Audrey, Author at Audrey Michelle Mast

Lifestyle ➤ October 15, 2025

Household Objects That Secretly Judge You

There are things in your home that love you. The blanket that holds your warmth. The mug that understands your morning mood. The one pen that always writes smoothly, even though the others seem to...

Fashion ➤ September 15, 2025

I Will Never Stop Wearing Peter Pan Collars, No Matter How Old I Get

There are trends you adopt and trends that adopt you. Skinny jeans had their era. Balayage rose and fell like a Bravo subplot. Cottagecore trotted through the culture like a well-behaved deer. But the Peter...

In Which I Cast On and Immediately Lose the Will to Live: Swatching, ADHD, and the Bureaucracy of Knitting

The yarn is beautiful. I want to be clear about this. The yarn is a gorgeous fingering-weight merino in a colorway called something like “Fjord Dusk” or “Heathered Mythology,” and it arrived in the mail...

Culture ➤ May 2, 2026

Let us now Praise Japanese Pens

I didn’t intend to become a person who has opinions about pens. I want to be clear about that. It happened incrementally — the way most conversions happen, I suppose — not in a flash...

Fashion ➤ April 2, 2026

Big Feelings About Big Clothes: On the Oversized Trend and My Ongoing Internal Negotiations

There is a silhouette currently stalking the runways, the street style blogs, and every fashion-adjacent Instagram account I follow, and it goes like this: billowing, voluminous, deliberately ungainly, a jacket the size of a small...