Alex Van Buren
@alexvanburen.bsky.social
Journalist (NYT; WAPO) turned copywriter/ strategist. Nonfiction writer; aspiring fiction writer; ice cream obsessive.
Here for music, food, politics, feminism, typography, #pvd, books, owls, otters, comedy & progressive community-building.
She/ her
Here for music, food, politics, feminism, typography, #pvd, books, owls, otters, comedy & progressive community-building.
She/ her
Peanut butter; cucumbers; fish sauce; chili crunch; noodles; lime; soy; garlic; cilantro; mint; wings. My cravings are all Thai & Chinese right now. Made a riff on Eric Kim’s 5-minute peanut butter noodles today; it’s the perfect umami boom of a WFH workday lunch. #foodsky @nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Peanut butter; cucumbers; fish sauce; chili crunch; noodles; lime; soy; garlic; cilantro; mint; wings. My cravings are all Thai & Chinese right now. Made a riff on Eric Kim’s 5-minute peanut butter noodles today; it’s the perfect umami boom of a WFH workday lunch. #foodsky @nytimes.com
Free idea: an airport chain called Guilty Bizness Moms that sells only cute tchotchkes with big eyes. #travelsky #bizness
June 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Free idea: an airport chain called Guilty Bizness Moms that sells only cute tchotchkes with big eyes. #travelsky #bizness
June 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Re-upping my annual request for someone who is not a scaredy-cat like me to help me turn this weird old New England “grill” functional again.
Could be fun. Free, high-quality food & tunes & drink involved! (And yes, I’ll cut back the overhang & I know I have a wisteria problem.) 🫠🌸🔥🥩
Could be fun. Free, high-quality food & tunes & drink involved! (And yes, I’ll cut back the overhang & I know I have a wisteria problem.) 🫠🌸🔥🥩
May 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Re-upping my annual request for someone who is not a scaredy-cat like me to help me turn this weird old New England “grill” functional again.
Could be fun. Free, high-quality food & tunes & drink involved! (And yes, I’ll cut back the overhang & I know I have a wisteria problem.) 🫠🌸🔥🥩
Could be fun. Free, high-quality food & tunes & drink involved! (And yes, I’ll cut back the overhang & I know I have a wisteria problem.) 🫠🌸🔥🥩
Free Mahmoud.
This is the correct way to do this headline, @nytimes.com
I want my government to stop kidnapping people off our streets. Keep protesting, friends. #freemahmoud
This is the correct way to do this headline, @nytimes.com
I want my government to stop kidnapping people off our streets. Keep protesting, friends. #freemahmoud
May 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Free Mahmoud.
This is the correct way to do this headline, @nytimes.com
I want my government to stop kidnapping people off our streets. Keep protesting, friends. #freemahmoud
This is the correct way to do this headline, @nytimes.com
I want my government to stop kidnapping people off our streets. Keep protesting, friends. #freemahmoud
May 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Spring unsubtly making moves on fall trying to replace it as my favorite.
May 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Spring unsubtly making moves on fall trying to replace it as my favorite.
Props to public educators. Only about a month to go, folks.
And props to my kid for this knockout Mother’s Day likeness of me! (I have gray eyes, but whatevs, kid! ❤️) #parenting #artsky
And props to my kid for this knockout Mother’s Day likeness of me! (I have gray eyes, but whatevs, kid! ❤️) #parenting #artsky
May 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Props to public educators. Only about a month to go, folks.
And props to my kid for this knockout Mother’s Day likeness of me! (I have gray eyes, but whatevs, kid! ❤️) #parenting #artsky
And props to my kid for this knockout Mother’s Day likeness of me! (I have gray eyes, but whatevs, kid! ❤️) #parenting #artsky
Thx to the lovely women of #loneglanefarm in #warrenri for the organic herb haul.
From top left: holy basil; thyme (from last year); basil; ‘black cherry’ heirloom tomatoes; sage; cilantro that I give about a week to live.
Messy, but all mine. #gardening #victorygarden
From top left: holy basil; thyme (from last year); basil; ‘black cherry’ heirloom tomatoes; sage; cilantro that I give about a week to live.
Messy, but all mine. #gardening #victorygarden
May 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thx to the lovely women of #loneglanefarm in #warrenri for the organic herb haul.
From top left: holy basil; thyme (from last year); basil; ‘black cherry’ heirloom tomatoes; sage; cilantro that I give about a week to live.
Messy, but all mine. #gardening #victorygarden
From top left: holy basil; thyme (from last year); basil; ‘black cherry’ heirloom tomatoes; sage; cilantro that I give about a week to live.
Messy, but all mine. #gardening #victorygarden
I love #rhodeisland. I do. With two exceptions:
1) The “Rhode Island roll” at stop signs. (They’re not a suggestion, folks.)
2) My daughter is six & says “mirrah” for 🪞. Is there, like a Department for Correction of Pronunciation I can call? #rhody #newengland
1) The “Rhode Island roll” at stop signs. (They’re not a suggestion, folks.)
2) My daughter is six & says “mirrah” for 🪞. Is there, like a Department for Correction of Pronunciation I can call? #rhody #newengland
May 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I love #rhodeisland. I do. With two exceptions:
1) The “Rhode Island roll” at stop signs. (They’re not a suggestion, folks.)
2) My daughter is six & says “mirrah” for 🪞. Is there, like a Department for Correction of Pronunciation I can call? #rhody #newengland
1) The “Rhode Island roll” at stop signs. (They’re not a suggestion, folks.)
2) My daughter is six & says “mirrah” for 🪞. Is there, like a Department for Correction of Pronunciation I can call? #rhody #newengland
In my heart of hearts, I’m a very frugal cook. (Runs in the family.)
Lovely, simple @nytimes.com Bill Telepan recipe for confited beans: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015...
Used awesome @ranchogordo.bsky.social “Marcella” heirloom beans, tho! #cooksky #foodsky #beans
Lovely, simple @nytimes.com Bill Telepan recipe for confited beans: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015...
Used awesome @ranchogordo.bsky.social “Marcella” heirloom beans, tho! #cooksky #foodsky #beans
May 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In my heart of hearts, I’m a very frugal cook. (Runs in the family.)
Lovely, simple @nytimes.com Bill Telepan recipe for confited beans: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015...
Used awesome @ranchogordo.bsky.social “Marcella” heirloom beans, tho! #cooksky #foodsky #beans
Lovely, simple @nytimes.com Bill Telepan recipe for confited beans: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015...
Used awesome @ranchogordo.bsky.social “Marcella” heirloom beans, tho! #cooksky #foodsky #beans
May 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So my birthday is coming up & I’m hoping my friends skip the gifts… UNLESS someone wants to buy me a Melinda Kirkpatrick contemporary whale painting, because honestly, I’m obsessed. #whales #awhaleofatime #whalompark #artsky
May 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So my birthday is coming up & I’m hoping my friends skip the gifts… UNLESS someone wants to buy me a Melinda Kirkpatrick contemporary whale painting, because honestly, I’m obsessed. #whales #awhaleofatime #whalompark #artsky
Well, this was it. This is the picture that broke me.
Do you know how vulnerable a 2-year-old is? I am thinking of my own daughter, and how two was when she looked up at me one day & said, “Oh! I have so much love in my heart!”
Everyone involved in this barbarity should be in jail. 💔 @nytimes.com
Do you know how vulnerable a 2-year-old is? I am thinking of my own daughter, and how two was when she looked up at me one day & said, “Oh! I have so much love in my heart!”
Everyone involved in this barbarity should be in jail. 💔 @nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Well, this was it. This is the picture that broke me.
Do you know how vulnerable a 2-year-old is? I am thinking of my own daughter, and how two was when she looked up at me one day & said, “Oh! I have so much love in my heart!”
Everyone involved in this barbarity should be in jail. 💔 @nytimes.com
Do you know how vulnerable a 2-year-old is? I am thinking of my own daughter, and how two was when she looked up at me one day & said, “Oh! I have so much love in my heart!”
Everyone involved in this barbarity should be in jail. 💔 @nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New work:
Creative: Crystal Bahmaie.
Stylist: Laura Rege.
Photos: Katrina Frederick.
Copy by me & Karen Palmer.
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I can’t get over how Beetlejuicy, “Alice in Wonderland” on acid, & Willy Wonka this campaign is. (Down with pastels!) It makes me so happy to work w/ such smart folks. 💕 #mothersday
Creative: Crystal Bahmaie.
Stylist: Laura Rege.
Photos: Katrina Frederick.
Copy by me & Karen Palmer.
.
I can’t get over how Beetlejuicy, “Alice in Wonderland” on acid, & Willy Wonka this campaign is. (Down with pastels!) It makes me so happy to work w/ such smart folks. 💕 #mothersday
April 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New work:
Creative: Crystal Bahmaie.
Stylist: Laura Rege.
Photos: Katrina Frederick.
Copy by me & Karen Palmer.
.
I can’t get over how Beetlejuicy, “Alice in Wonderland” on acid, & Willy Wonka this campaign is. (Down with pastels!) It makes me so happy to work w/ such smart folks. 💕 #mothersday
Creative: Crystal Bahmaie.
Stylist: Laura Rege.
Photos: Katrina Frederick.
Copy by me & Karen Palmer.
.
I can’t get over how Beetlejuicy, “Alice in Wonderland” on acid, & Willy Wonka this campaign is. (Down with pastels!) It makes me so happy to work w/ such smart folks. 💕 #mothersday