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Distancing Diaries: Giving In, Not Up

2 April 2020 • Kimberly

corona quarantine outfit - lsnup sweatshirt

The good news is that I'm still reading one book a day; the lukewarm is that I officially gave in—not up—to the daily sweatsuit, even for Zoom calls. At the start of this self-isolation, I approached working from home as if I were going to the office: I would dress up (even more so than I usually ... Read More

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Quarantine Reading: One Book a Day (Week 1)

31 March 2020 • Kimberly

books to read during COVID-19 self-isolation

I gave myself permission to just be during the first few days of self-quarantine. If I were a more glamorous woman—or perhaps, just a better woman—this would've involved early mornings, stretching, meditating, and sweating (in a pastel Outdoor Voices co-ord, no less) before dressing up in a proper ... Read More

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The Art of Distance

26 March 2020 • Kimberly

pink peonies love letter

Yesterday marked my first full week working from home, and two weeks since I finally took COVID-19 seriously. Just three weeks ago I was another millennial contrarian convinced that the coronavirus was something over-dramatized; I dismissed it as another strategy of 21st-century yellow journalism ... Read More

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