Audrey Watters

The newsletter I sent out this morning felt incredibly disjointed. I wrote a lot of it on Friday, then deleted much of that on Saturday, and then continued to make minor edits through Sunday evening. All these periods of writing and editing felt disjointed too, as my typical weekend schedule...

Week 12 of 2025 I gave myself a couple of days to be super sad about my terrible half marathon, and then I got back at it: I did deadlifts on Tuesdays (usually that happens on Monday; it happened this morning) and I ran as well. I'm adding a sixth...

Week 11 of 2025 I just hit “send” on today’s Second Breakfast newsletter. I hadn’t intended on doing so. I’d announced in Friday’s newsletter that I was going to take the day off to recover from yesterday’s half marathon. But yesterday’s half marathon was so shitty, I guess I had...

Week 10 of 2025 It’s late in the day on Monday, and I’m still in bed. I’ve been in bed almost all day, save for Poppy’s walk in the park this morning and a couple of treks outside for her to pee. I’m sick -- food poisoning, I think. It’s...

Week 9 of 2025 It’s March already? My god. I’m 13 days out from my spring “A” race -- the NYC Half -- and we can see the first glimmers of a weather forecast. Currently: cold and wet. I think I’d prefer that to hot and humid, but it’s certainly...

Week 8 of 2025 My friend and yoga teacher Margarita often has to remind me, “put your shoulders down.” Certainly when I’m feeling stressed, they lift higher and higher until it feels like they’re up to my ears. After this week, my shoulders are so tight, and they might as...

Week 7 of 2025 I’m not sure if this is a New York thing or 2025 thing, but there are two online influencers -- one with 359K followers and the other with 668K followers on Instagram -- who appear regularly in my offline world: the first at my gym, the...

Week 6 of 2025 I’m very late to writing this today. I’m not sure where the day has gone. The same could be said, I think, for the year thus far. It’s already mid-February? Well, at this pace, the apocalypse will be here and done with very shortly. So that's...

Week 5 of 2025. And what is this, the second week of Trump? It’s all too much already, but here we are. Still “free,” still alive, for the time being at least. I sent out two Second Breakfast newsletters: “AI Foreclosure,” a response to Reid Hoffman’s op-ed on the promise...

Week 4 of 2025. Week 1 of the second Trump circus. I’m fine. I’m a wreck. I can’t write. All I can do is write. On his way out of the White House, Joe Biden freed Leonard Peltier from prison. It wasn’t a pardon, but still an act of clemency....