The Sunday Toast, 28

When did it get to be September and feel like fall? I haven’t a clue, but I’m here for it.

• Young Wallander. Oh. OH. Fulfilling all my moody mystery needs, the young reimagining of this detective stopped me in my tracks. Was it the smolder? The jawline? The Swedish accent? The misty harbors of Sweden? Whatever it was, I want more of it. Fingers crossed that Netflix makes a second season and we’ll see more of Adam Pålsson in the world. Good. GRIEF.

• I tend to save up episodes of my favorite podcasts now like the apocalypse is coming? Oh wait… We’re already in one! Catching up on this episode of The High Low was a total treat. I laughed, I gasped, it’s a good one.

• Every time a new Fortunately… with Fi and Jane pops into my feed, it’s so satisfying just imagining where on earth their dazzling banter is going to take you. The latest was no exception.

• My latest audiobook adventure was Nancy Springer’s The Case of the Missing Marquess, the first in the Enola Holmes series. I simply wanted to listen to it before the Netflix film comes out this coming week, but I was happily surprised to find it’s narrated by one of my favorite narrators, Katherine Kellgren.

• There simply aren’t words. Rest in power, RBG.

Keep hoping. Keep fighting.

xoxo,

Sally

The Sunday Toast, 27

Good evening, friends! I’m taking a little break from these weekly posts. After only six days of in-person teaching, I’ve been laid flat entirely. It’s incredible how something so familiar can look and feel so foreign. I can’t remember ever having wrestled with this level of unrelenting physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion and stress. I’m drinking up all the rest I can, and I hope you are, too. Send some love to your teacher friends, be gentle with yourself, and have a lovely lovely week.

xoxo,

Sally

The Sunday Toast, 26

School is here and we’re exhausted. I limped through the week with the help of these things…

• Judi Dench on David Tennant Does A Podcast With… She’s just brilliant. She’s just so blooming brilliant.

• All week long I’ve Easy Tiger’s Kale Salad in my kitchen. I’m missing being at my local haunts so much and this is a tasty balm. Toss in some blueberries, brie, and avocado and I’m a happy girl.

• You know that moment when you get off the library’s waiting list for something you’ve been waiting for a long long time? I love that moment. It happened this past week with Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers and it was oh so worth the wait. And now I’m on the waiting list for everything else he’s ever written!

• But being selectively bad at waiting, I then turned to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History, which I’m absolutely loving. I started with the fascinating episode Dragon Psychology 101, all about art museums and their unseen archives. And it’s had me hook, line, and sinker ever since.

• Mounting stress calls for the big guns in creature comforts. I’m powering through season 2 of All Creatures Great and Small. There’s nothing like James Herriot for that warm glowy, sitting by the fire with a steaming mug of cream tea and a dog at your feet kind of feeling to get you through the here-comes-anxiety nights.

• Speaking of cream tea, my best friend sent me a box of my favorite British tea and I couldn’t be more delighted. Yorkshire Gold — the tastiest of armchair travel.

Well, my friends… well, my friends. That is all. Be well and be merry.

xoxo,

Sally