Three Things

Easy dinners, this year's cookie swap cookie, holiday music that hits

Greetings eaters and readers! Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgivings. I was so honored to see that Suleika Jaouad re-upped my writing prompt on Isolation Journals over the weekend. That newsletter is such a beacon of light for anyone interested in writing or even just interested in writing as therapy. (How much do I wish her Book of Alchemy, which promises to be our generation’s Artist’s Way, was published already so I could give it to everyone I know this holiday?) As usual, Jaouad’s personal lead-in to the prompt was worth the price of admission alone, and will fit the bill as today’s pep talk for any didn’t-I-just-cook-dinner-yesterday readers out there who need to hear it:

“[Dinner when I was young] was an anchor, a moment to pause, to be present with people you loved, to be nourished physically and emotionally too. I adopted this ritual as my own in adulthood. I prepared a meal every evening for myself and whoever else was around…and the joy of making food was equal to the joy of…