what i learned today

happiness project:

• Slate: Conclusion: Eating Healthfully, Because You’re Worth It?
• The Happiness Project: Two Important Lessons from My Much-Procrastinated Trip to the Dentist

work:

• Punctuation Errors: American and British Quotation Marks

parenting:

• The Happiness Project: 7 Tips for Giving Effective Praise.

travel:

• the talking trekaroo: Camping on the Gulf
  With our new-to-us PopTop VW, I’m on the look out for places to camp, especially near the beach!
• Road Trips for Families: Guest Post: Park Bagging and Passport Stamping – Road Tripping Gets Obsessive-Compulsive
  oooh. These would be great for our “Epic Journey out west” this summer…
• In Transit: Credit Unions Offer Chip-Based Cards That Work Abroad
  Good news! I always am annoyed when my credit cards don’t work at pay-at-the-pump and other such things in Europe.
• NYTimes Opinon Pages: Stripped of Dignity
  More on the TSA.

music:

• Bill Harley: So Long to Spoken Word
• Dadnabbit: A Conversation with Elizabeth Mitchell
• CNN: Dan Zanes: King of ‘Kindie’ rock

what i’m listening to:

• Dawes’s North Hills

now following:

• @valinreallife
• The Dredge Report

wish list:

• new potholders
• bed linens that actually cover my bed