A Thing Or Two We’re Doing Besides Ringing In The Season
Build-a-Bear, Dua Lipa, and college soccer all make a showing this week on the podcast. Perhaps you have thoughts? Because there’s a Geneva for that. Ope, also meant to say: December new-subscriber $$ goes to Transanta to fulfill holiday wish lists for trans youth. (You can also buy gifts yourself via the org’s IG!)
erica’s things
Filling the better part of a Saturday (and my stomach) eating my way through East Nashville.
Hitting subscribe on anything Molly Young has ever created…and then learning that she refuses to send her new Substack via email. A living legend!
Watching a basketball jersey transform into shorts, again and again and again.
Knowing by the end of the first chapter that this is a book for me.
Trusting that the kid who’s getting this awesome-looking ice-cream science kit for X-mas isn’t reading this email.
claire’s things
Working with my jewelry idol Kathryn Bentley to turn some heirloom earrings that weren’t getting any wear into a pinky ring and a necklace. A+ experience, would recommend!
Spending some time in the high-brow, low-stakes quadrant.
Filling up the “oh, we have another bday party this weekend, huh” drawer with a bunch of these. (This is my other go-to for that purpose.)
Getting frankly fascinating answers to many of my knitwear questions, including my perennial favorite, “Why does everything pill?”
