It's So Rude That This Works

And ICYMI: Bougie sugar addicts, wine moms, and a delightfully absurd coat

It got just a smidge warmer in New York this week, so much so that Wednesday morning I forced myself and the dog out for one of our Grumpy Little Walks. (To be clear, the dog is never grumpy about this idea!) And I am disgusted to report, once again, that going outside and moving your body makes everything feel better.

I’ve been loosely participating in

Anna Maltby

’s deliberately loose movement challenge, which given that my house was besieged by flu for 3 of the past 4 weeks, has meant that I’m mostly just thinking about what it might look like to add more cardio to my life. I’ll probably write more at some point about my complicated cardio feelings, but suffice to say that it always goes better when I don’t get too prescriptive about how far or how fast. Anna’s recent interview with Marci Braithwaite (aka The Fat Athlete) is full of useful nuggets like this.

That said, it’s still deep winter, it’s still rough out there, and I’m committed to staying in cozy mode as much as I can. So if you’re also spending today curled up under a blanket, scroll on for some good reads.

-Virginia xo

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January ICYMI

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Two Things I Love Right Now

1. An absurd fake fur coat

I rented this one from Nuuly (yes I owe you a full Nuuly report!), and you can thrift it in a great lilac here. I’d link more options but not buying this coat is part of what I love so much about it! It’s exactly the kind of limited-use item I love but don’t really need to own. That said, I wore it both to my paperback book events and one afternoon to school pickup, so maybe it is more all-purpose than I thought?? (This whole outfit was the result of a deep shop-my-closet dive, but I’ve linked what I can here.)

2. The prettiest soup bowls.

January was 900 years long and we still have miles of winter to go, so I am unlikely to be eating any non-bowl-based meals for the foreseeable future. It would therefore have been irresponsible not to buy this stack of gorgeous East Fork bowls in Big Sky? Pretty sure my doctor prescribed them along with my Tamiflu.