A calmer week before the Fourth (+ 7 cookout salads) 🇺🇸

Hi Reader, There's a particular kind of busy that creeps in the week before a holiday. The to-do list grows a little longer every time you look at it. The grocery store feels like a contact sport. And somewhere in the middle of the planning and the prepping, the things you were actually looking forward to — the slow morning, the people around the table, the sparklers and s'mores at dusk — get a little buried. But before the week gets away from us, I wanted to share a few small ways to help...