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Why Don’t You #25
Monday: Why don’t you spend the day tossing out all the unnecessary flotsam and jetsam you’ve accumulated in your home? If it serves no purpose, toss it or donate it or put it in a piñata and smash...
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THINGS I LOVED / HATED THIS WEEK #72
LOVE: Omelettes: One of my more popular Twitter posts went something like this: “Omelette is French for ‘impossible to make,'” Oh, reader, we laughed and laughed on the Twitter. For reasons I could not...
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THINGS I LOVED / HATED THIS WEEK #73
LOVE: The Hunt: My life is forever changed by this app called The Hunt. With it, you can take a picture of an outfit you want but can’t find anywhere online. Then, you upload it to the app and other...
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THINGS I LOVED / HATED THIS WEEK #99
LOVE: Victorian Britain by The Great Courses: I have always felt that a person should know everything. Clearly this is an impossibility and will never be accomplished in one lifetime, but there’s still...
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Why Don’t You? #75
Monday: Why don’t you start a ghastly rumor about your house so that your neighbors and their squawking children stop being so friendly? I live in the country for a reason! I don’t want to mingle with...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #121
LOVE: New Keyless Lock: I’ve been meaning to repaint my front door for about a decade now. If I’m feeling up to it on Sunday, I think I’ll have to give up that battle with procrastination and get it...
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Why Don’t You? #111
Monday: Why don’t you buy all of your pants with a 2% spandex blend? I was opposed to things of this variety for years because I’m pretentious and think that you should suffer for fashion, but now I...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #208
Monday:Why don’t you go out and do something about the burning Amazon? I won’t deny that I don’t feel as emotionally shattered by this blaze as I did by Notre Dame, which is not only absurd but...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #212
Monday: Why don’t you hang a gorgeous string of light bulbs outside over a picnic table or some kind of seating area? I found some on clearance at Target and I hooked them up to an outlet timer to...
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MEXICO CITY: Free for a Coffee
After wandering around for ages and ages yesterday, Jessica and I were surprisingly willing to wander around again. I was desperate to see a cemetery since roaming through a city of the dead is one of...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #214
Monday: Why don’t you find a cheap way to improve things that infuriate you? I am not a fan of my basement. Calling it a basement is honestly a stretch. It’s more of a cavern. Literally, it was dug by...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #248
LOVE:Everything Harry Styles Does: So, unless you live under a rock — and I take umbrage with that saying. What on Earth does that mean? Who would live under a rock aside from worms and ants and...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #215
Monday:Why don’t you commission an artist to paint a recreation of your favorite painting in the Louvre or from whatever museum you haunt? I’ve long been enchanted by David With the Head of Goliath by...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #222
Monday: Why don’t you build on last week’s advice and experiment with other culinary delights than your usuals? Today my mission is to make David Lebovitz’s pink grapefruit marmelade that he posted a...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #253
LOVE: Slim Base Cabinet: I was just writing about all the different careers I dreamed I had enough time for. One lifetime isn’t long enough to be a curious individual. The world is full of too many...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #233
Monday: Why don’t you buy environmentally friendly products to soothe your guilty conscious? I’ve never much cared for paper towels, though the convenience is lovely. On a whim, I bought a role of...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #235
Monday: Why don’t you start composting? I’ve been home since March, and over the past months, I’ve grown somewhat manic about my yard. Either I’m really and truly old or I just understand why people...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #237
Monday: Why don’t you stop daydreaming about a project for dozens of years and just do it? Now I’m not the right person to be giving this kind of advice because I am an exceptionally proficient...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #241
”I was born and brought up in Paris, remember that. You can say, ‘What difference does that make?’ It makes all the difference. People who are born in Paris are a little different. It is a fact that...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #244
Monday: Why don’t you do the humane thing and find a way to pull the plug on Ancient Aliens? It’s so dumb now. Once upon a time I had fun yelling with delighted rage at their pseudo scientists, but...
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