Ali Montag
@ali_montag
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Writing things. @TexasHighways @fortune @cnbc @AustinChronicle @architecturaldigest
Austin, TX
Joined October 2011
There aren't many blog posts I look forward to reading when I see them in my inbox. @ali_montag's is one of them. Most of what she writes requires time to digest and consider. Her latest deals with the idol of comfort. Keep it coming, Ali!! "We must be cautious of too much
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It is a kind of piety to enjoy every small thing in life, whenever you can It is a kind of piety to make something good, or beautiful
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On the romance of Chili's, and the intimacy of splitting a Triple Dipper Plater.
allrecipes.com
Chili’s Bar & Grill has played an important part in Ali Montag’s courtship, marriage, and family life. Here’s why dishes like Chili’s Triple Dipper Platter and Skillet Queso represent the real values...
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Here's an essay about groceries, convenience, and what we lose when we optimize, optimize, optimize (our humanity.) https://t.co/ROyzvqyHvT
texasmonthly.com
The convenience of the store’s grocery-pickup service comes at a small financial cost. The personal price is up to you.
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Read about my trip to never never land
Cinched, Toned, Depressed: A trip to Kim Kardashian's SKIMS store in Austin.
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"I wonder, what are all these people doing here, and what am I doing with them?" @ali_montag visits the SKIMS store in Austin and comes out sans shape wear with a thought-provoking reflection on money, body image and happiness. https://t.co/DJfLbyJkbh
#atx
austinchronicle.com
Domain Northside hosts shapewear brand’s first retail store
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This week's newsletter is about gardening (and yes, I know it's December.) https://t.co/WOqcQ8L7iv
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"It’s like visiting an elephant graveyard full of your own nostalgia—one that also serves White Claw and plays Dave Matthews Band." Another hit by @dansolomon on the confounding Sign Bar.
texasmonthly.com
The far–East Austin bar is an elephant graveyard for restaurant signs of decades past, but we’re still trying to figure out who it’s really for.
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anyone else in austin noticing the houses that sold in your neighborhood for a gazillion dollars in 2020-2021 are...all up for sale again
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"The last twelve weeks have felt like living life at sea, everything tilting beneath my feet. That’s why I came here, to my favorite table in the sun, hoping to find solid ground," writes @ali_montag.
texashighways.com
This change happens every year in nature, but this spring, I’m watching more closely. For the first time, life is growing inside me, too.
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The convenience of @HEB's grocery-pickup service comes at a small financial cost. The personal price, however, is up to you, writes @ali_montag.
texasmonthly.com
The convenience of the store’s grocery-pickup service comes at a small financial cost. The personal price is up to you.
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Here's an essay about groceries, convenience, and what we lose when we optimize, optimize, optimize (our humanity.) https://t.co/ROyzvqyHvT
texasmonthly.com
The convenience of the store’s grocery-pickup service comes at a small financial cost. The personal price is up to you.
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Put down your phone. Look at a tree.
Writer @ali_montag found beauty in stability and consistency through her trips to Old Baldy—a 500-year-old cypress tree at McKinney Falls State Park in Austin.
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Here’s a little essay about what I learned in the mountains of West Texas ❤️ @TexasHighways
https://t.co/i9sduVhDro
texashighways.com
I tried drive, then reverse, praying to coax my tires out of the ruts I’d created, back and forth. Finally, I hit the parking brake.
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The latest post from @ali_montag is so so good. What have we lost in our communities and lives for the sake of convenience? It’s weird how convenience has become an unquestioned benefit/desired outcome for progress. https://t.co/Wqw6UwknPD
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This newsletter always seems to describe my feelings to a T. And this most recent one is no exception: 📩 Letter #45: The hard work of being together, by @ali_montag
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"Their belief in the effectiveness of power blinds them to the disproportionately greater effectiveness of abstaining from its use." — Ivan Illich
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