Whats up, mates!
How’s your summer season winding down? Mine got here to an abrupt halt after I returned to work at my kids’s college and jumped right into a model new place. Final 12 months, I used to be a Instructor’s Affiliate within the 1st Grade, the place I learn Little Home on the Prairie and reminded kiddies to maintain their fingers out of their ‘lil noses. This 12 months, nevertheless, there’s a para scarcity in Nashville—and perhaps throughout?—so I’m working with a bunch of youngsters who want much more assist. It’s a humbling expertise, to say the least, and I’m very a lot studying as I am going. Within the meantime, I’ve included just a few issues I’ve been loving throughout the lengthy, sweaty month of August. Hyperlinks are under and have a soothing Sunday!
Xo,
Toby
• Emily Sunberg has a unique approach on Substack and the way it’s turning “everybody into writers the identical method Instagram made everybody into photographers…” Which jogs my memory of my favourite notice from Samuel Johnson: “No person however a blockhead ever wrote, apart from cash.” (Feed Me)
• Is lore summer season’s hottest accent? 100% sure. (The Face)
• What am I even doing on ESPN?? I landed through Gloria, after all. This interview with a skydiver who survived a 14,000-foot fall is thoughts bending. (ESPN)
• I’m from the south, so thanks notes are my faith. Just lately, I put a e-book in my neighbor’s mailbox. In flip, she mailed me a thanks postcard then I texted to thank her for the stunning postcard. That is frequent sense. R. Eric Thomas agrees. (Asking Eric)
• A pleasant addition to your letter routine, I discovered these for my mother’s birthday. As a lifelong Jeopardy! fan she’s going to be over the moon. (USPS)
• The Dancers of Stud Nation is a brief doc from The Los Angeles Instances that dives into the movement state of line dancing. Taking line dancing courses was on my record of issues to do that summer season, and I nonetheless haven’t gotten round to it however now I’m much more impressed. (YouTube)
• As Winona Ryder says in this gorgeous profile, ““Everybody makes use of [the word icon] now, they usually don’t know what an actual icon is.” All my idols are Gen X, and Winona Ryder might be my eternally icon. (Harper’s Bazaar)
• OG Mother-blogger-turned-Substack-sensation Jessica Reed Kraus dove into the trad spouse controversy, which I used to be fully oblivious to as a result of, I dunno, I didn’t assume these kind of influencers have been nonetheless drumming up drama. It’s an fascinating take. (Substack)
• Did you see Twisters? I believed it was kinda mediocre so far as summer season Blockbusters go however I did love the soundtrack. And Glen Powell, naturally. I liked him, too. So did Ann Helen Peterson, who shared her unified principle on Glen Powell. (YouTube + AHP)
• Do you’ve any merchandise that provide help to get up within the morning? My youngsters are up at 6am so I get up at 5am to learn/write/train or, admittedly, simply sip my espresso and scroll. Possibly it’s due to this early name time that I’ve everlasting raccoon eyes, however these puppies assist. (Amazon)
• I’ll positively be slipping Pleasure’s Chewy Chocolate Brownie Cookies into lunch bins this 12 months. Additionally, it’s time to revisit Pleasure’s family-friendly recipes. I nonetheless make that rooster salad as soon as a month as a result of it’s one of many few dishes all three youngsters willingly gobble down. (Pleasure the Baker)
• How enjoyable is it to step contained in the thoughts of Missy Elliott? For those who occurred to catch this tour please don’t inform me as a result of I’m insanely jealous. (NYTimes Present Hyperlink)
• Everybody’s favourite face mentor, Val Monroe, has some Golden Rule-type ideas on the query Is Self-Kindness Making a Comeback? (How To not F*ck Up Your Face)
• “The shot is symmetrical, succinct, and exceptionally Mannian. The immutable diner and its pervasive simplicity come to encapsulate the auteur’s imaginative and prescient and true considerations.” Elissa Suh’s tackle Michael Mann’s diners is solely scrumptious. (Mubi)
• On a very completely different notice, right here’s an indepth have a look at the Australian structure of Bluey I didn’t know I wanted. Possibly I’ve gone full Mother, however I do echo the writer’s sentiments: Even in case you don’t have youngsters, this present is a must-watch. (Schmatta)
• Essentially the most magical factor I ate all summer season was a lemon-mint bar from the Minions popsicle stand at Common Studios. I’m nonetheless trying to find that good hit however was impressed to purchase this, which didn’t disappoint. (Jeni’s)
• Comfy/in gentle frocks they stroll the streets/to whereas the time away. (Poets.org)
• Vote. Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. (USA.gov)
