Friends!
I’ll tell you now that there is no April Fools Day moment in this post. I don’t fancy myself much of a trickster save for the one time I put vaseline all over the toilet seat one April Fools Day when I was little. The slippery seat was met with less than enthusiastic reviews from my family. That joke didn’t go over well and I mostly stopped with the pranks right there. I burned bright and fizzled fast.
It’s also Easter and if you’re celebrating, I hope this finds you enjoying a sunny holiday with your family and I hope you find the plastic Easter egg with cash inside. One Easter egg should always have cash, tell whomever stuffs the eggs, k?
Here is my offering this week. It’s on the lighter side because that’s how my reading skewed this week:
• It’s important to remember this wasn’t all that long ago. Martin Luther King Jr Changed a Nation In Only 13 Years. (The Atlantic)
• Here’s what we should watch: The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling. (HBO)
• Here’s what we’re listening to: The Weeknd’s new mixtape, My Dear Melancholy (Spotify). There are some definite Drake ‘Take Care’ vibes in there and, YES THANK YOU. See also: The Weeknd’s ‘Wasted Times’ Does Drake Better Than Drake. (Vulture)
• This list feels incredibly romantic. 22 Ambassadors Recommend the One Book to Read Before Visiting Their Country.
• 40 comedies over the last 40 years that have changed the way we talk. I’m also here to admit I’ve seen Wayne’s World over 100 times. Schwing.
• The Great Sadness of Benaf Fleck. The back tattoo that we can’t unseen. (The New Yorker)
• I love baseball season. What a welcome back. (Digg)
• Perhaps on the menu this week: Baked Lemon Spinach Risotto. (Joy the Baker)
• Liquid gold: The Importance of Pasta Water. (Huff Post)
• You probably have no idea how much I love to latch hook and this craft is right up my alley: DIY Latch Hook Wall Hanging. (Honestly WTF)
• Y’all, it’s about time to prune our azalea bushes. That’s not a euphemism and this is not a drill. (Southern Living)
• I’m very excited for Brittany Jepsen’s new craft book: Craft The Rainbow. You might know her as the genius mind behind The House That Lars Built so this book is sure to be great!
• On my friend-dinner menu this week: Tuscan-Style Beans and Greens.
Take good care. Much more soon,
xo Joy
Stephanie Springer
It makes me so happy to learn that you’re a baseball fan!!!
nicole
I feel justified in my habit of saving jars of pasta water in the fridge. thank you.
joythebaker
HAHAHAHA
Susan
Huge baseball fan. Huge Chicago Cubs fan. Was so happy to have teh Cubs win the World Series while my dad is still around. (He’s almost 90 and resides in a memory care facility now, but he knows his Cubs won.) That Ian Happ home run was a great way to start the season. But even without all that I would be an even huger Anthony Rizzo fan. That player has a heart like no one else in the game. What he has done over the years for families of children with cancer through his foundation is amazing. What he is doing now to support the kids from his former high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland is even more amazing. He’s a player that really gets what is important.
Elizabeth
Thank you – I have always found at least one fascinating article or link on this newsletter – often many more. So much to think about and so many books to read after this one. Thank you so much for changing the shape of my Sunday reading.
Tara
Happy Easter. I’m going have to try the lemon risotto. Looks yummy.
Bernie
Happy Easter, Joy! I also am not into pranks-I hosted a brunch for friends and made a note in the invitation that it was a no-pranks event! It was a lovely time though now I have all this candy in little dishes around the house…
Ellen
Hope your day was egg-cellent and that YOU found the egg with the money inside. Let It Be Sunday is always a treat! Thank-you and Happy Easter!
Kristin
I might be a killjoy, but I’m so over April fools’ pranks, especially by news outlets. Like the news isn’t crazy enough right now as it is. Loved the reading list from the Ambassadors! Happy Easter!
Eva
I love this list of ambassadors reading advices. Thanks! And happy Easter!
Suzanne
“I love baseball season.” Oh, Joy, I didn’t know you were a baseball fan! Well, now I just like you even more. :-)
Emily
My prank gone wrong as a child imvolved wrapping a rubber band around the spray handle on the kitchen sink, so when my dad turned on the faucet later in the day he and the kitchen floor were sprayed with huge amounts of water. He was dressed up to go out to dinner, so this did NOT go over well and I did my best to deny involvement. No pranks from me anymore!
Bonnie
That Wall Hanging is amazing! Always loved to latch hook!!
Brenda
Love the baked risotto. If you ever join the Instant Pot (or whatever brand) cult, know that you can do a bit of sauteing of rice, dump everything else in, and about 15-20 minutes later, have a reasonable facsimile of risotto. Just don’t tell my Italian grandmother-in-law.
HumanRobot
Who is “Benaf Fleck”? :P
Happy Easter!
Rena
I missed also in our local newspaper the April Fool moments :) Enjoy Easter!
xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
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