Inspired by Ann Friedman's "I Recommend" page

These are a few of my favorite things in no particular order:

• This alarm clock

• American Press Institute's Need to Know newsletter

• Paprika recipe and meal planning app

• Airtable and Zoom

• Hive

• This wine

• The NYT Cooking app

• These shows: Ramy (Hulu); The Good Place (NBC); Black Mirror (Netflix); Master of None (Netflix); The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu); The Mindy Project (Hulu); Atlanta (Hulu); Insecure (HBO); Big Little Lies (HBO); Good Girls Revolt (Amazon Prime); Euphoria (HBO)

• TickTick

• Seattle Public Library's Overdrive app

• Poynter's The Cohort newsletter

• Wirecutter

• These Seattle dishes: Momiji's sushi, Cafe Turko's Ali Nazik with chicken, Din Tai Fung's soup dumplings and vegetable and pork wontons, Cafe Munir's lamb hummus, Tacos Chukis' house taco, Marination Station's kimchi rice bowl, Itto's Tapas' everything, Il Corvo's pasta and focaccia bread, Ballard Brothers' salmon burger, The Fat Hen's chicken sandwich, Witness' chicken and waffles, Señor Moose's enchiladas suizas, Molly Moon's cookie dough flavor

• Lizzo’s Instagram account

• The Journalists of Color Slack channel

• About Time

• These podcasts: Still Processing, StartUp, WorkLife, The Daily

• Spotify's Daily Mixes

• The Art of Possibility

• These two videos, which I watch when I'm having a bad day: Baby Ethan and Vin Diesel

• These touristy Seattle places that are not overrated: Pike Place, Chihuly Museum, Gas Works Park, Kerry Park, the Olympic Sculpture Park, Jack Block Park

• Running my son’s private Instagram account

• Bojangles (Probably the only thing I miss from my home state of North Carolina)