A Week in the Life: A Roundup
I'm out of WITL submissions so some links + reflections
Hi All,
I’ve sadly run out of Week in the Life submissions! Please submit! No story too unusual, no story too boring.
Editor’s Note: I’ve been home for about 4 weeks but I’m about to begin a busy stint (12/17 nightsaway). But after that, I’ll be WFH most of the summer, so I do feel like I’m in the home stretch of the teaching term, with some solid home time in front of me. The weather is getting slightly better in Scotland, and we had our first dinner outside, which feels like a good spring milestone, although we’re back to rain today. And I got a new (temporary) bike, and it’s making the school run so much more fun.
Photo Caption: New bike! Bike handlebars on a woodland trail.
Reading on working motherhood from Substack and beyond
I know Emily Oster can be controversial but I LOVED this framing. What have you decided to be second best on? I’m chill about sweets, diehard about helmets…
I am looking forward to reading more of Dr Yael Schonbrun’s work after this interview
Katie Pearson’s “Arguing with a Child” poem in the Atlantic.
WITL from the archives
What are you reading? What are you up to these days?
I like that take from Emily Oster - and it ties into my approach on climate friendly behaviours. Focus on the ones that are most important and let the rest slide
I just finished Lessons in Chemistry, and I'm on book 6 of the Deborah Crombie Kincaid/James police procedural series. I'm also making slow progress through a lengthy biography of Queen Elizabeth II.
Family life is busy with all the end of school activities: it feels like running a 10k at a sprint in these last 7 weeks of school.