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- Oct 1, 2026
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- Jul 21, 2026
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september digest (opens the original)
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The monthly digest is a summary of the best things I have read, watched, listened to, saved, shopped and considered each month. As usual - she’s a bit long, so you might want to check out the browser version or expand in email.<
sunday edition: live from los angeles (opens the original)
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low effort, high reward gardening (opens the original)
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The summer of 2020, my husband and I purchased our first home, a tiny, 100 year old two bedroom craftsman with a sun filled kitchen, and a small yard with peekaboo views of the Olympics. The yard had been meticulously staged by the previous owner, and was a huge selling point for me – after six months of COVID quarantining on the 10th floor of an enormous apartment complex, I couldn’t think of anything more luxurious than space to be outside. I could even get into gardening, I thought optimistic
sunday edition | solo travels & niche deep dives (opens the original)
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Hello and happy sunday everyone! A very very rapidfire Sunday edition today, written in advance (!!!!!) for the first time all summer courtesy of a two hour flight to Los Angeles on Friday completely solo. The silence! The leisure! The luxury!I am headed off to visit one of my best friends, my first solo trip since my daughter was born in December. Nine months and change never more than a few hours apart is an amount of time that feels both entirely overdue and also way too soon. (I was literall
mini travel guide: banff national park (opens the original)
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