Life Lately, In Photos
Weekend Reads v. 28.3.2026
Whew! March sure flew by quickly, didn’t it? Yesterday, I sent a few photos to my nephew via my sister. (Side note: little kids are quite the executives, what with their 24/7 staff. Ha!). As I scrolled through the camera roll on my phone, I realized while March felt like a blur of mornings disappearing into afternoons, it was actually a productive and action-packed month for me.
Sometimes it takes just a few minutes of reflection to see you’ve been thriving all along.
How has March felt for you? Was this a productive month with lots of items crossed off your to-do list? Or was this a hard month that presented unexpected obstacles and let downs? Maybe this was a milestone month with an anniversary or birthday?
I thought I’d share some photos of how I passed the time this March, if you’re interested in taking a look.
What about you? What would your camera roll tell me about your month?
A seaside town in Ireland launched a successful grassroots effort to provide a phone-free childhood to its youngest residents.
A mail carrier shares what it’s like to work for the postal service. Key takeaways: walking up to 12 miles a day and reading all the postcards.
Good advice for life these days. (p.s. Karen, maybe this is what we should hang in our offices?)
“This generation has it easy; their emojis are just handed to them.” See also that time Kelly Rowland looked like she was texting via Excel.
Extremely practical recommendations (via an unlocked link from Cup of Jo).
Not sure if I like the sound of a Green Tomato Martini. On the other hand, this Green Goddess cocktail looks amazing.
How AI is creeping into some of the most trusted news sources. (Ahem, NYTimes, we’re looking at you).
99 things you can get rid of this week to decrease clutter.
Europe’s new biometric border system is causing major delays to people just trying to live their best life by visiting <insert charming European town name here>. It tracks that someone had to develop an app to deal with this new hiccup caused by tech. Maybe we can just go back to paper tickets and being civil when we travel?
New linen pajamas for you just in time for summer. Speaking of summer, a reminder about the most perfect fan for your bedroom / office / living room / wherever.
I read an article where the author argued in defense of beach idiots, a.k.a. college students on spring break. In short, some very dull journalist quizzed college students as they were catching rays on a Florida beach about the happenings of foreign policy. The answers were exactly what you’d expect. Sure, it’s important to know what is happening in the world. But it is perhaps more important to … live your life.
“I’d also be willing to bet that those beachgoers are far happier than most political obsessives — and, at age 20, happy is a pretty important thing to be…Properly understood, politics exists to create the conditions within which civil society can thrive. In consequence, it is extremely important. But it is not — and it must never be allowed to become — an end unto itself. We must get our politics right so that we may do other things with our lives: things such as build families, form businesses, attend churches, join associations, organize sports leagues, create art, and, yes, enjoy spring break. C. S. Lewis once wrote that “the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him; and that all economies, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, save insofar as they prolong and multiply such scenes, are a mere ploughing the sand and sowing the ocean, a meaningless vanity and vexation of the spirit.” This is true in Florida today, as it was in England in the middle of the last century, as it was in the time of the Romans. To interrupt a trip to the shore with rote sand-plowing is, ultimately, to forget why one has a plow in the first instance.” (Source)
One of my favorite writers, Rob Henderson, makes the case that “work is essential to happiness” in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.
A list of restaurants whose names contain unusual structures. Think, a house made of waffles.
Did Frank Lloyd Wright make a typographical error on one of his most notable buildings?
I hope this is a good weekend for you!
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