Author: candacebd
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Is the Rachel Hollis Start Today Journal Right for You?
I’m a sucker for planners. And journals. And prompts that get me to dissect my feelings and goals and move forward, which is why the second I heard the latest collection of Rachel Hollis Start Today Journals and Priority Planners were out, I had to scope them out. My review of the Priority Planner has…
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You Don’t Have to Feel Guilty for Being Happy Right Now
The coronavirus has upended our lives, and with so many people struggling—with COVID itself, and/or job losses, mounting debt, loneliness, and so on—it’s easy to feel in a constant state of worry. (In fact, in some ways, we’re living in an age of “Everyday Scaries,” as opposed to the Sunday Scaries, where people feel a…
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These Sesame Street-Inspired Cupcakes Are the Perfect Afternoon Project
Keeping little kids entertained can be an exercise in endurance. Your mind’s constantly spinning, trying to come up with ways to entertain that aren’t screentime, screentime, screentime (or involve endless cleanup). These Sesame Street-inspired cupcakes are a perfect afternoon activity—or birthday surprise—to keep the kids busy. Plus, they’ll eat up some of the mess, so…
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12 Bizarre Things That Are Livening Up My Social Distancing Days
Now that the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third month, many of us are starting to talk about our time in self-isolation in phases: “Remember when we were all obsessed with Tiger King?” And “Oh, that was during my eating-cookie-dough-straight-from-the-tube phase.” That sort of thing. We’ve all turned to different things to entertain, distract, educate…
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How to Take Back the Weekend When Every Day Feels the Same
Three months ago, most people’s water cooler talk on Fridays involved the same question: “What are you up to this weekend?” The question itself hasn’t changed, but now, Zoom, Slack and Google Hangouts have replaced the office water cooler (though, for the record, when was the last time you and your coworkers actually gathered around…
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Mini Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Loaves
It all started, as so many of my over-the-top recipes over the years have, with a ridiculous bout of wordplay: SpongeBread SquarePan. I had started a pop culture cupcake-decorating party for one amid all of this social distancing, taking requests from Instagram followers to create cupcakes that looked like the characters from shows we were…
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What Makes a Great Storyteller, According to Brené Brown
Leave it to Brené Brown to turn research on vulnerability into a must-watch video. Her TEDxTalk on the topic is one of the idea-sharing platform’s most viewed of all time, and over the years, she’s written several data-based New York Times bestsellers. What could be a totally dry topic is thrilling by her pen, so…
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3 Y2K-Era Digital Distractions That Deserve to Make a Comeback
People are coming up with all kinds of ways to entertain themselves right now—digital happy hours, Zoom raves, YouTube workouts—and as we search for new ways to feel connected without leaving our homes, I couldn’t help but remember the phase in my life when I naturally stayed inside, well, all the time: Y2K. Not because…
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6 Resources for Kids (and Parents) Who Are Social Distancing at Home
This isn’t a mommy blog. I’ve never taught homeschool. But, right now, I’m muddling through figuring out how to teach and entertain while working, and I know I’m not the only one. As we hunker down to try to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, many companies—and fellow parents—have shared free resources to help kids from…
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How to Mince Garlic (the Ultimate Hack!)
Sometimes, the “proper” technique just doesn’t work for the home cook. In culinary school, we were taught how to mince garlic by using the side of our chef’s knives to smash a clove, then dice it into teeny tiny pieces. That works, but chopping the pieces small enough can be tedious. So, one very odd…
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Is ‘Cancel Culture’ Giving Us an Excuse to…Escape Our Own Shame?
While reading the New Yorker this morning (yup, I do read things beyond what’s coming in the next FabFitFun box and the ingredients in Popeyes cajun sauce sometimes), I came across an interesting quote: “We’re in the midst of this cancel culture: ‘This person is gay, this person didn’t fight in the military, this person…
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Review: How to Get the Most Out of Rachel Hollis’s Priority Planner
Update (September 28, 2020): Target has just released the Q3 edition of Rachel Hollis’s Priority Planner and Start Today Journals, featuring designs inspired by Austin, TX (the previous editions featured LA and Mexico City). The jackets are all new, but the content remains the same, so my review stands. If you’re curious about her Start…
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