Wait a second, you’re thinking. She just posted a rye banana bread recipe. This girl is either floundering under the waves of early parenthood and actually losing her mind OR she is strangely fixated on banana bread.

And I’d ask you: can’t it be both? Just kidding! Not floundering! I promise. But to be honest, some days I do arrive at 5 PM and look back with wonder at the morning, thinking it must have been weeks ago that I woke up, not mere hours. There is a lot more occupying my mind—and my hands—these days, in the nicest way possible, and it is not inconceivable that I would forget about having just posted a similar recipe. Just as I might forget to switch the wet laundry to the dryer, or be unable to remember where I put the stamps, or completely lose track of my phone for the one millionth time.

Today, I offer a list of good things for you. In no particular order and having nothing in particular in common, beyond the fact that I like them all.

1. Fresh mint (mint limeade kombucha / fresh berries tossed with chopped mint and lime zest

2. Mayonnaise (controversial opinion, but just try eating a BLT without it)

3. Walking barefoot on warm pavement

4. Words that sound like what they mean: elision, lithe, disheveled

5. Nice glassware (I have these Burgundy ones and these for sparkling and these for juice and espresso)