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☆ I developed an Instagram addiction as a new mom. I now delete and redownload the app every day to set boundaries.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Annie Atherton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After having a child, I began using Instagram compulsively as a diversion and quick form of escape. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . But eventually, I realized I was addicted to social media and made changes to set up boundaries around the app. AdvertisementAfter having a child, Instagram became an addictionDuring the long, slow days of early parenthood, I checked the app compulsively. AdvertisementSo far, I feel way less distracted and anxious during the day.

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☆ The New Antisemitism Is the Oldest Kind
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Lance Morrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: After the massacres of Oct. 7, the burden is now on Israel to end the war in Gaza. Images: Reuters Composite: Mark KellyI remember a dinner party on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1970s when I and my first wife, who was Jewish, shared lobster with a half-dozen nicely tanned Protestants in sherbet-colored golfing trousers. They chattered about what pests “those people” were, who kept “pushing” to join the local beach club, even though they were “not wanted.”“Gee,” said a middle-aged Princeton man—pronouncing the word “jay”—“why don’t they stick to their own clubs?”

Persons: Mark Kelly, “, ” “ Gee, ” Organizations: Princeton Locations: Israel, Gaza, sherbet

☆ What Makes a Tiny Home Cool? Apartment Therapy Has Some Ideas.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Julie Lasky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Likely, when we close our eyes and think of a small space, it’s white walls, no lighting and bad storage,” said Nate Berkus. Mr. Berkus, the celebrity interior designer, was standing in a bright, cabinet-outfitted bathroom that he designed for Apartment Therapy’s “Small/Cool NYC,” a pop-up exhibition in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The event, which is running on consecutive weekends this month and will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 29, is halfway between a showhouse and a showroom. More than a dozen 10-by-12-foot room schemes — imagined by creators as fresh as Maitri Mody, a fashion influencer who posts on Instagram under the name Honey I Dressed the Pug, and as seasoned as the talk-show host and domestic strategist Drew Barrymore — offer tips for loosening up tight quarters. Visitors can steal ideas like Ms. Mody’s choice of fruit-and-vegetable-shaped hardware on sherbet-colored kitchen cabinets or they can shop the settings using QR codes.

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☆ How America fell out of love with ice cream
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Ice cream is “the ultimate comfort food.”Drinkers swapped a pint for a scoop, and for ice cream makers, Prohibition was a boon. “In fact they say that the ice cream business is bound to increase in volume from year to year as more people are using ice cream since the coming in of nation-wide prohibition and the going out of the saloon.”The interest in ice cream continued in World War II, buoyed by the government’s use of the frozen dessert to help boost morale. Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock“We built pop-up ice cream factories on the front lines, delivered individual ice cream cartons to foxholes and spent more than a million dollars on a floating ice cream barge that patrolled the Pacific delivering ice cream,” Siegel said. Scoops of Falooda ice cream are placed on top Blueberry Lavender ice cream at Pints of Joy in Sunnyvale, California. Today, she teaches aspiring ice cream entrepreneurs how to make ice cream.

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☆ A Dessert Recipe So Good, I Was Sworn to Secrecy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Ligaya Mishan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The base was always strawberry, the rosy slush whorling down into the cup. Halfway through, Mr. Young would stop the machine and spoon in the liquid skimmed off a jar of li hing mui, a local snack of preserved plums soused on a brew of sugar and licorice. Neale Asato loved that li hing Icee, too. It was the inspiration for his li hing float, a meld of strawberry sherbet and vanilla ice cream with hidden seams of li hing sauce, one of the best sellers at Asato Family Shop in downtown Honolulu. Freeze to a slush, then whip on high speed, letting in the air until it expands, a pink cloud rising.

Persons: Kon Ping, Mr, Young, —, hing mui, He’d, Neale Asato, Asato, Gunji Locations: Honolulu, Hawaii, Waikiki, Green, Iowa, Maui, Jokichi, Japan

☆ I've been a cab driver in London for 20 years. Graveyard shifts were the best — you never know what'll happen in the back of a cab.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Olivia Atkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Asher Moses completed The Knowledge, a memory test, and became a London black-cab driver in 1989. He said the test was very challenging and that he loved the excitement of graveyard shifts. London is the most incredible capital in the world, and I've been a cab driver in the city since 1989. Learning London's road map committed me to become a taxi driver. Memorizing the 46,000 London streets in the 6-mile radius around Charing Cross was one of the most challenging things I've ever done.

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