90. ✨🖋️ my glitter pen: a zine 🖋️✨

thinking about small, everyday acts of joy

Hello, and happy Monday!

Tomorrow is my 30th birthday. It feels like all last week the flowers knew, because I’ve noticed tulips and daffodils springing up everywhere on my walk to work. I’ve been eating my lunches outside to enjoy the weather. The coming of spring has just generally been a lovely experience this year, and it’s always been so nice to have my birthday come at a time when the days are getting longer and there is more sun to enjoy.

In the spirit of all things lovely, I want to share a little thing that has been a small, everyday joy of mine while I am writing. And I wanted to do it in zine form, because it’s been a while since I’ve made a little zine, and I’m itching to get back into it!

✏️ Still processing.

🌀 Still consuming.

• Above: A tutorial on how to make your own zine out of a single sheet of paper!

• I always love peeking in on writing spaces, and here are five spaces inhabited by five female authors. 📖 💓

• Banned Books for All! (From the NYPL)

• Mr. Brightside—the soundtrack of my middle school daydreams. I love any and all interpretations of it, including this one!

• This makes me feel so much better about all the unread books on my bookshelf.

• From Claire Potter: One of the Earliest Sources of Disinformation in American History Was--American History

📖 Book club corner.

Friends! For April’s book club (which is TONIGHT!), we will be reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer! I’m so excited!! Feel free to purchase the book here, and the details are below!

Here’s the event info:
Date & Time: Monday, April 25 @ 5PM PST/8PM EST
Registration Link!
Suggested Donation (for those able to donate): $3-10 through Paypal or Venmo (@idyalz)

You can learn more about the tiny driver book club here!

🐶 A pup-date.

Higgie is currently living that slug life:

As always, thanks so much for reading through, and I'll see you in the next one!

Warmly,
Ida