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1 week ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer
Hi! How’s your week going? This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and the holiday can feel tough for many reasons. Today, we’re featuring 10 women who are sharing their experiences, and we’d love to hear from you, too…First up, Aminatou Sow, whose mom died two decades ago, shares how it feels to navigate adulthood as a “motherless daughter”:I was 20 when my mom died. That day, I felt like I’d been struck by lightning. My body actually ached.
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2 weeks ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer
Welcome to The April Edit! How’s your week going? The weather’s been so gorgeous here, we’ve been trying to eat dinner on the stoop every night.
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3 weeks ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer
Hi! How is your week? My mom is visiting this weekend, which is always a treat. For today’s issue, we talked to , a health educator and writer. (You may remember her beauty uniform and advice on pregnancy and sex.) Erica now writes the newsletter Soft Boundaries, which she describes as “a gentle space to help you explore the boundaries of your inner world.”She lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée and feels excited to be approaching 40. “I was a late bloomer and came out at 33.
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3 weeks ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kate Baer
Hi!! Thank you so much for joining us for a Big Salad & Friends live stream with bestselling poet and internet bff (who’d also joined us for our live event in Seattle). We had such a fun, funny time chatting. If you’d like, you can watch the recording above.
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3 weeks ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer
Hello!Our third Big Salad & Friends live stream airs tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12 p.m. ET with NYTimes-bestselling poet Kate Baer. We’ll be chatting about poetry (and how funny and real it can be), female friendship, vibrators, parenting (she has four kids), and how to switch into a creative mode, or as she says, “get your head in the clouds.” Will be a fun and laid-back conversation; and we’ll be answering reader questions, too, which is my favorite part.
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4 weeks ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer
Hey there, how is your week going? This is a very hard time in the U.S., as well as many places around the world, and I want to send everyone a big virtual hug. I hope you’re hanging in there and able to take care of yourself and the people around you. Stay tuned for an upcoming Big Salad volunteer group that we hope you’ll join. For now, I’d love to share eight things I noticed around Brooklyn, including small joys, little mottos, and ways to connect with loved ones and strangers.
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1 month ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard
Hello! How‘s your week going? This week we’re featuring our friend Nicki Sebastian, who is a genius at capturing friendship and family life with her camera. Nicki lives with her husband, Roni, and two girls, Cami and Cece, in Los Angeles, and her humor is infectious. This year, she dressed up as Kristen Wiig’s SNL character, Sue, for Halloween. “I have a hard time keeping surprises because of my extreme level of excitement,” she told us.
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1 month ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Hunter Harris
Hi!! Thank you so much for joining us for a Big Salad & Friends live stream with . We had the best time chatting about sexy movies, the #1 color we want to wear this summer, and letting go of perfectionism. If you missed it, you can watch the recording above. And here are a few highlights: 0:26 — Hunter’s dad’s supportive text (so sweet!)1:30 — Hunter’s writing process, including when she writes and how she watches TV and movies3:00 — do you keep your phone in your bedroom?
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1 month ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer
Hi! How is your week going? Tomorrow we are doing a Big Salad & Friends live chat at 12 p.m. with brilliant culture writer Hunter Harris. We’ll be chatting about TV shows, sex scenes, celeb gossip, dogs, travel packing, beauty treatments, you name it. We’ll also be responding live to reader comments (our favorite part!). Available for iOS and AndroidIf you’d like to watch, please subscribe to Big Salad and download the Substack app. Thanks so much, and hope to see you there. xoxo
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1 month ago | 
joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer
Hi! How’s your week going? Today we’re excited to share beauty finds. When I met my friend Gemma 13 years ago, one of our first friend dates was walking through Soho and ducking into makeup stores. “Let’s go play with pretty things,” she told me. Since then, we’ve done this a gazillion times.