Hi! You know how Mariah Carey arrives on the scene—on social media, in your heart of hearts—on some random day in November every year to tell us It's Time to start playing All I Want for Christmas Is You, and it's like its own holiday?
Today is my own personal fall holiday, when the weather is just perfect, and I realize...
It's It's Decorative Gourd Season season, mofos
The. Best. Essay, and a history of the best essay, which features the interview question, "Was there a specific gourd display that touched you, personally?"
Table inspiration
I'm soliciting your pictures of tables—your own, or what you see out in the world! On Labor Day weekend, four of us dear college friends and our families piled into a house with a long, skinny dining room table for leisurely breakfasts and smushed-in lunches; Dungeons & Dragons and Bananagrams and Llamanoes; conversations about Ukraine and the 2024 election and someone's new light-up tennis shoes. At night we carried the table to the patio for dinners and wine under string lights, like characters on Parenthood, but with less fashion and more Aldi ice cream sandwiches.
Send me your tables! Where are we gathering/strategizing/eating/working?
And an enlightening lifestyle quiz
Are you an exhausted parent of small children or a common raccoon?
Correct.
Go get you some gourds! xoxo
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