Friday Finds July 2016
The legacy of The Babysitter’s Club. I had every single Babysitter’s Club book, even the special ones. I wish I had saved them, but I donated them to the library where I know so many young readers enjoyed them.
Fast fashion throughout history.
A brief history of the Converse All-Star logo.
Beaver skydiving in Idaho, 1948. AKA beaver transplantation. Weird!
Kodak film and A-Bomb testing.
The oldest living American dies— and she went to Brown, my grad school alma mater.
Whenever I get discouraged about where I am in life, where I think I ‘should’ be and all that, I remember that Julia Child didn’t write her first cookbook until she was 50. She, and other late bloomers, are my source of inspiration!