#59 A Slow Sunday Scroll ☕️
a child-free memoir, podcasts I'm loving & my new retreat
Welcome to this week’s Slow Sunday Scroll! For any newbies: this is one of my most popular features of The Hyphen and I’ve been compiling these lists for my readers of things I’m loving, reading, listening and watching for years. I describe this round-up as ‘the opposite of doom-scrolling’. A little injection of creative inspiration.
This week I announced my next creativity retreat
! My Creative Unblocking workshop has been expanded into a whole weekend and I’m super excited! There are only two spots left. Spend two days/nights with me at a stunning venue in the Brecon Beacons in the Welsh countryside: think green valleys, hidden lakes and ancient woodlands. Comfortable, relaxing and inspiring — this will be a weekend of learning, connecting and reflecting with a group of like-minded creative individuals. ♡ I’ll be sharing everything I know about living a creative life over the past decade. It’s very nearly sold out so if interested, email hello@easeretreats.com. Full details via link below.
Your Slow Sunday Scroll
— The therapist who hated me
— How to not burn out again
— Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph interview
— David Nicholls on long soggy solo walks
— Working With Your Hands Is Good for Your Brain
— The Parents Who Regret Having Children
— The new science of death
— Lena Dunham on Her Nail Journey
— I Think This Will Fix Me
— Why millennials are quitting the rat race
— The contested afterlife of Amy Winehouse
— The Life and Death of Hollywood
A wonderful guest column by
on the ‘quarter-life crisis’. I thoroughly enjoyed this article — it’s free to read, so feel free to share with friends!
— Currently reading (and loving) Glynnis MacNicol’s memoir No One Tells You This about being a 40-year-old single child-free woman.
— There’s a new Ann Lamott book on love called Somehow. It’s so comforting.
— Tavi Gevinson’s new fan-fiction zine. A masterclass in self-publishing and sharing your art!
— Almost finished
— I read Salman Rushdie’s memoir Knife about surviving an attempted murder on stage. Incredible to read about what he went through, and how he has healed. Side-note, my favourite parts include his reflections on his friendship with Martin Amis and emails they shared before Martin died— and a conversation he had with Fran Lebowitz over dinner.
— I do a lot of my reading in bed. I recently received some new bedding from a new company called Cottsbury and it is SO SOFT. They’ve kindly offered a discount code should you want to try some yourself. Just use THEHYPHEN20 at checkout.
