10 Things We're Doing Besides Womanning Up

Oct 1

Because now feels like a particularly good time to fill your ear drums with unapologetically ambitious women: Get acquainted with the journalist Alicia Menendez, whose A Few Things episode elicited multiple enthusiastic texts from friends and family, and then queue up a convo with Jaclyn Johnson, who’s made it her life’s work to get women ahead at work. And if you need something just a bit light (we get it), hear a little history of Sanrio and an impassioned defense of label makers

erica’s things

Getting top-notch help putting together my shiny new bike. Related: this.
Experiencing shave-ice withdrawal after consuming mountains of the stuff in Japan and visiting NYC’s own Bonsai Kakigōri and The Little One in one afternoon to remedy that.
Waiting for all of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, trend stories to land. Because this and this and this!
Admiring the beauty of The Surfer’s Journal as someone who has absolutely zero interest in surfing herself.
Seeing my sauce dreams realized. I had been holding out for a Hellmann’s x Heinz collab, but I’ll take this..

Bookmarking this conversation between Oprah and one of my all-time favorites because it warrants repeat listens.
Recovering from morning puffiness and those “but will my face ever stop sweating?” workouts with this $13 delight.
Tiring of how cloyingly sweet store-bought chai is and deciding it’s time to take matters into my own hands.
Discovering that George Clooney was very early to the pet pig trend currently sweeping the Ariana Grandes of our nation. How’d I miss this?
Wishing I was a very wealthy baby so I could justify owning all the things at Kinder Modern.