Links & Things & Stuff
What I'm reading and eating and watching and microdosing
Happy Sunday!
I invite you to sip some tea or coffee or smoothie or whatever you’re into while you enjoy this quick newsletter about what I'm reading and eating and watching and studying and microdosing and teaching.
📺Watching
I’m finally watching Only Murders in the Building. I’m a big fan of intergenerational friendships (in fact, intergenerational friendship is a recurring theme of my podcast with Lisa Smith!) It’s also fascinating to see multiple generations of art and comedy work so well together. I also appreciate the slight surrealism in how they incorporate live music and theater scenes. This show is truly brilliant.
📚Reading
My advanced copy of Jessica Hoppe’s memoir just arrived. The QuitLit canon FINALLY has some Latinx representation. Hoppe’s work examines the intersection of addiction, immigration, intergenerational trauma, and Latinidad while also questioning what it means to live “The American Dream.” My first-generation Mexican grandfather died young of alcoholism, and I’m almost nine years in recovery, so, needless to say, this subject hits close to home on many levels.
🔍Resourcing
I wrote about phone addiction recently. It really resonated with y’all, so I’m resharing the link and the recommended reading list:
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt (he also writes about tech and philosophy in his newsletter,After Babel)
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by
🍑Snacking
This food dehydrator mocked me for a while. Someone left it behind in our shared commercial kitchen1 so he brought it home. I’ve tried to get rid of it many times, but Nick encouraged me to keep it. Thank Buddha he did because I’m obsessed with food dehydration right now. I turned this week’s CSA plums and peaches into yummy fruit snacks to keep at my desk. I also made granola, then chopped up some of the dehydrated peaches to toss into the mix. #tradwife
🌿Microdosing
I’ve noticed a link between my caffeine consumption and my anxiety. As soon as I cut out cold brew, my jitters literally went away. WILD. Trying to find a mindful relationship with caffeine led me to 1906’s Genius drops. This is not a paid ad. I’m just a big fan of their concept. Each drop has a microdose of 2.5mg THC with 20mg caffeine and other ingredients like L-theanine, CBD, and more. This blend allows me to feel focused and relaxed, as opposed to chugging cold brew and toggling between ten different screens and thinking I’m not doing enough.
I still can’t believe we buy weed this way now. I’m so glad we live in a world where weed is finally normalized.
📜Studying
This piece by
deserves a Pulitzer. Holy shit. Whether or not you believe in astrology, Bell’s research provides a constellated road map through political history. The amount of research that went into this piece is very erotic to my Capricorn journalist soul.💻Teaching
Want to learn how to promote your work without feeling cringe? Join me for my new class, Be Your Own Publicist. Whether you're looking for strategies on promoting an existing piece of work or creating a platform to prove that you're the expert on a subject, Be Your Own Publicist is the class for you.
I’ll share my personal experience as an author, co-founder of a drink brand, and tired Millennial with a business degree. We’ll discuss the promotional strategies I’ve used in the past while sharing what worked, what didn’t, and what I’d do differently.
This seminar also provides a comprehensive understanding of what a publicist and a virtual assistant do and offers some DIY skills so attendees can approach publicity independently.
Fall Class Schedule
Book Proposal 101 Oct 1st. Sign up here.
Be Your Own Publicist October 9th. Sign up here.
Book Proposal Boot Camp Oct 22-Nov 19th (Guest speakers: Leigh Stein and Jordyn Taylor) Sign up here.
XO,
Tawny
The kitchen where we produce our NA botanical spirit, (parentheses).
What a fun newsletter! Love the round-up style of it and in need of something wholesome to watch during this insane heat wave. Thanks for the shares!