Tiny love stories
This week’s just trust us is this utterly ridiculous, utterly delightful piece in the Cut about forming friendships with the people in workout videos
There’s no such thing as a dream job (see also: this horrific tale of working at Google)
Queen agony aunt Heather Havrilesky is moving her legendary advice column “Dear Polly” from New York magazine to Substack, meaning you can now get her pithy, witty advice delivered straight to your inbox every week. Go, subscribe!
An extraordinary, moving essay in the New Yorker on growing up and living in America (but could be any Western culture) with a "difficult" name (“Life in America is easier with a name that no one ever gets wrong... I cannot detach the name Bich from people laughing at me, calling me a bitch, letting me know that I’m the punch line of my own joke.")
The impact of inheritance
Swooning over everything in this Paris apartment, but especially the green velvet couch, sweeping staircase and all that art. Also love everything about this 70s inspired loft
A wonderful Twitter thread for anyone wanting to learn more about Ramandan and support Muslim friends and colleagues who are fasting
Other ways to ask “how are you?”
Yassss thank you Frankie mag for this excellent, concise list of ways to compost while living in a small space
One of Vanessa’s favourite newsletters, My Sweet Dumb Brain, asked readers what they didn’t want to let go of from pandemic life and the responses are thoughtful and wise. Read them here (you’ll need to scroll down a bit)
For the first time ever, the Louvre has put its entire collection online (over 482,000 works in all). Delve in via these curated “playlists” created by the museum, like this Masterpieces of the Louvre and Major Events in History
Places where cats shouldn’t be
Videos we used as procrastination fodder this week include these TikTok side table tours, a Brooklyn play date ruined by non-natural wine, no otter left behind (!!), this morning jam that Lizzie uses to make herself get out of bed, when a British guy gives an American directions, and this isn’t a video but it made us lol so much
