1. Someone documented my dad’s mental flow chart with respect to the thermostat during winter months.
   
2. Gen Z speak. Didn’t expect to watch the entirety of this bit, and yet… learned a lot. Periodt.
   
3. How amazing (& harrowing) is this sailing event?? Track the race live here.
   
4. Google translate “how to pronounce” – from written to verbal, including live practice!

PS for those of you who have kindly checked in on us subsequent to this week’s stomach bug, we seem to have held the line at 4/6. Morale remained relatively high despite some tough love.

Me: J, I’m going to set up O in my bathroom for the afternoon. If you feel anything from your stomach, please head to the bathroom right away.
J: okay, Mom. But it’s okay if I don’t make it to the potty, right?
Me, having just changed over the 9th load of laundry that single day: …no, Honey, it’s really not anymore.

1. I can’t unsee this.
2. Or this. …gulp.
3. *mind blown emoji*
4. Whatever happens with Twitter, I hope Lake Superior’s account remains intact. “Without me, they would be called the Good Lakes.”

1. Catatumbo lightning. Gives the Northern Lights a run for their money.
   
2. The flick I am recommending to everyone I know for their next family movie night. Laugh out loud funny for all ages.
   
3. Passive aggressive work emails from a toddler.
   
4. Would it surprise you to know that Darth Vader does not reveal his paternity to Luke Skywalker by saying “Luke, I am your father”? If so, meet the Mandela effect.

1. My favorite controlled substance is daycare. (Both the title and a true statement.)
   
2. Two kinds of cooks. Haha.
   
3. Side-by-side comparison of images via the Hubble and Webb telescopes.
   
4. The six forces that fuel friendship.
   “Friendship doesn’t always have to be about presence; it can also be about love that can weather absence.“

1. How We’ll Save Our Kids from the Gun Lobby’s Greed — the podcast episode that pulled me out my pit of hopelessness last week and handed me a small ember of empowerment. Like all related content, it’s a tough listen, but worth it if you are feeling up to it.
   
2. Josh Wardle on Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022. Clever.
   
3. How beautiful is this vibrantly colored nursery?
   
4. The musicologist’s take on why Jurassic Park’s theme song is so powerful. As a major JP fan-girl, I feel intellectually validated even though I understand ~nothing of the musical details.
   4a. But then there’s this cover, which always, always, always makes me laugh.

1. Wine tasting for beginners. Camp #2.
   
   
2. “May your presence in the office be like a rainbow —
   Very visible, but no one can reach you.”
   Irish Blessings for RTO.
   
   
3. “The Restorative Power of Eating Chips Before Bed.” I feel so seen. (c/o my brother, a fellow ‘after chips’ connoisseur.)
   
   
4. “Epiphany in the Baby-Food Aisle.” Humor, anguish, rage, joy. A hero’s journey. Worth the full read.
   
   “Every mother you know is in this fight with herself. The sword that hangs over her is a sword of exhaustion, of frustration, of patience run dry, a sword of indignation at how little she feels like a human when she so often has to look and behave like an animal. Mostly, it is the sword of rage: the rage and shock of how completely she must annihilate herself to keep her child alive.“

1. But really, there’s a market for this.
   
2. The Mysterious Origins of the Phrase ‘The Whole Nine Yards.’ Spoiler: an unsatisfying ending.
   
3. My daily abbreviation count has increased exponentially since being back at work: “sg,” “ty,” “iirc,” “wrt,” “afaik,” “lmk,” “wdyt,” & on & on… I joked with a colleague that my pings were becoming almost unintelligible unless you were fluent in corp-speak. He sent me this.
   
4. I am so glad to know I’m not the only one who has felt this: