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Sunday Edition: I'm Slowly Getting My Groove Back (!)

So many tips and updates from the week.

Jan 18, 2026
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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.

I barely sat down this week, which is fitting for one that began with a pre-dawn escape from a meditation retreat (rest assured, the full story is coming on Tuesday). Before I made the decision to extend my stay in Portland to the end of the month, I packed my schedule with appointments, dinners, and meetings that I spent this week darting between, shoveling bites of food into my mouth from my car in the two minutes I had to spare. It was exactly as cartoonish as it sounds, and I’m looking forward to a much chiller week ahead, but I also somehow began to get my groove back amidst the chaos, after my sluggish, resistant start to the year.

Read on for highlights and updates from my week, including…

  • My favorite outfit I wore this week (from coffee to co-working to dinner)

  • Two high-protein breakfast ideas

  • A low-effort method for deleting photos off your camera roll

  • Monk-led dharma talks online and in Seattle (admittedly random, but hear me out)

  • A new writing routine, inspired by some of my favorite authors

A good fit. It’s a rare outfit that can go from a 9 am coffee date, to co-working, and physical therapy, and still feel cute for dinner out (as Harling Ross Anton pointed out, most outfits expire around 3 P.M.). I think a few things worked with this outfit:

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