The other day, while on a walk, my friend asked me something I’d waited my whole life to hear…
Food
The 9 Most Exciting Cookbooks This Fall
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Well, it is for cookbook enthusiasts, at least. That’s because fall is traditionally the season when publishers release their A-Listers, and this year, things seem to be on overdrive — maybe because they know we might be hunkering down even more than usual over the next few months. Here are nine books I can’t wait to dive into on cozy, fire-in-the-fireplace kinda days…
Relationships
How to Stop Hiccups (For Real)
We’ve done many how-tos over the years — how to cut your own bangs, how to make friends as an adult, how to nail a high five — and now, here is a foolproof way to stop the hiccups…
Design
12 Readers Share Their Cozy Corners
On Instagram, we asked readers to send in the cozy corners of their home, and we got tons of replies! (I wish we could do a book of them!) Says Whitney, above: “I realize you can’t see a ton of my home, but this is the part of my couch that abuts the fireplace mantle. It’s my safe space.” Here, 11 more women share their nooks…
Motherhood
What Are Your Screen Time Rules?
Design
Have a Lovely Weekend.
What are you up to this weekend? We are finalizing the boys’ Halloween costumes (VERY important work) and talking walks around the neighborhood. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…
Wow, here is Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones’s casting “chemistry read” for Normal People.
Is this the coziest sweater for winter? I love how chic it looks.
Cool glow-in-the-dark drinks for Halloween.
What if friendship, not marriage, was at the center of life?
Kristen Welker was the best debate moderator.
How Liz Lemon, Leslie Knope and other TV characters would handle the pandemic.
An interview with a death doula. “[When I die], I want to have a soft blanket and a pair of socks because I hate it when my feet are cold. I want to smell nag champa incense and amber. And I want to hear the sound of running water, like a creek. I’d love to enjoy all those senses for the last time. And when I die, I want everybody to clap. Like, ‘Good job. You did it.'”
How pretty is this houseboat in Cornwall?
“Five things I DON’T buy at Trader Joe’s.”
6 styling tricks learned from Princess Diana.
Plus, two reader comments:
Says Hali on five fun things: “Trends are so funny. Currently, the slouchy bag thing is a hard pass for me — they remind me of weird 90s shopping malls for some reason. But watch: in three months, they’ll wiggle their way into various carts I’ve compiled across the internet until one finally makes it to my doorstep and I’ll be so pleased with it. Why does that happen?! I’m asking it not to happen! Someone hold me accountable to my own taste!”
Says Elle on finding my own expressions of Blackness: “KIM!!! This hits me deep. I, too, have had the same experiences growing up Black in white spaces. I remember being excited to go to college to finally meet other Black students, only to be disappointed with ‘Why do you talk so white?’ ‘What is that weird music you’re listening to?’ Questions that never go away but the pain of hearing them has. I’m me, unapologetically. And I’m so proud to be raising a teen daughter who proudly wears a big afro and plays guitar in a punk rock band. We proudly wear our Van Halen, Pink Floyd, and Red Hot Chili Peppers T-shirts when we’re out and about.”
(Photo by Marmalade Floral.)
