Summer Odds & Ends

Scents, sales, and singular fixations.

The first week of July is always one of the better weeks in the summer, even though I still stand by my general dislike of this time of year. No one’s around, e-mails are blessedly quiet, and it feels like a chance to just breathe — hence the bonus newsletter this week. It started on the shorter side, with a few smatterings of stuff that didn’t really f…