📺🍿🎄 Watched The Naughty Nine.
This is a heist movie about kids on the naughty list breaking into Santa’s workshop. It honors all the heist tropes and is super fun. Watch with a kid if you can.
A list of lists: in his book Keep Going, Austin Kleon writes about a variety of types of lists you might keep and I made a list of them:
- to-do
- to-make (he says to-draw)
- to-learn
- Someday/Maybe
- to-not-do
- pro/con
- thanks for/help me
- end-of-year
- commandments
New bio on most of my profiles: Mom & PhD with a librarian’s heart and an academic’s mind. I manage multiple chronic illnesses and I love books and games. 🌈♿
📓 I know Twitter is all the things we all know it is now but I still love that some scholars wrote a journal article about the relationship between emojis and identity in Twitter bios.
📺🍿🎄 Watched Reporting for Christmas.
I really like this one. A hard-hitting Chicago reporter heads to a small town in Iowa to cover the 40th anniversary of the local toy company’s most popular product. Life changes ensue.
Super cute, winning cast.
Me: I’ll put this little tumbled sodalite crystal on my bedside table, it will make me happy.
The Kitten: Ooh a new toy!
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“Recover yourself. That’s where your creativity is.”
Kate McKean in today’s Agents & Books Q&A issue.
I was thinking about Austin Kleon’s urging to show your work and I thought, “But Austin, what do I do when I don’t even feel up to making things to show my work on?” and then I thought, “Well he already told me: Keep going.”
🔖Read Twenty Rules for the New Escribitionist.
23 and a half-year-old blogging advice that is still pretty solid.
I’ve had kimberlyhirsh.com for fifteen years today. I had other domains before that. I’m really glad I claimed this one. It’s been great for me both personally and professionally.