This post is brought to you by Sézane.See more of my favorites from Sézane here. Happy spring! We’re kicking off our 2024 collaboration with Sézane with this month’s picks: spring wardrobe basics that are anything but. This collection features exciting new silhouettes that are both vintage and retro while still feeling on-trend. While Sézane is known…
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What do you like to wear when you’re traveling? We’re heading to Chicago next month for a Big Salad event (on April 25th, details forthcoming!!!), and I’m thinking about what to pack. For example, this soft, gauzy button down (above) looks so easy for walking around museums and stopping for lunch. When it comes to…
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A year ago, I was desperate to write some really good sex… Writing good sex scenes feels impossible for me. It’s not because I don’t like them. I do. I really, really do. I love reading sex scenes, and I love sex in real life. The problem with writing sex scenes as an author is…
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In the exhaustive pros-and-cons list I drew up last year, as my husband and I were wrestling with the decision to move back to New York from the suburbs, I had overlooked one giant pro… Which is this: People are always swinging through town! Friends from college, friends from our pre-kid 20s, old coworkers, world-traveling…
Read moreWhat Are Your Five Most Rewatchable Movies?
Earlier this year, when I went to Paris with friends… …I wrote that we often watch ’90s movies on trips, like The Fugitive, The Firm or Sleeping With the Enemy. They’re fun and familiar, so you can chat or pack or doze or eat your weight in cheese while watching them. Then a reader named…
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Last summer, in a book of short stories, I came across a character “wearing a little vintage sundress the color of excellent butter.” Doesn’t that sound just right? I’m still waiting to find that dress in the racks at a thrift store. In the meantime, I found Mya Gelber, a law student in Brooklyn who…
Read moreA Parenting Realization That Really Moved Me
The other day, the boys and I went to the park when a realization hit me… Sun poured over the playground, as Toby grabbed a basketball and Anton ran across the track. “Mom, watch this!” one of them shouted. “Mommy, check this out!” said the other one. They weren’t looking for feedback or coaching. Interestingly,…
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One of the biggest lessons I learned from spending eight days in total darkness. This sounds paradoxical, but… …I learned one of my biggest lessons about stopping procrastination by doing nothing for eight days. Last year, I spent over a week in a darkness retreat, where I sat in pitch-black without anything to do. Okay,…
Read more7 of My Favorite Winter-to-Spring Outfits I’ve Worn Lately
I’ve spent the last two weeks mostly in sweatpants, busy with work for the first time in a while (thankful for this!!!), but frankly, I miss getting dressed. I’ve learned this year to stop trying to do it all when my plate becomes this full because right now, not getting dressed feels like what I…
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Whose shoes are whose? By the wonderful Grace Farris. P.S. Spring weekends, and mom of tweens.
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