Brain Power: Bright Accessories and (Trying?) to Be Bright With My New Book From Harvard University Press! 🧠📚

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What’s new lately?! I’ve been enjoying the ending days of summer with…*drum roll* fashion fun and reading. So buckle up for some fashion goodies and diving into a new read!

Lately, I’ve been really loving to wear dark outfits paired with really bright accessories! These two skirts I’m wearing were both handed down to me by my mom, and I really love how they fit! 💗💙💚

💖 Fun side-note: This little notebook is something I’ve had since I was a kid, and I still use it nowadays as an adult to write my daily to-do lists for work-related stuff! The Ballerina Bunnies have always been my favorite Lisa Frank illustration! 🐰

I’ve always admired the idea of being in a book club. I’ve never been in one, and it’s always seemed like a really cute idea! What’s a gal to-do? Well, I sort of devised my own “sense” of a book club – it’s not a club per se, but I can view it as one!

I subscribe to Harvard University Press and Princeton University Press, and they’ll email me sometimes with new political science book releases. I can browse them and if I’m ready for a new book, I’ll pick one and order it! So, it feels like my own kind-of book club. 🥰

When I spotted The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall and the Future of the Administrative State by Thomas W. Merrill in the new release list, I decided on that one. Boy was I in for a surprise when I received it and started reading it – it’s WAAAAAAAY beyond my intelligence level, LOL! (I also picked up a bargain book at Barnes & Noble for supplemental reference!)

I swear I started reading it and I heard…

…PING!!!

The last thread holding my brain in place. The ol’ gray matter couldn’t handle it. BUT!!! I kept going, and I still keep going, letting myself take the book in slowly. I have heard The Chevron Doctrine referenced in the news lately, so I wanted to understand what it was.

I won’t try to explain it because I can’t explain it sufficiently enough, but I’m hoping by the end of the book, I’ll have a better understanding! 🥰

Thomas W. Merrill, who is a law professor at Columbia University, definitely knows this subject matter inside and out and goes above and beyond in explanation and perspective. Good job, sir!!! I salute your intelligence and you inspire me to keep on truckin’ through this book, no matter how hard my brain gears are turning as I do so.

And shoutout to my brain for trying to keep up! You rock! 👉🏼🧠💕

7 thoughts on “Brain Power: Bright Accessories and (Trying?) to Be Bright With My New Book From Harvard University Press! 🧠📚”

  1. First off. I love that skirt. It looks great on you. Nice accessories. Secondly, I don’t believe your new book, “The Chevron Doctrine,” is not above your intelligence level. It’s more like outside your experience. That’s great you are exploding your brain, expanding your knowledge, and stitching your gray matter back together by plowing through the book. The Chevron Doctrine is complex, and when you have finished the book, I would like to know your thoughts on whether you think some of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions limiting the power of government agencies to make and enforce laws undermine or neuter The Chevron Doctrine. Thomas W. Merrill might address it in the book.

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  2. I love the “bright” wordplay in this title! And, of course, your bright accessories! Your Barbie bag has always been one of my favorites, and it’s so cool that you still have (and use!) your Lisa Frank bunny ballerina notebook from back in the day. Finally, I “salute you” for launching your own book club of one! You always get to pick the next read and then, best of all, take your time with it. Way to keep on truckin’! 🌈🌞📘

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  3. The pop of color looks great with the darker outfits 💙🖤 Fish net looks fantastic on you! And how special that your mom gave you those skirts AND that you’ve had that notebook since childhood 😭❤️ Nostalgia is the best!

    LoL at the brain stuff 😁 I myself can only take so much, but good on you for tackling such complicated subjects! 👩‍🎓

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