To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes celebrates the lives and memories of 40 families who want to share their food with the world. In this Transcript, I chat with author Rosie Grant about how she started this project. To Die For is out Oct. 8th. aparkbench.substack.com/p/rosie-gran...
Rosie Grant, author of To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes
"This entire project has been one Hail Mary throw after another because of the synchronicity."
aparkbench.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes celebrates the lives and memories of 40 families who want to share their food with the world. In this Transcript, I chat with author Rosie Grant about how she started this project. To Die For is out Oct. 8th. aparkbench.substack.com/p/rosie-gran...
In an honest collection of memories, Jocelyn Jane Cox threads through decades of life while navigating grief and love, as she loses her mother while becoming a mother herself in Motion Dazzle: A memoir about Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice.
Jocelyn Jane Cox, author of Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice
"I mean whimsy as survival."
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September 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In an honest collection of memories, Jocelyn Jane Cox threads through decades of life while navigating grief and love, as she loses her mother while becoming a mother herself in Motion Dazzle: A memoir about Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice.
might i recommend a medjool date and a cup of coffee? you're welcome.
May 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
might i recommend a medjool date and a cup of coffee? you're welcome.
The choice was always easy for me, but I still waited for grief, regret. It never came. Freedom did instead. Thank you @huffpost.com for sharing my story. #abortion #abortionishealthcare
“I had been proud, at 33, that I never had a scare. I was less proud when two side-by-side tests on the bathtub’s edge revealed a treacherous reality.”
I Had An Abortion. On The Day I Would Have Given Birth, Something Surprising Happened.
“I had been proud, at 33, that I never had a scare. I was less proud when two side-by-side tests on the bathtub’s edge revealed a treacherous reality.”
www.huffpost.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The choice was always easy for me, but I still waited for grief, regret. It never came. Freedom did instead. Thank you @huffpost.com for sharing my story. #abortion #abortionishealthcare
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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For no real reason, just want to remind you that there are journalists doing great work right now. Not just in DC, but across all beats and verticals, and even right in your own community.
We want to make that reporting as easy to find as influencer posts - and that’s why we built @forth.news
We want to make that reporting as easy to find as influencer posts - and that’s why we built @forth.news
Forth | The news feed for news
Concise updates with context on what’s happening around you from reporters you can trust.
www.forth.news
March 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
For no real reason, just want to remind you that there are journalists doing great work right now. Not just in DC, but across all beats and verticals, and even right in your own community.
We want to make that reporting as easy to find as influencer posts - and that’s why we built @forth.news
We want to make that reporting as easy to find as influencer posts - and that’s why we built @forth.news
this info will mean something to someone: if your brita flashes red and green, call brita and tell them, and they’ll mail you a new one. 🫡
March 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
this info will mean something to someone: if your brita flashes red and green, call brita and tell them, and they’ll mail you a new one. 🫡
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Look at the gap between the U.S. left and the U.S. right.
Even look at where the U.S. right site in comparison to the French and Italian right who are the conscious heirs to the Vichy and Mussolini legacies.
Pretty breathtaking.
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Even look at where the U.S. right site in comparison to the French and Italian right who are the conscious heirs to the Vichy and Mussolini legacies.
Pretty breathtaking.
on.ft.com/4iqh3qA
March 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Look at the gap between the U.S. left and the U.S. right.
Even look at where the U.S. right site in comparison to the French and Italian right who are the conscious heirs to the Vichy and Mussolini legacies.
Pretty breathtaking.
on.ft.com/4iqh3qA
Even look at where the U.S. right site in comparison to the French and Italian right who are the conscious heirs to the Vichy and Mussolini legacies.
Pretty breathtaking.
on.ft.com/4iqh3qA
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Gulf of Distraction
February 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Gulf of Distraction
i don’t know how to alert all the italians at once but there is a tuna recall.
Tri-Union Seafoods Issues Recall of Select Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-B and Trader Joe’s® Tuna Cans Due to Clostridium Botulinum Risk
Tri-Union Seafoods has made the decision to voluntarily recall select lots of canned tuna products sold under the Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-B and Trader Joe’s brand names. This voluntary recall is ou...
www.fda.gov
February 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
i don’t know how to alert all the italians at once but there is a tuna recall.
my boyfriend: i don’t really know how football really works
me: that’s why we’re together
me: that’s why we’re together
February 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
my boyfriend: i don’t really know how football really works
me: that’s why we’re together
me: that’s why we’re together
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During Trump's first term, some EPA scientists said managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. In some cases, they said, the managers deleted the information themselves.
(Published Sept. 2024)
(Published Sept. 2024)
EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to…
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February 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
During Trump's first term, some EPA scientists said managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. In some cases, they said, the managers deleted the information themselves.
(Published Sept. 2024)
(Published Sept. 2024)
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cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says
I hold a lot of disdain for the people who didn’t see this coming given P2025 but it does seem like the actual support for these goals is nonexistent, everyone who voted for him did so under the incredibly stupid assumption that he wouldn’t do this
February 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says
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This may be the most devastating short poem I've ever come across. From Andrea Cohen's book, Furs Not Mine: bookshop.org/a/862/978193...
#poem #poetry #andreacohen #books #writing
#poem #poetry #andreacohen #books #writing
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This may be the most devastating short poem I've ever come across. From Andrea Cohen's book, Furs Not Mine: bookshop.org/a/862/978193...
#poem #poetry #andreacohen #books #writing
#poem #poetry #andreacohen #books #writing
"The U.S. Constitution gives Congress control over spending matters, but Trump said during his campaign that he believes the president has the power to withhold money for programs he dislikes."
Trump orders pause to all federal grants and loans
It's a sweeping decision that could disrupt education and health care programs, housing assistance, disaster relief and a host of other initiatives that depend on billions of federal dollars.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"The U.S. Constitution gives Congress control over spending matters, but Trump said during his campaign that he believes the president has the power to withhold money for programs he dislikes."
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
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Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
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a poem is an invitation to be (once again) (actually) alive
January 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
a poem is an invitation to be (once again) (actually) alive
make television shows 6 (or more) seasons again
January 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
make television shows 6 (or more) seasons again
what’s up everybody - I just got a newspapers.com subscription and, well, The Houston Post, from 1952 with the headline that reads: Democracy is your job, and I’ve clipped an excerpt here that reads:
January 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
what’s up everybody - I just got a newspapers.com subscription and, well, The Houston Post, from 1952 with the headline that reads: Democracy is your job, and I’ve clipped an excerpt here that reads:
which one r u? i think im def 4.
January 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
which one r u? i think im def 4.
these hashtags started working again after 7:20am ET.
Not a glitch. #Democrat and #democrats is now blocked on Instagram as sensitive content.
I've heard that META is as well, not sure if it's true or not?
January 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
these hashtags started working again after 7:20am ET.
Shou’s msg telling us to stay tuned & thanking Tr*mp is the equivalent of a musical artist pretending to go off stage only to come back for their encore. Except I’m already in the parking lot, getting in my car, & leaving this lame party. TikTok is back, but I don’t need any favors from the devil. 🫡
January 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Shou’s msg telling us to stay tuned & thanking Tr*mp is the equivalent of a musical artist pretending to go off stage only to come back for their encore. Except I’m already in the parking lot, getting in my car, & leaving this lame party. TikTok is back, but I don’t need any favors from the devil. 🫡
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I never buy Oreos because then I'll eat the Oreos,
so instead I look in my pantry every day and I'm
disappointed that I don't have any Oreos.
~a tragic personal memoir
so instead I look in my pantry every day and I'm
disappointed that I don't have any Oreos.
~a tragic personal memoir
January 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I never buy Oreos because then I'll eat the Oreos,
so instead I look in my pantry every day and I'm
disappointed that I don't have any Oreos.
~a tragic personal memoir
so instead I look in my pantry every day and I'm
disappointed that I don't have any Oreos.
~a tragic personal memoir