*In an effort to push myself, I’m taking part in a creative challenge! This is just one piece of my original hand lettering for the monthly challenge. Check it out here.

The New Yorker takes a look at the rise of school shootings using a socialogy theory on riots to explain how today’s school shooter is less radical than those of the late 90’s. Terrifying stuff.

Glamour is slaying lately with incredible interviews of real role models for women. Sarah Silverman opens up on her struggle with depression. The line that hit home for me: “Like my mom always said, you just have to be brave enough to exist through it.”

Think your apartment is too small? A Google software engineer got tired of paying through the nose for a Bay area apartment he was rarely enjoying and is now living out of a box truck. 

They finally made a taco emoji!! Did you know there is an entire organization that decides what emojis get approved to work across all devices? NPR explains.

I found the best app for all the introverted extroverts out there. Avoid Humans lets you see which nearby restaurants and cafes are noisy and crowded – and which are peacefully empty. I can’t wait to use this on my next lazy afternoon of writing.