kate + lemonade
Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl McBride
To paraphrase the wonderful Captain Awkward, “This book is for everyone, man or woman, whether your mother was narcissistic or not.” [1] It is life-changing.
I always wanted to make my own chicken soup, but the recipes seemed so complicated. (Looking at you, Binging with Babish, whose recipe includes at least 11 ingredients and three fresh herbs.[1])
Public service announcement: You don’t need all that stuff!
Chicken + onions taste great on their own. Add some carrots for color and variety, and some ginger for dimension, and this is a filling, warming, MINIMAL-EFFORT meal.
As a true summer, here are my rules.
(This post is illustrated with looks I love—on other people! I think every celebrity pictured below looks awesome, even if some of them aren’t necessarily wearing their best colors.)
People think they look trendy and industrial.
They look like you can’t afford lampshades.
The Lululemon mantra includes this line: “Successful people replace the words ‘wish’, ‘should’ and ‘try’, with ‘I will’.”
Here are some things I appreciated in Southeast Asia and Japan that I wish we had in Canada.
If you read one book a month, you probably have less than 800 books left to read in your life.
(I’m 26, so assuming I live to 90, that is 64 remaining years x 12 months = 768 books.)
In my first post on this topic, I said how my highest values are benevolence (for the world), reflection (for myself), and sincerity.[1] However, that has changed.
The color of your clothes (and hair, and makeup) affects your attractiveness. Consider the beautiful Eva Mendes:
Most of us will agree that she looks better on the right, where she is wearing her best clothing and makeup colors. But why?
1. “Thank you for your concern.”
Example prompt: “I wouldn’t wear that if I were you.”
What can they say in response—”I wasn’t concerned, I was just trolling”? Exactly.[1]