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Hansen's Sno-Bliz
May 4, 2023
The first time I went to New Orleans, it was at the tail end of a breakup I didn’t want to happen. I feel like we’re both on a train to New Orleans, and I...
Cats
April 26, 2023
I consider myself a cat person, but I am mostly a my cat person. Harpo, my cat, was uncommonly good. I sometimes liked to believe that I had made him this...
The Boston Marathon
April 19, 2023
What can I say? I’m a sucker for civic pride. This is the first year that I’ve worked somewhere they actually gave me Patriots’ Day—aka Marathon Monday, aka...
Intermission
April 12, 2023
Yesterday, I had every intention of coming home from work and sitting down to write. But then, I had two beers at the end of what was an all-day work event...
Baseball on the Radio
April 5, 2023
If you cannot be at a baseball game in person, the next best way to watch is not at all. I love it, though I can understand how one might find baseball...
Being Late
March 30, 2023
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
March 22, 2023
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
March 15, 2023
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
March 8, 2023
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
March 1, 2023
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)
February 22, 2023
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
February 14, 2023
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
February 8, 2023
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
January 31, 2023
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
January 24, 2023
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
January 17, 2023
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
January 10, 2023
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
January 8, 2023
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...
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