What are you up to this weekend? We’re going to watch the Valkyries basketball game and are trying to come up with purple snacks to serve! (Any ideas other than grapes?) Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…
“I’ve never had sex and I’m nervous.” Freddie and I answer nine reader questions about dating, divorce, parenting, and haircuts. (gift link)
Would you ever try this moody lipstick trend for fall?
Where you should live. “Your 10-minute radius matters more than almost anything else about where you live: Think about what you can get to in 10 minutes without making it a whole thing. I can get coffee, get groceries, go to a park, and go to a friend’s place.”
Who wants to go to this tiny bookstore in Maine?
A fun fact about Good Night Moon.
Speaking of mattresses, we have these incredibly comfy ones on all our beds at home.
Zac Posen’s captain’s cottage in San Francisco.
How cool are these lantern sculptures? (via Youngna)
A company for lapsed ballet dancers who want to perform. “There are relatively few designated spaces for serious former students to practice and perform at a high level, with no dreams of going pro…Instead of holding an audition, Thai and Gramly asked dancers to write two personal essays — one detailing their history with ballet and another about their best friend from childhood ballet class. ‘Hearing their stories,’ Thai said, ‘was so much more important than judging their dancing.’”
How great is the cover of Eric Kim’s new book of essays?
Ruggable now makes all-wool rugs! I have my eye on this and this.
No such thing as too many flowers.
Plus, two reader comments:
Says Jocelyn on 10 fun questions to ask your significant other: “There’s only one question to be asked if you want to understand somebody else: bread or potatoes? As in, you can only have one, in any variation, for the rest of your life and can never again have the other. Technically there is no wrong answer, until there is! See also: tea or coffee? Music or books? Seaside or mountains?”
Says Susan on Sharon Beesley’s colorful house explodes with Goodwill finds: “Yes to not deadheading plants! Six years ago, I started leaving my flowers up over the winter and I love it. So many birds eat the seed heads, especially goldfinches on the purple coneflowers and dark-eyed juncos on the black-eyed Susans.”
(Photo by Igor/Stocksy.)
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