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White Open Spaces

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Could learning to camp be the pandemic escape I needed? But I couldn’t read it as anything but an act of inscrutable emotional terrorism, doled out to a devoted girlfriend whose only crime was being accomodating enough to come on this stupid camping trip in the first place. I covered my face with my hands to hide my tears.

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‘Martha Stewart’s Christmas’ Was a Book, a Fantasia, and a Target

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Perpetual guilt demands a perpetual lash, and Martha, blessed with the brisk, no-nonsense soul of a dog trainer, is just the woman to wield it.” Petersburg Times as “boot camp” and said she “would not want to be employed by Martha Stewart on a regular basis.” And homemaking was so anti-intellectual. Teachers can be too hard on them.”

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The Exhausting Work of Staycationing

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Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties , which was a finalist for the National Book Award. I’ve written stories about pandemics; imagined their slow and terrible creep, the way they stifle and challenge. We flew home. their aunt asked.

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Jelly Is Ready for Its Redemption Arc

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The offshoot Facebook group Aspics with threatening auras offers photos of grotesque gelatins, like hot dogs suspended in jellied hot dog water ). Reading his words in 2023, as jelly jiggles its way back into American affection, Albala’s prediction feels more like a manifestation. Jelly is having a moment. University of Illinois Press.

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Spaghetti Is for Lovers: The Queer Magic of the Pasta Tarot

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Pasta Tarot | Lindsay Mound/Pasta Tarot. An interview with creators Rob Truglia and Jeff Petriello about creating a tarot deck inspired by the aura of pasta. Rob Truglia says I have the aura of cavatappi. He’s deduced this by looking through my Instagram, and by asking me a few quick questions about my life and habits.

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‘No Matter What Happens, People Know They Can Get a Meal From Us’

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The soup kitchen dining room remained open under an exemption for social services, but Conroy knew it wouldn’t last long. He and his colleagues tried to get ahead of the virus, consulting with epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and joining conference calls with the city’s Health and Human Services Department.

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29 Great American Diners

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But true diner lovers know this isn’t the full story. They cater to LGBTQ+ communities and also to the blue-collar worker in need of a chili dog , the Route 66 road-tripper, and the underaged kid scooping up forkfuls of banana cream pie purchased with their last $5 after a concert. There are a lot of diners we could talk about.

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