What are you as much as this weekend? I’m visiting my mother in Michigan for Mom’s Day. We’re going to take walks and likewise give her home a fakeover, which is all the time satisfying. Hope you will have one — sending a giant hug to anybody who wants one — and listed here are just a few enjoyable hyperlinks from across the net…
I wore this horny French purple lipstick the opposite morning and received three compliments earlier than I even received espresso.
Who needs a chew of this three-ingredient chocolate cake?
You Damage My Emotions, a brand new film about marriage starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, seems glorious.
J.R. Moehringer talks about ghostwriting the memoirs of Andre Agassi and Prince Harry: “For the thousandth time in my ghostwriting profession, I reminded myself: It’s not your effing ebook.” (New Yorker, through Kottke)
Looove these flattering shorts.
Why gained’t individuals simply let me not be a mother? “‘Mom’s Day is for you, too,’ one electronic mail subscriber instructed me just a few years in the past once I despatched out an article I’d written about not having children. She defined, ‘As a result of you’re a mother. You’re a mom…to phrases!’ Behind this label lies the belief that, as a lady, I’m incomplete and not using a maternal relationship to somebody or one thing. And this must award honorary ‘mommy factors’ is one thing we’re nonetheless getting unsuitable.” (Elle)
This memoir is without doubt one of the greatest I’ve ever learn.
Such fairly printed swimsuits.
“Rising up, I believed being named after Connie Chung made me distinctive… then I met the remainder of us.” (NYTimes present hyperlink)
Wow, a colorblock kitchen!
Plus, three reader feedback:
Says Claire on what ‘glimmers’ have you ever seen lately: “I went to a Sound of Music sing-a-long just a few months in the past, and oh, man, you haven’t identified hilarity till you hear 150 individuals all audibly hesitating simply earlier than the excessive notes in ‘Climb Each Mountain’ after which laughing realizing we’d all had the identical thought. We tried the excessive notes anyway. It was the funniest, most horrible sound I’ve ever heard, and I liked it.”
Says Courtney on what ‘glimmers’ have you ever seen lately: “The neighbors’ peonies are blooming! The very best little sniff on the best way to the bus cease. Additionally, once I instructed my four-year-old that he may eat ice cream within the bathtub final evening, he mentioned, ‘Effectively, that may very well be somewhat enjoyable.’”
Says Tara on what’s your relationship standing: “I’m a single mother by selection, now relationship as my son simply turned one. The very best a part of relationship is the 20 minutes earlier than you go, the anticipation. The dread. The taking a look at their profile RIGHT earlier than you stroll in. What was their identify once more? Oh, okay, Mark, and he likes to surf. I’ve made out with extra strangers in in my 30s than ever earlier than. I’ve additionally cried loads as a result of they didn’t textual content. It’s a thoughts f*ck but it surely’s probably the most uncooked and bare-bones human factor to do. I’m relationship somebody new, it’s very FRESH. He purchased my son blueberries as a result of I talked about how a lot he loves them. He went to camp with my first boyfriend who’s the sweetest man. I simply really feel like that’s omen. He’s actually into wholesome meals, aggressively. Kimchi f*cking in every single place. I’m beginning to like kimchi although.”
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