Upcoming: getting back into reviews

Back in the day, I used to review a thing or two. Sometimes it was written reviews (various weeklies like Gaze or Lavender, the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, some zines, and various online venues) and sometimes it was a review in the form of sculpture/art jewelry. Greg van Eekhout has a fossil piece I made when I was given his first book to read; various other authors have reaction pieces I made when inspired by their work, or by their discussions of doing their work. That sort of thing.

I miss doing that. So I'm going to start up again and see what happens.

If you keep a list for where to send review copies, drop me a line at lionesselise at gmail dot com, or leave contact information here for where I should send you a message. Thanks!

in the midst: nearly a year has gone by

My sister and I have been talking about childhood learning and adult learning or re-learning, about agency and autonomy, about critical thinking and biases and knowledge and respect and all of that. It's been on both of our minds particularly because we're coming up on the first anniversary of our father's death. There's a book I'm reading about raising critical thinkers. I can't wait to talk about it with my sister.

If you've lost a parent, is there something you were reading about a year later that was particularly meaningful, particularly helpful, to you?

Any advice you might have for someone getting through the year anniversary of the death of a (complicated? estranged? charismatic? difficult?) parent is welcome here in this particular comments section.

And now I'll go back to thinking about what my sister's been saying about things she wishes we could have learned earlier, and ways that learning gets accomplished, as I read this book on raising critical thinkers. (Review upcoming. Probably without too many digressions about Catherine Winkworth, but we'll see.)

Pantone Color of the Year amusement

So I just put this necklace called "Peach Wisdom" up in my Etsy shop, and posted about it on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/lionesselise.bsky.social/post/3kfxv3lzzul24

And I am amused because today the Pantone Color of the Year was announced.
Peachfuzz.

https://www.pantone.com/products/lifestyle/limited-edition-mug-pantone-color-of-the-year-2024

(No, I do not need a peachfuzz mug. Kind of wish I had gotten a periwinkle one when that was Color of the Year, but the cupboard is crowded as it is.)