IntroRebecca finally remembered the new name of Amy’s blog. Andrea showed off her newly-unpacked fall clothes. Amy declared her love of jeggings. And Rebecca got us off to a hungry start this week, talking about apple babka from Breads Bakery (cue Elaine Benes referring to non-chocolate babka as “lesser babka”). Don’t worry: if you’re not in NYC, they ship nationwide! Virtual KidnappingsThere was a scary story in the Washington Post about a mother who got a phone call claiming that her 23-year-old daughter had been kidnapped. The kidnapper threatened to hurt the daughter if the mother didn’t send him money, all the while monitoring what the mother was doing by making her keep her phone on speaker. Eventually the mother realized that the kidnapping was fake and her daughter was safe, but not before she’d wired thousands of dollars to Mexico. This scam isn’t new, but it’s having a resurgence thanks to social media. The perpetrators ca
