10 Things We're Doing Besides Catching You Up

Apr 30

Lately on the podcast….

Erica reveals her up-and-at-‘em approach to mornings that involves 100% more conversation than Claire finds advisable.

The interior designers who helped Claire solve her furniture-buying paralysis discuss all things home, including which white paints are the best white paints.
The powerhouse responsible for one of our favorite recent movies—best described as Dazed and Confused if it was written and directed by a woman, was about women, and took place in 2018—shares her experience of making films while female.
Claire details her morning routine, and it turns out she in no absolutely position whatsoever to judge how others choose to spend their AM hours.

erica’s things

Charting the skillet-cookie renaissance: Evidence of the revival of one of my favorite (Midwestern?) childhood desserts can be found in this cookbook and this Trader Joe’s release.
Falling for The Bold Type, which is fluff TV, for sure, but also delivers weirdly good career advice and top-notch bossing.
Caring more about a string quartet than I ever thought possible.
Expanding my dressing-making and jar-cleaning repertoire. Fig jam dregs, I’m coming for you…
Thinking about setting up a Google Alert for Jia Tolentino so I can read her stories the second they post.

Feeling pretty comfortable making the claim that this mouthwash is better than anything else you might be using.
Yessing very hard to Genusee—eyeglasses made in Flint, Michigan, out of recycled water bottles.
Embracing the pure poppiness of Twin Shadow. This song on repeat is my current running soundtrack.
Using Instagram like a Pinterest board by finally getting hip to Collections. Helps make up for the fact that the search function on that app does not do what I want it to do.
Struggling to remember the last time a book enticed me to read it as closely and carefully as Asymmetry did.