Sunday Edition: The Best Dry Shampoo, a Perfect Friend Date, and a New Milestone (!)

Photos and highlights from a packed week.

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

Dog walk outfit giving “dorky camp counselor”

Since beginning Morning Person at the end of 2021, I’ve felt an enormous responsibility to deliver high-quality content that adds both rich meaning, and quick, tangible recommendations, to your life. Something must be clicking because this weekend, we hit 40,000 subscribers! It’s a bafflingly large number to grasp, yet this community manages to feel both enormous and intimate. I have connected with so many of you both online and in person in email exchanges, book club Zooms, in-person gatherings, and run-ins. Just yesterday, I joined a small a gathering a Portland reader organized from the email list of attendees to our Holiday Book Swap!

In considering the future of Morning Person, this community is the element I most want to foster—sharing my own life as a jumping off point for more connection. I’m working hard to organize more casual community events, across cities, coming this summer (I’m a one-woman show, but things are moving!). Much more to come, but I just wanted to express my gratitude for this little corner of the internet. Thank you, as always, for being here. Read on for highlights and photos from my week, including the cutest new Pilates studio I just joined, and this week’s Tuesday issue in case you missed it! It was a biggie. x

Issue #189: Thinking About Death is How We Become More Alive