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If you want to feel like you’re in the Microsoft Windows background but better, go to Kaffi Sól in Iceland. I stopped by on a camping trip through the Westerfjords; it’s a café inasmuch as it’s a room adjacent to Sól’s house. You order in her living room, and she brings your coffee and toast out to you on a sprawling patio that overlooks a fjord. The sun, the mountains, nearly nothing else in sight except the Holt Inn across the water. Like a storybook—and the coffee is excellent.
May 23, 2025
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I spent 90% of my summer writing and lounging at this coffeehouse in La Jolla, CA called The Living Room. Feels like Wes Anderson set blended w the summer beach vibes of an Eric Rohmer film + a possible stop in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. I would gatekeep it but the spot has been blown. And it’s a great place to chat w randoms.
Nov 6, 2024
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is STILL free for fam members. It’s so hard to find a place where u can sit unbothered for hours anymore (esp without spending money), yet ikea restaurant persists. Also a nice place to people watch & fantasize about having kids (that family looks so vibrant and beautiful) or not (those kids are nuts, im so lucky)
Jan 31, 2024
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Folks, I'm sunk like 2 feet into this old sofa at Flying Cat in pdx and it's Great
Feb 14, 2025
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My perfect relationship with my phone is one where I can send signals but can’t receive them. I call this “going ghost mode:” I can communicate with you via obscure gestures, but you will struggle to summon me. It’s a great way to spend the weekend—phone in do not disturb, at the park talking to my dog, occasionally scrolling Instagram and The RealReal, sending a link or two to a friend but not overdoing it on screen time. It’s 85% touch grass with 15% brain rot. I understand this is somewhat antisocial, but it works for me. I’ll get back to you on Monday (probably).
May 23, 2025
I think about this album all the time and listen to it even more. Let’s start with the album art—fawn-eyed shirtless Prince with a feathered late ’70s blow out? Swoon. Every song on this album is perfect, soulful, electrifying. If “I Wanna Be Your Lover” doesn’t send a tidal shockwave through your bones, you need to find God. He’s purple.
May 23, 2025
I love Rachel Howe’s tarot deck and handbook and seek her out whenever she’s in New York—which is rare. In the times I can’t find her IRL, I visit a URL version of her deck for a daily pull. A nice way to center yourself each morning.
May 23, 2025