What are you as much as this weekend? I’m taking the boys to an apple orchard to ring within the fall. We’re additionally enthusiastic about our NYC weekend journey giveaway! You (and your pals, companions, and family members) can enter right here anytime over the following week. Hope you will have a superb one, and listed here are just a few hyperlinks from across the net…

How 10 ladies spend their commutes. “When my radio died some time again, I panicked. But it surely’s really been a godsend. I select to take a seat in silence. The silence is an oasis… I’m the identical method after I fly. I don’t even carry a e-book. Idle consciousness is a talent that I like to recommend buying.”

In case you’re going to put on heels, these are the most effective.

New love languages, together with “mentioning the nice canines,” haha.

Would you paint your ceiling a coloration? These pictures are compelling.

Highly effective, nuanced fascinated by Queen Elizabeth’s demise.

Wow, this documentary on organized marriage was completely gripping.

Do or don’t: milky nails.

Guide covers reimagined with celeb pictures, together with Persuasion, The Age of Innocence, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Scarlet Letter, and Little Ladies.

Writer Emma Straub’s funny, moving remembrance of her father, who “ate like a French king,” “received immense pleasure out of youngsters,” and “was the fucking finest.”

Would you uproot your life and open an inn? This couple did. (NYTimes reward hyperlink)

Raspberry breakfast bars.

Plus, two reader feedback:

Says Genevieve on a simple college lunch method: “Once I was a child in England, each single particular person ate sandwiches. My mother and father haaaated packing lunches a lot that ultimately my mum would make 25 ham sandwiches on a Sunday (3 youngsters plus them) and freeze them and take them out within the morning. I can nonetheless recall the disagreeable feeling of barely crunchy ham with ice nonetheless within the center.”

Says Laura on a simple college lunch method: “My son was a VERY fussy little man, so I used to make dried apples to incorporate in his lunch. It was labor intensive since my low-cost dehydrator took hours and required me to often rearrange the cabinets. However I felt so good about sending the apples for him. At some point I requested him about them, and he mentioned, ‘They’re nice! I can commerce two of them for an entire bag of potato chips!!!’”

(Photograph by Eldad Carin/Stocksy.)