by Bettina | Aug 18, 2026 | Food recipes
There’s a two-week window every August when the peaches at my market are so ripe they bruise if you look at them wrong, and the berries are sweet enough that I eat half the punnet on the walk home. It’s also the time of year I refuse to switch on my oven....
by Bettina | Aug 16, 2026 | Hair care
I have wavy, slightly porous hair, which means for most of my twenties a humid day and I were not friends. I’d flat-iron it sleek, step outside, and within about ninety seconds I’d have a soft frizzy halo and a sinking feeling. What finally changed things...
by Bettina | Aug 14, 2026 | Drink recipes
My blender lives on the counter from June to September, and there’s a reason for that. A few summers ago I was skipping breakfast in the heat, running on iced coffee, and crashing by eleven every morning. Smoothies fixed it almost by accident — suddenly...
by Bettina | Aug 12, 2026 | Astrology
Of all the transits I track, Jupiter changing signs is the one I actually get excited about — it’s the closest thing the sky has to a year-long tailwind. In 2026 Jupiter moves into Leo, and it’ll stay for roughly twelve months, which makes this one of the...
by Bettina | Aug 10, 2026 | Astrology
I have a slightly embarrassing habit of marking eclipse dates in my diary in red, because in my own life they’ve never once passed quietly. The big one this summer is the total solar eclipse in Leo on August 12, 2026, and it’s not your standard new moon...
