Wondering what to do this quiet boxing day? Listen to @ericavogel.bsky.social and @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social chat about what people get wrong about trans people. 💕 open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

Boundaries are a hot topic! What do you think about our take on them in this episode of Unboxing it? @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

I went on my friends Lara and Rowan's podcast. @larawellman.bsky.social @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

Rowan recently had a health scare and we tackled this topic in the middle of it. Uncertainty can be really tough. We shared some of our perspectives on what can help. open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

Have any of you tried a Skool community? I tempted to create one but also have never been in one…

As two people who have been online a lot and for a long time, and been asked “who cares?!” a lot, @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I tackled the topic of being online in this week’s episode of the podcast

Once upon a time a time I thought 70 was so old I wouldn’t want to live past that age. Thankfully my idea of what aging means and how it can feel has changed! Thank you Dani for joining Rowan and I on the podcast this week! @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social @curiouscrone.bsky.social

I’ve been overwhelmed by the expectations put on me by the world, and also catch myself putting unrealistic (or potentially harmful) expectations on the people around me. That’s what @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I talk about on this week’s episode of Unboxing It.

Have you ever heaed of aphantasia? I’ve got it and it means I can’t visualize. We talk about it and other cool ways brains are different in this week’s podcast! open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

@mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I had another great conversation for this week’s podcast. We talk about when things get hard again. How easy it is to feel badly about getting help. How much resistance we can have to getting help. And most of all that getting help is good.

Our latest episode is out. We got to talk about gender and allyship with Stevie Bees, designer of one of my favourite shirts. Ps before or after you listen to this episode, go check out their site and you can get a shirt of your own! steviesafespaces.com

I’m going to be fifty next year and I have feelings about that. So @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I talked about them :)

How do you deal with unexpected change? We talk about it in this episode and I also realize I might be in denial/have blocked out a lot of the difficult things I’ve gone through over the years. lol Unboxingit.substack.com #podcast #unboxingit @rowanjetteknox

They want us to fight each other because it saps our energy and divides us, and then we can’t fight them.

I've watched my friend Dani develop her wrapping skills and express her creativity using antiques, found materials and craft scraps, and I've been charmed by it. Now she's made a book, and she's a pro photographer, so it's a gorgeous book. If this is your kinda thing, go buy it and get wrapping!

Perfect perfect perfect. Or maybe not since I don’t really think perfection exists :) open.substack.com/pub/unboxing... @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

I’m leaving on an adventure Wednesday and I couldn’t be more ready!

So excited to launch this into the world!

Fast-track this NOW. ON is in big trouble.

My exciting news of the week is I’m launching a new podcast with @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social that starts next week!! It’s called Unboxing It and you should go check out our substack now so you can follow all the news about upcoming episodes 💕 Unboxingit.substack.com

Dressed in my resting isn’t lazy hoodie to record a podcast about how resting isn’t lazy. This is one of my favourite topics to talk about!!

I heard someone point out just how strange it is to revere being selfless. I agree. Revere kindness, revere goodwill, revere helping and supporting others. Don’t revere giving up your “self” in order to be a good person, we all deserve to be our full and complete selves, and to care about that self.

I’m so afraid of the millennial pause I keep cutting off the beginning of my words in videos and voice notes 🤪

I’ve been wondering what the real numbers were on this. That’s a lot less visits given both our population size and “February”

When you’re almost 50 and still wondering “What do I want to be when I grow up” - does that mean you’re a failure or does it mean something else? (This might have to be a topic discussed on my not yet launched new podcast ;)

One of my hobbies is finding supplies that can be reclaimed for art and sewing projects. Now I just need to figure out how I would ever get through even a fraction of it ;)

My feelings on striving for perfection

Apparently my dog is the boss of me because he annoyed me at my desk until I came to work on the couch with my laptop because that’s where he wants to be right now. But apparently only if I am also there ;)

Hostile Government Takeover It's a bop

American friends, I know there's a lot going on but as a historian I urge you to keep written (on paper) diaries. We won't be able to trust the government narrative of these times and first hand accounts will help historians have an accurate picture of this time period.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

Do you celebrate your wins? open.substack.com/pub/yourenot...

[insert fart noise here] Ffs let kids read whatever interests them in whatever format they want. Depriving them of what they enjoy won't cultivate a love of reading, it'll kill it. And labelling other books as...broccoli...isn't an effective way to sell kids on reading either.🥦 Oof indeed.

I’m not saying I’m planning for the end of things, but I am going to tell you that I’m taking sewing and canning lessons in 2025 just to be on the safe side.

In January I made the sad decision to cancel a trip to Vermont I was really looking forward to. But then I spontaneously booked a trip to Newfoundland to replace it and I’m very very excited about that :)

My new hoodie arrived and I’m tickled beyond belief 😄

Beyond crushing. Nature released a study a little while ago proving these policies increase suicide attempts among trans kids — and lawmakers pursue them anyways. Cruel beyond comprehension. I am so sorry this is happening.

Feel good story of my morning: My dad has been helping my daughter with math via zoom. He even borrowed a copy of her textbook from library so he could easily see what she’s seeing and prepare for their tutoring sessions. This all just feels so lovely to me 💕

Another look at my work in progress as I felt in a background that hopefully gives a bokeh style look at forest behind the birch trees

Hi there 👋🏾 I’m Kim. My debut book ‘Me and my Hair’ published last summer. I’m lucky enough to have written a range of non-fiction books. I’ve just made the leap to Bluesky and am looking forward to meeting other leaping authors! #booksky #authorsky 💜

Just this past weekend I was talking about the fact that I’ve been a quitter a lot in my life and how I wish others wouldn’t feel the need to stay in bad situations for so long just to prove they aren’t quitters.

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

The sun is shining through the window and warming my face and it is glorious. I wish you could all feel it because the photo isn’t all that exciting :)

My husband and I got our first matching outfits

After a two week break because of unexpected gallbladder surgery, I’m getting back to my morning journaling

I’ve cancelled my May trip to the states already.

Yes please. I'm in! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Two hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, in the latest landmark in the campaign to reinvent Britain’s working week. Article: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j... Website: www.4dayweek.co.uk