We asked friends to share 20 recommendations, including perfect travel shoes, a thrilling movie, advice for parenting teens, a "criminally delicious" sandwich and the coolest color to wear these days.
Hi friends! Random question - does anyone have the link to the Trader Joe's mega spreadsheet a subscriber created ages ago? I can't find the post on Cup of Jo, but I remember the comment section blew up with recommendations and someone created a google doc with everyone's recs! Thanks in advance!
As a curator at the National Gallery in London who’s been reading CoJ since before I was in grad school, I am PUMPED to see the National Gallery make this list! Thank you for creating this fabulous community this year; happy holidays! ❤️
My stomach turned at the idea of a person next to me on a airplane whipping out room-temp "jammy" eggs at 30k feet. I love a jammy egg for breakfast at a restaurant or in my house but there's something specifically revolting about trying to transport a soft cooked egg yolk through TSA and onto an airplane oh God please no with the egg smell in economy class
Jammy eggs don't belong on any form of transportation. A friend once took out a bag of hard boiled eggs on the drive to a hike and asked if I minded. I said yes!!
I was once trapped in the window seat on a SFO-CLT flight next to a man who took several hours to eat two hard-boiled eggs and what I believe may have been pickled corn on the cob. I may never recover. Please, jammy egg lady, I beseech you: don't.
the ONLY appropriate way to act on a plane is to do your best impression of someone that does not exist. an egg violates this rule, jammy or otherwise.
Borrow that advice for any conversation you need to have that may be hard or tough to begin. Walking or doing some sort of secondary activity (coloring / puzzling / etc) helps take some of the intensity out of the moment and allows the conversation to flow and more open. Its a great therapy strategy and my go to whenever I need to be open and vulnerable. So many big walk and talk moments in my life!
What a fun list! ALSO: I really want to say that as a fellow newsletter writer who knows how much work this is, the design of this--graphics and such--is so lovely, well done!
Love this gathering! It's opening me up.
Hi friends! Random question - does anyone have the link to the Trader Joe's mega spreadsheet a subscriber created ages ago? I can't find the post on Cup of Jo, but I remember the comment section blew up with recommendations and someone created a google doc with everyone's recs! Thanks in advance!
Thank you for such a cool roundup! (And as someone else already mentioned, the beautiful newsletter design. It's just so PLEASING.)
Two recommendations for end-of-year word treats; they've turned me on my head in the best way:
1) The OnBeing podcast episode with Sara Hendren (all about bodies, disability design, and the beauty of "needfulness")
2) The Andrea Gibson poem here: https://www.openhorizons.org/acceptance-speech-after-setting-the-world-record-in-goosebumps-andrea-gibson.html
Jesus Christ I love Andrea Gibson. That poem is a wonder. 715 goosebumps. Thank you so much for sharing.
I adore On Being. Can't wait to listen to this one! xo
As a curator at the National Gallery in London who’s been reading CoJ since before I was in grad school, I am PUMPED to see the National Gallery make this list! Thank you for creating this fabulous community this year; happy holidays! ❤️
wow, what a cool career!!! that is awesome.
This is all soooo great! So many treasures!
I wish I had Catherine Newman on speed dial for all of my parenting questions but this is the next best thing.
I called her once this year with a parenting q and it was the best! she delivers every time
I love that! She has such great perspective.
"listen I love you joy is coming" has me sobbing into my morning coffee
I loved this! So many links and ideas I want to come back to when I have a bit more time next week, too 😊
My stomach turned at the idea of a person next to me on a airplane whipping out room-temp "jammy" eggs at 30k feet. I love a jammy egg for breakfast at a restaurant or in my house but there's something specifically revolting about trying to transport a soft cooked egg yolk through TSA and onto an airplane oh God please no with the egg smell in economy class
Jammy eggs don't belong on any form of transportation. A friend once took out a bag of hard boiled eggs on the drive to a hike and asked if I minded. I said yes!!
I was once trapped in the window seat on a SFO-CLT flight next to a man who took several hours to eat two hard-boiled eggs and what I believe may have been pickled corn on the cob. I may never recover. Please, jammy egg lady, I beseech you: don't.
This has me gagging and somehow simultaneously laughing
the ONLY appropriate way to act on a plane is to do your best impression of someone that does not exist. an egg violates this rule, jammy or otherwise.
"do your best impression of someone that does not exist" = that's actually a genius way to think about it, I love that
I knew that was going to be controversial!
Borrowing Catherine's advice for my 9-but-thinks-she's-17 year old :)
Borrow that advice for any conversation you need to have that may be hard or tough to begin. Walking or doing some sort of secondary activity (coloring / puzzling / etc) helps take some of the intensity out of the moment and allows the conversation to flow and more open. Its a great therapy strategy and my go to whenever I need to be open and vulnerable. So many big walk and talk moments in my life!
"walk and talk" = love this xo
my friend takes monday evening walks with her 9-year-old and gets all the third-grade gossip haha
The best round up ever!
so glad you enjoyed it!!!! we loved putting it together.
What a fun list! ALSO: I really want to say that as a fellow newsletter writer who knows how much work this is, the design of this--graphics and such--is so lovely, well done!
Agree! I scrolled through thinking "This is so well done!"
Also, hi!
thank you!!!! huge huge thanks to our wonderful newsletter editor Kaitlyn Teer and the brilliant graphic designer Diana Moss xoxoxoxoxo