Over the holidays, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and babies squeeze into our Brooklyn home. I love love love the happy chaos of a full house, but the only catch is that, in past years, you’d sometimes look around the
What are you up to this weekend? We are visiting friends in Connecticut, crunching the fall leaves and eating New Haven pizza. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…
We’ve written low-key checklists for summer and fall, but what are your winter hopes and dreams? As someone who can struggle with depression and anxiety, I like to plan fun things to keep spirits up during the darker
One of my life beliefs is that every party should have a bowl of hummus. Store-bought is totally fine, of course — we’re living in a golden age of hummus brands, after all — but put out a bowl of
Last night, I spent an hour laughing with poet Kate Baer on stage…
Kate’s fourth book — How About Now — came out today, and tackles friendship, marriage, parenting, and aging, with a nice dollop of existential dread. I know
Back in 2019, I wrote up a list of my favorite plus-size and size-inclusive brands to shop. Six years later, I’m sorry to say, several of those companies have either folded or cut back on their plus-size options. The fashion
Bat Mitzvah prep has begun in earnest at our house, which means that once a week, my 12-year-old daughter hides away in her bedroom, meets with her wonderful tutor over Zoom, and comes out knowing things her very own mother
What are you up to this weekend? We’re hosting a Halloween gathering tonight — the boys stuck bats all around our house! — and on Sunday, we’ll be cheering on the New York marathon. (Are any CoJ readers running?) Hope you
On November 1st — tomorrow — 42 million people, including 16 million children, will be losing their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits. This is unprecedented and should not be happening. Here’s a quick explainer, and please scroll down
Photos by Kate S. Jordan
We can’t get enough of Somsack Sikhounmuong, the creative director of Alex Mill and maybe the nicest person working in fashion today. (Fun fact: this CoJ post about Somsack was the inspiration for Big
