Puzzle Maker: Ingooood (China) Title: Owl family Pieces: 1000 Cut: Grid cut Relative difficulty: * Overall quality: * Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Ingooood-Jigsaw-puzzle-2018-family-1000-Graduation-Decompression/dp/B07B7HJR34(the US store is out of stock on this, but we don’t recommend it anyway) Review: At first we were really excited about this puzzle. Visually, it’s gorgeous. And all wood! And then...
With the holiday season in full swing, it makes sense to consider our physical health. This is not code for considering our weight. Healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and I think body positivity is a must! For those of us with chronic illness, “healthy” can be relative, but it is usually...
I just spent a week in Tokyo teaching professors, post-docs, and PhD students how to write better papers for submission to STEM journals. There are a lot of rules to this, but also a certain mentality that’s changed over the years. As recently as 20 years ago, authors strove to write dense prose that...
This month’s focus on self-care is the perfect opportunity to take care of things we may have been putting off. One thing I think we all may be guilty of putting off is getting our teeth cleaned and examined. This is a very important aspect of self-care because our teeth are a calling card....
Puzzle Maker: Appleone (Japan) Title: Dayton’s Repair Garage (note that we couldn’t find this for sale outside Japan) Pieces: 1000 Cut: Grid cut Relative difficulty: * Overall quality: **** Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.co.jp/アップルワン-APPLEONE-1000-769-1000ピース-デイトンさんのリペアガレージ（50x75cm）/dp/B0107NDFM4/ (note: Appleone import puzzles at US Amazon can run more than a hundred dollars for what should be a much cheaper...
December is one of the busiest months of year, and usually filled with social commitments that make it easy for self-care to go by the wayside. All of this makes December the perfect month to renew our commitment to self-care. A centerpiece of good self-care is a good night’s sleep. Research into sleep informs...
I’m currently working on my fourth novel, and querying my third novel. None of these have been published. But finally, I have a query that is resulting in agents requesting the full manuscript. One of the main things I learned in refining this query is how much it matters (or at least seems to)...