What are you as much as this weekend? We’re planning to hold with mates and hopefully go swimming. Additionally, scorching tip for my fellow New Yorkers: We simply found this Italian spot in Carroll Gardens, began by 4 charming mates from throughout Italy, and the meals is FANTASTIC. It’s nonetheless undiscovered, however I doubt it will likely be for lengthy, so go forth! Hope you will have a superb one, and listed below are a couple of hyperlinks from across the net…
Oooh, chocolate chip cookies with a stunning ingredient.
Is the errand hold the important thing to true friendship?
I need to put on this gorgeous high in every single place.
“My points with the Goodnight Moon bed room,” hahaha.
And a 10-month-old’s wishlist.
LOVED this trustworthy essay (and picture) from Serena Williams, as she steps away from skilled tennis. “I’ve by no means appreciated the phrase retirement. It doesn’t really feel like a contemporary phrase to me… Perhaps the perfect phrase to explain what I’m as much as is evolution. I’m right here to inform you that I’m evolving away from tennis, towards different issues which are essential to me,” she says. “I’m torn: I don’t need it to be over, however on the identical time I’m prepared for what’s subsequent. I don’t know the way I’m going to have the ability to take a look at this journal when it comes out, realizing that that is it, the tip of a narrative that began in Compton, California, with slightly Black woman who simply needed to play tennis.” (Vogue)
The fun of swimming whereas fats. (NYTimes present hyperlink)
Dermstore’s HUGE sale is occurring proper now. (I’m stocking up on this and this.)
Plus, two reader feedback:
Says Veronica on Toby’s genius option to make mates: “Inviting mates over when the home is a multitude is a ‘degree up’ of friendship. When you really feel nervous about it, you’ll be able to all the time work as much as it. Earlier than we had youngsters, my husband and I had a pal that we agreed to have dinner with each Sunday, normally at our home, though he often hosted. The primary few dinners have been extra advanced and came about in a cleaner home, however because the weeks glided by, and it grew to become extra routine, our cleansing undoubtedly slipped. It turned out to be the perfect factor ever for taking our friendship to a extra snug degree. After we moved to a different metropolis, we’ve got hosted him for impromptu weekends, once more, as a result of we didn’t really feel the necessity to have the home completely clear to take action. Additionally, I bear in mind how pleased he was once I advised him, ‘You’re a messy home pal. I enable no excuse to get in the way in which of spending time with you.’ He took it as supposed, as the very best of compliments.”
Says Giulia on 4 enjoyable issues: “I should be the 4649768012164 reader to ever write this, however I simply got here to this web page after a kind of onerous onerous onerous days with no sleep for months and relentless work with my impossibly liked two underneath 2, and the remark part felt like a heat, simple lounge with mates chatting. Received me teary and lifted my temper unexpectedly. At all times, all the time grateful!”
(Picture by Jeff Wasserman/Stocksy.)