The Best of April (and a little of March)
The Best of April (and a little of March)
What I read and enjoyed, what made me laugh, and what I think you'll like, too.
Good morning, friends! March got away from me and I never published a BoTM so you’re getting a two-for-one deal today. I’m mostly focusing on April but I’ve got a few links from March that were too good to leave behind.
Twitter (never X)
Substack no longer embeds links to Twitter but if you click on each image you’ll be taken to the original post on Twitter and you can follow all these funny people and organizations!
Articles, Newsletters, and Essays
in Searching for Grace. I drew some different conclusions about this 28-minute special but I thoroughly enjoyed Beccy’s take on its controversial ending. in The Catholic Feminist. I cannot say enough good things about this thoughtful essay on how we are all, male and female, called to be homemakers on this earth.Fasting from Food in a Land of Plenty by Jeanne Whitlock in Christianity Today. I cut down my phone usage during Lent this year since I am still nursing (not a great idea to fast from physical food while also feeding a baby) but the concept of letting go our grip on excess was really helpful to me in thinking about fasting.
What I Thought My Life Would Be Like After Decanting All My Spices Into Mason Jars by Joe Viner in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. A good laugh for all of us who have high ambitions for short-lived organizational plans!
. “Hurry can become a way of life for people, a treadmill they can’t get off. This is the way our consumer society is designed to work — we not only want products, we become products, and hustle and hurry become core values.” Jeannie’s writing is always so thought-provoking and this short piece is no exception.Resisting our ‘new dark age’ by
in Religion News Service. A convicting call to action through deliberate inaction, in a manner of speaking.And I’m delighted to share that I had the honor of winning Best Nonfiction in my undergraduate literary journal, From the Fallout Shelter, this year. Here is a link to Sassafras by yours truly.
Page and Screen
I’ve got some book and movie reviews coming up so we’ll save those for May! For now, I’ll just say I’ve been really enjoying Bunmi Laditan’s humor writing about parenting (just finished The Honest Toddler, which is laugh-out-loud funny and about to start Confessions of a Domestic Failure) and I’m very excited to finally sit down with
’s recent release Till There Was You.What I Wrote This Month
See above, I guess. I actually did a good bit of writing this month even as I’m wrapping up my spring semester in British literature, but that writing hasn’t been published anywhere just yet. I’ll be back soon with plans for a summer full of reading and writing just for fun, and no schoolwork (insert praise hands emoji) so stay tuned for that. I’d love to hear what you enjoyed most in April! Please leave me a link in the comments!
Until May,
Amy
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