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How to Keep New Year’s Resolutions: Lani’s 5 Tools For You
An annual theme for me (and many others!) is how to keep New Year’s resolutions. This week, I share the tools that are helping me, in the hopes that they inspire and help you keep your resolutions too.
Books to Get You Through 2020
Here are a lot of the books I’ve read in 2020. I’m including the kids books that have either become quality-time reading for our family or have kept my kids enthralled (off-screen) for long periods of time. All books are links to purchase through one of the DC area Black-owned bookstores.
Zoom Sleepovers and Other Tricks for a COVID Summer
This summer is a hard one. The kids want to see their friends, go to camp, and play in the pool. In other words, they want normalcy. Here are some tricks that have helped us get through the first month of summer.
Lani’s Summer 2019 Reading Recommendations
A big question for a lot of women with full lives is, how do you make time to read? The most obvious answer is of course, put down your phone! I know I’m not the only one who had fallen into the trap of scrolling through headlines or Instagram for 30 minutes before bed. Put … Read more
Lori M. Mihalich-Levin, JD, “Back to Work After Baby”
. Lori Mihalich Levin’s book, Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, should be required reading for all new mamas. Mom of two and creator of Mindful Return, an e-course and blog for moms heading back to work after baby, this woman knows her subject. I … Read more
What Lani’s Reading Now
It’s been awhile since I updated you guys on what I’m reading. Mostly that is because between all of the magazines I read and you know, work and kids, I haven’t gotten very far lately! Also, I listen to most of my books on Audible and per Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World … Read more
Is There Such a Thing as a Pre-Book Review?
Have you heard about the new trend of coming up with one word to define your whole year? I can’t seem to come up with a word myself, but I have come up with two books. Have I actually read either of these two books? Of course not. Why not you ask? One, who has … Read more
Lani Is Reading…
A question I get a lot is, “Which blogs do you read?” I used to think that I didn’t have time to read blogs. Turns out I just didn’t have time to read blogs about what they were wearing on the streets of Paris last Tuesday. Not that I don’t care about that, but with … Read more