This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen writer.

Hey friends, in this episode I'm chatting.

Hey friends, in this episode I'm chatting with my friend and co-host Christine Bailey and

like always we're talking about what we wrote about this week. Christine is a farmer

so believe it or not the fall is her family's busy season.

I always thought it'd be summers for farmers, but shows how much the city girl knows.

So in this chat, she shares ways.

She's flipping the script when it comes to busyness a word we both hate so things like

ways to think about the things on your plate how to explain things to others and what we can

embrace in the midst of all the fall frenzy and then I wrote about what I read this past month.

So in this chat, I'm talking about the benefits of reading different genres,

even genres we don't normally gravitate to.

So like sci-fi or mysteries or non-fiction history.

And then I also share good examples of each type

that I've been reading lately.

We'll get right into it, but first a quick reminder to make sure you're signed up for my weekly

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