A Thing Or Two We’re Doing Besides Expecting So Much From Our Planters

Oh, January, we’ve never been so grateful to see you. If you took a break from any/all your feeds over the last few weeks (good on you!), we have a few podcast eps waiting: a discussion of the (Stacey Abrams!!) romance novel Reckless, a cozy chat with the Girls’ Night In and Whiled founder Alisha Ramos, and a classic combo platter (rice, hospital go bags, how we make money!) with just us.

erica’s things

• Making cooking with parchment paper about a thousand times less annoying just by crumpling it.

• Flagging my first “we can go places now?” purchase for when that time comes: a Flat Fifteen bag.

• Donating airline miles to refugees and asylum-seekers. (Ok, how smart is this??)

• Getting the most astute social-media commentary from a novel—Patricia Lockwood’s first. Pre-order this one.

• Handing it to some pillar candles for doing Lumière proud.

claire’s things

• Declaring my recent loyalty to a deeply unsexy but oh-so-good pen.

• Submitting an Oscar-worthy short film for your consideration. (It’s three minutes; I’ve watched it so many times.)

• Tucking my kid into tie-dye toddler pajamas.

• Wanting to fill my life with Coco J. Luna’s work—more specifically, wanting to fill this with dried flowers and this with a plant.

• Suggesting that you need neither a pressure cooker nor salmon to take advantage of this A+ recipe, which is really all about the outstanding sauce.