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The Weekend of Personal Leftovers


Welcome. The weekend after Thanksgiving is, for many of us, time for leftovers, when the turkey and sides are summoned for their encore: as sandwich fixings, as stuffing croutons, as turkey pho. Of course, Thanksgiving was likely a smaller affair this year, so leftovers might be in short supply in the kitchen.

But even if you’ve polished off the turkey, it’s still a good time to finish up your personal leftovers. Just pull on your “hangaround bangarounds,” as my friend Alice calls them, the cozy indoor clothes that for a good number of us have become our only clothes the past several months, and get to work. Finish the book you’ve been meaning to get back to but kept casting aside for a cable news fix. Wrap up the card game, the Zoom convo, the jigsaw puzzle that’s been half-done for months (or just put the puzzle away without finishing it; you could use the table space).

I’ll be getting back to “All My Puny Sorrows,” a terrific novel by the Canadian writer Miriam Toews about sisters growing up in a Mennonite family. Catching up on the crossword, finally finishing “The Last Dance,” the 10-part documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls; I think I have two episodes left. I’ll water the plants, parched since we turned the heat on, get the humidifier out of storage to keep them happy until spring. Small things, life’s leftovers.

If you find yourself with some time this weekend, I highly recommend this profile of Adriene Mishler of “Yoga With Adriene” fame. (When we talked about our exercise routines during the pandemic, Mishler’s videos were the ones mentioned most frequently by At Home readers.) What do her fans love about her? According to Molly Young, whose writing I always admire, it’s “a level of empathy so forceful it almost seems like brain damage.”



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