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Zelda and Scout, A Final Conversation

Zelda: Shall we start at the beginning?

Scout: A very good place to start.

Zelda: Let’s go back to the spring of 2014, when we first started having conversations about this project, which at the time was just a vague amorphous thing. I was working as a barista at a cake shop in Chelsea, several months into my first year in New York. We had just survived the polar vortex. And I was, frankly,…

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Fly Away Hummingbird Cake

If you’re a regular reader, you know that our writing has been…inconsistent lately. There are a lot of reasons why — life stuff, job stuff, busy and overwhelmed and uninspired stuff. We are coming upon the fifth anniversary of this project, five years of recipes and playlists and rants and raves and reflections on what it means to call a place, or places home.

When we started, Scout was working…

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#baking #banana #cake #cream cheese frosting #food #Hummingbird Cake #jamaica #lh wiggins #pecan #pineapple #recipe #southern cooking #southern living

Late Spring 2019: Rise & Shine

We’re finally getting back into the swing of life after a long, long winter (like seriously long…it was 40 degrees last week). The sun is finally out, it’s warm enough for bare legs and shoulders, and for the first time in her life Zelda is working a daytime job! It’s all very exciting.

So inspired by her no-longer-nocturnal lifestyle and the long-awaited return of warm weather, we’re bringing…

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Another Opening, Another Show

We talk a lot on here about what it means to be a New Yorker, and if that’s something we’ll ever really call ourselves. I’m still not sure I can claim the mantle, but there are definitely things that are no longer as novel to me as they were when I moved here nearly seven years ago. (Side note: Seven years is two years longer than I ever expected to be in this city, but I’m showing no signs of…

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#broadway #brooklyn #manhattan #musical theater #musical theatre #musicals #new york #Reflection #theater #Theatre

Book Club Booze: April Showers Old Fashioned

As Zelda has written on here before, we here at Zelda and Scout participate in the time-honored tradition of the book club. On a regular basis, we gather our friends together to (ostensibly) discuss our tome of choice, usually over a meal of some kind. Our particular book club meets roughly every six weeks, alternates between fiction and non-fiction books, and only reads work by women and people…

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#april showers #Book Club #booze #bourbon #brooklyn #chamomile #cocktails #ling ma #Old Fashioned #recipe #severance #whiskey

Required Reading: Volume Thirteen

This post is part of our “Required Reading” series, in which we share some of our favorite tales and tomes of New York and the South — classic and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction, short form and long. These are the stories that open our eyes to other walks of life, that shape who we are, and that make us feel at home no matter where we may be. Check out Volumes One through Twelve for more of…

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#a little life #asymmetry #books #brooklyn #fiction #hanya yanagihara #ling ma #lisa halliday #literature #manhattan #modern classic #new york #nonfiction #queens #required reading #severance

It's Not Hatewatching If You Don't Hate It

It’s Not Hatewatching If You Don’t Hate It

Friends, I want to tell you a little story about how I found myself a member of Bachelor Nation. Yes friends, I spend my Monday nights watching men and women vie for the hearts of the chosen bachelor(ette) in a series of increasingly contrived situations. Me, who in high school definitely felt superior to people who watched any form of reality television, who looked down my nose on “unscripted…

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#new york #reality tv #The Bachelor

Early Spring 2019: Snow Day

We’re baaaaaack…and we’re sorry. 2019 has gotten off to a slow start for us. We’re balancing this project that we started when we both had part-time jobs with real actual adult lives, full of work stuff and medical stuff and life stuff. So sometimes we need to put things on the back burner.

But we are thrilled to be back on track with another playlist for you. Spring may be right around the…

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You Do You

As the year in which I will turn the big 3-0 enters its second month, I’ve realized something. We talk a lot about how adult responsibilities are trying and we don’t feel totally equipped for them. Something about the millennial disposition makes us not totally able to call ourselves adults. We don’t feel like we’ve earned it. Perhaps because the societally accepted markers of adulthood are not…

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#adulthood #goals #millennials #priorities

In Praise of Seasonal To-Do Lists

A few months ago, I told you all about my New York summer bucket list. I had arrived at the end of June 2018 feeling like I was wasting the sunshine alone in my (admittedly very comfortably air-conditioned) room. And so I made a list of all the warm-weather things I wanted to do in and around the city, and I started checking things off.

I went to beaches and concerts, saw art and outdoor movies,…

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Winter 2019 Playlist: Do the Thing!

Here’s the deal, y’all This playlist was originally slated to go out on January 2nd, after our customary holiday break. But as we crawled into 2019, we found ourselves having a little trouble getting into the new year groove. There were newspaper articles to write, jury duties to serve, exhibitionsto plan for. Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and we needed a jolt to get us out of our…

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Our Favorite Posts of 2018

Another year is coming to an end! By our estimate, 2018 was at least 84 years long, and full of all kinds of ups and downs, highs and lows, twizzlesand turns. As we enter the final year of our twenties, we’re reflecting on the lessons we learned, the songs we listened to, the road/train/plane trips we took, the ice dancers we became over-invested in, and the juleps we drank in this, our fifth…

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#2018 #best of #favorite posts #friendship #scouts favorites #year end #year in review #zeldas favorites

Hydration is Key, and Other Lessons 2018 Taught Me

2018 has felt at least 84 years long for sure. But as it draws to a close, I’ve found myself in an introspective mood. I can easily say that 2018 has been the year that I’ve felt the closest to being an actual adult. I’ve learned a lot about the world and about myself and how I exist in it. I’ve learned a lot of lessons — some practical, some more philosophical — and I’m here to share them with…

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#2018 #careers #drink water #figure skating #growth #Lessons #nerdiness #new year #resolutions #unplug

Zelda's 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

Zelda’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

According to the author Gary Chapman, there are five love languages. Some offer words of affirmation or acts of service; others prefer quality time or physical touch. And then, there are the gifters.

I’ve never taken Chapman’s quiz, but I have a feeling I fall into category five. I love to gift — picking out the perfect thoughtful, personal present for each of the special someones in my life. But…

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Holiday Playlist 2018: Haul Out the Holly

Apologies, dear readers, for the lateness of this post. We are still recovering from Thailand-induced jet lag, and Wednesday passed us by in a haze. However, we are incredibly excited that it is indeed that holly jolly time of year again. Nothing revives us like holiday cheer!

December is in sight, and the holidays are just around the corner, which means it’s time for our annual holiday playlist.…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy almost Thanksgiving, y’all! This week, we find ourselves in Thailand(!), on a 10-day getaway with two of our nearest and dearest and oldest friends. We got our turkey on early this year, with our annual Friendsgiving dinner with our New York friend-family, and we’ll be celebrating on the actual day with noodles and elephants and thousands of paper lanterns. Atypical, perhaps, but, no less…

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#best of #festive #friends #friendsgiving #gumbo #holiday #pumpkin chiffon #recipe #thanksgiving #turkey

Thank You, Canada

In the four years we’ve had this blog, we’ve shared some of our loves with you: mint juleps, the band Houndmouth, Jesmyn Ward, rooftops. But there is one passion that consumes many of our waking hours, which has nothing to do with the South or New York, and which we have touched on only brieflyin this space. This week, however, it is time to fully let our fan-flags fly: Y’all, we love figure…

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