wins of the week #34
dry january, free workouts, new years traditions, advice columns, great books
10 Things I’m Celebrating This Week:
Tektonics, Victoria’s new nonalcoholic aperitif brand, just pre-launched at Spirited Away in New York. Go and try it!!
The first month of SOTO, one of my fav workouts ever, is free with coupon SOTO2023. You better believe I’m doing it.
The collab of the AGES! Run, don’t walk, to sign up for this Create Dinners floral arrangement workshop taught by Molly Ford.
I’m teaching a class at my high school next Friday. I’m super excited (and also nervous?!)
Just ordered Sarah Levy’s memoir Drinking Games. Her articles and podcasts were incredibly helpful when I first stopped drinking.
Speaking of authors I admire, there is nothing cooler than walking into your hometown’s local bookstore and seeing your friend’s book (The Heart of the Deal by Lindsay MacMillan) on the shelf. Go Lindsay!
For a self-proclaimed “not a TV person” I sure do watch a lot of TV… Saw that Tiny Beautiful Things, a show based on Cheryl Strayed’s time writing the advice column Dear Sugar, is coming out on Hulu this spring. That’s a must-watch.
In case the Hulu show isn’t enough, you can get more of Cheryl Strayed’s advice on her beautiful Substack. This quote from her letter this week moved me:
And yet, you’re stopped at the place where he began a couple of years ago, asking yourself: should I risk my heart?
The answer is yes. Not because risking one’s heart is easy to do, but because not doing it puts you at risk of something far more terrible than having your heart broken: living a life made smaller by fear.
Celebrated the New Year in Spain by eating 12 green grapes very quickly at midnight, one for each bell.
I did a Dry January AMA here and it was so fun to answer questions and reflect on how not drinking transformed my life and relationships.
I’m pondering the idea of adding an advice component to this newsletter, where someone would ask a question and I’d respond to it long-form. This would, of course, require people to ask questions. Would love to take a pulse on whether this would be interesting to you as a reader!
If you think that would be fun / have a question, respond to this email.
With love,
Sarah
Oh, I’m keen on the advice column idea. I love AITA 🤗
BRAVO!!!!