Build-a-Bear, Dua Lipa, and college soccer all make a showing this week on the podcast. Perhaps you have thoughts? Because there’s a Geneva for that. Ope, also meant to say: December new-subscriber $$ goes to Transanta to fulfill holiday wish lists for trans youth. (You can also buy gifts yourself via the org’s IG!)

• Filling the better part of a Saturday (and my stomach) eating my way through East Nashville.
   
• Hitting subscribe on anything Molly Young has ever created…and then learning that she refuses to send her new Substack via email. A living legend!
   
• Watching a basketball jersey transform into shorts, again and again and again.
   
• Knowing by the end of the first chapter that this is a book for me. 
   
• Trusting that the kid who’s getting this awesome-looking ice-cream science kit for X-mas isn’t reading this email.

• Working with my jewelry idol Kathryn Bentley to turn some heirloom earrings that weren’t getting any wear into a pinky ring and a necklace. A+ experience, would recommend!
   
• Spending some time in the high-brow, low-stakes quadrant.
   
• Filling up the “oh, we have another bday party this weekend, huh” drawer with a bunch of these. (This is my other go-to for that purpose.)
   
• Getting frankly fascinating answers to many of my knitwear questions, including my perennial favorite, “Why does everything pill?”
   
• Deciding which lucky people in my life I can give this limited-edition old fashioned *experience* to. It’s made by a B-corp AND there’s an orange-zest atomizer involved?! #SPONSORED

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• Do you love dresses with deep pockets? The Pockets Project is teaming up with four female-founded snack brands to stuff the pockets of every dress during the month of December with delightful goodies! Each dress is 100% linen and made in NYC. Shop now!
   
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