Leslie Schilling

When lockdown hit in 2020, A., a mom of two who lives near me in New York’s Hudson Valley, had a five-year-old and two-year-old. “My kids are very physical,” she says. “We were living in a townhouse with no yard and every playground around us had shut down. My children were literally bouncing off the walls.” And making holes in them. A. didn’t want to destroy their rental, plus her next door neighbor complained constantly about the kids’ noise.

I enjoyed this Guardian feature on Larry David’s costume design. It looks at how the Curb Your Enthusiasm character’s style has evolved over the years and how his post-normcore ‘look’ has infiltrated fashion – via TikTok of course. A key takeaway: real-life Larry takes the clothes home after a season’s filming and the costume designer, Leslie Schilling often spots him re-wearing certain pieces in TV interviews, mixed with his own clothes.

After a few rounds of solo weekends, my therapist asked me what I was doing with all this newfound alone time and my answer was, depressingly, “Mostly laundry.” We are a household that requires six to eight loads of laundry per week. (Yes, I know it could be less. You try telling my six-year-old she could rewear her pajamas.) And yet, we’ve always been weekend laundry people. Dan would throw the loads in, and I would sort and fold it all.