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Cookbook author. Pod: Cooking With Bruce & Mark. Former lit prof. Pod: Walking With Dante. Lots of lit seminars, book discussions, & poetry discussions at New England libraries. Recovering evangelical. Married to the best guy. Owned by a collie.
See also: “quisling.”
I hate conspiracies but I swear, if you wrote this whole thing as a script, it would be kicked back as “overdetermined.”
Yep.
The seven last words of Jesus.
Charlie turned me an others like me into talking points. We weren’t humans. We were debates.
Matthew 26:52: Those who take up the sword die by the sword.
The white people, most of them: yes, they would.
Home.
No notes.
Just to say, it’s unsurprising for anyone who has lived in a dorm with straight white men.
Hydrangea and helenium = the start of autumn.
Big pot of roots for chicken stew on a chilly evening.
When I was a kid, I had to endure this exact talk about Reagan. And history has hardly been kind to him.
Often such, right? Nero? Bloody Mary? Andrew Jackson?
Native-born. They can’t use the word they want to use. Yet.
Fried left-over steel-cut oats. Save leftovers in a buttered baking dish, then fry the next morning in butter until crisp (whole or in squares). Break out the maple syrup or the strawberry jam!
My phone logged no government alert today. I have never been to a gender reveal party. I feel these things must form a connection.
I know this is a crazy conspiracy theory, but part of me could believe that the botched and awful US response to Covid was that it was indeed clearing up those Medicare rolls.
Love the typo. Wish it were true.
Four years ago, my father went over a cliff and pulled me with him.
Such a great read. Have you tried Pulkkinen’s TRUE? Similar vibe. Not quite as compelling. But a wild mash-up of Finnish mythology and modern trauma.
Best part of that quote: “People” = the fictitious mob I imagine from my elite snobby seat.
Truly, truly dystopian. It’s hard to believe his handlers allow this … until you remember their utopian tech-bro hope for a “post-human” world.
The morons think the morons are morons.
Ultimately, because in Christian theology, suffering = meaning.
My driveway!
This is the beginning of how you do it.
And yet the market rises. Deck chairs, the Titanic.
I don’t believe in judging people by their looks but in this case….
Who needs jobs when we have trillions in tariff revenues? I sure we will spend this windfall on health care and education. Oh, and bridges. I love bridges.