- , the founder and former CEO and Creative Director of St. Frank, writes a Substack column called Goonight Mighty, which is ostensibly about home design and decor. But this piece, “The BATNA Theory of Dating,” is the one I can’t stop thinking about.
I’m intrigued to see that Lyft has created a simplified version of its ride-sharing app (Lyft Silver) for older adults. Based on the screenshots I’ve seen, the user interface doesn’t look that much simpler than the regular app, but live, human support is available from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET. Maybe I’ll give it a try with my parents and report back.
“Despite being primarily a children’s game, Roblox has evolved into a sort of emergent civic theatre for kids online,” writes Taylor Lorenz in a Teen Vogue article, “Kids are Protesting ICE in Roblox.”
What I’ve been reading: "Show Don’t Tell,” short stories by Curtis Sittenfield of “Prep” fame, and “Model Home” by Eric Puchner, which I especially loved.
I love the idea of using the Carted app to not only curate shopping lists, but also to curb my impulse buying. This idea comes from the brilliant
over on TikTok and it strikes me as a great way to shop for a special event, a season or a vacation. Bonus: Carted sends you a notification when the price of an item you’ve saved is lowered and you can set “goals” (i.e., budgets) to track your spending.I got to spend the weekend in NYC a few weeks ago and saw two exhibits I can’t recommend highly enough. The first was the Amy Sherald exhibit at The Whitney (through Aug. 10) and “A Century of the New Yorker” at the New York Public Library (through Feb. 21, 2026).
We’ve been looking for something fun to watch at home and started three things we couldn’t finish: “Sirens,” “Mountainhead” and “We Were Liars” (though I loved the YA book this one was based on). Don’t even bother. I was trying to figure out if there was a common thread among them when I stumbled upon this piece in the Atlantic: “Money Is Ruining Television.” (Technically, “Mountainhead” is a film, but you get the idea.)
I love the idea of a bunch of parents banding together and getting landlines instead of letting their children have cell phones too young. The reporter who wrote this piece about a “South Portland landline pod” says every parent she spoke with said the landline “helped their children become better listeners and more empathetic communicators.”
With the very real possibility of the U.S. entering a war in the Middle East, we could be forgiven for forgetting about the conflict still raging in the former Soviet Union. But I don’t think enough people are talking about Ukraine's drone attack on Russia's bomber fleet late last month and how it may have changed warfare as we know it.
And this week’s poem:
The Light Continues —by Linda Gregg Every evening, an hour before the sun goes down, I walk toward its light, wanting to be altered. Always in quiet, the air still. Walking up the straight empty road and then back. When the sun' is gone, the light continues high up in the sky for a while. When I return, the moon is there. Like a changing of the guard. I don't expect hte light to save me, but I do believe in the rritual. I believe I am being born a second time in this very plain way.
Have a great weekend
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Thank you for the shoutout! ❤️