Extremely into the My So-Called Life look at the moment, as you can see (that's a $36 Boohoo floral babydoll dress with a sweater vest on top).

My cousin Marci is making her own body scrubs; I think the Coconut & Lemon sounds especially delicious.

By now, you know my beautiful, talented friend Francesca (above left). She's in a vintage-meets-modern jazz/gypsy swing band called She, Her & I, and to celebrate the release of their first single, "Everybody Loves My Baby," they're offering it as a free download for a limited time here (just scroll down and enter your email address where prompted). Enjoy!

P.S. If you like what you hear and are in the L.A. area, their next gig is at the Sofitel on November 5.

Yeah, yeah...dinner and a movie is fun.

You know what's funner?

GHOSTS.

Some of my favorite frightening fall dates (all via HowAboutWe for Couples):

We're doing a Superhero theme for the fam this year. Mostly because (1) last year Indy was Batman, so it's sort of the natural next step towards Ultimate Superherodom (the final step being, of course, Wolverine...or possibly Gambit), (2) a Superhero theme means I get to be Catwoman, and a cat is what I am every single year because: lazy, and (3) it also means that Kendrick gets to be Clark Kent, requiring him to wear exactly what he usually wears plus a pair of glasses (see also: lazy).

So Indy is wearing an awesome Superman costume that our neighbors gave us.

He's pretty excited about it. I took out a bunch of books from the library to try to explain to the concept of "Halloween" to him (and also the concept of "birthday", since the two holidays are pretty close together) and we're weren't doing so hot ("Do you want to wear a costume?!" "No." "Do you want to go trick or treating?!" "No." "Are you excited for Halloween and your birthday?!?!" "NO.")...but once I broke out the Superman outfit?

After I got home from San Francisco, I received a whole bunch of reader emails that basically said "But what did you do there?! I have kids and I need suggestions! Tell me more!"

Except I was only there for three days, and when you're buckling three children under the age of two into and out of car seats every single time you step foot out of the house (and however difficult that sounds: let me tell you, it is much harder than that), you kind of max out around one major activity per day. Morgan and I hit up the Academy of Sciences, Giorgio's (a very kid-friendly pizza spot) for lunch, a Music Together class, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum, but otherwise kept things pretty low-key and hung out at home, catching up.

So my knowledge is limited.

Morgan's, however, is not, and she generously agreed to write up a guest post featuring all her favorite spots. Enjoy...and thank you, Morgan!