The Sunday Toast, 10

Well… I managed to delete this entire blog post by accident, so I’ll keep it short and sweet this time. No fluff and not sorry.

• See why I want Joy the Baker to be my best friend with her interview on the Ladyland podcast.

• Breathe easy with Esther Perel on Culture Call. Everyone needs a psychotherapist in quarantine.

• My introduction to Pete Holmes’ podcast You Made It Weird was this interview with B.J. Novak. I liked the broad spectrum of everything from comedy to spirituality.

• The Thunderbirds are welcome to fly over the Texas State Capitol again any time. It was great to see them here.

• I won an Instagram giveaway for my favorite chocolate company, Endangered Species, and getting that package was easily the highlight of my year-long week. Caramel Sea Salt + Dark Chocolate and Forest Mint + Dark Chocolate have me seeing stars.

• The Greatest on Hulu is, well, the greatest. Sometimes true, sometimes not, but always clever and having me roll right along to the next episode. Huzzah!

Stay sharp. Stay safe.

xoxo,

Sally

The Sunday Toast, 9

How has it been another week? Is time even real? Here’s what I do know — what made me happy this week.

• I started reading The Time In Between by Maria Dueñas and I can! not! put! it! down! This is the book that inspired my favorite foreign period piece miniseries of all time, El Tiempo Entre Consturas. Please, Netflix, I’m BEGGING YOU, bring it back!!! It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it, so I’ve forgotten a lot of the details. But as Célion Dion says, “It’s all coming back to me now.” Gah! I love it so much!!

• Late to the game on this one, but I stumbled across The Open Ears Project, hosted by the lovely Clemency Burton-Hill who also hosts another podcast I like called Classical Fix. The most recent bonus episode from December is Tom Hiddleston on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. What’s not to love?

• Every Saturday, Nina Cosford gives tours of old sketchbooks on her Instagram stories. I live for these behind the scenes golden nuggets! I’m seeing more and more the value in actively keeping sketchbooks. Hers are so impressive, so all over the place, and yet so uniquely and obviously her. It’s astounding.

• The inexhaustibly charming Emma Block also wrote a great Instagram post on the importance of sketchbooks. We are all about sketchbooks right now!

• French Is Easy. It’s delightful when your friends know just what to send you to make you laugh.

• Finally, a blast from the past. At the end of my run this morning, “Your Song” from Moulin Rouge came on, and I proceeded to keep it on repeat for 20 minutes. Twenty. Minutes. This still makes me squeal like the first day I heard it — literally a lovesick teenager. And I love you, Ewan McGregor.

Ok byyyyyyyyye! And happy Mother’s Day!

xoxo,

Sally

The Sunday Toast, 8

It’s short, it’s sweet. Here’s what got me through last week.

• Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling’s latest brainchild on Netflix, was hands down the find of the week. 30 seconds in, I was completely hooked. Hilarious and heartfelt, this show is an authentic romp through the wild highs and lows of growing up. I can’t tell you how my heart sank when I realized I had unknowingly watched the last episode!

• There is something about this rhythm of slowing down that has me more in the habit listening to whole albums again. While I was familiar with all these songs before, I can’t stop going through The Head and the Heart’s Living Mirage from start to finish.

• I tried on a long-awaited outfit that arrived earlier this week and felt completely transformed. My mood did a 180 and this packable straw hat from Madewell had a lot to do with it.

• I don’t drink martinis, but I’ll watch Stanley Tucci make a martini any day.

• After months and months of slowly chipping away, I finally finished Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson. Reading about life during the Blitz in London has been a comforting reminder that we can do hard things.

• Hope springs eternal with The Great Realisation.

Deep breaths. Light and love.

xoxo,

Sally