Your Spring Bucket List

Don't let the season pass you by.

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The weather has officially turned. Sure there’s rain, but that’s only to bring on the blooms! Spring is here for such a short time— before the dog days of summer take over. Here is a handy Bucket List for making the most out of this laughably short season. Add your own ideas in the comments!

• Buy fresh flowers

• Weekend trip. My husband and I recently drove to Boston to meet friends of the newsletter, Sarah & Pat Capozzi, for one night at the Copley Square Hotel and went for dinner and to see Destroyer in concert. It was exactly the kind of excitement I needed to launch my spring social schedule.

• Meditate on a park bench

• Dry clean your winter jackets

• Drink a Negroni at a sidewalk cafe

• Make a spring-themed recipe. I think Alison Roman has been canceled for beef with John Legend’s wife, but her recipe for Pasta Salad with Peas and Parmesan is enough of a reason to give her a second chance.

• Purchase a new umbrella. I bought everyone in my family this windproof, travel umbrella because it has a lifetime replacement warranty, after being fed up with every umbrella being demolished in a wind tunnel. One of the spokes broke and the company immediately replaced it. *Note: their replacement policy doesn’t include leaving your umbrella at a bar.

• Attend Whitney Biennial

• Go to a reading. It’s official. Literary readings are the hottest ticket in town. This is a direct quote from the NY Times, so you don’t have to take my word for it.

• Take a long walk listening to a podcast.

• Spring clean one drawer or one closet. I’m not asking you to Maria Kondo your whole house, but just pick one messy area and tidy it up. I put all my sleep scrunchies in a pouch and already felt better.

• Pay your taxes

• Read a poem in a garden

• Join a CSA. Or a fish CSA. I’m thinking about Mermaid’s Garden.

• Kiss a stranger or a loved one

• Pet your neighbor’s dog

• Go see Civil War

• Buy tissues for your purse even if you don’t have allergies so you can hand them out to people who inhale pollen

• Learn to identify one new tree in your neighborhood. Or plant a tree if you have the space.

• Make the switch to cold brew. Grady’s Cold Brew, IYKYK

• Kill a lantern fly

• Choose a book to tackle before summer. Visit my Bookshop page if you need some recommendations.

• See the cherry blossoms at Brooklyn Botanical Garden

• Crank open your windows

• Call your best friend on the phone

• Make a spring playlist consisting only of songs you will sing along to

• Buy a bagel with lox at Barneys Greengrass and eat it at Central Park

• Purchase a spring signature scent

• Add fruit to your water

• Decide to walk next time it rains, instead of ordering an Uber, and save on the surge rates

• Add one more thing to the list. Then do it!