Welcome to Get a Life with Lauren!

Being a writer used to be easier. So did having a life. Then it got harder. All of it. So I built this here Substack to document my efforts at making friends and finding joy and weirdness in the project of being here at this precise moment.

You have found the right place.

This is the Substack that is about to be your everything. You can talk to it. You can bring it with you to parties. You can dress it up. You can dress it down.

Seriously.

Now that you’re here, the great thing about this place is you can order however you like. If it were up to me, I’d do two apps, one item from the “nosh” section, and maybe an entree to share. But only if you’re sharing four other entrees. Otherwise just get two for yourself. Our portions are really manageable, which means you can order everything from the menu.

New. Jersey. Italian.

The motto of a soon-to-open restaurant near my friend’s house in Austin, Texas.