First Rodeo

First Rodeo

Halfway through the year: summer reading vibe check & inspiration!

Charge your Kindle and pour your iced coffee.

Azora Zoe Paknad
Jun 21, 2024
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This letter is free, fun and frivolous! There will be a more in depth issue for paid subscribers next week, but as you open this I will be with my besties, blissfully hangin’ at my best friend’s mom’s Cape house. There will be rosé, there will be lobster, it’s my first time there and I’m really excited, even if the forecast is 100% rain literally every day we are there…

  • The New York Times did an excellent package on the city’s best sandwiches. Worth a scroll even if you aren’t a New Yorker, major inspiration for your at-home sandwich game.

  • Once again This Plate Will Save Your Life nailed my feelings on “anti-aging” treatments, youth, injectables, etc…

    This Plate Will Save Your Life
    The Anti-Aging Anti-Truths
    This afternoon, I was receiving a syringe of hyaluronic filler in my fucking eyeball orbitals, because the sands of time have hollowed them out as is often the case with Central/Western Asian women as they age, chatting with my wonderful once-ER-nurse-now-face-improver, Heidi, about how when all of the collagen supplements and turmeric lattes stop worki…
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    2 years ago · 103 likes · 30 comments · TPWSYL
  • Everyone is talking about having a “boring girl summer” and I can’t see why you wouldn’t want to.

  • Via Feed Me: the ways the egg freezing industry are using fear and shame to market to young women are pretty nuts. One of my principles as a marketer when I was a founder of a sustainable marketplace was that we would never use fear or shame or guilt to get people to care about …

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