This Week
Jessica Meir and Christina Koch together in space (Photo credit: NASA)
Watching the first all female spacewalk was riveting and inspiring. Bravo to Channel 4 in the UK for launching a menopause policy for employees. Tracee Ellis Ross shares her thoughts on self-care, self-love and well being. Always sanitary products to change their packaging to be more inclusive of trans and non-binary consumers. News legend Gwen Ifill to be memorialized with Forever stamp. Aja Newman’s story of sexual assault in the ER at Mt. Sinai Hospital is a horrifying gut punch, right to the very last line. Northern Ireland just ruled both abortion and same-sex marriage now legal. We have only one question after hearing the news that the Facts of Life cast will reunite for a holiday movie, You Light Up My Christmas: Will Debby Boone make a cameo?
Obsessed: Pumpkin Spice Style
Pumpkin spice that won't make your teeth hurt (Images via Chan Luu, Essie, Bloomingdale's, and Madewell)
I don’t want to yuck the yum of any of you wise and bright ladies, but I think fall can be more...shall we say...sophisticated than adding pumpkin spice artificial flavor to everything from coffee drinks to popcorn and even dog treats. And, since once might say we are in the autumn of our lives, surely it’s time to leave childish (**cough** overly commercial, overly sweet **cough cough**) seasonal obsessions behind.
But fear not, spice lovers! I won’t take away your pumpkin spice woobie just like that. No, no. Instead I’m going to suggest more stylish replacements. These are the spice-is-nice things to be obsessed with at the moment:
Woobie: A gorgeous, dip-dyed lightweight cashmere scarf/wrap from Chan Luu.
Nail Polish: Deep, rich, spicy sienna colors are everywhere. And they work on every single skin tone. Here’s 3 to try:
Cirque Colors Bowery: A *perfect* rich orange/chestnut spice
Opi Chocolate Moose: A soft spice brown with a hint of rose to it.
And Essie busted out a bunch of spicy shades for fall, including On the Bright Cider.
Sweater Blazer: The Saville Sweater Blazer in Heather Pecan from Madewell will keep you nice and toasty while you're stomping through piles of leaves.
The best boot: Instead of a tall latte, get some tall boots in the spiciest warm leather. I’ve been eyeing these Loeffler Randall beauties, but if $700 is out of your budget (out of mine!) then the Frye is a pretty close second.
— Stacy Morrison
TueNight 10: Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman
Nancy (r.) and her Feed Our Democracy Partner, Isabel Kallman (l.), giving out free hugs at the NYC Pride parade
Age: 54
Quick bio: Nancy is one of the co-founders of Feed Our Democracy, a grassroots organization dedicated to encouraging activism and raising hell. She is the co-founder of KidzVuz Media. and the vice chair of the board of Transport Theatre Group, an off-Broadway theatre company.
Beyond the Bio: "The hardest part about being over 50 is the invisibility, but it's also the most freeing. It's only when the general public started looking at me less that I was able to see myself more clearly."
1. On the nightstand: The Porpoise, by Mark Haddon (he also wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time), Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeline Thien. And very uncharacteristically for me, since I almost exclusively read fiction, Sapiens, by Youval Noah Harrari. That last one is brilliant but slow going.
2. Can't stop/won't stop: Eating carbs. Life is not worth living without carbs. Seriously.
3. Jam of the minute: I'm a Broadway Geek. (I even have my own Drama Desk Award to prove it.) Classic Broadway tunes and Jazz Standards are the soundtrack of my life.
4. Thing I miss: That the bulk of my family time is now spent as a twosome, instead of a foursome (my twins are in college). I love being with my husband, but it's weird that all four of us being together is the exception and not the norm.
5. 80s crush: Leif Garret
6. Current crush: Preet Bharara. One of his kids plays baseball on the same team as my cousin's kid. I will stalk him.
7. Will whine about: Errant chin hairs. Crepe-y skin. Politics. Politics. Politics.
8. Will wine about: Oregon Pinot Noirs. LOVE them.
9. Best thing that happened recently: Feed Our Democracy's National #DayofAction rolled out in seven cities on one day. Exhausting, exhilarating, and hopefully just the beginning. We have a lot of work to do between now and next November.
10. Looking forward to: Getting the Orange Menace out of the People's House and into the Big House where he belongs. I look forward to never having to think about, hear about or see his horrifying visage ever again.
BEGIN AGAIN
Story: My Half-Baked Life and the Pastry Job That Saved Me
By Lani Halliday
Last summer, two coworkers and I left our jobs running a hip and lauded bakery in Brooklyn to start our own catering and cakes company. The plan had come together organically: We shared mutual affections, bonded over grueling workdays and were all possessed by a deep desire to pull ourselves out from under the never-ending task of producing someone else’s dream to ride high on our own vision. We conspired over margaritas how we together would take over the world — or at least the New York Slow Food scene.
The “plan” lasted a solid two months and eventually fell apart when a project shaped distinctly like something bigger than we could chew, coupled with an epic no-sleep, Adderall-fueled prep session flushed out our deeper natures. We pulled it off and the client was thrilled, but I was deemed both too soft and too harsh to enter into a long-term relationship with. The other partners pushed me out.
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