10 Things We're Doing Besides Looking Good on Paper

Oct 3

erica’s things

Presenting a birthday ice cream cake from Ample Hills that earned about the best review fathomable: “Even better than Dairy Queen.”
Poring over Grace Bonney’s epically motivating book In the Company of Women while sipping my morning coffee. Claire and I are the least impressive people featured in it—that’s a promise.
Questioning how an Instagram called @dailyriggins doesn’t have tens of millions of followers.
Tearing up at the office reading the end of this. There was something in my eye?
Eating all of the Honeycrisp apples. At dinnertime, even, with some lime and walnuts and cheddar!

Falling down a rabbit hole of Gordon Von Steiner’s fashion videos after discovering his work in the deeply satisfying Freedom 90’ x Vogue.
Feeling very pleased to know there’ll soon be a non-boring, healthy alternative to seltzer-‘n-bitters for the nights when I don’t feel like boozing.
LOLing my way through all 30 minutes of the premiere of Insecure. It’s exactly the type of bite-size, smart, hilarious, and cathartic show I crave a hit of once a week.
Finding all sorts of new and delicious ways to consume this stuff (besides by the spoonful)—smeared on toast, stirred in coffee and tea, spread on roasted vegetables, etc. Tips for DIYing your own jar of it here!
Saying “heyyyyy” to Oh, Hello on Broadway, a mildly offensive, extremely funny love letter to a certain breed of Upper West Side New Yorker (...some of whom I suspect are related to me).

Storing away this extremely helpful guide to writing condolence cards...and being grateful to have these to help things along.