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What are you up to this weekend? The boys have all sorts of teenager-y plans, which leaves me time to read my book, Maria, Maria. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy — it doesn’t come out until February — but omg I think it’s going to be huge. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…
My fall uniform is shaping this shirt plus favorite jeans and rosy cheeks.
The #1 way to make real friends. “I’m so serious about this theory that I can’t imagine anyone disagreeing.”
Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman’s Fleabag reunion. They basically just wheeze-laugh.
Min Jin Lee’s treasure-filled townhouse. (NYTimes gift link)
Isn’t this poem beautiful?
Yummmm, pear crisps with vanilla brown butter.
Dustin Hoffman’s insecurities on the set of The Graduate. “‘Don’t try to do a character, don’t try to be funny,’ [director Mike Nichols] told us. ‘Start from zero.’ Mike took me back to my adolescence — my acne, my barely suppressed horniness.” (New Yorker gift link)
Anton and I both put this on before bed every night, haha.
Staying cool at the airport. “I watched as a man took a step forward to get in line and saw him step right in front of a woman who was on her last nerve…”
12 gifts I’d love to find under the tree.
Plus, two reader comments:
Says Maura on tell me a peak parenting moment: This summer, my 17-year-old and I flew to the Oregon coast. For my special needs kid, you couldn’t design a more agitating experience than TSA — waiting in long lines, answering strangers’ questions, going through an X-ray, taking off shoes! — and he always gets very upset. Invisible disabilities, especially in a Black boy, don’t always bring out the kindness. I stayed extremely calm, validated how annoying it all was, tried to distract when possible, told stories about other tough things he had managed to get through… all my tricks. When we were finally through the other side, the woman behind me came up and said very quietly, ‘That was a master class, mom.’ And it was a fantastic trip, btw!”
Says Shelby on tell me a peak parenting moment: “My four-year-old daughter asked me if she would ever be a mama. I told her if she wanted to, she could. She asked who her baby would be, and I said, ‘Well, we don’t know! It would be a brand new person,’ and she very seriously said, ‘But, Mama, I want you to be my girl.’ I genuinely teared up. As someone who did not have a gentle mother, that moment of connection reached back generations to heal.”
(Photo by Maria Ivanova/Unsplash.)
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