The Berry Best: February

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Here are our favorite links from the past week — what gave us pause, made us smile, or inspired us in some way. Note we aren’t covering current events. In fact, some links may be to articles published a while ago. They’re new to us, and now they’re new to you! Enjoy!

What made us think

My Semester with the Snowflakes (Medium) A candid account from a 52-year-old veteran who went to Yale.

How Will you Measure Your Life (Harvard Business Review, 2010) Ideas for creating a life strategy, finding appropriate resource allocation, creating a culture and maintaining integrity.

The New Trophies of Domesticity (The Atlantic) Guilty as charged.

What made us applaud

20 Things Every Parent Should Hear (HuffPost) All the warm fuzzies.

Reminder

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Need meal ideas?

Here’s what we made this week

Tandoori Chicken (crockpot, serve over rice)
Ham and cheese quiche
Crispy sheet pan gnocci and veggies (Gnote: Gnocci does gnot made good leftovers)

Favorite Purchases

Affresh Washing Machine Cleaner. Yes, we are boring people who get excited about cleaners. We had some not-so-great smells in our washing machine, and after reading a bunch of stuff about taking apart the washing machine I said NOPE and bought this and it seems to have worked. For now.

Cuisinart 2-Slice Toaster. This one time in college I bought a toaster. Ten years later, I finally bought a new one. And the angels rejoiced. I’m wandering around muttering things like, “There’s a CANCEL button!” and “We can do BAGELS!”


Anything we missed? Pop your reminders, recipes, or favorite “a ha!” articles in the comments below for consideration next week. Sharing is caring.