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There’s something wonderfully comforting about a good breakfast sandwich, especially one that feels hearty enough to enjoy at dinner as well. These Breakfast Ciabatta Sandwiches are exactly that kind of recipe — simple, satisfying, and...
It has been nearly 8 years since I last read a book by this author. Between 2016 and 2018 I read Offord’s The Nine Dark Hours (1941), Skeleton Key (1943), and My True Love Lies (1947), all of which I enjoyed. Of the three I would say The...
At the center of a once-vibrant valley stood a garden unlike any other. It had been known for its colors. Bright lilies that bent with the wind. Wild roses that grew in every direction. Tall sunflowers that turned freely toward the sky....
Friday is my last working day before a four week vacation. Since this is my first year as a full-time employee, rather than on a hourly basis, I don't have any vacation days saved, so I'll take a shorter vacation this year. I'd like to...
I've learned recently that there is a type of wasp called an ensign wasp. they can get pretty large and weird-looking. I'll just say that someone in my life recently found one indoors and told me about it after a day of feeling a little...
she still has some items that belong to me—at least, I think she does. they could be in a landfill or a secondhand shop by now. more likely they are in a box at the back of her closet. a swimsuit, a shirt, a favorite bra, a leather...
It’s surprising to me how I haven’t spent a great deal of time exploring Italian coffee culture, especially given my proclivity for consuming said beverage. I’ve been reliably informed that Australia’s coffee snobbery was derived in...
I am finding the newly revealed capability to code old applet ideas into reality to be very tempting to sink more time into, though I am certainly encountering the common “vibe coding” experience that the process can produce something...
Nico turned two in June. What the hell! Where’s my baby boy, and who’s this sassy little dude running around my house. We threw him a farm-themed birthday (my man loves cows), then took the kids up to see their cousins in Richmond. The...
howdy yall!!!! this week is another week that was bad because Life Continues to Happen. like one more person in my family ending up in the ER, and then one more friend deeply going through shit. i am also having extremely bad allergic...
I love trolling through old magazines, not so much in search of treasure as to gauge the values of our forebears. What did writers and editors, and presumably readers, find interesting and important? Taste is notoriously transient. Most...
Once upon a commit, someone looked at GitHub’s little green squares and thought: what if writers had that?That someone was me! And the app is called Kerouac.For the last year, I’ve been building a writing studio that takes publishing...
Mary Dodd, Dorie’s recipe tester and right-hand lady, has brilliantly taken a plate of chocolate chip pancakes with a side of bacon and a river of maple syrup and turned it into a cookie. Her Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip cookies remind me...
Tuesday 14th July 2026 Signal boxes are becoming something of an endangered species on the railway, not least on the London Underground, with modern technology enabling trains to be controlled from a computer screen many miles away from...