Do I quit, or just submit?

Forget the plans and focus on your preferences.

What Harry Styles taught me about empathy, ethics, and how to be a good person

A life of moving forward without looking ahead.

What to do when your brain needs ‘rewilding.’

Being able to change one's mind, to switch gears and change course is less of a privilege and more of a survival skill.

Summer days are ripe with the promise of bonus reading time.

Aller/Venir/Partir/Rentrer. To go, to come from, to leave, to come home.

How might we invite more poetry into our lives?

A feeling of utter impotence when it came to contributing something insightful to the emergent conversation about race and privilege. 

A re-read of Normal People illuminates the brilliance of the new BBC series

Remember when I used to write about food all the time?

Everyone is Hanging Out Without Me (and I’m fine with it)

Playlists are the new newsletters.

Maybe it’s a kind of mid-life crisis, maybe it’s just the timely reboot of High Fidelity, but making playlists has become my latest grasp at journalism.

Rebooting this woefully abandoned newsletter once again.

Life itself is the proper binge, said Julia Child, because of course she did.

Ladyswagger at 40 and beyond

I’m bored of design bros, I’m bored of consultant bros, I’m bored of chef bros, I’m bored of politician bros. Just ugh. Enough already.

There's a hole in my core that used to be filled with dough.