Hello, it’s your late-in-life lesbian friend (trademark pending) checking in! I have been in a relationship with my lovely girlfriend, Breyon, for 2.5 years, which in lesbian years is 14 minutes – long-term relationships is the official community calling card. A bit about our backstory: We met on Hinge at the end of 2021. I […]
Last week, our team took a trip to Seattle, and oh my gosh, what a gorgeous part of the world. The water! The pine trees! The coffee! Here are a few photos, if you’d like to see… First off, Jannelle Sanchez, Maureen Heffernan, Kaitlyn Teer and I met up with the poet Kate Baer in Seattle […]
Besides “What should I make for dinner?” the question I get the most when people find out about my job as a cookbook author is “How do you come up with your recipes?” It’s a mysterious process that I don’t fully understand myself, but here’s a story that explains the most important part, at least […]
If there’s one thing I know about the Cup of Jo community, it’s that we love pets. If a house tour features a shy cat or snuggly dog, I need to wait only three minutes until a flood of “But what is the cat/pup’s name/backstory/zodiac sign?!” comments start flooding in. So, let’s boost our serotonin […]
The other day while texting with a friend who’s a new mom, she shared a confession that made me want to reach out and hug her… “It’s way easier to do activities with the baby when my husband is with me, because I feel more confident with the support. But when I’m alone with him, […]
What are you up to this weekend? Our team came to Seattle, and now I’m spending the weekend with my twin sister and niece. Do you live on the West Coast? I always forget how much the air smells like pine and eucalyptus! Hope you have a good weekend, and here are a few links […]
Born and raised in China, Yinfan Huang is an illustrator and writer who has been published in The New Yorker. She has won awards from American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, and World Illustration Awards. Yinfan lives in NYC with her two cats and two chinchillas. You can follow her Instagram, if you’d like. P.S. […]
This summer, on my family’s first international trip together, I was taking a solo walk through Ireland’s Killarney National Park. The sun was setting, and the path had turned golden green, flanked by linden trees so thick with bees I thought at first that someone had mobilized a drone army. Beyond the path were rolling […]
My college-age daughter, Abby, was on her own working in Chicago for most of the summer, so when she came home to New York for the briefest of windows before heading back to school, I asked her an important question: What do you need to eat while you’re here? Since the last time she was […]
My friend Alison lost her dad a couple years ago, and she is planning to get a shrimp cocktail tattoo to commemorate him (and his love of the dish). How sweet is that? Curious, I asked Cup of Jo readers on Instagram to share their meaningful tattoos… “Three years ago, we held an epic memorial […]