Episode #143: Our Daily Essentials!
Grace and Alvina share the things in their life that they can't live without, including food, exercise apps, and shoes! They came up with this idea for an episode after Grace was featured in Mother Magazine and she was asked about 12 mother essentials.
Some of Grace’s Essential Items:
Merrell Sneakers; night sneakers, kid ones that glow in the dark, and rainbow ones!
Svaha for leggins with pockets!
CrioBru! Drinking it everyday and the favorite flavors are: double Chocolate, caramel and peppermint.
Go Zen! -A program to help kids deal with anxiety
Some of Alvina’s Essentials:
Peloton Bike- on a 20 day streak!
Tempur-Pedic pillow
Sleep shirts from Brooklinen
Trying to lessen her trash amount and recommends: Tru Earth eco-friendly laundry detergent.
Hot water boiler!
CIAK brand personal journal
Lumio book lamp
Fortune Cookie Segment: Publishing News
New imprint in 2023: Rocky Pond Books! Read all about it here.
“What are you grateful for?”
Alvina is grateful cooking in more and for great Chinese food at home. Grace is grateful for everyone buying cookie’s for Hazel’s Girl Scout cookies and knowing so many generous people in the community.
Special Tribute:
The Book Friends were going to have a tribute episode to memorialize all the authors and illustrators we lost in 2021, but instead they decided they will play the recorded tributes at the end of these episodes until Lunar New Year (or whenever they run out of tributes.) The Book Friends would love to hear your memories of these authors and how they touched your life in some way or another. On the bookfriendsforever.com menu, click “Record your author/Illustrator Tribute” and record your memories through Speakpipe. Some of the authors and illustrators we lost: Jerry Pinkney, Tomie DePaola, Beverley Cleary, Lois Ehlert, Eric Carle, Patricia Reilly Giff, Floyd Cooper, and Gary Paulsen. We encourage you to leave a memory and we’ll share it on a special upcoming episode! Thank you!
On this episode, you will hear a tribute to Floyd Cooper.
Thank You!
*If you’re a patron, don’t forget to check out this week’s Random Questions feed! Authors Erin Geiger Smith and Grace Lin answer the random question: “What is your least favorite word and why?” Click here to listen! If you’re not a patron already, join today!
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