- A new deck. Over the past eight days, I’ve embarked—in the good company and far more capable and qualified hands of my father in law—on a major deck renovation. Wish me luck!
- The joy of a dumpster.
- Enlightened (Season 1). Excited to have dug up this gem of a show, co-created by Mike White and Laura Dern.
- Fire of Love. This documentary about French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft is one of the loveliest things I’ve seen in some time.
- Summer illness. There’s nothing sillier.
- 1988 (Lori McKenna). Few things more exiting to me than a new album from one of the great living songwriters.
- Sunscreen. After eight days working out in the sun, I am—incredibly—not burned.