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11.8.25 | 💛 A cozy weekend with Joanna Goddard
On the joy of teenage board-game nights, the best lentil soup, beeswax candles, the novel everyone's talking about, and the rise of Brooklyn’s "Ernie-core" style.
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Happy Saturday!
I’m delighted to welcome Joanna Goddard as the guest curator for this edition of The Weekend Edit. Joanna has long been a north star for online writing and community building for so many of us.
She took Cup of Jo from a weekend hobby back in 2007 to an award-winning, daily site with a deeply engaged readership, known for its mix of style, culture, parenthood, and big-hearted conversation.
For years, I’ve admired the way she writes about real life, love, motherhood, friendship, and loss with honesty and gentleness, inviting readers to feel less alone in the journey.
Her new Substack, Big Salad, became a bestseller almost overnight — proof of what many of us already knew: people trust Joanna to guide them to the good stuff, on the internet and in life.
xx AmyAnn
💛 Welcome, Joanna!
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Hello from Brooklyn!
My kids are 12 and 15, and while I fondly remember their toddler bellies and that new-baby smell, the teenage years have been my favorite so far. One of the reasons my children delight me so much — apart from sleeping in on weekends and making legitimately funny jokes — is that they can now give me a run for my money while playing board games.
Our current roster includes simpler games — like Outfoxed, where you work cooperatively as detectives to figure out which sneaky fox stole a pot pie, and Sorry!, where you race colorful pawns around a track — to harder, more grown-up ones, like Codenames, where you give one-word clues to get teammates to choose certain words, and Herd Mentality, where you guess how the majority of the group would answer a random question (e.g., what’s the best pizza topping? Your favorite season?).
We live in Brooklyn, where the winter sun sets by 4:30 p.m., so I’ve been pulling out these games, plus candles and Trader Joe’s peanut butter cups. What board games do you like? I’d love to hear your recommendations, especially as the holidays approach!
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A Few Good Things
To take a break from scented candles, we’ve been burning beeswax tapers in a ceramic candle holder. This stubby one is cute, too!
Every woman I know is talking about two things: Heart the Lover by Lily King, a novel about a decades-long love triangle with a heart-clutching ending; and Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, in which she chronicles the breakdown of her marriage. Both the novel and the album feel like when a friend