Weekend Update

1. Today I am sharing a very pretty smocked dress, from Tory Burch.

I know I just shared a smocked dress last week but this came back in stock at Net-A-Porter so I was very pleased. I’m afraid it might look a little prarie-ish at my height? I don’t know, I might still try.

Also available at Nordstrom (where it’s being sold as a coverup!).

2. An interesting article, the The NY Times about how the elite are increasingly more unhappy in their jobs. The author of the article, Charles Duhigg, is like me – HBS alum turned author except that he also has a Pulitzer I guess!!

3. A very interesting piece I’d like to hear your thoughts about – Womens Work, via The New Yorker.

4. Thank you to Elle for alerting me to this Vanity Fair update on Theranos. I didn’t think there could be more details but yet there are! I have also been alerted that the HBO documentary is on this weekend. Whose watching?

5. This week, I read Listen to the Marriage, by John Jay Osborn.

This is a very interesting book about yes, a marriage, told entirely from the perspective of a marriage counselor. I was actually on a panel with Osborn, (who wrote The Paper Chase, for all the lawyers), as well as Cathi Hanauer, and they both said a comment that was something like…almost every couple they knew had gone to a counselor. And I thought that was so interesting, because (and I’m sharing here), my husband and I have never gone, though we’ve discussed it. I wanted to read Osborn’s book just to understand the topic further, and I have to say, that after reading it, that both the couple and the role a counselor played in their marriage was entirely realistic, and the book itself was fascinating, though I think it’ll be especially familiar if you’ve been married for a while. If you’re looking for a thoughtful book about marriage, imperfect ones, I highly recommend Listen to the Marriage.