Morrison has always said I need a hobby. I say baking is my hobby, but it has a very clear point, feeding people, and doesn’t a TRUE hobby need to be less, I guess, productive? …
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my peace
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how to make the fire about yourself
My new neighbor is outside her house sweeping up ash, she stops me to tell me they almost bought a house in Atladena. They were deciding between that one and the one next to us, …
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what to wear when the world is burning
8 PM Tuesday night, Santa Ana winds howling like ghost trains, Morrison giving us all headlamps, our neighbor texting FIRE!!!! As another put the one in his yard out with a garden hose, a firetruck …
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toilet paper
From 2004-2006, my friend Elizabeth and I shared a TINY (TINY TINY) apartment in the west village. We were both in grad school, we had a pet mouse and roasted a lot of broccoli and …
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arts and crafts
After last years a Very Covid Thanksgiving I didn’t want to cook a single thing this year or preheat a single oven or shove a single leftover into Tupperware. So we escaped to an EXTREMELY …
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baketution
There’s a lot of things I don’t know and am not good at, like there are just too many to list (taxes, basic home maintenance, how to keep a plant alive) but let’s celebrate what …
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the sweater
I’m on the precipice of perhaps the biggest thing that’s happened in my career (which I must be vague about as it’s not official) and in response, instead of prepping emotionally and logistically for my …
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your hope
To anyone who’s feeling self conscious today about the hope you felt leading up to yesterday: Don’t. You’re not dumb, you’re brave. Hope is a choice, and it’s an act of courage. Believing that things …
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marriage
9 ish years ago, in a Midtown Manhattan Kleinfeld’s, as a blizzard rolled in, I said yes to this Dress, and for me at the time, I think getting married meant this dress, and being …
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The Library
Say, did you know that you’re NOT supposed to take melatonin every night for approximately 3.5 years, through a pandemic and two children and multiple projects and career developments, and then expect your body to …