What you'll find: books, sugar, a little glam, and notes from my days as a Mary Poppins.
My favorite posts.
Oh, and: email, twitter, and ask.
![Things are looking up for me this week. [taken with instagram]
PS: It’s a work app. Calculate your probability of love at first sight with JGL (or anyone/thing for that matter) here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyml06qrWm1qzenxro1_500.jpg)
All time favorites:
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Middlemarch, George Elliot
David Copperfield, Charles DickensMore recent favorites:
Underworld, Don DeLillo
A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone
The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore[via: flavorwire]
Noted.
![Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Feta-Olive Salad
These were on my to-make list for nearly two years! Worth the wait. They’re perfect.
Lunchtime? Lunchtime? Lunchtime?!!?
[recipe and image from The Traveler’s Lunchbox]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygu2pTRLQ1qzenxro1_400.jpg)
Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Feta-Olive Salad
These were on my to-make list for nearly two years! Worth the wait. They’re perfect.
Lunchtime? Lunchtime? Lunchtime?!!?
[recipe and image from The Traveler’s Lunchbox]
![Debbie Millman weighs in on where (in NYC) one will find the best Brussels sprouts, bread, garlic bread, butter, and SO much more. How fun is this list?
2012 Bucket List, you were just put to shame.
[images via]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygqzp8e6V1qzenxro1_500.jpg)
Debbie Millman weighs in on where (in NYC) one will find the best Brussels sprouts, bread, garlic bread, butter, and SO much more. How fun is this list?
2012 Bucket List, you were just put to shame.
[images via]
You guys, the Girl Scouts have a cookie finder app. Am I the last to know about this?
Also: COOKIE SEASON! IT’S HERE!
She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.
- Pella Affenlight | The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
I’m honestly shocked at how much I love The Art of Fielding. (HEY man, I never claimed an ounce of originality.) It’s nothing like I imagined. I have a hundred pages to go and I can’t help but stop to re-read things—I hate the thought of the whole thing ending.
Self-respect won’t have you calling your girlfriends, debating and analyzing. Self-respect won’t keep you warm at night. It won’t make you giggle in the morning. There’s no euphoric high in behaving with integrity. Self-respect is an investment. It is something you add to the bank of self over and over. You will never see an immediate benefit, but what you will see, years later, is how people respect you when you respect yourself.
To my parents:
Thank you for building a messy, unpredictable, and uniquely beautiful life together. (And thanks for letting me live in it.)
Happy 29th Anniversary (a day late).
xo
Photo context:
San Diego Christmas, 2011
My dad’s probably just said something inappropriate and my mom probably just said, “OH, jeeze” and is trying not to laugh too much.
![luckymag:
buzzfeed:
The perfect Monday GIF.
[Back To Work Penguin]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9m3dEiZg1qz581wo1_500.gif)
The perfect Monday GIF.
