I’m starting with a re-read of Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing.