Sharing what books I'm reading + the things I'm loving across fashion, home, and culture.
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3 Good Things: Annie Meyers-Shyer
The social media design sensation shares her best recommendations, her approach to art, and what Nancy Meyers (her mom!) taught her about parenting
3 Good Things is an interview column featuring the most passionate recommendations and sour...
A cozy book I’m loving, my everyday mom tote, vintage baby pants
Hello from a cozy, rainy Sunday! I hope you had a good weekend. My family and I had a lovely time celebrating Rosh Hashanah—Shana Tova to you if you celebrate! I love this time of year and the reset mindset it brings. Personally, I’ve been...
3 Good Things: Carla Lalli
Hi hi! I’m excited to have a special guest in today’s letter. You probably know her from her incredible recipes and YouTube stardom: it’s Brooklyn-based James Beard Award-winning chef Carla Lalli.
“Everything in my life was about to change...
Recs #132: ‘Sophie, Standing There’ by Meg Mason and a really good show
Hi, happy weekend! We finally hung up the curtains in our son’s nursery this week —a task that seemed insurmountable and was thus avoided for a full six months—but in reality it took an hour or so of grunt work1. Lesson learned: tiny victor...
Recs #131: Four good things
The weekly roundup
Hi hi! I hope you had the best week. This week, I could not put down my friend Mimi Montgomery’s new book, Murder Bites. I was laughing out LOUD—like actually cackling. It’s a quirky small-town murder mystery that’s a pe...
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Sharing the books I'm reading and the things I love in my weekly newsletter, Downtime. I'm a brand and editorial consultant and mom of 2, living in D.C. Founded Girls' Night In back in the day :)
Enthusiasm enthusiast. Host at TED Talks Daily, NPR host-at-large, author of FLAWLESS, mom to three spawn, prone to freak accidents, fan of food on sticks. Instagram @elisewho. TikTok @whoelise.
I publish recipes and videos, and go deep on essential techniques. My experiences in food media have inspired me to write openly about my expenses and earnings as a content producer and author. Food is a Feeling, my cookbook-memoir, comes out 9/8/26.
Freelance journalist and author of The Scumbler, a weekly newsletter dedicated to movies, fashion, culture, and cartoons.
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