A Thing or Two We’re Doing Besides Seeing How Our Tomatoes Stack Up

Fresh podcast episodes are back next week! But the rerun airing today—well, we’ve heard it described as “QUINTESSENTIAL to the ATOT lore.” 

erica’s things

• Asking HOW and WHY it took so long for the tomato tower to arrive.
   

• Admiring Becca Freeman’s tenacity: She polled 1,327 people for their “100 Best Books of the 21st Century list” and analyzed how it stacked up against that NYT one.
   

• Hoping that “kitchen work table” is about to pop off as a product category.
   

• Delighting in all the twists and turns of this ode to the women of Long Island.
   

• Sipping the Bennett—oh, what an easy, lime-y, summery cocktail.

claire’s things

• Offering up an ideal clearinghouse for the contents of your CSA box.
   

• Envying someone’s beach hat enough to purchase my own before my toes had left the sand.
   

• Adding an album to the music-for-working lineup.
   

• Nominating a new entry to the “no, this is the best red lip” discourse.
   

• Feeling like I have at least 5k words in me about how good these are. 

A Thing or Two We’re Doing Besides Staring at the Sunflowers

Pals, we’re launching something new. More soon, but maybe you want to follow along on Instagram for now?

erica’s things

• Beachcombing the internet for good shell jewelry and finding it here, there, everywhere.
   

• Crowning this Muji strainer + bowl the king and queen of peak produce season.
   

• Absolutely relishing this commitment to the bit: Leonora Epstein recreating the oh-so-nineties pages of the dELiA*s catalog with 2024 product.
   

• Experiencing great joy from a sunflower varietal.

claire’s things

• Realizing the answer to my eternal struggle with khakis is actually…khaki-colored denim.
   

• Remembering, amidst last week’s tech turmoil when nary a subway screen was working, just how handy this app is—you can even pin your go-to stops and lines to your lock screen.
   

• Discovering that the wax I use to keep water out of my ears when I’m swimming laps performs double-duty as the one and only earplug that I can comfortably sleep in.
   

• Calling all Hockney-heads: Have you seen this doc?
   

• ID’ing my new go-to micellar water. (FWIW, I am very picky about this product!)

A Thing or Two We’re Doing Besides Lacing Up

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erica’s things

• Filling the Wimbledon void with tennis books ℅ a top-shelf collab between Skylight and The Courts.
   

• Adding this to my salad dressings, my marinades, my eggs. Is popcorn next?!
   

• Seeing endless possibility in the Altoid tin—travel paint palette, pill storage, jewelry organizer, diorama, there’s no end.
   

• Embarrassing my camera roll with how many Kindle photos I snapped while reading The Anxious Generation.
   

• Achieving a personal milestone: baby’s first one-pot pasta that came out neither under- nor overcooked!

claire’s things

• ID’ing a gift for the Jeopardy! fanatic in your life.
   

• Putting these in the RWI canon. #sponsored
   

• Realizing that Alyson Felix is the only one making good-looking running shoes these days.
   

• Feasting my eyes on plates.
   

• Asking what’s better than a onesie with a sense of humor?

A Thing or Two We’re Doing Besides Hovering Over the Dessert Case

In honor of a month of greatest-hits reruns on the podcast, maybe now’s a good time to leave us a review? Ideally a nice one, even?

erica’s things

• Repurposing the Ruffles chip as an artist’s canvas.
   

• Dealing with hair loss like a Dane.
   

• Feeling both nostalgia and early-aughts anxiety over my visceral reaction to this and this.
   

• Gobbling up the sandos and Japanese treats from this beautiful spot. They just so happen to be gluten-free.

claire’s things

• Fawning over all things Feldspar.
   

• Eating my way through London and awarding the highest marks to Cafe Cecilia—turns out Simone Rocha’s brother makes a mean steak.
   

• Wondering if this is what they mean when they talk about healing your inner child.
   

• Delighting in the deliciousness of Paul Octavious’s mind—from fungiture, to sandwich shoes and shoeshi, to a Loewe still life. 
   

• Asking if you knew they make infant car seats that swivel now?! The way this would have fundamentally changed my relationship to car travel!