What are you up to this weekend? Tonight the boys and I are watching Ferdinand, and tomorrow Freddie and I are going to the candlelit Aire Ancient Baths. Have you ever been? We went once and loved it so much, we decided to make it kind of like a Christmas gift to each other each year. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…
Our 2025 Best of Everything issue. I really, really loved this. (Big Salad gift link)
These satin pants would be perfect for New Year’s Eve, and I’d love to wear this cool outfit all winter.
Will you see Will Arnett and Laura Dern’s new movie, Is This Thing On?
When does a divorce begin? “When my daughter gets out of the car at the airport she vomits, pasta and strawberries plummeting undigested toward her shoes. I place my hand on her forehead; she feels warm; I turn to my husband and say, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t go tonight.’ It’s just before Christmas, and my two children and I have tickets for a 9:00 p.m. flight from Los Angeles to New York. For several weeks my husband has vacillated strangely on the matter of whether he’s coming with us, even though in twelve years together we’ve never spent the holidays apart. When I say, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t go tonight,’ he turns pale and scrubs his hand across his mouth, a gesture I recognize as a personal tell that he’s hiding something. I will later describe this as the moment my marriage ends, but in fact it ends roughly five minutes later when, holding my daughter’s hand and pushing my son in his stroller, their backpacks dangling from the crook of my arm, I walk into the terminal alone.”
Red and green flags according to protagonists of Hallmark Christmas movies, hahaha.
These gorgeous, forever-sold-out shoes are back in stock!
I’m tearing through this book and cannot believe it’s a true story.
The best book covers of 2025. (NYTimes gift link)
Will you make a paper chain this season? (Vogue)
Hahahahhaha. Also, Related.
Plus, three reader comments:
Says Tracey on decoration guilt: “If you’re not a perfect parent, just imagine your child in the future, they are thirty, at Christmas. They are imperfect, and they are comfortable. They are doing things they enjoy and celebrating others doing the same. They find meaning in people, not things and rituals that aren’t right for them. They are fully formed human beings. They are content with enough. And they are this way because you taught them that more is not more when it comes at the expense of a healthy mind. That relationships matter more than the good china or the burnt turkey. Model it. What you practice, you permit; so make sure to practice self-acceptance.”
Says Lynea on soup group, seven years later: “My friends’ ‘queer family dinner’ is our Sunday ritual, no strings attached. Host cooks the main, everyone else brings sides — or not. If showing up is all you can muster, see you at 7, babe. If you can’t make it, no problem, we’ll be thinking of you. Sometimes we’re all back home by 8:30, sometimes we’re chatting ’til 10. This weekly tradition has kept me warm lately.”
Say Ella on fun holiday coupons: “Laughing out loud at the truth of ‘getting to stand in your sister’s room for two minutes without being annihilated’ as the ultimate gift.”
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