Discover podcasts you’ll love with Google Podcasts, now on iOS
It took me a decade to find the podcasts I love most. When I lived in Chicago, I started downloading podcasts for traffic-filled drives to soccer...
How to Use and Customize the Cursor on Your iPad
Apple introduced mouse and trackpad support for the iPad with the release of iPadOS 13.4. The new cursor is a dynamic and small translucent grey circle...
Binge Drinking To the End of Innocence
“Champion Beasts” by Aimee Cryer Junie Gunn went home early from school because her armpits smelled bad. She called her mom and told her that she...
7 Thrillers About Female Ambition
Thriller plotlines with a female protagonist often revolve around a child or primary romantic relationship (it’s right there in the subgenre’s name: domestic noir). And while...
6 Debut Fantasy Novels Starring Black Women
I often talk about how I created A Phoenix First Must Burn, my anthology of fantasy stories by black women authors, for my younger self, a...
Women in tech: “Don’t forget that your career will evolve.”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech...
Over the Bay Bridge: Haunted Oakland Spots Perfect for Graphic Novels
Oakland is a city that has reinvented itself in the last decade or so, which I would never have known but for the lucky fact that...
How to Get the Most Out of Storytime: Tips from a Children’s Librarian
I never intended to be a children’s librarian, so when I was hired as one, I was pretty in the dark as far as how to...
20 Books About Forbidden Romances
Books about forbidden romance capitalise on probably the most popular trope in the literary world. Perhaps the oldest trope too, with examples (such as the doomed tale...
Books for When Anxiety Makes it Hard to Concentrate
Books can make for a wonderful escape in anxious times – but sometimes, in those times, it’s hard to concentrate for long, especially when we first...
