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Sunday Edition: I Waited All Year to Splurge on This Gorgeous Coat

Plus nourishing fall recipes and a week in Santa Fe.

Nov 16, 2025
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The Sunday Edition is Tuesday’s little sister—off-the-cuff updates I’d bring up over a coffee catch-up with a friend.

One of my favorite parts of living in the van has been the ability to pull into a friend’s driveway, and embed myself in their lives without being too much of a burden, since I have my own living and sleeping space. This last week, I stayed with a college friend in Santa Fe. Most of the time we see each other these days, it’s for events like a wedding (including hers!), so it felt incredibly special to be able to see what a regular morning looks like for her and her family, to cook in their kitchen, meet her friends, and simply spend un-rushed time together. Read on for:

  • My go-to running playlist, as of late

  • Nourishing (and easy!) fall recipes, including curry-poached sea bass

  • The gorgeous coat I splurged on

  • 3 recent grocery-store obsessions

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