Yes, Vegetables for Dessert

Few phrases have the power to inspire a tantrum quite like the utterance of “vegetables for dessert.” While I’m sure this applies to toddlers, I’m referring to myself: an adult woman. But a little treat and a serving of something wholesome don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Root vegetables (like carrots, beets and sweet potatoes)…

We’re in the Era of Shipwreck Chic

There’s this look I can’t get out of my head lately. It defies neat categorization. Drenched. Asymmetrical. Slightly disheveled but in a considered, intentional way. SZA does a version of it in her music video for “Shirt” (the one where she and LaKeith Stanfield cycle through disguises and spray gunfire on everyone they meet). It’s…

Here Comes the … Baby Bump

At their in-person wedding welcome party for about 80 guests, with fire pits and s’mores in Pescadero, Calif., a friend read a poem about superpowers. Theirs, the couple announced, was the ability to plan a wedding celebration while pregnant. Though Ms. Nguyen, a director of engineering at a communications software company, was six and a…