Hello again from crazy season. 🔥🫠 How’s it going in your neck of the woods? I decided to capitalize on my Big Spring Energy over the weekend and dove into all kinds of MUCH NEEDED chores. I spent a WILD Saturday night updating kid devices and getting family screen time restrictions back in order before Summer Mode starts. Fun times with our family of five. 🎪🎠🎢 At the moment, I’m looking at my calendar and watching the blocks of margin squeezing smaller and smaller to accommodate all the End of School Year activities, two cookbook photoshoots, a Tent Salewith nearly 500 people RSVPd, followed by a June book release, then taking the kids to camp and all the prep that goes into that.

There are a few important stories I’d like to cover in The Closet this week, if you’ll indulge me. I want to talk to you about Saltburn and I feel duty bound to pay homage to London’s most stylish chef, who sadly left us last week. But before I do, a moment for party season. Because like a rogue sequin balanced on the brink of a sweeping stair case, we’re teetering on the precipice of the festive event onslaught - and many of you have messaged to tell me how anxious you’re feeling about dressing for it.

Welcome Illinois wing Marcus Domask to the exclusive club of players to record triple-doubles in the NCAA Tournament. Star of Thursday’s 1st Round early window, Domask went for 12 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists as the Illini surged from a near-stalemate at halftime to rout Morehead State. His triple-double is officially the 10th in March Madness history, and Domask is the ninth player to record such a stat line. Again, that’s officially.

“And then there were three,” Carrie says in a voiceover mid-way through Season 3 of Sex and the City. She’s walking along Park Avenue with Miranda and Samantha, having just left Charlotte’s engagement party (“I’m worth a million,” Charlotte famously tells her future mother-in-law, Bunny MacDougal). I rewatched the episode recently and dreamt of a next chapter of the series that followed these three instead of recycling storylines around kegels, Spanx and getting high.

It’s no longer a trendy thing to say that politics is bullshit. In fact, that kind of categorization itself is kind of a cliche. A more mature way of approaching politics is from a standpoint of control. The idea of control is nothing new when it comes to the nature of the human animal’s desire for stability and a sense of order that allows it to better structure the sheer unpredictability of the world it inhabits.