We have a running joke in the office that the best possible situation is to make plans with a friend, then have them cancel. You get all the credit for going out plus an unplanned night. Maybe it's because we're all chronic over-planners, but it feels like a present to have ...read more
This weekend was a bit more hectic than I anticipated, so on Sunday afternoon I took advantage of a three-hour gap between plans and did one of my favorite things: I took myself out to a movie. Going to the movies alone is one of my favorite things, ever, because it feels so ...read more
I've always considered myself to be an adventurous person. Place me in any situation, conversation, or city, and I'm as happy as a clam. But that comes with one major caveat: I'm also a homebody, so I need an oasis I love and can recharge in. For a long time, my apartment was ...read more
Happy Monday! I hope you're all easing back into the work week after a restful Thanksgiving break. Jonah and I stayed in L.A. on Thursday to kick off the day with an early morning turkey trot with friends (a.k.a., the fun thing you're allowed to call a run on Thanksgiving). ...read more
It's difficult to think about anything this week besides the fires in California, especially when so many people I know have been impacted by them. It's hard to grasp that this kind of mass destruction by fire is, according to Governor Jerry Brown, the "new normal," wiping out ...read more
The first time I met Adam Rapoport, the Editor in Chief of Bon Appetit, was the evening he guest lectured at my graduate program four years ago. He walked up to the lectern, pulled two Bud Light Tall Boys out of his briefcase, then proceeded to open one and plunge the other into ...read more
Typing this from a plane bound for Los Angeles—a bit sleep-deprived, but content from a weekend spent with family and completely excited for this week (did you see the news this morning about the Shop launch??). I was in Milwaukee visiting Jonah's family and, despite our best ...read more
When I look back at Saturday morning, it feels like an eternity ago—likely because I fit more things into this weekend than I usually do in a week! The highlight being, of course, the Pop-Up Shop. Our entire team arrived at The ROW DTLA at 7 a.m., armed with bagels and coffee, ...read more
I've always hated the question, "What are your hobbies?" Anytime it comes up, my mind immediately cycles through all of the things I was once interested in, but never followed-through on—playing piano, bee-keeping, knitting, beer-making—and I feel less-than for wasting my ...read more
On Friday morning, the last thing I wanted to do was go to a museum exhibit on Ruth Bader Ginsberg—even though I'd been looking forward to it all week. I'd just experienced a night of insomnia (frustratingly, my first in months), had been fighting a losing battle against a cold ...read more
Every Sunday, I grab the New York Times from our apartment's front stoop, and begin dividing it out. I hand Jonah the Sunday Review, recycle Sports (neither of us are fans), and take the Book Review for myself, at which point I flip straight to my favorite series, 'By the Book.' ...read more
Mondays have a tendency of sneaking up on me after a great weekend, but this one came especially quickly. On Saturday, I was all over Los Angeles, catching up with friends, so we kept Sunday to ourselves to slow down a bit. Jonah and I woke up early to go for an early morning, ...read more
A few days ago, Jonah and I bought a T.V., which sounds innocent enough—except that it sent me into a minor identity crisis. Like "cat people" and "dog people," I'd considered "T.V. people" and "book people" to be in two separate camps—and I saw myself as squarely in the latter. ...read more
When we first moved to L.A., Jonah created a semi-annual tradition now known among our friends as "The Taco Crawl." As our fearless leader in all things tacos (his list of favorites are on his appropriately-named app) he takes us to stands, trucks, and restaurants for a taste of ...read more
My current apartment is the first place I've lived in for longer than a year since high school, after switching dorms and apartments every six months to a year, for the past eight years. And I love it. For an apartment I found on Craigslist while driving in a U-Haul through ...read more
Trigger warning: The paragraph below includes mentions of sexual assault (though it does not go into any detail about any of the acts): In light of the Kavanaugh proceedings, I want to bury my head in the sand and find distractions from the terrible reality that's been ...read more
Last week, I grabbed drinks with an ex-boyfriend. It's been years since we were together, and even when we were, we were so fundamentally different that it was always clear that there would come a time when we'd split. When our relationship ended a few weeks after our first ...read more
This weekend, I took a quick trip with Jonah and my friend Alice Ann and her husband, to visit some friends in Santa Barbara. We only spent a night there, but after spending all day Saturday wine tasting in the Funk Zone and capping off the night with a concert, it felt like a ...read more
What better a place to begin a post on insomnia than at four in the morning, typing into the glow of my laptop at the tail-end of a sleepless night? I've struggled with sleep for my entire life. My mom claims that all of my baby photos are of me sleeping because it was so rare ...read more
I have lazy Sundays down to a science. After sleeping in and going for a short run, I make myself coffee and breakfast, and settle into the newspaper and chores for what we call "house days." That one day—with no plans, when the afternoon seems to stretch out forever—is ...read more
I met Jonah six years ago in a Psychology class while studying abroad in Denmark—but he was far from the only thing I fell for that semester. During the four months I spent living and studying in Copenhagen, I became convinced it was the best city in the world—and still believe ...read more
Welcome to the new, and improved, List! It's hard to believe it's been nearly two years since I began writing my weekly 'The List' posts (here's the first), and a refresh felt long overdue—made all the more clear recently when I asked for your feedback. You responded in droves ...read more
As I'm writing this, it's been less than 24 hours since my boyfriend Jonah and I returned from our whirlwind, four-day trip to Copenhagen, Denmark. The unofficial purpose of the trip—aside from celebrating our anniversary—was to eat and drink as much as possible, and revisit the ...read more
I've always been something of a light packer. As someone who's an aspiring minimalist at home, I love the idea of only bringing what I absolutely need for a trip. In the weeks leading up to a vacation, I begin to pare down my beauty routine, carefully shop for pieces that serve ...read more