2025 Favourites

Usually my lists are a little more organized but a chaotic year means a chaotic list. LET’S DO THIS.

THINGS I LOVED

Trader Joe’s small curd cottage cheese (the absolute best I’ve ever had and I don’t want to know why it’s so much better than every single other brand), the Lemax wedding party, Trader Joe’s facial sunscreen (great dupe for the Goop one), my wedding purse from Zara, Essie nail polish in Fiji, a ring holder for the kitchen wall, polysporin band-aids, personalized stationary and the shoes that you will likely have to bury me in: my faithful Target wedges.

The rest of my favourites can be read over here.

Winter Wednesdays Vol. 2

You can read this week’s Winter Wednesdays Volume 2 over here.

The Best Tweets of December

Guys I'm sobbing a local woman passed away in September and her husband/family rented a whole store at the mall to show off her Christmas decorations 😭 nothing is for sale it's literally just so everyone can see it and it's so beautiful I love love pic.twitter.com/eiuGPmULsv

— 𝐵𝓇𝒾𝒜𝓃𝓃𝑒 🪩 (@brihindthescene) December 6, 2025

Little colorful flecks in tweed are some of the loveliest little details pic.twitter.com/OQZvtCp9zy

— Necktie Salvage Advising (@NecktieSalvage) December 7, 2025

I'm being so sincere when I say this is the kind of local journalism every neighborhood deserves. https://t.co/vE0sTPHkN9

— Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) December 9, 2025

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— Asher Perlman (@asherperlman) December 11, 2025

One time I went to a Christmas fair at a tiny Russian church and got some borscht and the stern old lady who sold it said "sour cream" and I said "no thank you" but she replied "not question." https://t.co/T4g7vy0Myz

— Bryan Cheong 🎄 (@bryancsk) December 13, 2025

my husband has been stuck taxiing on the runway for 4 hours pic.twitter.com/9PkLpx6bjc

— katie (@katefeetie) December 14, 2025

if i got filmed fighting the wind gods on campus i’d be so pissed https://t.co/7qELOB6hAL

— lindy (@goaliedefender) December 17, 2025

my response to anything for the next two weeks pic.twitter.com/V8Avc3ilz7

— TracketPacer (@TracketPacer) December 19, 2025

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— Asher Perlman (@asherperlman) December 21, 2025

By the sea 🌊 pic.twitter.com/XjZ5TWWTVL

— Elle Lookbook (@EvaLovesDesign) December 28, 2025

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— Criminalsimpsons (@Criminalsimpson) December 29, 2025

The best tweets of last month can be found over here and my new Substack can be found over here.

New Year's Traditions

A list of New Year's Eve + New Year's Day traditions can be read over here.

Winter Wednesdays Vol. 1

Merry Christmas Eve!

The full post can be read over here!

Fall Fridays Volume 12

Last week of autumn, LET’S DO THIS. This will be the final Fall Fridays of 2025, so thank you for being here! I love writing these and all the eyes that read them.

BAKING/COOKING

Slow-cooker meatballs, Ina Garten’s cauliflower toast, BLT skewers, homemade Levain-dupe peanut butter chip cookies. Holiday cooking is in full swing, I can’t be stopped.

BLT Skewers

Levain dupe peanut butter chip cookies

CRAVING

The Thanksgiving egg rolls at Sweet Afton in Astoria. Good god, they’re unbelievable.

DRINKING

I had a Manhattan the other night and how on earth did I ever drink three of those a night?! That seems wild to me now. It’s made me not want to have another cocktail for at least a few months. I never thought I’d be this turned off of alcohol, but it’s felt amazing.

You can read the rest of this post over here.

Fall Fridays Volume 11

Christmastime in New York is so lovely I could scream. Yes there are lots of people everywhere, but the coldness combined with the decorations is pretty magical. It’s supposed to snow on Sunday and if it does I might just explode.

You can read the rest of Fall Fridays Volume 11 over here.

NYC Gift Ideas

The best NYC gift ideas under $30 can be found in this week’s newsletter.

New Podcast!

Can’t remember the last time I was on Nathan’s podcast, but I’m back!

Fall Fridays Vol. 10

That is not my tree above. Showing you my Christmas tree seems… too intimate (says the person that gives away any and every detail of daily life). I really just posted that one above because it’s one from a midtown hotel and I’m really starting to hate the picture perfect ones. They’re very pretty, but so boring. A perfect Christmas tree is like that Instagram face you can’t get away from: it’s become mundane. Anyway, here’s what happened this week.

BAKING/COOKING

I made Ina Garten’s weeknight bolognese and was blown away at how good it was. Really can’t believe that you can get that sort of deep flavour in a thirty minute recipe. Absolutely keeping this one in the dinner rotation now.

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Read the full post over here.

All of this post can be read on my Substack.