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Dave's Picks | NYT | There’s an Art to Making Your Bed

Dave's Picks | NYT | There’s an Art to Making Your Bed

They say … you can start by disregarding thread count. Here’s what else the pros know that you may not.

Let’s talk about glorious sleep and the art of how we do it best. While there may be as many ways to make a bed as there are doing dishes, with myriad choices from sheets and quilts to coverlets and duvets, one secret of life is that sleep is king and rules the day and your bedding shouldn’t stress you out. In this piece experts offer suggestions for dressing our bed, not unlike dressing to express ourselves and move through life as our best self.

Dave's Picks | NYT | Welcome to the YOLO Economy

Dave's Picks | NYT | Welcome to the YOLO Economy

File Under: Choose happiness. Now?

Here’s a fascinating piece regarding a COVID trend, courtesy of WFH and the perils of our seemingly never ending lockdown. Perhaps you’ve made similar moves or know folks who, in the spirit of YOLO, were able to leave stable jobs in favor of postpandemic adventure? While we realize not everyone is fortunate to be so flexible as to abandon jobs or even careers in pursuit of happiness, it does beg a good look at the ways we can adapt, how perspectives shift, and how we prioritize as a society when backed into the corners of our homes, in order to simply stay alive. So this piece questions, when do we get to start living on our own terms?

Dave's Picks ICYMI | NPR • Housing Projects And Empty Lots. Chanell Stone Reframes Nature Photography

Dave's Picks ICYMI | NPR • Housing Projects And Empty Lots. Chanell Stone Reframes Nature Photography

California-based photographer Chanell Stone

is challenging the genre of nature photography, made popular in the 1900s by (typically white) men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. The idea back then being that nature was remote, wild, and untouched — environments she notes in this NPR piece have too often been off limits or inaccessible to low income Black people.

Dave's Picks | NYT Opinion | They Escaped During The Pandemic. Now They Must PAY.

Dave's Picks | NYT Opinion | They Escaped During The Pandemic. Now They Must PAY.

Ok real talk. Do you have sharp thoughts or opinions! about NYC COVID deflectors? Cheekie Mr. Luke Winkie penned an Op-Ed for the NYT — in a voice we rather dig.

Dave's Picks | NYT | 90,000 Packages Are Stolen in N.Y.C. Every Day. How One Building Fought Back.

Dave's Picks | NYT | 90,000 Packages Are Stolen in N.Y.C. Every Day. How One Building Fought Back.

Interesting followup on package theft, a topic we’ve visited before — but this time, people are fighting back and we gotta say, you love to see it.

With rampant package theft still an ongoing problem, Speak to Dave is here to help you — just contact Jeff or Asa for a solution. But first, read on for tips and options to avoid theft in the first place.