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2026.01.16
I'm reading The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller. [ 44% ] 📚
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2026.01.16
I'm reading Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K–12 Settings by Ashley Hawkins, Emily Ratica, Sara Smith, Julie Stivers, and Sybil “Mouna” Touré. [ 23% ] 📚
I suggested this title for a PD book club at work and they actually took me up on it!
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2026.01.12
I watched Stranger Things 1 (2016). 🎥
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2026.01.11
I realized that though I’ve been making this chili for years I never have set down my version of this old recipe. So, this afternoon before I cooked I documented everything I was going to do, and now I’m sharing it here.
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2026.01.11
I'm listening to Complete Discography of SAULT (from newest to oldest) by SAULT. 🎵
I don’t think I can hear a new SAULT album without listening to it a couple of times and then needing to go back through everything they’ve ever done, or nearly everything.
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2026.01.11
I'm listening to Chapter 1 by SAULT. 🎵
Like tuning into some alternate universe cosmic retro soul radio station, so great.
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2026.01.05
Below please find my bespoke reading log for the current year. You can also visit my past year-specific reading logs:
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2026.01.04
I'm reading Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang again. [ ↻ 25% ] 📚
Reading with my son at bedtime some nights. (Only once in a while because most nights my bedtime is earlier than his now.)
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2026.01.04
I've been listening to LOWER by Benjamin Booker. 🎵
This is a really solid collection of songs, quite liking it.
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2026.01.04
I stopped reading Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America - with Kate Nelson and Kristen Donnelly by Sean Sherman. [ Did Not Finish ] 📚
Need to return to library, but placing on hold again to continue reading later.
This is a cookbook to read all the way through, as much about history and culture and how foodways tie everything together as it is a gathering of recipes