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Happy (almost) weekend. I’m currently hell-bent on making the most of May. It’s peony season, I’m in my short-lived ideal temperature range, and I have at least a month before I start to stress that summer’s already almost over. With that in mind, here are my non-negotiables this weekend:
Making this Open-Faced Blueberry Pie — a favorite since my early 20s. Now that my 11-year-old daughter and I have started to bake pies together, I feel a duty to show her what life can be after you’ve added lime juice to blueberries.
Locating the perfect white jeans. I’ve never found a pair I like — but this year, that changes. I’ve narrowed it down to either these wide-leg Levi’s or the white version of my favorite Aritzia ones. Both are high rise and non-stretch, because your denim should match your standards.
Seeing Dad Don’t Read This, a new play from Eliya Smith, whose first off-Broadway project, Grief Camp, got great buzz. In further proof that 2026 is the year of girlhood nostalgia, Smith’s latest, set at a recurring sleepover, nails one of adolescence’s most critical yet forgotten lessons: You can figure out a lot about who you are in your pajamas with your friends.
Reading One of Us by Elizabeth Day. Wry British class commentary within a tightly wound whodunnit? Sold.
Running again. It’s been a long hiatus (my excuses include kids, work, digital distraction, and weird, flattening end-of-day exhaustion), but the Outside is too beautiful right now not to just go. Playlist suggestions welcome.
— Margaret Wheeler Johnson / SVP, Content / New York, NY
Skimm’d by: Jamie Feldman and Melissa Goldberg. Fact-checked by Sara Tardiff.
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