10 Things We're Doing Besides Thinking Beyond Those Candy Hearts

Feb 8

erica’s things

Moving Clover’s daily emails to my primary inbox: They’re technically for teen girls, but, really, they’re good reading for anybody at all.
Anticipating a real cobb salad moment after mmm-ing my way through the butterleaf version that Midtown Eats in Reno, Nevada, dishes out.
Adding the sneaky savings program Digit (with its GIF-fluent texts) to a growing list of internet-y personal-finance tools I use—love ya, Simple and Acorns.
Upgrading my mixing bowls: Mason Cash has been making earthenware ones since the 1800s that are plenty nice to serve in, too.
Thwarting altitude sickness with a winning combo of Advil and bananas.

Celebrating Erica’s bday with a trip to Great Jones Spa for baths and facials, topped off with a visit from her favorite gals...in Lego form.
Finding a reason other than Misty to take an interest in the ballet—NYCB’s latest production is a collaboration with one of my favorite artists Marcel Dzama and composer Bryce Dressner of A+ band The National.
Finding so much to love about The Portable Veblen, a seriously delightful novel that (IMHO) joins a spate of recent works by women that prove romantic comedies can be equal parts whip-smart and satisfying.
Discovering, to my horror, that nobody who works at Of a Kind (other than me) has ever seen the eighties Cusack classic Better Off Dead. Get your acts together, people!
Talkin’ teams, switchin’ sides...from linen sheets back to the good old-fashioned cotton ones, because I swear to thread counts on high, I have never felt anything so ridiculously soft and smooth in my life.

Declaring the clutch the ideal bag shape for cold weather: Carrying one means I don’t have to fight that losing battle between a shoulder strap and a bulky winter coat, and this one’s quite a looker, too.