Writer and illustrator Hallie Bateman gives the best life advice…
Food
Three Throw-Together Breakfasts
Design
This NYC Apartment Makeover Made Our Jaws Drop
Sisters Hollister and Porter Hovey live and work together. They run a firm — Hovey Design — that stages homes for real estate. (Basically, they take apartments with great bones and redesign them to look their best.) Here, the sisters reveal the before and after of a Soho apartment…
Relationships
Who’s Your Celebrity Crush These Days?
Just for fun, I’m curious: Who’s your celebrity crush? Mine has giant biceps and a secret handshake…
Motherhood
An Infertility Story
Three years ago, cartoonist, author and Cup of Jo contributor Jessica Olien and her husband, Tim, started trying to have a baby. Since then, she has undergone multiple fertility treatments, sharing her journey in moving illustrations along the way. Here is her story, in words and pictures…
Design
Have a Lovely Week/Weekend.
What are you up to this week? MY MOM IS VISITING! She’s here from Michigan after more than a year! We are all so thrilled to see her. She says the boys have grown like three feet and apparently Toby’s hair has gotten darker. We’ll be taking a couple days off on Cup of Jo in order to soak her up, and we’ll see you next Monday. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…
Has the pandemic changed your friendships? (New York Times, by my husband Alex)
Digging this striped furniture.
“Should we have another child?”
I’m a huge fan of this glowy skin serum. (Here’s an amazing shade finder that really worked.)
I LOVED this book by comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.
My mom and I watched The Father last night, and the performances were astonishing. Highly, highly recommend.
This short podcast — about a little girl asking her father questions about life — made me so teary.
Loving these fashion combos.
“I’m the child of a hoarder — and I’m trying to do better for my own family.”
See you next Monday. Lots of love. xoxo
(Photo by Hilary Horvath Flowers.)
Food
Social Anxiety and the Power of Potato Chips
When I’ve been at my most anxious, I’ve felt like life is one long grocery list that includes something I need that I can’t find anywhere…
