What are you as much as this weekend? As we speak, we’re honoring the nationwide financial blackout — we hope you might be becoming a member of, as nicely! And tomorrow Freddie and I are going to see the play English. I really like strolling into the theater, discovering our seats, and questioning if the actors get nervous beforehand (any actors on the market, would you weigh in?). Hope you will have one, and listed here are some hyperlinks from across the net…
Yum, tacky chickpea ziti.
The singular allure of Parker Posey. Whereas taking part in Victoria, the fifty-something matriarch in The White Lotus, Posey “had been handed a chance to attract out the characters of the Southern ladies she had watched from afar all her life. She felt like an outsider as a teen in Laurel [Mississippi]…Although she ironed out her accent when she moved to New York, now she reveled in broad Southern cadences, ‘dramatic and humorous on the identical time.’ Earlier than the shoot, Posey had only a 30-minute Zoom name with White to hash out Victoria’s character. He informed her that he considered Victoria as a youthful model of Huge Edie from ‘Gray Gardens,’ the mom who smothers her grownup daughter within the residence as their symbiotic life slips into decline… Posey was taken with Mike White’s ladies, who ‘look a technique at first and one other method ultimately,’ she says.” (NYTimes reward hyperlink)
Laughed perpetually at this dating-after-divorce spoof.
Contact Grass is a screen-time-limiting app that requires photographic proof of you really touching grass to unblock apps in your cellphone.
Ponytail cuffs are the brand new it-girl accent. Ideas, girls? Ought to we? (Elle)
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Wow, this Welsh home has a yellow kitchen, the cutest canine, and “mown paths within the meadow.”
What really goes on in your mind throughout menopause.
Easy methods to make a stranger’s day.
Plus, three reader feedback:
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Says Meredith on how do you make your companion really feel good: “Each of us routinely ask for ‘a minute of good issues’ – at any level, with no rationalization wanted, if one in every of us is feeling insecure or unhappy or no matter, the opposite particular person drops the whole lot to say sort issues for a minute.”
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