Dr. Maya Shankar interviews Annie Duke (author of How To Decide). A great conversation about how we value certain kinds of decisions and how some of the ones we’ve seen as failures might be better seen in a different light.
Plans Awry | Count On It
If you’ve been around a while you’ve noticed plans rarely go as…planned. In work, in life, in relationships, writing, making art, raising children – things go awry.
Moving Over For Raggedy Ann & Andy
When I was a child, I would make more room for those two dolls in my childhood single bed than I’d leave for myself. I’d try to stay stone still so not to disturb them or lay on them or take up their room. That might sound sweet…but it was not.
Slow Growing & Still Going Through
It’s been years of slow growing. I’m still in it, still going through. Here’s to us late bloomers.
Cannabis. Age. Women. Life.
I started using cannabis in my late 50s. It has changed some things and I’m sharing those things here.
The Mommy Pages
Women shepherding children in this world deserve to have 21st century community instead of the generations of mommy critics that keep storming in.
It’s Weird Figuring Out What You Want To Be When You’re 60
My parents were mostly good about keeping us alive and involved in things and going on a few of the obligatory family vacations white lower middle class families go on – camping, visits to a friend’s lake house, road trips to visit family they barely wanted to be around. But in my family there was zero introduction to the world as someone who would live an independent life, have dreams, need to plan a life or grow in maturity.
Transforming Wounds To Wisdom
When people tell me what I went through made me who I am today, I call bullshit. I’m not going to say the pain was worth it because it did nothing but stifle me. I would have preferred a path of meeting and being mentored by strong women because my life would have been so much more of service to this world. I would have preferred to notice the red flags and skip the abusive marriage. I would have preferred all of those things leading me to learning about life before settling for an abusive man. I choose that now.
What Test Kitchen Could Have Been
On February 4th, 2021 Gimlet Media launched what was supposed to be a series on its Reply All podcast called Test Kitchen to cover Bon Appetit’s toxic work environment.
On February 16th 2021 Eric Eddings laid out a concise twitter thread on how hypocritical Gimlet, Reply All, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, P.J. Vogt, Alex Blumberg, and Lydia Polgreen have been with regard to Gimlet’s own toxic environment.
On February 26th 2021 Alex Goldman published an anemic apology to listeners and told us P.J. and Sruthi were stepping back.
The Canna Mom Podcast | Joyce Gerber
I fell in love with the show after a few listens specifically because Joyce persistently talks about how there’s room for any woman who wants to be part of the cannabis community and she invites us to bring our talents to the table.