Death By Consumption 1/6/26 - 1/12/26 I spent most of the week in Aspen for my dear friend Meghan's wedding, and then I came back to the city and promptly chopped off the tip of a finger while making Gwyneth Paltrow's veggie

Death By Consumption 12/23/25 - 1/5/26 Well, I truly thought this day would never come. Opening my laptop after the break felt like an attack, and I walked into the office yesterday like Maduro — disoriented, hair askew, random water bottle clutched in my hands, wondering how

Death By Consumption 12/16/25 - 12/22/25 It's Christmas Eve Eve, and I regret to tell you this will be the last email of the year — I simply will not be opening my computer next week, not when there's so much lounging and

Death By Consumption 12/9/25 - 12/15/25 Every year around this time, I get disproportionately furious whenever I have to do work. We should all be given the entire month of December off, as if we lived in a Christmas movie set in London, to spend our

Death By Consumption 12/2/25 - 12/8/25 Last night, Justin and I got our first-ever Christmas tree, and it turns out he and I have very different ideas of how you should string lights on your tree. Our sides essentially boil down to: "evenly space them

Death By Consumption 11/18/25 - 12/1/25 The best part about coming back from a long vacation (oh, did you know I went to Japan? Have I mentioned that yet?) is the absolute mountain of culture you have to catch up on. And yet, instead of planting

Death by Consumption 10/28/25 - 11/18/25 I have returned! Welcome to Japan Week on Death By Consumption. We actually returned last week, so I fear the trip is already fading into a lovely dream I once had, now that I'm back to real life,

Death By Consumption 10/21/25 - 10/27/25 I regret to inform you that this will be the last DBC for a couple weeks. Next week will be the first week I've ever missed (in 77 weeks, wow!), which I don't take lightly — I&

Death By Consumption 10/14/25 - 10/20/25 An evening email, how luxurious! I am sending you this after nightfall, under the cover of darkness, to get you into the Halloween spirit, NOT because I'm a procrastinator who keeps getting buried under a nonstop avalanche of