An Extremely Sunday

Or, what it looks like when you forgot you were supposed to write a newsletter

I did an image search for "it's Sunday" but the results were so depressing I decided not to share any of them. So instead, here is a picture of the cat who's been hanging around my house. 

Well, it finally happened: I ran out of spoons and forgot that I am supposed to write a newsletter every week. It was honestly inevitable, because my brainspace is small and only capable of holding 3-4 important things at a time.
This week it was other stuff: work stuff, family life stuff, animal stuff (there is a cat who's taken up residence on my porch and I have been obsessed with figuring out if he has a home) and the newsletter just got pushed right out. So, here are a few things for you to chew on while I work on shoving "newsletter" back into the untidy closet of my brain and hope that this time it doesn't fall of the hanger: 

How the pandemic is forcing women out of the workplace, explained in a comic: This is from December but, you know, women definitely have not all gone back to work so this is still important.  

School attendance challenges are setting our kids up for burnout: I have DEEP feelings about rewarding students for their attendance and how ableist/classist it is, but this was a new take that I hadn't considered, and it really resonated for me. 

Who Cares?: Sarah Jaffe reminds us that the pandemic didn't create certain crises as much as expose them, which is a type of reporting I'm particularly fond of. 

The Promise and Peril of a High-Priced Sleep Trainer: I was fascinated by this piece, partially because I have always wondered what a sleep trainer would actually do. I definitely fantasized about hiring one when my daughter was a baby. However, when forced to choose between my two guiding impulses of being cheap vs. being lazy, cheap won out (as it usually does) and I did not hire anyone. (If you have worked with a sleep trainer, I would L O V E to hear about it!) 

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Stay tuned (won't you please?) for next week, when I'm looking forward to bringing you another interview, which I will absolutely not forget about. I hope your Sunday is sunnier than mine and that, if you are in the path of Tropical Storm Elsa, you are safe and dry.