Being Late
Astute readers of this newsletter may notice today is Thursday. For the past three months (!) I’ve been sending this out Wednesdays, but this week Wednesday...
Getting a Tattoo
I am not always good at explaining what I want. I worry too much that I am being annoying, or that the thing I am asking for is too weird. Or both. Also,...
Knowing How it Ends
The other weekend, on the plane back home from Tampa, I spent most of the flight re-watching season two of Jane the Virgin. Damn, I almost forgot about this...
Tailoring
I needed new pants. The ones I had, I had to unbutton at my desk. They fit, in that they technically went on, but wearing them was getting unbearable. In...
The Beach
Is Thunderball the best James Bond movie? Discuss. Last Friday night, I slept for like two, maybe three hours, and woke up a blasted skeleton of a human on...
Birdwatching (Sort Of)
Everything about Flaco, the owl that escaped its enclosure in Central Park Zoo and is now positively thriving as a free owl, is perfect. Manhattan Bird Alert...
All the Saddest Love Songs
I had a different thing all ready to go for today, but then I was on the bus listening to my playlist of love songs that is like 40 percent songs about being...
Delux Cafe
Isn’t it so nice to have a place? I don’t quite mean being a regular somewhere, though that, too, has its (often kinda parasocial) charms. It’s more like a...
Snow
Ed. note: This week’s edition of Enthusiasms is late, partially because I spent my Sunday with my good friend and her very cute baby (worth it) but also...
Complaining
A thing I have been working on for [redacted] years is where to put my feelings. What is the right balance between acknowledging something sucks and not...
Sewing Parts Online Dot-com
A year or more ago, I inherited a very old sewing machine that once belonged to my husband’s grandmother’s friend, Rina. I never met my husband’s grandmother...
French Lessons
This past fall, in Paris, I surprised myself. Je suis la jeune fille. I left a small black bag on the train, next to my seat, I said, in perfect French—or,...
Welcome to Enthusiasms
Subscribe now Let me (re)introduce myself Enthusiasms is a project I started some time ago, over on my website, and updated at what could generously be...
