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Lessons I Learned From a Just-Okay Year

12 Small Joys From the Week

Bookmarked with Nikki May

Your Gifting Questions, Answered—Part Two

Your Toughest Gifting Questions, Answered

Holiday Cards, Cozy Distractions, and Chad Michael Murray

Cozy Little Luxuries and the Simple Gifting Formula I’m Using This Year

Introducing: A New Paid Subscriber Perk!

10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week

Five comforts and some post-election media recs

Friday Recs: Charging my joy batteries, cozy recipe charts for fall, and good matcha

Recipe: Caesar Spaghetti

A Little Self-Care Trick (And Some Treats)

Weekend Recs #67: The best cozy teas and escaping election doom spiraling

The Dessert That Feels Like A Warm Hug, From Pastry Chef Paola Velez

Friday Recs: Ina Garten's memoir is a cozy delight

Friday Recs: A fun fall questionnaire, cozy pasta, and book glow-ups

Catching Up: September!

Friday Recs: Books that feel like fall, apple galettes, and calling all GBBO-heads

Five Small Ways I’ve Been Slowing Down Lately

Weekend Recs #63: Embracing boring, fancy mac and cheese, and good socks

Weekend Recs #62: Little luxuries and links that brought me joy this week

Weekly Recs #61: The pleasure of community, romance fiction, and parenting

Downtime Special: The Fall Books Issue! 📚

Weekly Recs #60: Getting stuff done, book snooping, and how cozy is Jennifer Garner's home?

How We Manage Chores (Without Losing Our Minds)

Postcard from Nantucket 🦞

Behind the Scenes: How I Make Money, Realigning Content and Values, and Fresh Goals

Weekly Recs #59: My fall style playbook, a cozy mystery show, and ballet flats

Weekend Notes #58: Books, Beauty, and Voting

Bookmarked with Rufi Thorpe

Weekend Notes #57: Mini Mid-Summer Edition

Summer Style Recap: Hits, Misses, and Lessons Learned

What Big Life Moments Should We Be Celebrating More?

Finding Peace in Quiet Summer Mornings

Fresh Finds: What I'm actually buying from all these sales...

Downtime Notes #55: Shopping as fantasy, girls who grill, and a beach read

Have You Been on Any Fun Friend Dates Recently?

(Long) Weekend Recs #54: Real-Life Travel Tips from Two Busy Moms

The Travel Issue, Part 2! 🦪

2 Easy Outfit Formulas for Hot Summer Days

Weekend Recs #53: Mini Edition ☀️

The Downtime Travel Issue, Part 1

Stretchy Pants That You Can Wear In Public (And Still Feel Chic)

The books on my summer reading list and an escape to the South of France

Escape to the Charming South of France with This Gorgeous New Book

Bookmarked with Michelle Martin

Weekend Recs #50: Summer style, 90's catalog inspo, and a great new book

Weekend Recs #49: Sun protection is hot

Priya Krishna Wrote A Fun New Cookbook for Kids

Trying on the Gap x DÔEN collaboration and my honest thoughts

Weekend Recs #48: Romanticizing life, balletcore, and vintage home finds

The Case for Documenting Your Outfits

Weekly Recs #47: Is this the most fun movie of the year? 🎾

Recipes: The Kismet Cookbook

Bookmarked with Sahaj Kohli

Weekend Recs #46: Good pajamas and summery books

So I had a mini meltdown over linen pants

No One Asked, But Here Are All of My Tortured Poets Department Thoughts

Bookmarked with Rachel Khong

Weekend Recs #45: Fun spring things, mostly!

I tried on a bunch of stuff at J.Crew

Weekend Recs #44: 'Ripley' on Netflix and 5 fun things

Bookmarked with Yulin Kuang

Weekend Recs #43: Big Sicilian Energy and Cannolis For All

Catching Up and 3 Fun Things

Weekend Recs #42: Groovy shows, dream dates, and tahini french toast

Weekend Recs #41: Store-bought ice cream and 90's foodie nostalgia

Introducing: Downtime Edit, a style and shopping column

Weekend Recs #40: Laundryfluencing, Sweet Treats, and Princess Kate

Weekend Recs #39: Non-Boring Sheet Pan Recipes, Oscar Noms, and Small Talk

Life Lately and 5 Helpful Things

Weekend Recs #38: More Fun Books, Spring Things, and Babygirls

No, An Embryo Is Not A Child.

Recs #37: Teens These Days, Mini Rituals, and Getting Scammed

How to Make Soup From (Almost) Anything: A Genius Guide from Julia Turshen

Catching Up and 3 Fun Things

Recs #36: The best new show, group chats, and hot Shakespeare boyfriends

Weekend Recs #35: Feel the love (and the chocolate cake)

12 Little Treats for Valentine's Day

The Helpful Phrase I'm Repeating This Week

Weekend Recs #34: All the soup recipes, rockstar authors, and monthly expenses

Weekend Recs #33: It's an excellent time to make little treats

The Books I'm Excited For in 2024 and A Confession About My Reading Habits

Weekend Recs #32: The staying warm and toasty this winter edition

Weekend Recs #31: Prettiest princess, tidy mouse, and striped sweaters

Let’s Be Less Mean to Ourselves in 2024

Weekend Recs #30: Fun ways to reflect, lazy cooking, and Barnes & Noble