April 10, 2026
Good Things Friday (371) and Link Love
1. I’m sure something good happened? But I don’t remember.
April 3, 2026
Good Things Friday (370) and Link Love
1. It’s been such a week I’m just grateful to still be upright. Ish.
March 27, 2026
Good Things Friday (369) and Link Love
1. I scrubbed another quarter of the little oven clean and only have one last quarter to go! This cleaning project might take months in the end but it will be done!
2. I ran across this cookie recipe and felt that I very very much needed to make it. Haven’t made cookies in well over ten years though so I didn’t want to get my hopes up too high for cookies that would never be. BUT I managed to rest enough to scrape it together and now I have some cookie dough in the freezer for some future need and some in the fridge to make them chewier because I don’t like the crispy cookies.
March 20, 2026
Good Things Friday (368) and Link Love
1. We discovered a pickleball court nearby and took the kids to check it out. It’s simple and clean. We played very badly for a while and remembered how much running is involved in a game that requires a net and a court. I decided to stop early before I blew out a knee or something.
2. This is old but new to me and I love that this is how it turned out: Double Take: The fairy bush in Co Clare that moved a motorway
3. We tried the just-bake tilapia from Costco and 3/4 of us like it. That’s made fish night a little more interesting, I like having two kinds of fish on the table for variety. Some day I’ll learn how to cook whole fish like my mom used to but for now I can’t wreck a pre-breaded fillet and that’s a quick and easy dinner so I’m grateful for the option.
Helping folks: An elder needs help restoring his home, as does a grandmother trying to care for her grandkids.
March 13, 2026
Good Things Friday (367) and Link Love
1. I’m grateful for our robot vacuum. It’s getting old, it can’t do corners or crevices, and is limited to the wider areas of space but even still it can do the job well enough to save me the energy of running the full vacuum everywhere.
Helping folks: There’s still time to hit up the fandom craft market! This is a fundraiser run by Our Family, Our Fight for the American Immigration Council.
AIC provides legal representation to thousands of people detained by ICE, as well as working legislatively and through the courts to challenge our broken immigration system. They also work in 40 states to help local leaders and communities fight back.
We can help Maria with living costs for college.
March 6, 2026
Good Things Friday (366) and Link Love
Helping folks. We’re all about contributing to rent support this week.
Ian Coldwater adopting rents.
Naomi Kritzer fundraising for rent contributions. I went through the one with a match from the Wilson Foundation.
Small business Jack working as hard as he can to pay his rent, laboring under a heart condition.
Lily Meade and her mother are unhoused and she just lost her second book contract and her agent in succession. I know what it’s like to feel hopeless and I haven’t had to do it under as dire circumstances as she’s in.
Sonia Hale has been trying to get back on her feet after divorcing a domestic abuser.
Also feeding folks.
My friend in Alaska works with a refugee center and the facts are life is super bleak right now. Refugees without green cards are no longer receiving SNAP, refugees are no longer safe from DHS detaining them indefinitely regardless of their status, they will likely lose Medicaid sometime this year. This is despicable. We’re supposed to help people get on their feet and this is disgusting and inhumane. In response to this and many other problems created by this administration, the refugee center is working in with local groups to support local farms and provide food to those who need it: What is Grow Local, Give Local?
I’m adding this to my donation list for next week.
February 27, 2026
Good Things Friday (365) and Link Love
1. This line makes me laugh out loud every time I read it: “Oh thank the stars.” Caldenia exhaled. “No offense to your cooking, but the thought of going back to it was causing me actual anxiety.”
Helping folks: Watching Minnesotans helping their neighbors has been an extraordinary experience. Ashley Fairbanks built this site, Keep MN Housed, and through it, people from all over have been able to pitch in to help the community organizers on the ground. I’m glad they’re getting some attention and I hope it brings continual support. They’re on my list each week. I also hope that our communities can learn from this to effectively fight back when it comes home.
What others can learn from how Minnesota helped its most vulnerable residents during the ICE surge