How to Make a Good Live Wallpaper for Your iPhone
Live Wallpapers are one of iOS’s neat if underused, features. It’s fun—and very Harry Potteresque—to have a bit of motion on your lock screen. But setting...
7 Books that Illuminate the People and Places on the U.S.-Mexico Border
A reading list to understand the thorny complexities of both sides of the border wall Border Wall at Tijuana and San Diego Border The U.S.-Mexico border stretches from...
How to Write Your Debut Book’s Acknowledgments Section
Start with “Aren’t we all essentially alone?” Photo by rawpixel “I t was traumatic.” “I had nightmares.” “It set me back six months in therapy.” Debut authors...
How to Create a System Image Backup in Windows 7, 8, or 10
The built-in backup utilities in Windows are pretty solid. Let’s take a look at how to create a full backup image of your PC without the need...
How to Deliver a Baby and Solve a Murder: Bookish Unnecessary Life Skills We Learned from Reading
Being a reader is great because you learn all kinds of things from books—but sometimes those things are skills that are totally unnecessary in real life....
30 Tiny Lessons from 30 Memoirs
During the past year, I spent a lot of time reading memoirs and essay collections. It’s always a privilege to be able to slide on someone’s...
5 Slightly Ridiculous Unsolved Mysteries of the Harry Potter Series
I have started rereading the Harry Potter books to help me get to sleep at night, since I know them well enough that I don’t feel...
Trying to Grow Your Own? Read These Books About Gardening
Gardening is a relatively new hobby of mine, in that I’ve been growing plants in my house for about three years and last year moved outdoors...
Bookish Patches For All Your Winter Fashion
As winter arrives, we’re all piling on the layers. And when it comes to layers and fashion, there is only one thing better than a denim...
Shifty I’s, ‘Ariel,’ and Fandom
In one of my teenage notebooks I wrote the phrase delicious doom just over a hundred times, filling the unlined page with black 0.5mm Pilot Rollerball...
