Melissa Kirsch

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Melissa Kirsch

1 hour agoBusiness class flights are a good investment if you're willing to splurge. Here's how 3 airlines compared. Welcome back to our Saturday edition! Are you ready to splurge on your new summer soles? Here are six shoe trends that are in, and four that are out. On the agenda: Why dairy is so back. • Inside Addison Rae's pivot from TikTok influencer to bona fide pop star. • Bottle service, Shrek impersonators, oh my! …19 hours agoAddison Rae Strips the Sweetheart Act ...

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch

The Wirecutter editor Alexander Aciman stalks eBay for bottles of a discontinued lavender-scented aftershave once made by Crabtree & Evelyn because it was a favorite of his father in the 1990s. "I mainly try to find it so as not to lose the scent and preserve some kind of access to it," he told my colleague Steven Kurutz recently. I haven't been able to get Steven's story, " When They Stop Selling Your Favorite Thing," out of my head.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch

Every app I use is trying to get me to start a streak. My Kindle praises me when I read a few days in a row. The New York Times Games app gives me gold stars if I do the crossword puzzle every morning. The clothing resale site Poshmark offers me a vague promise of "rewards" if I keep listing my old pants at a regular cadence. I like to think of myself as a person who can't be swayed by shallow blandishments, but I am attracted to these incentives. I'm a pleaser.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch

I generally work three days in the office, two days from home. Recently, I was working on things that necessitated my being there in person, so I worked Monday through Friday, all five days in the office. The week felt long, unending. I kept thinking, "Tomorrow's Friday," but there was always another day. I had expected to feel spent at the end of the week, ready to return to the hybrid schedule, but instead I felt sort of delighted. Yes, the week was long, and wasn't that great?

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch

It's the time of year when we become reacquainted with what's been hiding out in the back of the closet. The weather's turning, necessitating an unearthing, a rediscovery of clothes that have been hanging there silently, awaiting their turn. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, at the back end of May, there are gradually - almost begrudgingly - more warm days than cool ones. One day soon you'll hang up your coat for the last time and won't think about it again until fall.