link loveAddie ManisCall Your Girlfriend, blood drive, blood donation, Bleed for Amina, books, feminism, A Wrinkle in Time, Sisters in the Storm, Jessica Valenti, Eater, Cecile Richards, food, politics, culture, Parkland, teenagers, BuzzFeed, organizing, flatulence, Sophie B. Hawkins, travel, luggage, Oscars, Get Out, Dunkirk, Marc Maron, WTFComment

Somethings & Nothings: March 4, 2018

a national #Bleed4Amina CYG blood drive, a Marc Maron WTF garage tour, flight-landing flatulence, a ode to "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover," and more

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Somethings & Nothings: March 4, 2018
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So You Forgot Valentine's Day...

give, bake, invest or travel - ideas to head off any February 14 disappointment

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So You Forgot Valentine's Day...
link loveAddie Manisrecipes, red lentils, butternut squash, La Colombe, Frogtown, fig tree, green thumb, Smitten Kitchen, wedding, wedding trends, lingerie, Valentine's Day, Valentine's gifts, Jeni's Ice Cream, ice cream, coffee shops, coffee, architecture, typewriters, nostalgia, pasta, cooking, kitchen tools, colds, sicknes, masculinity, feminism, Appalachia, history, intersectionality, nudity, lawComment

Somethings & Nothings: Friday, February 9, 2018

The Tyranny of the Man Cold, quick dinner recipes, type writer nostalgia, Valentine's gift ideas, and more

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Somethings & Nothings: Friday, February 9, 2018
link loveAddie Manishistory, librarians, sexting, feminism, gender relations, #metoo, barre class, hobbies, side hustle, Gilmore Girls, hoops, earrings, cultural appropriation, sustainable fashion, Zara, H&M, fast fashion, Los Angeles, travel, Highland Park, Jessica Valenti, Ann Friedman, prescriptions, medication, attention, focus, productivity, Super Bowl, Eagles, food rivalry, cheesesteaks, Nutella riots, France, Golde, Golden milk, turmeric, super blue blood moon, crystals, winter, spring, daylight, astronomyComment

Somethings & Nothings: February 2, 2018

Iggles pre-Bowl food rivalries, hitting the halfway point of winter, Nutella riots, and beyond!

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Somethings & Nothings: February 2, 2018
link loveAddie ManisMillennials, Instagram, rabbits, breakfast, nutrition, wine, traveling, coffee, Cuban coffee, poetry, learning, education, neuroscience, Japan, rice, Cardamom and Tea, business travel, travel regulations, Feminism, pomegranates, cooking, knife skills, flu, health, sickness, manchego, dining, cafes, photography, back up, archives, children, parentingComment

Somethings & Nothings: January 18, 2018

a guide to backing up your photography, an adorable Instagram rabbit, options for traveling with your wine bottles, and more

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Somethings & Nothings: January 18, 2018
books, recommendationsAddie Manisbooks, reading, recommendations, The Answers, Catherine Lacey, Bitch Doctrine, Laurie Penny, Bonfire, Krysten Ritter, perfume, senses, Grace Bonney, Design Sponge, makers, inspiration, In the Company of Women, M. F. K. Fisher, Love in a Dish, How to Cook a Wolf, Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam, trilogy, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, Samantha Irby, Meaty, Bitches Gotta Eat, The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Rebecca, Solnit, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words, essays, briefs, decisions, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, The Reporter's Kitchen, Jane Kramer, Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage, Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Tender, Nigel Slater, Marissa A. Ross, Wube, Wine. All the Time., 2017Comment

The Best Books I Read in 2017

food memoirs and dystopias and feminist essays, oh my

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The Best Books I Read in 2017
link loveAddie ManisGossip Girl, Netflix, Barry Jenkins, Notting Hill, tweeting, Smitten Kitchen, Deb Perelman, Grubstreet, Roxane Gay, writing, advice, goals, aluminum foil, household, Rebecca Solnit, travel, airlines, flight, medicinal mushrooms, wellness, ashwaghanda, creativity, deadlines, toxic femininity, feminism, humor, The New Yorker, ethical wardrobe, clothing, fashion, minimalism, capsule wardrobeComment

Somethings & Nothings: January 11, 2018

Roxane Gay on living your creative dreams, the 10th anniversary of Gossip Girl, Barry Jenkins breaks the internet with the funniest thing you'll read all day, and more

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Somethings & Nothings: January 11, 2018
food, recipesAddie Manissauerkraut, mushrooms, soup, bread, baking, homecooking, Hungarian, Slovak, Holy Supper, vegetarian, bobalki, family recipes, wellness, health food, recipe, Eastern Europe, Eastern OrthodoxComment

Bobalki & Sauerkraut Mushroom Soup

sauerkraut as health food: who saw that one coming?

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Bobalki & Sauerkraut Mushroom Soup