Confession – I have quite a “healthy” stash of chocolate at the ready.

 

The wonderfully-illustrated bars from Le Chocolat des Français caught my eye last week and I, naturally, snapped up five…there are three left as of this moment.

 

Le Chocolat is a cool, new French brand that commissions artists, both young and established, to design original artwork for their wrappers. Eat it up.

I am kinda obsessed with Michaela Coel. Why, you ask? Her magnificent work and the pride with which she lives her principles. 

 

You’ll see what I mean if you read her new book Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, watch her show I May Destroy You on HBO Max, listen to her beautiful speech at this year's Emmys, or read about how she fought to hold on to her copyright (Lesson: never let go of your copyright).

 

If her agent is reading, ah hem, I'm available to photograph Ms. Coel anytime.

You never know what you may hear while eavesdropping on the streets of NYC, let alone what you might see. 

 

Artist Grant Shaffer turns those quintessential moments into lovely, hilarious watercolors – what he calls an “observational diary,” that he posts via the Instagram account @nyseecomic. 

 

For my birthday I was the lucky recipient of three prints, including this one. Thank you Laura and Rick, “slush ballet” is an important new addition to my vocabulary. 

 

One day recently, it happened — that dreaded moment when I looked down and couldn’t read the minuscule type on the restaurant menu in front of me. Desperate for some reading lenses with a little style (and not just drugstore peepers), I ended up forming an expensive habit of snapping up vintage glasses. In the past year, I have lost three pairs and decided it was time to find an all-in-one solution.

 

Well folks, the search is over. I have found Hopper reading glasses by Caddis which are pretty darn chic (and have progressive lenses) to boot!

 

The other day I was poking around the beautifully curated FEED store and came upon this set of handcrafted wooden dolls sold by the Goose Grease shop. The dolls are designed in Brooklyn and handmade in Colombia by local artisans, who are trained to hand-chisel and paint the sustainably-forested wood. 

 

I have the Peace Makers set (featuring Gandhi, Harriet Tubman, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr.), and they remind me to not always be so MOOD-y.