Hi from Big Sur

Sale PSA: A cropped poplin shirt from Theory, now $126, fisherman sandals from Everlane, now jujst $50, a great side button flannel shirt from Madewell, now $34 with code REALDEAL, and a bunch of Uniqlo/Jil Sander is on further discount, but now the dreaded final ale.

Hi! How was your weekend? I’m in Big Sur with my husband as a (very) belated 10th anniversary trip. Big Sur is one of my favorite places on earth and a wildfire started a few hours after we arrived on Friday. It’s awful that even after weeks and weeks of rain our conditions are such that wildfire season can start in January now.

It’s really beautiful here. Although to be honest for some time although we had dithered on whether to come – I had made the reservation closer to our actual anniversary, but it just seemed too stressful with everything going on with Covid and back to school and so we pushed it out. And then a few weeks ago we were like, eh, should still even bother? We’ve kind of gotten so used to the cycle and rhythm of kids and school and work that it seemed almost like too much trouble to break all of that, and pack and have to do laundry off schedule and all of that. But it’s been really worth it to go away for all the usual predictable reasons when one has young children – we get to sleep in and not have to wash up our dishes after meals and there’s long blocks of silence and all of that. I ate so much greasy rich food that I actually had a horrible stomach ache that I had to spend an hour nursing until I could get up and then I went to dinner and did the same thing again. It was worth it!

Anyway, back home, back in real life land, things are still well, the same as they’ve been in the last few years. I don’t know where the 2-5 year old vaccine is and even though Fauci says this and that I don’t even want to read the articles and peg my hopes to a date. I know how that goes! I don’t really have a point to this post, just that it was worth it to take a break from the daily routine, to reset a bit and I hope you all are doing it too. We all need a break.

Wishing you a wonderful week.