Friends of a Certain Age
“The period for making B.F.F.’s, the way you did in your teens or early 20s, is pretty much over. It’s time to resign yourself to situational adult friends.”
Even though I’m 25, I sometimes feel exactly like this. The fact that I’m married can have something to do with it:)
Chic Shopping in Istanbul
“NISANTASI is Istanbul’s trendiest shopping district, as well as the birthplace of the Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk.”
Productivity: Is Productivity Killing Your Creativity?(via @Lifehacker)
“How often do you find yourself mindlessly swiping, tapping, and typing on your cellphone? While we’re all guilty of filling moments with these distractions, they may be killing concentration and thought.”
Anxiety: The 'Busy' Trap
“Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted. Dead on their feet. It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.”
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.”
On a Turkish Isle, Winds Tend the Vines
“One enduring memory of my trip last summer to Bozcaada, an island off the western coast of Turkey, is the aroma of maturing figs, lavender and rosemary carried by persistent winds that locals say help shape the island’s character.”
Iceland: Living with Volcanoes
“In addition to his own pictures, Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson scanned and preserved hundreds of archival photos of volcanoes for his new book, Magma: Icelandic Volcanoes.”
Hone Keychain For iOS Promises Customers Will Never Lose Their Keys Again
Well, I’ll probably need one for my keys, one for my wallet, one for my sunglasses…….
Where I Go: Padma Lakshmi
“When the Emmy-nominated television host, author, new mother, and co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America—hosting its fourth annual Blossom Ball fund-raiser this March—needs to get away, it’s Istanbul’s vibrant, historic culture that beckons. Her top Turkish tips for making the most of the city.”
