Five Good Things: Midsummer Edition

Katie

July 12, 2009

1. This amazing goat cheese spread from I Heart Kale. Possibly the easiest, most delicious dip I’ve ever made. And I, uh, really like dip. Leslie and I had a roof deck party last night, and I may have eaten an untoward amount of it.

2. The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields. The Pulitzer Book List is getting me to read some stuff I’d never ordinarily pick up otherwise, and it’s kind of awesome. Next up: The Road. Don’t I look smarter already?

3. Three long walks to Castle Island this weekend, accompanied by WBUR and the newest JoBros cd. My muscles are kind of sore, but in the good way. I might try to make this a not-just-weekend thing.

4. Tom reading the Sunday Globe out loud over iced coffee

5. Putting off the shopping. It’s too nice to hit the Stop and Shop. We can eat from the freezer for a couple more days. That’s what hot dogs are for.

How was everybody’s weekend?

One Comment

Ashley
July 13, 2009 @ 8:52 pm

Mine was fantastic! We took a gnarly hill on our bike ride and I almost passed out/died, but somehow I survived. It was also really hot all weekend. I had near 10 otter pops yesterday.

I love that you have roof deck parties. That sounds so great.

Also, I love that you listen to JoBros. Just saying.

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Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.